Why did Sirius change? was Re: Sirius and Dumbledore

[msbeadsley]

No: HPFGUIDX 79836

pippin_999: I've been mulling over the puzzle of Sirius's 
inconsistent behavior and it dawned on my that I know someone exactly 
like Sirius. He's one of my dearest friends, in fact. Since we've 
become friends, he's always been calm and gentle with me, but he  
flies into a frenzy if he detects an enemy. He is utterly reckless in 
a fight. He doesn't give a fig for his appearance. He'd rather live 
rough than be cooped up in a house all day. He mopes around like a 
drama queen if he knows I'm going out of town. You won't find his 
name on a pedigree chart, and of course, his mother was a real bitch. 
<g> Yeah, I'm talking about my dog.

Oh, oh, oh!  I am in awe here, and thinking like mad:

It even goes a way to explaining Sirius's "I'm bored" lament to James 
in the Pensieve:  Pant, pant:  throw something for me to chase, man!  
(Making Snape a human Frisbee!  Well, he did get _levitated_.)  And 
so being cooped up in Grimmauld place is being "in the dog house."  
There's more:  don't oodles of "rite of passage" stories show the 
young protagonist having to bury his dog?

Sirius wasn't rabid, he was just kenneled too long.

Sandy aka "msbeadsley"