Sirius Black Questions.

[Felicia Rickmann]

No: HPFGUIDX 36398

Further canon evidence that clearing his own name was secondary in 
importance: Sirius's knowledge of his own innocence kept him sane in 
Azkaban for 12 years, but he was unable to escape. I don't have my 
copy of PoA, but there is a quote, something like, - SNIP "But knowing that he was at Hogwarts, perfectly poised to strike if any hint should reach him 
that Voldemort was rising again, it lit a fire in my mind and gave me 
the strength I needed to escape."  He wanted to escape in order to 
kill Peter and thereby protect Harry; the desire to clear his own 
name wasn't part of the equation.

-Jennifer

Nice to see someone talking sense about Sirius and so succinctly put. Sirius seems to change from *criminal* to almost *saint* over the course of his appearance in the books which I (poor soul) simply took for granted until I read what HPfGU-ers think of Harry's godfather.  

I suspect a lot of the more theatrical events can be put down to *writer's licence* after all, these are children's books and they see adults differently (a sort of black and white and capital letters view of life) and Sirius, admit it, would be DEADLY deadly dull otherwise.  
Sirius, burdened with guilt about having been the agent of James and Lily's demise is, until Remus brings an element of calm to the situation, consumed with desire for revenge and poor Ron is merely an unfortunate bystander,for want of a better word.

Felicia

Who thinks there is nothing wrong with Molly Weasley as a mum.


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