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Sirius Black Sheep

Sep 18, 2006 21:41

Happy birthday millefioriI was reading a thread on HP4GU today--naturally a long-running thread that I think started with the question of Dumbledore's placing Harry with the Dursleys and it echoed Sirius' life in a weird way for me, in a Meta-way. It started as a conversation about just what business it was of Dumbledore's to decide who Harry lived with. ( Read more... )

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seductivedark September 19 2006, 01:56:51 UTC

You know, I never thoguht about it, but Sirius doesn't seem to have had that infamous Second Chance. James, yes. And, James was the one to save Snape. Peter? Not too sure about him, he saw his opportunity and grabbed it running. It could very well be that Dumbledore didn't trust Sirius that much with the adult things in life. The Prank, at an age when young wizards are supposed to be settling down to be serious about life, was perhaps some indication to Dumbledore about Sirius's state at the time?

And, yes, Sirius is the one who broke away from his WW family, and is the one who suffers alone. Even Draco's got his family to lean on, as we find in HBP.

The Black brothers, pointless deaths, remembered marginally in passing as other deaths are revered. Quite a fall for the noble House of Black, and all of the stock dear Mama put into it.

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Re: An explanation. myfatbudgie September 24 2006, 16:13:16 UTC

I see what you mean about not needing to hear the facts again, when you've gone over them so many times you're sick of them. A lot of people tend to forget his behavior in GoF, and fixate on just the "Worst Memory", and OotP, when he was in circumstances that brought out the worst in him, etc., etc. That's why I brought them up ( ... )

arclevel September 21 2006, 05:18:28 UTC

You make a good point about the mothers; the fathers are frequently easier to notice, but in book 6, especially, the mothers predominate. And now wandering *completely* off-topic ( ... )

Re: Percy, Sirius, Regulus and Harry myfatbudgie September 21 2006, 05:54:48 UTC

Word to everything you said about Percy. I think 75% of his character can be laid at Molly's door, and the way the other children reacted to him. (I think Molly does the best she can under extremely trying circumstances, but I've seen other families with this exact dynamic, and those families ended up with the same estrangement problems ( ... )

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