[HPforGrownups] Could Sirius have been bipolar? Re: Depression and Harry in OotP -- Information

[Magda Grantwich]

No: HPFGUIDX 110813


--- pippin_999 <foxmoth at qnet.com> wrote:
> Sirius's  mood changed so completely between GoF and the 
> beginning of OOP that some people thought he was completely 
> out of character. But what if he were bipolar?  Any comments 
> from our mental health experts on that possibility?
> 
> Pippin


I don't think so.  Sirius was a live-on-the-edge kind of guy; had he
been a muggle he'd have been a NASCAR driver or something equally
stressful and dangerous.  He needed the thrill of taking risks and
conquering danger to burn off that restless energy.  The risks he ran
in GOF took care of that for him so that when he met with Harry his
biggest issue was eating people food rather than rats.  In OOTP he
was tied down and restrained and all that restless energy had nowhere
to go and so it had an adverse effect on his personality.  He was in
a major pout all through the first half of the book; after that he
became even more reckless to the point where keeping up a good facade
in front of Harry fell to the wayside.

Magda


		
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