Just after Sirius dies in OoTP, Dumbledore sends Harry to his (Dumbledore’s) office to wait while Dumbledore sorts things out with and for Fudge. When Dumbledore arrives in his office to talk to Harry, Harry is still thinking of Sirius:
Harry turned his back on Dumbledore and stared determindedly out of the opposite window. He could see the Quidditch stadium in the distance. Sirius had appeared there once, disguised as the shaggy black dog, so he could watch Harry play…. He had probably come to see whether Harry was as good at James had been…. Harry had never asked him….(823)
Harry is beating himself up over Sirius’s death and agonizing over Sirius’s life. The thing is, however, that the question of why Sirius came to watch Harry play was answered in PoA. While Sirius is telling of his escape from Azkaban, he says:
I swam as a dog back to the mainland….I journeyed north and slipped into the Hogwarts grounds as a dog. I’ve been living in the forest ever since, except when I came to watch the Quidditch, of course. You fly as well as your father did, Harry…(372)
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Rowling, J. K.. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. New York, Toronto, London, Aukland, Sydney, Mexico City, New Delhi, Hong Kong, Buenos Aires, Scholastic Inc., 2003.
Rowling, J. K.. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. New York, Toronto, Aukland, Sydney, Mexico City, New Delhi, Hong Kong, Buenos Aires, Scholastic Inc., 1999.
