OoP: Sirius foreshadowing and Ron's gift

[darrin_burnett]

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The examples of Sirius' foreshadowing are really well-spotted. In all 
modesty, I began to suspect something after Molly and Sirius had 
their fight. (though Arthur gave me a HUGE scare)

Sirius behaved like someone who was disgusted with his life and was 
looking for one more fight. He was in the house he hated, being 
insulted by the man he used to dominate, not considered worthy to be 
a decent parent figure to Harry and left out of the real action.

When I saw him just despairing in his life, I thought maybe he'd die.

Here's hoping Molly just felt AWFUL about that Azkaban crack, by the 
way.

The way I see Molly is that she, somewhat like Sirius, is trying to 
give Harry 10 years worth of proper parenting. 

Harry is what he is, a 15-year-old kid, and needs to be treated as 
such. Snape, believe it or not, had the right idea, when he talked 
about trying to treat Harry as any other kid. (Of course, since Snape 
treats all students except Slyths as pond scum, perhaps he's not the 
best example.)

Molly is trying to treat him like he's 5 and Sirius like he's 25. No 
wonder he gets aggravated at both of them.

Anyone remember Hermione talking about Ron's "unusual" perfume.

Man, that just goes to show how dense Ron is. Anytime a girl 
says "unusual" about something she is expected to pour on her skin, 
she is saying, "I would wear botuber pus before I wore this."

Darrin
-- I knew more about women at 15 than these chuckleheads. I mean, I 
wasn't an expert, but I knew not to buy unusual perfume!