Living With Sirius

[Cindy C.]

No: HPFGUIDX 28389

Amber wrote:

I have problems with Harry agreeing so 
> readily to live with someone he doesn't know at all.
> 

OK.  Let me try this, then.  We've seen one significant situation in 
which Harry is willing to trust and face the unknown to get away from 
the Dursleys.  In PS/SS, he leaves the Dursleys and goes with Hagrid, 
someone he has only just met, someone his uncle was prepared to 
shoot.  No Professor Lupin is around to vouch for Hagrid either.  
Harry knows nothing at all of the magical world, and before you know 
it, he's leaving the only home he has ever had and is in a row boat 
with a giant carrying a pink umbrella.

Fast forward two years.  Harry now understands the wizarding world 
well and feels comfortable in it.  He is thinking of living with his 
parents' best friend, a man Harry now knows is innocent, and his 
favorite and most trusted professor has just vouched for Sirius.  His 
two best friends have demonstrated their support for Sirius and Lupin 
by blasting Snape unconscious.  Under the circumstances, having Harry 
ask for a few days to think the offer over, or having Harry decline 
would be odd indeed compared to Harry's conduct in PS/SS.

Cindy (who is running out of arguments to explain Harry's conduct)