Sirius revisited--emotional maturity

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No: HPFGUIDX 104970

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Batchevra at a... wrote:
snip.

> Sirius was imprisoned with Dementors who suck out the happiness and 
leave you 
> with your worst memories. Even Hagrid tells of the torment that he 
went 
> through. In that environment how can anyone mature. Sirius went in 
when he was in 
> his twenties, still immature. Snape OTOH, was a DE, then he 
switched and has 
> been teaching at Hogwarts. Snape has more of an opportunity to grow 
up than 
> Sirius had, without Dementors and with Dumbledore's help. 
> 
 

Alla: 
yep, definitely. Snape could have been imprisoned in Azkaban for a 
short while, while awaiting trial, or he could have not. I don't 
think we know that for sure (Please, correct me if I am wrong).


Surely, Snape has a lot of his inner demons to battle with, I have no 
doubt about that, but I don't think that him being in a safe 
environment of Hogwarts comes even close to Sirius' being near 
dementors for twelve years.

Sirius had no opportunity to growth whatsoever. Snape was with his 
colleagues , near Dumbledore (I am working under assumption that 
dumbledore is not evil, mind you. Yes, it is doubtful that Snape had 
many happy memories from the beginning, but at least he could have 
some normalcy, some help.