Rulebreaking (Sirius and Remus)

[bystardust]

No: HPFGUIDX 38554

Marina wrote:
> It's not like Sirius is incapable of taking responsibility or 
> feeling guilt.  The degree of guilt and responsibility he feels for 
> the Potters' deaths is actually greater than it needs to be.  And 
> there are bits in PoA that indicate to me that he feels badly about 
> injuring Ron.  But his animosity toward Snape seems to overrule his 
> normal conscience.  There's no indication that he feels bad about 
it 
> at all.  Since I love Sirius and want to think well of him, I hope 
> that gets dealt with eventually.

I agree. When Sirius played The Prank on Snape, his hatred for him 
was all that was on his mind; much like when he was trying to get at 
Peter at the end of PoA, even Ron's leg couldn't stop him. I think 
Sirius' problem is that he gets -too- emotional about things. He's 
never going to forgive himself for James' and Lily's deaths and when 
he's really angry he can't think clearly. I've always wondered about 
why he chokes Harry at the end of PoA, but I guess a lot of that can 
be attributed to the fact that he's clearly not altogether sane at 
that point.

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Catlady wrote:
> Remus *could* have an entirely selfish reason for disapproval: what 
> does MoM do to a werewolf who bites a wizard? At the very least, 
> having to leave Hogwarts. Possibly imprisonment or execution.
> 
> Also, as a fairly mature and thoughtful person, or as a person who 
> cares about Sirius, he probably thought that Sirius was being a 
> complete idiot to take so much risk to his Sirius-self (does murder 
> by use of a werewolf rate a life sentence in Azkaban?) for so 
little 
> purpose.

I agree, but personally, if I were Remus, I'd disapprove of (and be 
really bitter about) Sirius' prank because he used -me- to do it. I 
think that the werewolf issue was (and still is?) probably a pretty 
sensitive topic with Remus when he was a teenager, especially since 
it alienated him so much. After all, he had to be led to an abandoned 
cabin once a month so that he wouldn't kill anyone. The fact that 
Sirius, one of Remus' best friends, used him and his weakness to 
amuse himself (by himself I mean Sirius) must have been really 
difficult to deal with at that age. It probably still gets to him.

--Doldra