An introduction, Sirius Black, the four houses

[Melanie Bond]

No: HPFGUIDX 59615

Hey,
I'm new here or actually well I'm not all that "new" hear I used to be on this list on another email but I had to for a lot of reasons discontinue that email and resubscribe to all these email lists under my new email.  I just rejoined many of these mailing lists today, after a one year hiatus (I know me, I'm going to NEED to discuss my obsession with Harry Potter with SOMEONE once Order of the Pheonix comes out.  And I remember how polite, insightful, and intelligent all of you were so I rejoined the list. 
 
Just a little about me before I get too caught up in all my various thoughts/ questions and insights.  I am a 22 year old college senior from Ohio.  I am an education major and have been a Harry Potter fan for about three years now (wow, has it really been THAT long???) 
 
Okay now for the good stuff you have all been waiting for, my little "book" comments.  
 
This is an excerpt taken from Fantastic Posts and Where to find them
 
When he is arrested, he is allegedly laughing. At least, that's what Fudge and Stan Shunpike say. Sirius doesn't say anything about this in the Shack (and when I asked him about it, he gave me That Look again).
 
I have often wondered why Sirius would laugh about something like that.  I remember when I first read POA and found out that Sirius was in fact good and did not murder all those people or betray James and Lily I immediatly called my best friend, Kathy explain my astonishment about this.  The first thing that came out of my mouth was "But why was he sitting there lying as he sat there in front of all those dead people?"  Kathy responded by telling me that maybe for a short time Sirius really did go psycho and unstable.  She said if all that had happened to you in one night how would you react?  The truth is I still do not know the answer to that question....I've never seen my best friend get killed, my god son taken away, and one of my friends murder 13 people and then blame me more it..so truth bet told I cannot tell you how I would act.  However, this isn't about me it's about Sirius..and to be honest, I hadn't really about why Sirius laughed again until I found myself reading a except about it on the website.  
 
And I think that perhaps the mystery was possibly solved, at least for me.  
 
It was because of this little post that I found snippet that I found also from the fantastic posts section....
 
He isn't affected by the dementors as badly as other prisoners; he believes it is because he knew he was innocent—an unhappy thought that the dementors couldn't suck away from him. He also can still turn into Padfoot, whose emotions are simpler than a human's, and the dementors think he is losing his mind like everyone else, so they leave him alone. Relatively speaking.
 
Now do not ask me why, but I can see Sirius being the type of person who could laugh at the dementors, make jokes with guards, we all know that he enjoyed reading the newspaper.  In the books people were amazed by how little it affected him..however, I Think that he was very much effected by everything that happened to him...however, he is not the type of person who would want people to think that they had gotten the best of him (that they scared him or what not).  That is why I think he laughed as Peter turned into scabbers and went away, it was the only reaction he could give that wouldn't make Peter think for one minute that he was scared, or hurt.  If he had done that Peter would have won...Sirius is not a very loosing type of person I do not think he would ever let Peter win.  
 
 
I am wondering what you guys think the reason the house is devided into four distinct places, each with defining characteristics and traits *mind you that most of the characters can be easily divided into more than one house* I am inclined to think that in the end the most important clue to what is going to happen in the books is the four houses.  I believe that the houses will each have to come together to defeat Voldemort once and for all.  However, obviously I am open to people who disagree with me.  What do you guys all think?
 
Well that's enough of me an my rambelings for now..sorry this is such a long post!
 
~Melanie
 


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