Draco and Sirius(Was: A Good Slytherin? )

[marinafrants]

No: HPFGUIDX 74767

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "RP" <rlai1977 at y...> wrote:
> Sirius apparently, has always hated his family, period. It's not 
that 
> he reached a certain age, suddenly woke up to the fact that his 
> family was evil and decided he should make the moral choice by 
> severing all ties with them, it was plainly like he said-- he ran 
off 
> when he (finally) got the first chance because he just could not 
> stand the lot of them. 

Babies are not born hating their families from the cradle, nor does 
hatred develop in a vacuum.  Sirius didn't "always" hate his family, 
something had to happen to make him feel this way.  Sirius himself 
says that he hated his parents "with their pure-blood mania," and 
hated his brother for buying into it.  I'm sure he didn't suddenly 
wake up and decide his family was evil.  People don't just open 
their eyes one morning and go, "Hey!  Everything I've ever been 
taught is wrong!"  These things happen gradually.  My guess is that 
Sirius began to become disillusioned with his family when he came to 
Hogwarts and was exposed to new people and viewpoints.  By the time 
he was sixteen he had, indeed, had enough, so he jumps the fence.


> If he had any love for his parents and 
> brother, and if their attitude towards muggle-borns was indeed the 
> main reason he could not stand them, then he would have tried to 
> persuade them to change their view. 

We don't know that he didn't.  I suspect there were a lot of ugly 
political arguments at the Black dinner table.  

> And if he could not make them 
> change their prejudice, he would oppose this particular stance of 
> theirs but still cares for them. 

Why?  If they were as awful as Mrs. Black's portrait indicates, it's 
perfectly possible that he would've lost all affection for them by 
the time he grew up.

Marina
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