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

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On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 10:44:40PM -0000, Barry Arrowsmith wrote:

> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/79808
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> and
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> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/103685
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> 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.
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> Kneasy

So where DO we throw Sirius? If he was that troublesome, and we assume DD is
really dead, who's going to tell us all in book seven? If Snape had any reason
to throw doubt on Sirius surely he would have taken the opportunity before
now. How credible would an account from Voldy and/or Wormtail be? Shock
revelations from Narcissa perhaps? Tonks spills the beans? Don't tell me Lupin
would be believable. Unless it services someone's agenda, the retrospective
rejigging of the Sirius legend is useless, and what agenda would be served by
it? Presumably we're trying to influence Harry and/or enlighten him on the
true backstory to his current quest; how would Blackening the Sirius name
alter his essential trajectory? If Snape declaims the truth, it's more to do
with Snape than Sirius; does it add essential credibility to characterization
or plot?

Call me suspicious but a dead Sirius means a lot of untidy authorship smoothed
away, and a soon-to-be-dead Lupin is the necessary corollary. In other words,
I don't really expect answers that already seem redundant.

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