varying views of characters

[dumbledore11214]

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Once again posting from my Blackberry, so have to delete the quote, but to answer Bart, I always felt that Dumbledore had some sort of moral obligation to actually go and check a little bit deeper into Sirius' guilt or innocence. He had no indication, but as far as I am concerned he should have done "something", since Sirius was one of his trusted, hand picked soldiers. Let's not forget that all it took him to believe in Sirius' innocence was "one" conversation with Sirius. One. It makes me very angry at Dumbledore (haha - I know another reason why I can't stand him) that he could not be bothered to get up and have this conversation with Sirius years earlier even when he was already in Azkaban.

And this is a very good example of how and why I see Dumbledore's actions in more sinister light. Yes there is a clear explanation in canon that Dumbledore thought Sirius' was guilty, but I also see other reasoning just as clearly based on the very visible author's hand to suit the needs of the plot. No, I seriously doubt that Dumbledore wanted to keep Sirius in prizon to make sure that Sirius does not free Harry from his manipulations. But we saw that Dumbledore wanted a certain mindset in Harry, we know that Sirius was the only one who wanted to tell Harry in OOP the truth and dared to go against great Albus Dumbledore's orders. We had seen that both Sirius and Lupin wanted to visit Harry after GoF. Shocking idea I know that traumatised teenager may need help and support and not further isolations. After knowing all that I think the idea that Dumbledore indeed wanted Sirius in prison since he was the only one who could at least stand up to him for Harry has merit even if I doubt that it is what JKR really wanted to portray. But this is how I feel about it in good faith even if I know that for JKR Sirius needed to be in prizon for plot purposes to grow up who he is with no loving person around it. But when one sees that things could have been done differently, note not that I want to write them differently, but characters acting differently would have made more sense as people, well then one wonders about other reasons.

Alla