wands - one more death - sexy Sirius

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No: HPFGUIDX 18210

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Monika Huebner" <monika at d...> wrote:

> Well, he isn't exactly free. He is still hiding not only from the 
MoM,
> but also from the rest of the wizarding world. I really can't see 
him
> wandering around Diagon Alley and buy a wand. He cannot even buy
> food and has to ask Harry to send him some. 


Okay, he isn't really "free", but Crookshanks was able to help him buy 
the Firebolt, he clearly has some money stashed away somewhere, and he 
was able to hide out in some tropical place for a while where, it 
appears, he was able to recover a bit. When he talked to Harry via 
long-distance fire in Gryffindor Tower he was apparently not living on 
rats at the time, and had even managed to get a haircut.

Clearly he can use a less than perfect wand, and that have ANY wand is 
better than none. So why wouldn't Dumbledore or Lupin dig one up for 
him? 

Maybe he has one, but it is simply not mentioned. *shrug*

I also frankly do not get the living in caves and eating rats thing. 
Yes, I know he is a fugitive, but if he can hang around the Hogwarts 
pumpkin patch as a dog, or "lie low" at Lupin's, surely the cave and 
the rats are not necessary. Who would question Dumbledore suddenly 
acquiring a "pet" newfoundland? Just my silly thoughts on the 
matter....

About sexy Sirius, a subject dear to my own heart:  All we really know 
about his pre-Hogwarts days is that (1) he and James were inseparable 
friends, (2) that he was handsome and full of laughter, and (3) that 
he and the other maurauders conducted themselves in a very 
high-spirited rules-defying fashion. We know that (4) he and James 
were very talented wizards and that (5) this was why Peter glommed 
onto them, hoping that some of their strength and status would rub 
off onto him. We know that (6) he rode a motorcycle, and (7) did some 
creative work on it to make it fly. Not exactly cautious or lacking in 
confidence, eh? Given all of this, it is very hard to believe that he 
wasn't extremely attractive to women (or men for that matter)! 
Everthing about his personality adds up to POPULAR. It is actually not 
assuming too much to put leather pants on him-- motorcyclists do wear 
leather for practical reasons. If he rode a motorcycle seriously 
enough to know how to do work on it, he must have worn leather. 

*Regaining my composure and putting the drool back into my mouth*

James and Lily married at an unusually young age-- it would be more 
typical for someone who is 21 or 22 to not be married, maybe not even 
have a serious girlfriend. He was probably playing the field, having 
fun, and thinking about other things back then. I don't think we are 
stretching things to assume that he was a popular and bold in his 
sexual life. Tumbling with lots of pretty witches in the cloakrooms 
migth sound distasteful to someone who is older and perhaps thinking 
more about committed relationships, but if Percy is willing to make 
out in empty classrooms, I am sure Sirius had his share of such 
tristes. 

Ah, if the rosebushes could only speak!

--Suzanne