Sirius' choices

[deadlyvampirekat at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 107511

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Amey wrote: 
So Sirius is surely one character who needs some sympathy, because his life was not "Chosen by him" but "chosen for him".

Carol:
Without going into your characterization of Sirius, which seems to
ignore his reckless streak, and without denying his frustration at
Grimmauld Place, I do want to point out that Sirius did make certain
choices that contributed to his fate. 



How can you effectively blame someone for making those choices?  How can you 
say that in a way Sirius was responsible for his fate?  If you thought your 
best friend and family were in danger, and genuinely believed that it was 
safer to entrust their whereabouts with Peter, would you not make the same 
decision?  

I do actually (though it may well not sound like it) respect your 
point of view and everyone else's, and have been reading the post on Sirius for 
some time and haven't said anything.  

If you had been in the hell on earth that is Azkaban, reliving for 12 years the sight of your best friend and wife dead, can you honestly say you wouldn't go after  Peter?  Knowing that he'd deprived your Godson of his parents? Knowing  that he had been Voldemort's spy?  

It may not have been the wisest thing, by any means, and at one point I would 
have said I'd have tried to prove my innocence, but now, (to some extent at 
least) I have experienced wanting revenge against someone who is greatly 
responsible for the death of my Dad, (don't call the police, I'm not about to 
commit murder!)  But I can see why avenging James, Lily and Harry was top of his list.  

And as you said, you understand the reasons for most of his actions, 
but to say coldly, that basically, he chose to, so it's his own fault, just 
hit a nerve.  What other choice did he have?  If you'd seen what he had (at 
Godric's  Hollow)  Do you think you'd have been thinking straight?
  
Anyway, calming down a bit, I that a lot of the things that many, many  
people have called reckless, even foolish, is loyalty, and I personally greatly  
admire Sirius Black for the fact of his loyalty and his desperate desire to  
avenge his friends, to protect and care for Harry, to live life.  In some ways, 
If Sirius had been cooped up for the next book or so, I think he was better  
off dead.  Sirius was not someone who could sit and do nothing and it was  
eating away at him that his friends were out there, risking their necks and he  
couldn't.  When he had just as much right, more than some in fact, to be out 
there fighting.  And I do understand why he was locked up at no.12, but I also 
see why it drove Sirius into the nearest bottle of Fire Whiskey.

Anyway, Sorry if I've offended anyone terribly, or looked a bit mad, but  
that's how I feel.  
 
~  Mina
 
 
 


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