Sirius the Jerk

[Amy Z]

No: HPFGUIDX 61992

Kewpie wrote:

> Has Sirius ever really matured enough for such realization?  I know 
> for sure Lupin has, but to me Sirius seems to have stuck at his 
glory 
> teenage days since his spend his adult prime in Azkaban. Obviously 
he 
> did not show one bit of regret over his disgusting bully ways of 
> Snape and that infamous prank. Guilt? blah~ not one tiny single bit 
> ever shown thru his words and attitudes. Sirius seems to be pretty 
> proud of his cruel ways and no regard over Snape's feelings even 
> after all these years.

>From chapter 29:


"Yeah," said Harry, "But he just attacked Snape for no good reason, 
just because--well, just because you said you were bored," he 
finished with a slightly apologetic note in his voice.
  "I'm not proud of it," said Sirius quickly.


"Well . . . I thought he was a bit of an idiot."
  "Of course he was a bit of an idiot!" said Sirius bracingly.  We 
were all idiots!  Well--not Moony so much," he said fairly, looking 
at Lupin, but Lupin shook his head.
  "Did I ever tell you to lay off Snape?" he said.  "Did I ever have 
the guts to tell you I thought you were out of order?"
  "Yeah, well," said Sirius, "you made us feel ashamed of ourselves 
sometimes . . . That was something . . ."


As I said, not all that one would hope for, but certainly progress 
since age fifteen, when I doubt he would have admitted that he'd done 
anything to be ashamed of.

And re: Anne (Anja)'s comments:  I agree that Snape's, uh, 
personality problems go back at least in part to the way James and 
Sirius treated him.  I wasn't trashing Snape, but talking about 
whether Sirius had made any progress from the cruel adolescent he was 
then.  The Sirius-vs-Snape debates tend to leave me bewildered, as I 
have both sympathy and fury for both of them.

Amy Z