[HPforGrownups] Re: varying views of characters

[Bart Lidofsky]

No: HPFGUIDX 191048

annemehr wrote:
> I'm sure she meant, after the events of PoA when DD had testimony that Peter Pettigrew was alive and had been the real spy.

Bart:
Given that, unfortunately, given the attitude of the Ministry, there 
probably was not much  Dumbledore COULD do. He didn't have first-hand 
knowledge that Peter was still alive. As he, himself, pointed out, 
although he believed the Trio and Lupin, he knew that it wasn't 
sufficient to get the rest of the WW to believe it.

We do not know from canon what, if anything, DD was doing to prove 
Sirius' innocence; he certainly was going through a lot of effort 
(through his agents among the Aurors) in keeping Sirius from being 
recaptured. With evidence that DD was trying to protect Sirius, there 
would have to be some sort of positive evidence that DD was doing 
nothing to help exonerate him.

Bart