Sirius: PoA vs. GoF: explanation

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Subject: Re: Sirius: PoA vs. GoF: explanation
Reply To: [Yahoo! #7261] Re: Sirius: PoA vs. GoF: explanation
Date: 8/19/00 2:53 pm  (ET)

> The difference between Sirius in PoA and GoF is really quite
worrying(snip) I can definitely see two different Siriuses.

>in PoA, the effect of his twelve years in Azkaban can easily be seen. In
GoF, this experience has only a few cursory mentions. I find it hard to
believe he has recovered so fully and so swiftly.

> In PoA, Sirius is vengeful and angry, he does not think before he
acts and he cannot control his temper at all. In GoF he is responsible,
caring, analytical and calm.

PoA: being vengeful, angry, and out of control is PART of the effect
of his twelve years in Azkaban. Maybe I should make an analogy to being
cranky and irritable while beginning to get over a flu or other disease
that completely knocked one down for a while. Or maybe I should go off
on the subject of Dementors being a personification of major depression
(JKR said so!), and one of the problems with mental illness is it can
interfere with the patient's thinking processes.

GoF: being responsible, caring, analytical, and calm is part of having
recovered. 'Recovered' doesn't mean being the SAME 'wild boy' he was
before Azkaban (I'm about to reply to message #7271 on that subject)
-- many of my Muggle friends gradually got into brand-new habits like
thinking before they act, due to children and car payments and the slower
recovery times of aging bodies, and Sirius did the same in a much more
dramatic set of circumstances.