#and I don’t want anybody saying that Dumbledore should have gotten Sirius a trial

[cecenyss]

Okay, so I generally agree with Dumbledore’s grey morality (sending Harry to the Dursley’s was never okay), disagree with his bashing (I hate bashing of any kind; if you dislike a character then write them in a way that shines light on their negative traits but don’t intentionally give them worse ones that are completely different from their actual characterization honestly why are people like this-), and have no particular opinion on most headcanons about things he did that were better or worse than what we actually know because honestly anything’s possible we know next to nothing about this guy’s actual personality, but there is one thing that I have to say I do not and have never agreed with and that is the idea that he knew Sirius Black was innocent.

People have said that the reason he let Sirius be convicted was so he could send Harry to the Dursley’s for the blood protection, but his decision to send Harry to the Dursley’s always seemed as a last resort to me (and this is not defending him or agreeing with those actions in any way, it was fucked up and wrong and we all know it, but I do truly believe that if Sirius was innocent he would have sent Harry to live with him) (and I love Remus to death but there is no way he should be trusted with a small child and we already know that parts of the Order didn’t entirely trust him (INCLUDING SIRIUS) so don’t @ me)

I don’t think that Dumbledore in any way knew before Harry’s third year. There’s no basis that he did, and there’s no basis that he didn’t, but it just does not make sense. And besides, Sirius was perfectly willing to let Harry return to the Dursleys during PoA, and if he believed that it was truly better for him to do so he would have not contacted him on Dumbledore’s orders. Remus very clearly didn’t. So no, I don’t think that Dumbledore simply “let” Sirius be arrested and imprisoned with the full knowledge of his innocence to get rid of a single, easily manipulated variable.

No, I think that’s what Snape did.

Because Snape was in Voldemort’s inner circle, he was one of his most trusted Death Eaters—even up until he died! He would have known if Sirius was a Death Eater. He knew he wasn’t. And he said nothing about it, because he hated Sirius Black.