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Hey! I just saw this last night. I've never finished any of the books (I bailed on the first one after about 100 pages), so know almost nothing about the stories. Can someone explain to me why Sirius Black was convicted for having a part in Harry's parents' murder? Why did he come to Hogwarts, if it wasn't planning on killing Harry? Why did the rat man betray Harry's parents? Why was the volume of ice in the bottle on the train was not greater than the volume of water?
Thanks!
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"Can someone explain to me why Sirius Black was convicted for having a part in Harry's parents' murder?"
Because Pettigrew framed him. He made an explosion, disappeared during it as a rat, and left one of his fingers behind so he seemed to have been blown up. Since he did this while Sirius was confronting him about the Potters' deaths, it looked like Sirius blew him up.
Of course, that just made him look bad. The main reason is that everyone thought Sirius was the Potters' secret-keeper, which would have made him the only person capable of betraying them. No-one else knew that, at the last minute, the Potters had made Pettigre their secret-keeper instead.
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Secret-keeper: Part of a magical spell, the Fidelius Charm. According to Flitwick in the book:
"An immensely complex spell, involving the magical concealment of a secret inside a single, living soul. The information is hidden inside the chosen person, or Secret-Keeper, and is henceforth impossible to find � unless, of course, the Secret-Keeper chooses to divulge it. As long as the Secret-Keeper refused to speak, You-Know-Who could search the village where Lily and James were staying for years and never find them, not even if he had his nose pressed against their sitting-room window!"
As for why Pettigrew betrayed them, it was because he was working for Voldemort.
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And he was working for Voldemort because he was weak, insecure, etc...
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quote:Why did he come to Hogwarts, if it wasn't planning on killing Harry?
Because he saw a picture of the Weasleys and Scabbers in the "Daily Prophet". Hence he knew that Pettigrew wasn't dead but close to Harry.
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