varying views of characters

[Steve]

No: HPFGUIDX 191087



--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "dumbledore11214" <dumbledore11214 at ...> wrote:
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> Steve:
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> Just because something doesn't happen on the page, doesn't mean it doesn't
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> Alla:
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> ... I do not see the slightest canon suport to make an inference that Dumbledore tried to help Sirius and pretty huge fact (his testimony) that he did not try that.
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> Just my opinion of course.
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Steve replies:

I think it depends on WHEN you mean Dumbledore should have tried to help Sirius. When the Potters died, Sirius confessed. Seems pretty cut and dried. 

But, when they find the truth about Peter, I think Dumbledore did make his case, but was rebuffed by the Ministry. We see after Order of the Phoenix, the Ministry has come around to Dumbledore's point of view. In "The Two Ministers" Fudge admits that Sirius was not guilty, as well as a couple of other things Dumbledore was trying to tell him. 

Though I think Dumbledore saw a lost cause, and knew it when he saw it. He made his case to the Ministry, then accepted that they could not and would not be convince, but he make the information available to them, and after Order of the Phoenix, it became impossible for them to deny what Dumbledore had told them. 

How else, to you explain Fudge's revelation about Sirius in "The Two Ministers". The only logical source of that conclusion is Dumbledore's information. 

I think I see evidence that Dumbledore DID make his case, but at the same time, saw that doing so was a lost cause with the Ministry. 

Steve/bbboyminn