[HPforGrownups] Re: Sirius confusing Harry and James

[Rebecca Stephens]

No: HPFGUIDX 75859


--- ffimiles <ffionmiles at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Marianne:
> > Did any characters make this accusation other than
> Molly? I don't 
> > recall if this sentiment was also echoed by
> Hermione. 
> > 
> > I never felt for an instant that Sirius looked at
> or talked to 
> Harry 
> > and thought he was interacting with James.  I do
> think he made 
> > comparisons in his mind between the two, and I
> also think he was 
> well 
> > along on the down-side of the scale of depression,
> but I don't 
> think 
> > he was delusional. 


I don't think Sirius was delusional.  I think by
"thinking Harry was James" he was thinking that
despite their different backgrounds, Harry would
think, act, and react exactly as James would.  He
didn't think the kid standing in front of him was
James, but he thought he was a younger James named
Harry.

In the Harry/Sirius relationship, it always seemed to
me that neither chose the other for the right reason. 
Harry's affection for Sirius came when he didn't even
know him, soley because Sirius was his father's best
friend.  He finds that out and "poof" he loves the
guy.  And Sirius, even in the end, seemed to care more
because Harry was James' son than because Harry was
Harry.  It wasn't based on what they were to each
other so much as what they were to James.


Rebecca

ps, sorry if this comes through twice, I had trouble sending

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