[HPforGrownups] killing voldemort and opinion on sirius black

[Jee H. Lee]

No: HPFGUIDX 14368

'Lo, all. I'm Earthwalk, a 21-year-old Korean Potterhead who loves to read 
and write. I've been meaning to join for some time, and I'm glad I finally 
found the URL and did so.

>Have just finished reading PoA and and haven't read GoF at all so
>these comments might be changed after reading the fourth book.  But I
>must admit that I think Sirius Black is a serious jerk and that Snape
>might have done Harry a future favour if he'd gone ahead and blasted
>him with the wand like he so badly wanted to do. The trick played on
>Snape as a youth is a pretty good reason for him to hate Black IMO.

Come on, go ahead an read GoF!!!

That said, even though Sirius is my third or fourth favorite character(and 
possibly the hottest man in the books), I actually agree with that 
statement. But then again, Snape is my absolute favorite character in the 
whole series, so I'm not sure what that says about my taste in characters. 
:-)  The trick that Sirius played on Snape was simply despicable, even for 
a sixteen-year-old. Not that it's unreasonable to *want* to kill Snape, 
nasty little git that he is, but to actually carry it out? And in a way 
that would leave the blood on his friend Remus's hands(claws)? That was an 
all-time low for Sirius so far. Come to think of it, Snape had his all-time 
low himself when he tried to do in Sirius. Talk about bringing out the 
worst in each other. *rolls eyes*

It's a little disturbing to me that Sirius had that kind of violent yet 
sneaky tendency even before Azkaban. Don't get me wrong, I think he's a 
really great guy, but he does have a ruthless side to him, a dark streak. 
And yeah, it was definitely a reason for Snape to hate him, though it 
doesn't justify Snape's not even bothering to listen before trying to take 
Sirius to the Dementors. I'm not sure I would have been any better in such 
a situation, though.

Actually, I rather do understand Snape's behavior at the end of PoA. As far 
as I can see, he was motivated by his concern for Harry's safety as well as 
for revenge. Wait, before you laugh me off the list(*whimper* it's only my 
second day!)--I think he really *was* concerned for Harry's safety all 
through PoA. He wasn't nice about it, but all his harsh words and actions 
had one direction: Keeping Harry inside Hogwarts, away from the dangerous 
murdering lunatic Black. This may well have come up before--sorry if it 
has. I'm only in the three hundreds in the archives. But yeah, in the 
Shrieking Shack, I believe Snape was a) hating Black's guts & wanting 
revenge  b)hating the late Potter's guts  c) hating Lupin's guts  d) all 
excited and big-headed in his prospect for glory  e) angry at that arrogant 
Potter boy and his friends for willfully disobeying school rules and 
hanging out with a murderer and a werewolf  f)  hopping mad at Potter for 
putting his own life on the line when so much depended on him  g) driven by 
the need to save Potter's skin yet again. His main motive may have been 
revenge, but he was also watching out for Harry.



>As to V. and the big battle, I think JKR will arrange it so that V.
>overreaches and destroys himself.  That's how most criminals get
>caught: they get too cocky and careless and slip up.  No doubt V.
>will make the same mistake and do himself in.

Yeah, it might go somewhere along that line. The problem is, how. The most 
standard process would be that Voldie enjoys continuing victory while our 
heroes struggle and die out. Then Voldie gets a decisive chance to strike 
the fatal blow at the forces of good, then makes a Stupid Evil Overlord 
Mistake and causes his own downfall. We all know that Voldie is no model of 
objectivity considering his own greatness,  so it's possible his bloated 
head will result in his ruin. Somebody send this guy the Evil Overlord 
handbook so he won't make the same mistakes. If he's going to be a S.E.O., 
I at least want the Stupid Mistake to be original.


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