[HPforGrownups] Was Sirius railroaded? And what was his view?

[Lynda Cordova]

No: HPFGUIDX 192730


 
 kennyg1864 wrote:
 1. I've always been bothered by the ease with which SB was sentenced to life in prison amongst the Dementors.
 
 I don't have my copy of PoA handy, but IIRC he was convicted based on "all that was left of Peter Pettigrew was a finger", and "several dead Muggles". And that's the total sum of the evidence. *snip*
 
 Sherry now:
 I would add also to the evidence, that Dumbledore *assumed* Sirius was the secret Keeper and presumably he told the then minister of magic and the head of magical law enforcement so. 
 
 Truly, I don't hate Dumbledore, but my opinion of his goodness changed a lot over the course of the series, and the experience of Sirius was a large part of that.
 
 
 
 
 



Lynda:
 Well, here goes. I always knew SB was railroaded, just like I knew from the first few sentences of SS that Dumbledore was a master manipulator. Meaning that I always read the series from that angle, so there was never the surprise factor for me that some experienced. 


Lynda


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