Mostly Sirius Thoughts

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Subject: Re: Mostly Sirius Thoughts
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Date: 8/19/00 3:06 pm  (ET)

> I think Remus and Sirius could both be introverts. James is perhaps
the only one of the Marauders with an extrovert personality.

Here is a reason to suspect that Sirius was wilder than James: Sirius
was the one who 'played the practical joke' of telling Severus to follow
Remus down the secret passage -- which would have resulted in Severus
being bitten and probably killed by a werewolf, which would have been
good riddance. And James was the one who risked himself to rush down
the passage and stop Severus from encountering the werewolf, even tho'
it seems he hated Severus as much as Sirius did. Yes, James was risking
himself. If Severus had enough of a head start that James couldn't stop
him before he reached the werewolf, then he would have been jumping
between werewolf and victim. And even if he had transformed into Prongs
to be an equal fighter, he still risked being bitten in the fight.

Sirius clearly wasn't thinking ahead or being responsible when he pulled
that stunt. Killing his classmate Severus might be no big deal, and he
might have been confident that no one would have found out that he himself
was involved, but what of the consequences to his friend Remus? Not
thinking at all! While it suddenly occured to me that perhaps James was
not being a noble jerk by heroically saving a human life despite whose
life it was, but was actually acting to save REMUS.

Who, incidentally, must have quite a limited form of introversion if he
can STAND to be a schoolteacher and stand in front of multiple classes
of multiple children all day. I can't stand either children or public
speaking, but one of my friends did love children, started majoring in
Education and became some kind of assistant to an middle-school teacher,
and discovered that he had panic attacks whenever he had to stand in
front of the class and talk.