Rulebreaking (Official Philip Nel Question #6) (Take #1)

[irene_mikhlin]

No: HPFGUIDX 38548

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., Penny Linsenmayer <pennylin at s...> wrote:
> SIRIUS BLACK -- 

Finally, someone speaks to me. :-) And such an interesting stuff, too.
> 
> Well, I am a serious Sirius fan, and while I don't speak for all of 
us, I can say that I've not heard it referred to as "just a childish 
prank" that should be excused on the grounds that Sirius was too 
young or immature to understand what he was doing.  

Sorry, I haven't made myself clear. Maybe "harmless prank" would be a 
better expression of what I see as a wrong idea: somehow saying that 
either Snape deserved it or at least he should not hold it against 
Sirius after all those years.
Whatever were the relationships between Snape and Black at the time 
of the Prank, Sirius not only endangered his enemy, he was very 
irresponsible towards his friend as well. So I don't understand how 
adult Sirius can take it so lightly.

> 
> 
> Sirius is seemingly completely unrepentent about The Prank.  In 
every other area of our exposure to Sirius in GoF, I would argue that 
Sirius has a strong moral grounding (a strong sense of his 
responsibilities as Harry's godfather, a strong sense of how Crouch, 
Sr. might have handled family affairs poorly, etc.).   So, does he 
have a blind spot with respect to Snape, or maybe, just possibly, is 
there more to The Prank than we the readers yet know?  <g>  
> 

Or maybe he is just unrepentant in general. :-) If I was Ron, I would 
expect some apology after PoA events.

Irene