Sirius - Pre Azkaban

[catlady_de_los_angeles]

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From: catlady_de_los_angeles
Subject: Re: Sirius - Pre Azkaban
Reply To: [Yahoo! #7320] Sirius - Pre Azkaban
Date: 8/22/00 1:01 am  (ET)

> Before Azkaban, I was the type of man most women grow to hate. Lead
them on, wine them, dine them, make passionate love to them, then leave
before they wake up. Forget to owl, avoid them on the street, then tell
them I wasn't good enough for them."

Wartime. An attractive, charming, wild, single young man. Quite a number
of attractive (and unattractive, but he can ignore those) single young
women will think it would be great fun to sleep with him, and he can
get quite in the habit of waking up beside a pretty young witch he
first met the night before. One-night stands with no hard feelings, no
broken hearts, no need to sneak out before dawn, no obligation to owl
them afterwards (and therefore it isn't forgetting), and no reason not
to say a cheerful 'Hi!' (or 'Hi! I remember yourbeautiful face I met at
so-and-so's party [wink], but not your name.') when meeting on the street.

He may have been doing the low-down-dog act for illusions in his mind,
not for pretty witches whose reaction to seeing him a street to avoid
them is to think: "Sheer paranoia. It's an occupational hazard of all
those spy games, poor guy."