Sirius and Snape parallels again

[Carol]

No: HPFGUIDX 185021

lizzyben wrote:
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<snip> He [Dumbledore] also made Sirius stay at GP because of Sirius'
guilt over James & loyalty to Harry. Neither one could leave, because
both were emotionally "hooked" into becoming prisoners & pawns in DD's
game. <snip>

Carol responds:
Sirius Black chose to return to England. He could have stayed free and
safe among the tropical birds. But once he chose to return and it
became known that he was in England, it was risky to leave the house
because Wormtail had described his Animagus form to Voldemort and the
DEs. It was especially risky to be seen in Harry's company. Both
Lucius and Draco Malfoy knew immediately who the "dog" accompanying
Harry (and conspicuously putting his paws on Harry's shoulders) was.
He couldn't get near the DEs to fight them or spy on them because they
would recognize him and kill him. He returned to england because of
Harry, but that was no doing of Dumbledore's (DD did provide him with
the cave to hide in in GoF). It's only after his safety and usefulness
were compromised that DD insisted he stay inside the house. He could,
I suppose, have run around at night risking being seen. He could
certainly have risked flying away at night on Buckbeak to some place
far away. But because of Harry and because of his guilt over his role
in James's death (and possibly guilt over Lily's though he never
speaks of her), he chooses to remain. He also chooses to mistreat
Kreacher, which contributes to his unhappiness, even though DD advised
him to treat Kreacher with kindness and respect.

I'm the first to concede that Dumbledore has many faults and made many
mistakes, but I don't think we can blame him for Sirius Black's
choices. In particular, he can't be blamed for the choices that led to
black's imprisonment in Azkaban--the SK switch and going after Peter
Pettigrew to kill him. Nor, IMO, can he be blamed for thinking that
Black was the SK when James had told him that he would be and when all
those witnesses (now Obliviated so he can't Legilimens them) claimed
that they saw him blow up the street and kill Pettigrew and twelve
Muggles.

It certainly wasn't Dumbledore's fault that Voldemort used Harry's
affection for his godfather to lure him to the MoM or that Black
followed and chose to fight Bellatrix on the dais of the Veil in the
Chamber of Death.

Carol, not sure what DD should have done differently regarding Sirius
Black, whom he was trying to keep safe