Head-Canon Discussion: Sirius & James
For this week's head-canon discussion, we'd like to turn your attention to Sirius's relationship with a lad who hardly needs more attention:
Sirius & James
(ELVENDORK. It's Unisex by ~jolly2 on deviantART)
1. The first question we asked about Sirius & Remus a couple of weeks ago can apply here too: Does your head canon include a romantic and/or sexual relationship for these two? Maybe a "bromance"? Or just everyday friendship? They seem to have met not too long before we see them on the Hogwarts Express in "The Prince's Tale". How do you think that encounter played out?
2. Sirius and James seem to be the heart and soul of the group of four friends we call "the Marauders"*. Was either of them really "top dog" (top stag?) or was it an equally shared thing? How about the brains of the operation: one of them, or Remus perhaps, or again shared between several? (And straying a little off the topic of Sirius as such, but definitely related: how do you see Peter's role?)
* This phrase is actually only used once in canon, by Ron. The map is "The Marauder's Map", possessive in the singular. this sort of pedantry is what you get when you let shyfoxling write these things
3. Similar to question #2 from Sirius & Remus: what do you think was James's perspective on the whole "Shrieking Shack incident"? What did he think Sirius was thinking, telling Snape how to get into the Shack where he would see (and likely get killed by) a transformed Remus? How might this have affected their friendship? (Clearly James got over it enough to pick Sirius as both his best man at his wedding and the godfather of his child, but maybe in the shorter term?)
4. What was life like when Sirius was living with James at the Potters' house?
5. Keeping in mind that the short story (~800 words) "prequel" JKR wrote for a charity auction was just to fill both sides of a card and probably meant to grab attention for auction more than be seriously connected to anything else in a canonical, narrative sense... what do you think is the broader picture there? The men on brooms are presumably, though not necessarily, Death Eaters. What was going on just before the scene opens? And whose bright idea were those phoenix t-shirts, anyway? ("Elvendork": is it unisex?)
6. We see Sirius later in life still blaming himself for the Potters' deaths. Do you think he might have healed this wound, at least as much as can be expected, given more time? Or would he have continued to bear the guilt for many decades?
Whew, that's plenty to go on. Welp, as always, remember that these head-canon discussions are totally open-ended - you're not restricted to the points above. They're just a few ideas to get you started. Feel free to bring up any aspect of your personal head-canon with regards to Sirius and James!
Sirius & James
(ELVENDORK. It's Unisex by ~jolly2 on deviantART)
1. The first question we asked about Sirius & Remus a couple of weeks ago can apply here too: Does your head canon include a romantic and/or sexual relationship for these two? Maybe a "bromance"? Or just everyday friendship? They seem to have met not too long before we see them on the Hogwarts Express in "The Prince's Tale". How do you think that encounter played out?
2. Sirius and James seem to be the heart and soul of the group of four friends we call "the Marauders"*. Was either of them really "top dog" (top stag?) or was it an equally shared thing? How about the brains of the operation: one of them, or Remus perhaps, or again shared between several? (And straying a little off the topic of Sirius as such, but definitely related: how do you see Peter's role?)
* This phrase is actually only used once in canon, by Ron. The map is "The Marauder's Map", possessive in the singular. this sort of pedantry is what you get when you let shyfoxling write these things
3. Similar to question #2 from Sirius & Remus: what do you think was James's perspective on the whole "Shrieking Shack incident"? What did he think Sirius was thinking, telling Snape how to get into the Shack where he would see (and likely get killed by) a transformed Remus? How might this have affected their friendship? (Clearly James got over it enough to pick Sirius as both his best man at his wedding and the godfather of his child, but maybe in the shorter term?)
4. What was life like when Sirius was living with James at the Potters' house?
5. Keeping in mind that the short story (~800 words) "prequel" JKR wrote for a charity auction was just to fill both sides of a card and probably meant to grab attention for auction more than be seriously connected to anything else in a canonical, narrative sense... what do you think is the broader picture there? The men on brooms are presumably, though not necessarily, Death Eaters. What was going on just before the scene opens? And whose bright idea were those phoenix t-shirts, anyway? ("Elvendork": is it unisex?)
6. We see Sirius later in life still blaming himself for the Potters' deaths. Do you think he might have healed this wound, at least as much as can be expected, given more time? Or would he have continued to bear the guilt for many decades?
Whew, that's plenty to go on. Welp, as always, remember that these head-canon discussions are totally open-ended - you're not restricted to the points above. They're just a few ideas to get you started. Feel free to bring up any aspect of your personal head-canon with regards to Sirius and James!