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Why Didn’t Dumbledore Realize Sirius Black Was Innocent? - Harry Potter Theory
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Twelve years. That's how long Sirius Black spent in Azkaban for crimes he never committed. And all that time, Dumbledore, one of the wisest wizards in history, believed he was guilty. But what’s strange about all of this is that Dumbledore knew Sirius personally. He also knew just how close he was with the Potters. So my question is: how did the same wizard who saw through Voldemort's greatest deceptions get tricked by…A rat. Topics Covered: Why Dumbledore believed Sirius Black was guilty Why Dumbledore didn...
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12 years, that's how long Sirius Black spent in Azkaban for crimes he never committed. And all that time, Dumbledore, one of the wisest wizards in history, believed he was guilty. But what's strange about all this is that Dumbledore knew Sirius personally, and he also knew just how close he was with the Potters.
So my question is, how did the same wizard who saw through Voldemort's greatest deceptions get tricked by a rat? Let's dive into it. Hey everyone, welcome to another installment of Harry Potter Theory. In today's video we're going to be discussing Albus Dumbledore, Azkaban and the false imprisonment of Sirius
Black. More specifically, we're going to be examining how Sirius Black managed to spend 12 years imprisoned for crimes that he never committed and why Albus Dumbledore seemingly never questioned his guilt. He knew Sirius personally had even watched him grow up, but despite these things, Dumbledore still accepted at face value that Sirius had betrayed his
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