Why do we always gang up on Sirius?

[val_gal_05]

No: HPFGUIDX 105288

Theresa wrote:
> But I do think he 
> was not the innocent victim all the time and can be nasty too - he 
> wanted to feed Sirius' soul to the dementors afterall.
(snip)
> James is as bad as Sirius in the pensieve scene and in my 
> opinion worse in some ways.
(snip)
> Anyway, I guess my point is...I think both James and Sirius, were 
> cocky pinheads but basically loveable loyal good-hearted pinheads. 
> Much like Fred and George who I think often say things they should 
> apologizes for too. But we seem to focus more on Sirius' bad 
> behavior. As for Snape, I think he dished out what he took and can 
be 
> just as cruel.


Val:
Ok, I have to strongly support that. Why is everyone so against 
Sirius? Even after we have seen that James is the more arrogant, 
bullying, etc, one of them.

Yeah, James went to save Snape but I really doubt he did it FOR 
Snape, I think he did it to save Sirius's and Remus's behinds, think 
of how much trouble they would have been in! And Remus would never 
be able to live with it, I think that was James's motivation rather 
than Snape. (And we've seen Sirius show great loyalty to his 
friends, too.) Ok, so Sirius started it but we do know he can be 
reckless/ tends to not think sometimes and besides, we don't know 
the full context of what happened yet.

I think people aren't blaming James as much as Sirius in the 
Pensieve scene because, well, he's dead and deserves some respect. 
If I wasn't in denial, I'd say so is Sirius, doesn't he deserve some 
respect?

Anyways, my point is: Sirius is not a bad person, he's not evil and 
I really wish people here would stop portaying him as a bad guy most 
of the time...

Val, who knows this won't change anyone's opinions at all, but will 
continue to defend Sirius :P