An introduction, Sirius Black, the four houses

[Scott Peterson]

No: HPFGUIDX 59636

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Melanie Bond 
<princessmelabela at y...> wrote:
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> 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.  
>  
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Now me:

I, like you, have been thinking a bit about Sirius lately.  His 
behavior is a conundrum.

1)	He and James are as close as brothers, you never saw one 
without the other (Rosmerta).  If that is the case, why in the world 
would he transfer the secret keeper duty to Peter "the Worm" 
Petigrew?  The only possible solution was that he knew LV would 
expect that of him, and come directly after him.  It is almost as if 
he is afraid of this (which is contradiction #1 – fear didn't seem 
part of his life previously).

2)	Sirius is extremely angry and Wormtail, and tries to KILL him 
several times.  He doesn't want to turn him over to the authorities 
(although that would appear to have cleared his name).  Rather, he 
wants him DEAD.  Is this the way a sane, good person would act?  He 
seems almost hurt that Harry refuses to let them kill him.

3)	In his attempt to get Wormtail, Sirius scares Ron nearly to 
death, and then drags his across a field, breaking his leg severely 
in the process.  Nothing or nobody is going to stand in the way of 
the death he wishes to extract from Wormtail (Lupin even SUPPORTS 
this action).  Sirius also becomes furious that the fat lady for not 
letting him in, and tears up her painting.  This is stated several 
times that he isn't acting like an innocent man.  Will Sirius kill 
others in order to get to Wormtail?

In conclusion, I think Sirius has issues with his temper at the very 
least, and possibly has  issues that are not resolved, or have not 
been published yet.  JKR continues to pound the fact that it isn't 
our abilities, but our choices that define us.  Given that, is it 
possible that Sirius, the cute puppy has made choices that will 
damage the ability of the Order of the Phoenix to reel in the Death 
Eaters?

Scott