Prank

[barbara_mbowen]

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 Richard said:

<Having been a "boys will be boys" kind of boy just a few 
decades ago, 
I take a much different view of all this than do you. Dumbledore <
snip> knows what was 
done was dangerous, but also that those parties grew out of 
their 
callous youths and lived to fight real battles against real evils, 
with courage and confidence.  <snip>
Now, for some perspective of my own ...

As children, various friends, relatives and I did a good many 
things 
that were just plain dangerous. In several of our escapades, I 
now 
know there was a real risk of death for one or more of us.<snip>

also know that none of us died. We were boys ... OK, so we were 
mostly American Indian boys, which means some things that 
most non-
AmerInds will never understand ... and simply trying to find the 
limits of what we could and could not do.>

Now Barbara replies:

I agree with you.  I remember things I did at 16 that were 
extremely dangerous for myself and others.  Like the time I 
"borrowed" my brother's sports car, and allowed a friend of a boy 
I liked to drive it flat out on the highway to see how fast it would 
go..(.we never found out, because the hood popped up at 104 
mph....)  We could have been killed a dozen times over that night.  
And there were other things I'm not about to confess to!  (If my 
ten year old daughter *ever* *ever* does anything like!!!!!!!) <
painful G>

 I know what it's like to be a reckless, thoughtless teenager.  
Which Sirius was.  I had no more thought for potential 
consequences than the man in the moon.  I suspect people who 
are horrified by this came from good homes and orderly 
families.  I didn't, and Sirius didn't.  we were both acting out.

I think Sirius drank, or the WW equivalent as a teenager.  He has 
too many of the  hallmarks .  He probably was an alcoholic by the 
time he ran away; I'll bet James' parents saved him, and this 
contributed to his intense loyalty to all Potters. Only once  back at 
Grimmauld Place, he went back to old, evil habits.

Marmelade's Mom



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