Sirius's reaction at the Potters

[heidi]

No: HPFGUIDX 11202



Monika Zaboklicka wrote:

> >Ok, let's be more precise: Acute Stress Disorder, following shock and
> >trauma. This would have put him in the state to go after Pettigrew
> >and try to kill him because he certainly felt the urge to do exactly
> >this (here I totally agree with you), but he was unable to
> >concentrate and had no chance against him.
>
> <cut>
>
> Mmmm... I don't have my copy of GoF about me, so just correct me if I'm
> wrong, but I think that Hagrid never mentioned that Sirius was in particular
> stress when they met at the ruins of Potters' house. I have formed an
> impression that this was the reason Hagrid believed that Sirius betrayed
> Potters.

It's not in GoF, it's in PoA - Hagrid specificaly says that Sirius needed comforting when he showed up at the POtter's - here's the passage:

> "I met him!" growled Hagrid. "I musta bin the last ter see him before he
> killed all them people! It was me what rescued Harry from Lily an'
> James's house after they was killed! jus' got him outta the ruins, poor
> little thing, with a great slash across his forehead, an' his parents
> dead... an' Sirius Black turns up, on that flyin' motorbike he used ter
> ride. Never occurred ter me what he was doin' there. I didn' know he'd
> bin Lily an' James's Secret-Keeper. Thought he'd jus' heard the news o'
> You-Know-Who's attack an' come ter see what he could do. White an'
> shakin', he was. An' yeh know what I did? I COMFORTED THE MURDERIN'
> TRAITOR!" Hagrid roared.
>
If Sirius needed "comforting" then he was distraught. If he was distraught then he was openly manifesting a show of stress.



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