[HPforGrownups] Re: varying views of characters

[June Ewing]

No: HPFGUIDX 191069



>> Alla wrote:
>> 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.

> Bart:
The problem, of course, is that we do not know what happened after
> Peter blew up the muggles and escaped. We have good reason to
believe, but don't know, that Sirius never protested his innocence,
> but took full responsibility. We also don't know whether or not
Dumbledore tried to speak to Sirius afterwards, or even if he
> succeeded.

Therefore, our assumptions about what happened need to be based on
> what we have seen of the characters. My own supposition is that
Dumbledore may have tried to speak to Sirius, but Sirius refused to
> speak to Dumbledore, out of shame and guilt. Morty was gone, the
remaining Death Easters were still at large, and there was a lot to
> do. Note that Lupin suspected Sirius of being the spy, as well;
Sirius was NOT a very nice person (see "The Prank", Sirius' treatment
> of Kreacher, :etc.).


June:
I like Sirius, but Bart is right, Sirius has a dark side and he uses
it often. The way he treated Snape when they were kids. He could have
gotten Snape killed when he sent him after Lupin. Then when he
excaped and came back to Hogwarts, he didn't act like an innocent
man. He attacked the fat lady and tore up Ron's curtains looking for
Scabbers and let's not forget that as far as Dumbledore knew, he was
the Potter's secret keeper. The only one who could have been able to
lead Voldemort to the Potters was their secret keeper. The first
mistake made, in my opinion was changing the secret keeper without
letting someone they trusted (most likely Dumbledore) know.

Every thing was against Sirius, his attitude, the fact that no one
knew he had decided not to be the secret keeper. Anyone would have
believed him to be guilty and like Bart said, Sirius probably felt
guilty for what happened and didn't argue when they took him to
prison. Granted, he should have had a proper trial but I doubt that
Dumbledore had any thing to do with how the trial was run. If you
remember right, he showed up at Harry's trial sort of like his
solicitor and brought a witness with him, but he was unable to tell
them to let Harry go, he had to listen to the proceedings like
everyone else. He doesn't work for the ministry and therefore cannot
control what the ministry does.