[HPforGrownups] RE:RE: Chapter Summaries - Sirius + Snape -

[Susanna Luhtanen]

No: HPFGUIDX 28408



Susanna Luhtanen
s_luhtanen at hotmail.com



>From: "Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)" <catlady at wicca.net>
>Reply-To: HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com
>To: HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com
>Subject: [HPforGrownups] RE:RE: Chapter Summaries - Sirius + Snape -
>Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2001 04:02:24 -0000
>
>Derry wrote:
>
> > Harry has had people rhapsodising over what a fantastic Seeker he
> > is.  Wouldn't it be nice to be well-known for something he's
> > _done_ rather than something he _is_?  Considering he hasn't been
> > outstanding at lessons, it would be reassuring to have something to
> > prove that he does belong in the wizarding world.
>
>Yes, that is how Harry feels about playing Quidditch. (Unfortunately,
>it doesn't seem to make him any more sympathetic with Ron's similar
>desire to prove himself.) Therefore, another Quidditch plot line
>that I haven't written about is how distraught Harry would feel if he
>found out that the reason he is a "natural" Seeker is because he
>acquired Tom Riddle's Seeker ability as well as his Parselmouth.

I think it's from Harry's early childhood. Sirius had promised Harry a 
flight(because Harry loved flying) - but then James made him promise he'd 
not take Harry on Sirius's, James's or Lily's broomstick. (Or Lupin's or 
Pettigrew's). Sirius felt bound to keep both promises so he gave Harry a 
broomstick of his own (Firebolt) - and took Harry on flight on /Harry's/ 
broomstick(keeping his word to James because they hadn't discussed Harry's 
broomstick). He may have say been standing behind Harry, instructing him to 
streatch his hand and say "up" - doing the same quietly himself at the same 
time, so that it would seem to Harry that it'd been /Harry/ himself to make 
it do that. Then they'd taken a brief flight (naturally Sirius would make 
sure Harry wouldn't fall) - but then Lily and James had seen them. James 
complained about Sirius's promise. "It's Harry's broomstick, Prongs. I just 
gave it to him for his birthday. We were just doing a test-drive. I never 
said anything about Harry's broomstick, did I?" - Lily intervening and she'd 
say quite a lot of things to Sirius... "If I see you doing anything like 
this again... You just don't do things like that with a one-year-old!". "I 
promise I won't let you see..." "Oh no! I won't have you do it under James' 
invisibility cloak either! You won't DO it"...

Just thinking that Sirius might have been a bit unfit to care for a young 
child, but much better taking care of an adolescent... one thing that may 
have worked on him giving up on Harry.

>Susanna Luhtenan wrote:
>
> > Though he did have access to the Daily Prophet to see Pettigrew as
> > Ron's rat. (My guess is, that a wizard guard - only one, - was
> > reading it with his back turned, and while Sirus' cell was a bit
> > off - he took his eye into his hand and looked - which he could do
> > due to being animagus.
>
>It was Fudge's copy of the Daily Prophet. "Yet I met Black on my last
>inspection of Azkaban. You know, most of the prisoners in there sit
>muttering to themselves in the dark; there's no sense in them... but
>I was shocked at how normal Black seemed. He spoke quite rationally
>to me. It was unnerving. You'd have thought he was merely bored --
>asked if I'd finished with my newspaper, cool as you please, said he
>missed doing the crossword."

Oh... I forgot about that.

> > Dropping a finger I figure also an animagus trick...)
>
>Maybe, but whether it was Animagery or biting it off, the finger was
>permanently gone, even in rat form.

It was - but was it so because Pettigrew wasn't exactly able to get it back 
(because the Ministry took it as evidence)? Also, I've heard of a cult where 
a traitor shows repent (and avoids death) by giving a piece of his flesh to 
the cult-leader (usually a finger). Maybe that's what Pettigrew did. Paid 
for his betrayal with his finger when Sirius confronted him instead of 
trying to frame Sirius?


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