[HPforGrownups] Re: defense of Sirius and James

[Susan Hall]

No: HPFGUIDX 19202

This is my first post in this group, so please excuse any inadvertant breach
of group conventions.

I confess to feeling a bit baffled by a couple of recent posts describing
Sirius as "commitmentphobic".  Not only is there nothing in the text to
support this (about the only time we hear of  him pre Azkaban he is trying
to assume the sole care of an orphaned 15month old child) it completely
contrasts with my view of him and James, in that I tend to think that not
being in a lifetime relationship at 22 is pretty normal, and James and Lily
are definitely on the young side to have settled down, especially since
normal wizard lifetimes exceed Muggle ones by about 50% apparently. Had
Voldemort not intervened I  could have imagined James at age 28 or
thereabouts coming home from a long day at wherever he was earning all those
Galleons, tripping over Harry and his bratty siblings, having a huge row
with Lily in which she works off her frustrations at the sidetracking of her
magical career and he works off all his frustrations at his missed
opportunities to play the field, culminating with his final insult "You get
more like your sister Petunia every day", a slammed door, and a trip out to
meet Sirius in the pub, where he makes bitter remarks about women into his
pint and flirts outrageously with the half Veela barmaid just to prove he
isn't past it....

Susan