varying views of characters

[dumbledore11214]

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> > Alla:
> > 
> > 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?
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> 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:

I disagree. I think it would have been mentioned at least in PoA.


> 
> 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? 
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Alla:

In the conversation that we are not shown ever happened?  As I said before, one conversation, ONE and Dumbledore was all agreeable that Sirius was innocent. I have not seen any evidence in the books that Dumbledore did that, before Sirius was brought to him in PoA.

Personally I think that no one was the source of Dumbledore's evidence. This is of course just speculation, but to me perfectly in line with how I see Dumbledore's character. I think he just made one of his famous guesses, only this time it was totally wrong, and he was under delussion that it was correct as usual.

JMO,

Alla