opinion on sirius black

[Penny & Bryce Linsenmayer]

No: HPFGUIDX 14372

Hi --

"Jee H. Lee" wrote:

> Magda said: >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.
>
> Then, Earthwalk said: 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*

Well, there will be plenty of Sirius Black fans who will jump in & point
out various things but I'll just give my cursory thoughts.  First, we
don't know the full story about the infamous Black Werewolf Prank on
Snape.  We only know little snippets of information .... and we sure
have never heard Sirius comment on it.  So, I'm not sure it's a great
idea to jump to conclusions about what happened, what the motivations
were, etc.  My opinion is that we just don't have enough info to condemn
Sirius (or assume that Snape was an innocent wronged victim in the whole
thing).

> 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.

I feel certain Carole & Monika will jump in here but I disagree that
Sirius has a ruthless side to him.  There's obviously some serious
enmity between he and Snape, but I don't think this necessarily means
that Sirius is violent or has a dark temperment.  In fact, his
interactions with Harry and others in GoF belie this entirely IMO.
Magda hasn't read GoF yet (you *really* shouldn't read these posts
without having read all 4 books as there are spoilers in virtually all
of them these days but anyway) ... but I thought the Sirius of GoF is
much more likely to be the Sirius of pre-Azkaban days.

Out of time to comment further at this point but I have no doubt that
more serious Sirius fans will jump in where I've left off!

Penny


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