Sirius revisited

[a_silmariel]

No: HPFGUIDX 104411

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "cubfanbudwoman"
<susiequsie23 at s...> wrote:

 
> Carolina's post [104382] has also gotten me into the mood to 
> actually come back & defend Sirius a bit!  She wrote:
> 
> > Sorry to dissapoint you and Jen but I can't consider Sirius being a
> > dog a good proof here, just by the kind of dog he is. He's a big 
> > black dog, and that for me has always been the image of a hell 
> > dog. Of course, only talking of symbolism here.
> 
> 
> SSSusan:
> I recognize your absolute right to respond to the symbolism any way 
> you like, but I do wonder whether lots of owners of black labs 
> wouldn't have a *very* different reaction to Sirius-as-big-black-dog 
> than this.  I know I didn't think of him at ALL as a hell dog.
 
That's exactly why I included the line " Of course, only talking of
symbolism here " so that owners of those kind of dogs didn't get offended.

The same argument can be applied to snake owners if it was the case,
because they like their serpents, so how's that Slytherin is the bad
house?

But speaking on symbolic terms (not real life loving dogs), a big
black dog is a hell's dog. 

Carolina