Crushes on characters (why Sirius appeals to me)

[Linda C. McCabe]

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Okay, to just change the theme a little from Snape to another character...

Someone had asked before when you first started identifying or being drawn
to a character.  Sirius Black is by far my favorite character in the
Potterverse, but I don't think I started feeling that way after reading PoA
or even GoF for the first time.  I think it had to have been after about the
second or third time through as I sifted through all the myriad clues of
evidence, etc. that I started reflecting on his pathos and it got to me.

I started feeling the draw of the hurt-comfort emotional model towards him.
I wanted to do what JKR has refused to do for Sirius, provide him a
sanctuary and give him comfort.  This long-suffering wrongly accused and
imprisoned man has been living on the run for two years living off of rats
and other vermin, sleeping in forests and caves.  Yeeesh, all I want to do
it to give him a nice warm bath, get rid of those nasty robes he's lived in
for fourteen years now, get rid of the fleas and ticks he's picked up from
the Forbidden Forest, give him a nice hot meal and then comfort him from the
demons that have been haunting him for years.  I want to provide him human
companionship, something he's been denied for far too long.  Yes, I want to
give him comfort and ease his pain.  Heavy sigh.  And then because he still
is a fugitive, he'd be afraid to leave the sanctuary I was willing to
provide him.  He'd be mine, all mine.

All you Snape fans can dream about how angsty and misunderstood your Severus
is, I am interested in his nemesis.

This is from an adult woman who has never felt drawn to a fictional
character before.

Athena

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