Chapter discussion - Chapter Five

[sylviablundell2001]

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Abigail wrote:
>His (Sirius') stay in Grimmauld Place where he was a sullen and 
unhappy teenager regresses Sirius back to that same sullen and 
unhappy person, which is why he's so much more mature in GoF than Oop.



Of course you're right, Abigail.  Sirius probably spent hours shut up 
in his room during his mother's reign and here he is back again. A 
tendency to stay in one's room incommunicado for hours is typical 
teenage behaviour, even in normal families.  Poor Sirius must have 
felt he was entering some kind of time-loop, locked in his room with 
his mother still shouting downstairs. No wonder he regresses
Sylvia.
On another point:
Meri wrote:
>Molly also seems to have a short fuse when it comes to her kids 
>sassing her, like in the scene in Gof, when she buys Ron his dress 
>robes and he says he wont wear them.  Molly gets posiviely snippy 
>and irritated with him;
So should I have done, when you think what sacrifices she must have 
made to buy the damn things.  Dont think I'm not sympathetic with 
Ron. It must have been agony to contemplate wearing those robes in 
public, but I sympathise with Molly too.
Sylvia


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