Can we trust Sirius? WAS RE: Tonks's age: A possible solution RE: [the_old_crowd]

[Barry Arrowsmith]

--- In the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com, "Eileen Rebstock" <erebstock at c...> wrote:
>
> Amanda:
> > Can we trust anything that comes form Sirius though?  He spent 15
> > years in Azkaban and in my experience men don't generally remember
> > date details that specifically anyway. (No offence boys.)  Why would
> > he remember how old he was when he last saw a cousin he despised?
> 
> You've hit on one of the *other* questions that plagues me. 
> 
> Sirius's account of recent history compared to the OotP canon. It makes
> so little sense. 
> 
> I can accept that he's a bit vague on details, like the date you
> mention. 
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Vague?
He turns mendacity into an art-form.
I don't trust a word he says. Admittedly I'm probably in a minority of one,
but that's beside the point. 

There's a couple of analyses of Sirius that you may have missed (I get the
impression that you've been inactive/lurking for a while). I won't go into
detail, the other members are probably fed up with hearing my views on
the matter, but if you're interested try

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/79808

and

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/103685

the former concentrates on his escape(!) from Azkaban, the latter
on more general matters.
I wouldn't trust him as far as I could throw Hagrid.

Kneasy