Ripping the Fat Lady When Sirius first breaks into Hogwarts in Prisoner of Azkaban, he doesn't know the password to get into Gryffindor Tower. In anger he rips the Fat Lady's portrait. While Sirius' frustration is understandable, he was a Gryffindor.
Sirius was angry and with reasons. He stabbed the Fat Lady because he wanted enter into the Gryffindor tower but he hasn't got the password (but when he had it, he could enter…even if he was, supposedly, a murder. (About McGonagall's punishment to Neville we talk other day)
Later on in the film, on Halloween, The Fat Lady refuses to let Sirius Black into Gryffindor Tower because he didn't have the password. In response, Sirius slashes her portrait out of frustration and leaves, causing her to flee into a landscape portrait hiding behind a hippo.
History. On 31 October 1993, Sirius Black attacked Fat Lady's portrait in a vain attempt to gain entrance to Gryffindor Tower. Scared, the Fat Lady ran away hiding in other paintings, including this one, where she hid behind the hippopotamus.
Dumbledore's lack of belief that Sirius is innocent is also suspect. Sirius was a member of the Order of the Phoenix which fought against Death Eaters, but Sirius also was as close to James as a brother, the Potters even took him in when he ran away from home.
Why Did Sirius Slash the Portrait of the Fat Lady? - Harry Potter Theory
Why didn't Arthur Weasley know Sirius was innocent?
Its not until lupin discovered that Peter P (wormtail) was still alive that Sirius was innocent and he did not portray the potters or kill wormtail. Therefore Mr weasley thought all along Sirius had the potters killed and though he was out to kill harry because he was the last potter and also he was his grandfather.
For instance, he was able to admit to the Muggle Prime Minister, with somewhat humbleness, that starting a ruthless manhunt for Sirius Black may have been aimless since he was in fact innocent all along, which Fudge realised when he learned that Black was killed by his own cousin in the Battle of the Department of ...
When the Gryffindors got back, they saw the damage and Peeves revealed Black to be the attacker, and that he had seen the Fat Lady fleeing through other portraits.
When Sirius first breaks into Hogwarts in Prisoner of Azkaban, he doesn't know the password to get into Gryffindor Tower. In anger he rips the Fat Lady's portrait. While Sirius' frustration is understandable, he was a Gryffindor. He knows the fat lady is only doing her job and keeping his beloved house safe.
Until the climax of Prisoner of Azkaban, Lupin believed Sirius Black was guilty of murdering 12 Muggles, betraying Lily and James Potter, and killing Peter Pettigrew. He eventually discovered the truth — that Sirius was innocent, and the very much alive Peter was the traitor.
Charity Burbage was the Muggle Studies teacher in Hogwarts. She supported marriages between wizards and muggles because the wizarding line was dying out. She only makes an appearance in Deathly Hallows : Part 1, where she's killed by Voldemort at the beginning of the movie.
Originally Answered: What is the first password for the Gryffindor common room? The first one that we see in the books is “Caput Draconis”. It is Latin for “head of the dragon”.
Sirius was arrested, accused of murdering Pettigrew and the muggles and of serving Voldemort, and was promptly thrown in prison by Barty Crouch, Sr. without receiving a trial. He spent the next twelve years in Azkaban, brooding over his friends' deaths and obsessing over Pettigrew's betrayal.
On Hallowe'en 1993, the Fat Lady's portrait was ruined by Sirius Black and pulled off the wall. She was temporarily replaced by Sir Cadogan because nobody else wanted the job.
Fundamentally, he was a good person. He fought for what was right and was unafraid to stand against Voldemort. He joined the Order of the Phoenix not once, but twice. Despite being a pure-blood, he didn't believe that he was superior to other witches, wizards and Muggles.
When we were first introduced to Sirius Black, he was a wanted fugitive on the run from Azkaban, convicted of the murder of Peter Pettigrew and of betraying Harry's parents. Not a good start. Sirius didn't exactly improve matters when he tried to sneak into the Gryffindor dormitory by slashing the Fat Lady's portrait.
In his Animagus form, James was a tall and powerful red stag, large enough to subdue an adolescent werewolf alongside Sirius's bear-like black dog form.
When Harry and the other first-year students arrive at the entrance to Gryffindor Tower, Percy addresses the portrait of a very fat lady, in a pink silk dress, to give her the password, "Caput Draconis." Never named, the portrait is called The Fat Lady throughout the rest of the series.
When Jennifer Paterson, half of culinary “incorrect” British TV cookery programme “Two Fat Ladies”, recently died of lung cancer at 71, she lost eight years off the normal life expectancy of a British woman.
He was killed by his cousin Bellatrix Lestrange during the Battle of the Department of Mysteries and subsequently cleared of all charges by the Ministry of Magic, though it was too late for him to enjoy his freedom. Eventually, his death was avenged by Molly Weasley.
As we know in Prisoner of Azkaban, Sirius made Harry a tentative offer of coming to live with him once his name had been cleared – which Harry was more than thrilled about. However, because of Lupin's transformation and Pettigrew's escape, Sirius remained a wanted fugitive.
Weasely and Harry, Sirius ends up being innocent. If he had not been, Harry's time at Hogwarts would have been cut agonizingly short. But Molly did not know (and doesn't find out until far later) that Sirius is innocent, and therefore places him in danger by refusing to protect Harry by telling him the truth.
Due to the immense fear that Voldemort commanded and the threat he posed against wizarding Britain, Minister Fudge adamantly refused to believe that he had returned and instead deluded himself into believing a more comforting nonsensical scenario, that Dumbledore was trying to usurp his position of Minister for Magic.
Peter Pettigrew, one of James and Sirius's best friends, was the real traitor. The Potters, Sirius, and Peter were the only ones who knew that they had switched the Potters' secret keeper from Sirius to Peter at the last moment.
