[HPforGrownups] Sirius' anger (long)

[Magda Grantwich]

No: HPFGUIDX 20926

> .....I have never seen 
> him as the womanising, immature figure that many on this list  seem
> to believe in.  Apart from the scene when he lures Snape to the 
> Whomping Willow, I can't really see how Sirius is differentiated
> from James in JKR's descriptions of them both.  They are both 
> described as very bright, charming, trouble-makers, popular.  The 
> only real difference is that James got married and had Harry - and 
> this could just as well be the circumstance of meeting the right 
> person sooner rather than later, not due to any womanising 
> immaturity on Sirius' part.  

Well, actually there is a major difference between James and Sirius.
(For the record I am one of the people on the list who thinks Sirius
is immature although I'm agnostic on the womanising issue.)

At the age of sixteen Sirius Black set up his good friend Remus Lupin
for murder by giving Severus Snape sufficient information to allow
him to intrude on Lupin during a transformation into a werewolf. 
Yeah, I know Snape made the decision to pursue the matter on his own
and that's not Sirius' fault.

But I don't think that would have made Lupin feel any better when he
returned to his human form and discovered what he'd done.  It would
be impossible to hide a dead body, someone would find out, Lupin
would at the very, very least have been expelled, Hogwarts would be
in trouble for letting Lupin in in the first place, Snape's family
(or guardians or whatever) would be fired up for blood, etc. etc.etc.

And almost twenty years later Sirius still doesn't get it.  He still
thinks Snape would have deserved it for being such a pain in school. 
Assuming that Snape deserved it (I don't but for the sake of argument
let's suppose), Lupin certainly didn't.

And the difference between Sirius (still clueless after twenty years)
and James is that it took James figured it all out and made the
decision to save Snape from death and Lupin from big, major trouble.

So, yes, I do think there's a difference between James and Sirius.

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