Sirius Changed Man? Was MadEye & Malfoy - James & Snape

[katiecannon2000]

No: HPFGUIDX 68183

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Rebecca Stephens 
<rsteph1981 at y...> wrote:

> Hate Sirius even more.  Because he says "he deserved
> it" to almost getting someone killed.  Because he
> almost made his friend a murderer.  Because he was way
> to crass and loose with Remus' secret. Because he
> terrorized the fat lady.  Mostly though, because no
> one (except Snape) in the books is willing to call him
> on any of the bad stuff he did.

Me:
>Because he
> terrorized the fat lady.  
This is so key.  Sirius shows up on PoA and his actions, even when 
trying to save HP, are *still* those of a bully.  We forget this when 
reading GoF--my own personal belief is that JKR went overboard 
in "Sirius is a logical, protective parent/good guy" and had to sort 
of "bad him back up" in OoP for most folks to be able to cope with 
his death (or whatever it was).  In PoA, honestly, the thing for him 
to have done would be to get word to DD that he needed to talk to him 
(of *all* the characters, ole forgivin' DD would've listened and not 
turned him in) instead of trying to break into Griffyndor rooms.  
Then in Goblet, he's this wise "contact me if anything is odd" be-
cautious-please parental figure.  She almost over-emphasized his 
reckless, who-gives-a-toot attitude in OoP to make us forget how 
logical he was in GoF....or so I think.

--kc, glad it wasn't MacGonnagal, scared by MacG's "if it's the last 
thing I do" prediction about HP being an Auror to Umbridge