However, his brooding over his friends' deaths and Pettigrew's betrayal became an obsession as well. This was due to hearing many different theories regarding why Harry survived Voldemort's attack being made by the confined Death Eaters, the most persistent of which indicating that they believed Pettigrew to have betrayed them since the Dark Lord met his downfall on Peter's information. This most likely meant that Pettigrew went into hiding as a rat in hopes of avoiding the half of Voldemort's followers who avoided imprisonment, afraid that they will be motivated to kill him if his continuing existence became known if not return to their master. Sirius waited until any sources reached within the prison walls leading to the discovery that Pettigrew was staying with a wizarding family as a rat to keep up on current news about Voldemort, all while getting very weak with no hope of driving the Dementors back without his wand, which was taken from him and stored away under Ministry of Magic safety repercussions.
By 1985, Sirius's mother died, leaving the Black house-elf Kreacher alone in the house, which was thus left abandoned.
Escape from Azkaban
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
THE TRIO DISCUSSING SIRIUS BLACK'S ESCAPE ON THE HOGWARTS EXPRESS
Wanted
Sirius Black wanted poster posted around Hogwarts, Hogsmeade and other magical locations
In 1993, Sirius became the first known person ever to escape from Azkaban. He was, however, unknown to the public, beaten by Barty Crouch Jnr through his mother's sacrifice. After receiving an issue of the Daily Prophet from Cornelius Fudge during an inspection, he discovered that Pettigrew was indeed hiding in his Animagus form as Ron Weasley's pet rat Scabbers. Filled with the desire for revenge and concern for Harry, Sirius took his Animagus form and (thinned from undernourishment) was able to slip past the Dementors when they opened his cell door to bring him food. Then, he slipped out of Azkaban and swam across the North Sea in his dog form back to the mainland and to freedom.
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BEWITCHED | SIRIUS BLACK
FanfictionBewitched. That was how Sirius felt towards Arabella. He was, like most of the boys at Hogwarts, bewitched by her beauty. But Arabella White was as oblivious to others looks as she was to her own feeling for the man in question. She was a white he...
