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Pippin, would have loved to respond point by point but had to delete all the text again, so if I miss something will respond later. Yes, it had been "known" in the order that Sirius was going to be a secret keeper, but again nobody really *knew* what happened, didn't they except the parties who participated and Dumbledore himself was worried so much that offered himself, maybe that alone should have pushed him to investigate further? The fact that plan was so prone to change in the last minute.

I so do not follow your point about the information ministry should have? Ministry should have the information that Peter fed them?! A lie?! I completely do not follow what this has to do with Sirius' loyalty to the order? And speaking about loyalty, does Dumbledore owe any loyalty to his soldiers? Like maybe again going to my original point - investigate further?

Are you implying that JKR actually thought about the detail of James not being safe to go back to the house without the cloak? Do I need to start counting how many logical inconsistencies we found throughout the years, the small ones I mean? Somehow I doubt that she thought about this one imo of course. This meeting happened in the first place because dumbledore completely disregarded the fact that James may need cloak for something much more important than his intellectual curiosity and because of his extreme selfishnes. Yes I know Harry forgives him for that as well - I don't.


It all comes down to this for me. As somebody (I think Magpie) said once that her characters are interesting chess pieces but she makes them do things to move plot forward which makes them look much more sinister than they really are. As I said I doubt Dumbledore was concerned with keeping Sirius away from Harry, I think magical hand of JKR was comcerned with that, but if I forget about the author for a second, all actions of Dumbledore lead me to that conclusion. It is funny how when Sirius is dead Ministry believes his innocence despite what Dumbledore proclaimed, how hard it would be. Hmmmm I guess dead Sirius was no longer a threat to him as the only order member who dared to stand up to him at all.


JMO,

Alla