[HPforGrownups] Re: Dark? Sirius

[Kathryn Jones]

No: HPFGUIDX 114791


Mac wrote:
> PoA introduces Sirius - an extremely ambiguous character but who we
> are supposed to love, like Harry (and James).
> >
> > Harry's view of Sirius by the end of PoA and through much of GoF
> and OotP is of adulation. No wonder he's clutching at straws since
> he has NO-ONE, literally, to love or that he can consider really
> cares about him apart perhaps from DD, but then maybe not him even.
> So why must Sirius have an entire book (PoA) and then be so
> suppressed and even 'necessarily' killed? Where does it fit?
> >
> > 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.


     Dumbledore also said that Sirius' actions were not those of an 
innocent man.
 
     Sirius was the one who talked James into making Pettigrew his 
secret keeper.

     I don't think that Pettigrew had the guts to successfully be a spy 
for a year before Voldemort fell

     In GoF Voldemort tells his deatheaters that his servant is at 
Hogwarts.  At that time, there is Sirius, "sitting in the pumpkin 
patch".  There are always two.

     Sirius' brother was killed for joining and then backing out.  
Sirius was never bothered, even as a friend of James Potter.

     In GoF  the dark mark on Pettigrew was described as red.  I  do not 
recall seeing it described as red anywhere.  This leads me to think that 
this was because it was freshly done and still painful rather than a 
twenty year old mark.  Voldemort also refers to him as worthless and a 
traitor and said that Pettigrew had only returned to him because he was 
afraid of his old friends.  He also described Pettigrew as a "poor" wizard.
It interests me enormously
KJ