TBAY: Sirius Flaws <== what (unknown) should have been

[dicentra63]

No: HPFGUIDX 39360

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., Edblanning at a... wrote:
> Dicentra:
> > Well, besides the fact that it would have made an Awfully Short Novel 
> > (WARPDRIVE!), Sirius didn't contact anyone because that's not how 
> > Sirius operates.  
> > 
> > Other examples of Sirius Going It Alone: trying to assume the sole 
> > care of Harry after the Potters were murdered, breaking into the 
> > castle to get Peter (he *did* try to include someone else in his 
> > plans, but that didn't work, did it?), trying to finish Peter off by 
> > himself, and taking on Werewolf!Remus after he transformed (but he 
> > didn't have much choice in that case). He's Lone Protector, and he 
> > 
Dicentra almost makes it out of the museum door when she feels a tiny,
gooey thing hit her in the cheek.  She turns and sees Eloise flicking
blowfish eyes at her.  Eloise says, a little too innocently:
> 
> Well, isn't that interesting, because as you might remember, this is
exactly 
> the same argument that I have made about Snape.
>
D'oh!  Dicentra was hoping to avoid that until later.  Maybe until
never.  She *did* remember the argument that Snape Goes It Alone, and
was deeply disturbed when she found that same characteristic in
Sirius.  Probably was what invoked this:

"The lights are dimmed but she can still see Sirius Black and Ron.
Sirius has that waxy skin, yellow teeth, and insane rictus going.
Dirty black hair. Yeech. Good thing he cleans up good."

The physical resemblance cannot be accidental; Snape just doesn't have
12 years in a hell-hole to blame.  Is it possible that the two hate
each other at least in part because they are so much alike?  Two north
poles of a magnet?  Dicentra has a friend she can't stand because she
sees too much of herself in that friend (the friend doesn't see it at
all).  Somewhere in the depths of the archives someone wondered if the
two might not be related. Perish the thought!  

 It's going to be 
> essential that Sirius and Snape do become team players; the
difficult thing 
> is that they have to be on the same team (and I can't wait to see
how they 
> manage!)

They probably won't.  Not at first, anyway.
> 
> > 
> > Now, *why* did think he had to Go It Alone?  Dicentra stands and 
> > swats the sand off her legs as she heads back to the Big Bang.  That 
> > 
> 
> Well, my argument is that Snape needs to Go It Alone to prove
himself and to 
> atone for the past and possibly just because That's the Way He Is.
Some of us 
> are a bit like that ;-) I think it's quite possible that Sirius'
motivation 
> is similar.

Dicentra contemplates this and agrees with the That's The Way He Is
part, but thinks Sirius Goes It Alone because he's so incredibly smart
he doesn't think he needs help from a bunch of morons.  But obviously
he's not as smart as he thinks he is.  No one person could be smart
enough to pull off what he attempts, with the possible exception of
Dumbledore.
> > 
> > --Dicentra, who's glad *one* of the Potterverse heartthrobs is 
> > getting his act together 
> > 
> Err, make that two, will you? 

There are only two to begin with: the other one has lycanthropy issues :-)

(No, I didn't really think that you would, but it was worth a try!)

If you say so.

Dicentra picks up one of the blowfish eyes and attempts to flick it
back at Eloise. She succeeds only in squishing it between her thumb
and middle finger.

--Dicentra, *extremely* peeved that a certain actor didn't win a Tony
last night