Some Serious points in favour of Sirius

[Brenda M.]

No: HPFGUIDX 104300

Awesome post, Amey!! The Sirius you just described is the guy we all 
love and adore. I will be utterly disappointed in JKR if she does 
make him ESE! in Book 6 & 7, she had already done so with the cheesy 
title.

But perhaps the whole fiasco with "Half Blood Prince" will be settled 
for me if JKR reveals a lot more of Sirius in the future books. 
HOpefully (knock on wood!) we'll get to see his love life -- "Pick 
me, Pick me!" <mischievous grin> I had mentioned this about a month 
ago, but I once had a dream that Sirius was dating Rita Skeeter's 
sister in OoP -- this was when I had just gotten the taste of 
Potterverse and went crazy obssessed, 'cause I'm not like that now... 
(yeah right)


Bren, who really should get over a *presumably* dead fictional... 
sexy beast... handsome and rebellious... I mean character...


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Amey Chinchorkar" > Amey: 
> Well I will state at first that sirius figures very high on my list 
of favourite characters, (of course there is competition for the top 
spot between DD and Hermione :)). So I am going to defend Sirius...
> 1. Sirius was trusted highly by DD, he was a member of Order 
originally (though wormtail was also a member, so I can't think that 
counts much). 
> 2. Whatever happens, he is Godfather of Harry, and whatever time he 
gets to fulfill his duties, he has done that beutifully. He gives 
Harry support when it is needed, provides him with a mirror (I wonder 
if it is Marauders' product, highly possible) when he knows Harry 
needs to talk to him. The gift of Firebolt is his way of showing his 
affection (and not apology for attacking Ron as some suggested). He 
is caring and even though he hates Snape, he is shocked to hear that 
Occlumency sessions have stopped. He is the one person who gives 
proper news to Harry in summer through letters.
> 3. He was arrogant, but so was James, even Snape (remmeber him 
calling Lily "Mudblood"?). But he wasn't given chance to come out of 
it by continuous hatred of Snape. I think living with Dementors (who 
suck all happy thoughts) left him with some sad feelings overall.
> 4. As for the answer to the question why he went after wormtail 
after he found Potters dead is simple, given by DD. All knew Sirius 
was the Potters' SK, so only way to convince all is to get hold of 
the real SK and force him to tell the truth. After living in Azkaban 
for 12 years, he could only think of revenge (thanks to Dementors).
> 5. The age he went into prison (mostly around 22), is not one when 
you are matured but starting the process, if you are living without 
much responsiblity (I can tell being the same age, and having not 
much responsibility being everybody's kid brother). Sirius was living 
alone, with only his friends for support, and no family, even no 
girlfriends (at least from what we have heard till this point, though 
I wonder how he got through the school without a girlfriend... him 
being so handsome, top of class, one of the most popular guys in 
year... I mean a mixture of Cedric and Fred-George). So he had very 
less time to know what is responsibility.
> 
> I was going to add this to last post, but being Sirius, I think it 
got a bit long :), so thanks for bearing with me so far. Now I think 
I should sign off before it gets too long. But I will be back with 
more points for Sirius...
> 
> Amey, who thinks that after all this argument on my point, JKR 
should not come up with something in 6 and 7 which blasts my whole 
theory...