varying views of characters

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 191092


> Alla:
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> 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.
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> 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.
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Pippin:
It was known within the Order that Sirius was going to be the secret-keeper. That is why Lupin was so surprised to find out that it was Peter, and Peter insists that if there had been a switch Lupin would have been told about it. 

 Dumbledore had to be given the secret by somebody, since James gave him the cloak only a few days before the end, and that had to have been done at the house in Godric's Hollow, since it wouldn't have been safe for James to go back to  the house without it. 

Dumbledore would have thought that the betrayal of the secret was the reason that Peter had gone after Sirius -- Peter was sobbing, "Lily and James, Sirius! How could you?" for everyone to hear, and this was information the Ministry should have. It is their job, not his, to decide whether what Dumbledore knows can be verified. 

They seem to have done a reasonable job of investigating for once -- and doubtless Sirius would refuse to speak to the Ministry  if he was questioned, just as Podmore did. Even if the Order thinks he's a traitor, he still owes them his loyalty -- and his silence. 

As Lily said in her letter, the Order comes first.  And there's Lupin to think of -- Sirius can establish his innocence only by explaining how it was that the three of them became animagi in the first place. 

Considering what Lupin and Sirius were going to do to Pettigrew, Sirius might have considered himself lucky to be in Azkaban. I'm pretty sure that any number of Order members, including Lupin, would have murdered him if they'd got the chance. 

Pippin