[HPforGrownups] Re: Dark? Sirius / Stubby Bored Man?

[charme]

No: HPFGUIDX 114776

From: "mhbobbin" <
> > > > Mac wrote:
> > > Lots of characters in the books and lots of HPfGU posters read
> > > Sirius very differently than I had always done, namely they see
> > him dark: I saw him misunderstood and good: He's James' best mate,
> > > Harry's godfather, even DD trusts him (or does he?) - flawed,
> > > reckless, but esentially good.

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> > Hannah:
> I agree there is more to Sirius than meets the eye.  Something made
> DD mistrust him even before GH, and apparently not even question his
> guilt afterwards.  Something also made Lupin, one of his best
>  friends, believe he was a spy before and after GH.  There's
>  the 'prank' and the issue of why he was never expelled.

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> mhbobbin:

> Boardman. Bored Man. I don't mean the whole story as reported in The
> Quibbler is legitimate. But what would have prevented Sirius from
> sneaking out of Grim Old Place to sing with The Hobgoblins. He was,
> after all, a Bored Man.  And this particularly far-fetched article
> is mentioned twice. First, when Kingsley gives the paper to Arthur
> thinking Sirius would find it interesting. Second, when Harry picks
> up Luna's magazine.
>

charme:

Bored man is right :)  This appears to be Sirius' modus operandi, time and
time again.  Remember, the Snape Pensieve scene in OoP where James picks on
Snape?  One of the reasons that happened was Sirius was "bored." Let's match
that with Snape's total conviction later that Sirius tried to *kill* him by
manipulating him to WereLupin! in the Whomping Willow shack (Sirius sent him
there knowing full well how dangerous it was), plus both DD and Lupin
appeared not to trust him until the revealing in PoA. I always get the
thought "one is judged by the company one keeps", and this too may have been
a problem for a reckless Sirius, which means that associations with DE's in
his activities probably wasn't out of the question - right, wrong or
indifferent. He himself might have appeared "in the middle" and not on
either side, in which case combining that perception with Sirius "devil may
care let's party and not be bored" lifestyle may have caused the phrase
"loose canon" to come to the logical minds of Lupin and DD. I thought the
interaction between Snap eand Sirius at GP toward the latter part of
Christmas break was quite telling, and I don't take DD statements to Harry
after Sirius' demise at the DoM to heart WRT Sirius not being provoked by
Snape's insinuations.  Sirius, whitefaced and angry, wanted to put down with
Snape once and for all.

 IMO, Sirius most likely did sing with The Hobgoblins, and in OoP at
Christmas in GP again, there's canon that Sirius was walking the halls
singing "God Rest Ye Merry Hippogriffs." No one else (other than Peeves) has
been referred to has specifically "singing," have they?

charme