[HPforGrownups] Re: Sirius confusing Harry and James

[Carolin Mönkemeyer]

No: HPFGUIDX 78318

> > Jeff wrote:
> >  Sirius *loves*
> > Harry because of this,and yes, he wants his best friend back. >
> <snip>
>
> Laura:
>
> If I may be so immodest as to quote myself from a tbay post earlier
> today:
> if you look at
> it from his POV, you can see where he had good reasons to think that
> Harry really was like James. Think about it: whenever Sirius
> encounters Harry, Harry shows bravery, audacity, leadership,
> intelligence and resourcefulness (in the Shack and during the
> Tournament in particular). Harry, like James, is absolutely loyal to
> his best friends and he detests the dark arts and everything about
> them. If Sirius and Harry had had the chance to live together under
> normal circumstances, in which neither one of them was under
> emotional pressure, Sirius would have come to see that Harry was his
> own person. As it is, it seems natural and reasonable enough for
> Sirius to identify in Harry qualities that he valued in his best
> friend-we're always looking for our friends in their children.
>
> What do you think?  As for Snape, he had decided that Harry was James
> redux before ever meeting him, and nothing Harry could have done
> would have changed his mind.
>
Me:
In addition to all of that.
What would you do if the ONLY person being so close to you as a brother, for
whom you would die because you care so much about died. Then you've been
locked away for 13 Years (!) because everybody thought you guilty though
you're not (!). After this time you find the son of this person and he looks
like the incarnation of him!
I imagine Sirius being very desperate about the loss of James (he told us so
in PoA in the Shieking Shack, it was no happy thought). Of course, for James
was the only Person he loved as one should love a member of his family, he
wanted him back so badly. I can think he felt very lonely for nobody could
replace this gap within his life... poor man!
If I was him (with being so depressed about the loss of James, for there is
evidence in the canon that he still was) I would have tried to search him
(maily subconcious). I wouldn't be the first, many people do so in a
situation like that...

This is it for my way of getting into Sirius and trying to understand him
(and his psycological conditions)...

Yours Finchen