[HPforGrownups] Re: sexy Sirius

[Monika Huebner]

No: HPFGUIDX 18211

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> From: rainy_lilac at yahoo.com [mailto:rainy_lilac at yahoo.com]
> Sent: Saturday, May 05, 2001 8:11 PM
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> Subject: [HPforGrownups] Re: wands - one more death - sexy Sirius

> 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.

I always assumed that the tropical place was so far away that the
ministry couldn't find him there. And I think he didn't have to hide
there or he wouldn't have been able to recover.

> 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.

I always wondered where he was during that time. He had been back
to England for a few weeks (since he came back in October and he
met Harry in the Gryffindor common room in November). Where did
he stay then? Apparently somewhere "well hidden" as he said, but
where he was able to take care of himself and get enough to eat. My
guess is that it was nowhere near Hogwarts, because this is where
the Ministry (and the Dementors) would look for him first. 

> 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? 

Good question. I think that Dumbledore wouldn't do something that
illegal at this point, but he might change his mind in the next book.
As for why Lupin doesn't get him a new wand, I don't know. Maybe
because it would be too suspect, too, because everyone knows
that they were/are friends.

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

I don't think so. I'm pretty sure he doesn't have a wand right now.
 
> 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....

Sirius is only starving when he has to stay near Hogsmeade. Seriously,
Dumbledore can't hide him inside the castle, and when he was waiting
in the pumpkin patch, it was night and most people wouldn't have
noticed the big, black dog. I think the cave was "necessary" in GoF
because he wanted to be with Harry, and this was the closest he could
get to him without endangering other people. Lupin might live far away,
we don't know it, but I think that he lives in a rather remote spot. Life
as a werewolf isn't easy, either. So Sirius will be rather safe at Lupin's,
and hopefully he will recover over the summer. I got the impression at
the end of GoF that he had physically reverted to his PoA state.

> About sexy Sirius, a subject dear to my own heart: 

Believe me, you are not the only one. 8-)
 
> *Regaining my composure and putting the drool back into my mouth*
 
> 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. 

Maybe I am really too old to think realistically about those things,
but you can be a happy, laughing guy and have fun without being
a womanizer who can't think of anything else than hunting down
every witch between Dover and Scotland. But you have a point with
your mention of Percy. ;--) I don't believe in any way that Sirius was
a saint, but there are nuances.

> Ah, if the rosebushes could only speak!

Lol! That would indeed be very interesting.

Monika

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