varying views of characters

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 191086

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> Alla:
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> Don't you think that Dumbledore's trying to talk to Sirius and Sirius refusing to do so would have been too important not to mention anywhere in the book?

Pippin:
Dumbledore trying to talk to Sirius and not being allowed to, however, would not be so important.   Dumbledore might have tried to talk to Sirius, if only to see if he could get information on other Death Eaters. While Dumbledore was allowed to talk to Morfin and Hokey,  they were not maximum security prisoners. As far as we know, Fudge is the only person who ever got to visit Sirius in Azkaban. 

Alla: 
> And of course we know that Dumbledore actually testified at the whatever semblance of the hearing Ministry conducted and gave "evidence" that Sirius was Potters' Secret keeper. For me it is a pretty clear indication that no, Dumbledore did not do anything of the sort like trying to talk to Sirius.

Pippin:
Very likely, the source of Dumbledore's evidence  was Sirius himself. He had a long history of deceiving Dumbledore successfully and for the secret-keeper switch to work it was vital that no one, especially  Dumbledore, should suspect that the secret-keeper was anyone other than Sirius Black. So why wouldn't Black tell Dumbledore that he was the secret-keeper? 

Of course for Dumbledore to actually learn the secret the information had to come from Pettigrew, but I can think of all kinds of ways to arrange it so it looked like it came from Sirius instead.

Pippin