Why did Harry get such a liking of Sirius to start with ?

[Aesha Williams]

No: HPFGUIDX 74566

Hi Del,
    I posted a similar thing to the list a few weeks ago. I agree with you 100%- I don't understand why Harry felt so close and obligated to Sirius, and in fact, it makes me uncomfortable. I don't understand why Harry would be so instantly attatched to him- I just don't buy that it's that he was his parent's best friend. Lupin was one of their best friends, too, so why couldn't he go to Lupin with anything? He could have sent an owl to Lupin just as eaily, and he knew Lupin better. And it's not that their relationship grew from their sudden meeting in PoA, gradually through Sirius' demise in OoP. In the second chapter of GOF, which is less than two months after Harry and Sirius met, Sirius was the only one who he thought to ask for advice about his scar huritng- not Dumbledore, Lupin, Arthur or Molly... nor his best friends, Ron and Hermione. I just don't like it! :)
    Your post was good, as were your points- I appreciate you putting the same thoughts I had into a more sensical email. :) 

Aesha

[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]