[HPforGrownups] Re: Would Edgy Lupin Crack? Sirius would know

[Felicia Rickmann]

No: HPFGUIDX 35110

cindysphynx wrote:
> The reason I'm not sold on that part of the argument is that I 
can't 
> imagine Lupin's Edge causing any problems for Sirius.  Sirius would 
> view Lupin's Edge as evidence of Lupin's understated manner, his 
> inability to connect emotionally.  Sirius would think that Lupin 
just 
> needs a good, stiff drink and ought to loosen up and live a 
little.  
> Sirius wouldn't start to suspect Lupin, I don't think, based on 
> Lupin's Edge.  

So no, Black wouldn't have suspected Lupin simply because Lupin had 
an Edge.  Black would have suspected Lupin because as Lupin's close 
friend, he would have seen Lupin acting on that edge.

Sirius will know exactly how close to the Edge Lupin can go - because he became an animagus to help Lupin in the first place (ditto James Potter).  We don't know where Lupin has been before he arrived in PoA and how much, if at all, he had been in touch with Sirius prior to the latter's Azkaban imprisonment.  The fact that there is a long-standing and deep bond is evident.  The recklessness of the trio during their schooldays and the risks they ran is mentioned (I am re-reading PoA and haven't got there yet so am relying on memory....).  Sirius would trust Lupin and know EXACTLY how far he could go without cracking.

I think the real Sirius has some moral grounding, some opinions about principles (not stooping to the level of the DEs) & values (how a parent should & shouldn't interact with their kids).  This, IMO, contradicts the 
Devil-may-care, self-centered Sirius that some people see.

Sirius, having spent a long time in Azkaban must be made of sterner stuff that his younger less careful self.  Personally, apart from the early years at Hogwarts, I think Sirius through bitter experience has become a more rounded humane character capable of a much wider range of responses than someone who has coasted through life (example : you learn more when your computer crashes than when if works all the time - forgive the analogy...).  

I am keen to see how JKR develops the Snape/Sirius thing in Book 5 as, at the end of GoF when Cornelius Fudge (British Civil Service at its worst at this point... I speak with an ex-insider's knowledge) refuses to believe Voldemort has returned, Snape and Sirius are *on the same side*.  Their handshake is a priceless moment of the blackest comedy coming as it does at the worst possible time.

Felicia




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