Full Moon

[ghinghapuss]

No: HPFGUIDX 77966

<Forgive me if I'm being really slow on the uptake, but in the 
<Snape's Worst Memory scene, why does Sirius wish it was full moon.?  
<Apart from being an extremely fraught time for one of his closest 
<friends, 
<what possible advantage can it be to Sirius?  I'd hate to think it 
<was the excitement of being close to a wearwolf at that time.
<Both Sirius and James remind me in this scene of Steerforth in David 
<Copperfield, when he is taunting poor Mr. Mell.  A lot of people 
<seem to like him too,  I can't think why.


I think Sirius was board and simply wanted the excitement of the 
hunt, thrill of running around the Forbidden Forest as an animal, the 
thrill of the kill...Also remember the violent fight between Snuffles 
and Werewolf Lupin at the end of PoA?  I think Sirius gets off on 
that.  And the fact that it is an "extremely fraught time for one of 
his closest friends"...I don't think Sirius cares.  His longing for 
the thrill out ways his care for his friend.  

Sirius' statement also points out his friend frailty, Sirius can 
control his transformation and Lupin can't. There is a lot of status 
shifting between the maurders in the 'Snapes Worst Memory' scene in 
OotP and that statement puts Lupin in his place.

The more I think about this the more I really don't like Sirius Black.
Mandy