Some Thoughts On Some Stuff, etc. (Sirius)

[orlaquirke2002]

No: HPFGUIDX 45883

JOdel wrote:

>Sirius is a throughly self-absorbed 
> individual, he is not of a forgiving disposition and he does not 
often choose to be put 
> in the wrong. (Unless he absolutely has no choice in the matter -- 
then he 
> wallows in it.) And if he harbored some niggling sense of blame 
toward Lupin 
> for having been the cause for his having been put into the wrong 
over the 
> Shrieking Shack incident, it wouldn't be the only case we've seen 
where he 
> has unrepentantly, and very disingeneously, determined to blame his 
own 
> victim for what could have happened to him. >

I don't know. I definately agree with the rest of your argument, but 
I'm not so sure that I picture Sirius as self obsessed a you've 
described him here. You have to remember that Snape was his nemesis; 
much as Malfoy is to Harry, and he did what he did out of anger at 
Snape's snooping around; had he really wanted to kill Snape, he 
wouldn't have told James. Not only that, but he really does blame 
himself almost entirely for what happens to Lilly and James, risking 
his life to come back to be there for Harry during the events in GoF. 
And anyway, as you point out, he is extremely hot headed, and at the 
time he was only 16. Have some sympathy for the fool hardiness of 
youth! We have no canon evidence after this point that Sirius is self 
obsessed at all. 

Orla