Sirius, Snape, and befuddlement draughts.

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> Carol:
> There's also the view, in which I don't think I'm alone, that 
Sirius
> doesn't need a potion to make him reckless and hot-headed. Note 
that
> his behavior is perfectly in keeping with slashing the portrait and
> bedcurtains in PoA. Even though he seems more reasonable and 
normal in
> GoF, he's also free (even though he's in dog form and eating rats 
part
> of the time). In OoP, he's confined in the house he hates, 
incapable
> of helping the Order, stuck with his mother's portrait and Kreacher
> for company. No wonder he drinks and no wonder he disregards 
Snape's
> advice to stay put and wait for Dumbledore rather than going to the
> MoM. 


Alla:


Oh, Carol, unsurprisingly, I don't share such view. Sirius' 
behaviour in POA, IMO, closely parallels the victim of PTSD, driven 
by guilt and revenge.

He can be reckless and hot-headed? Sure, absolutely. But he was 
showing signs of recovery in GoF and even though I tend to agree 
that him stuck in the house, where he escaped from as a teen, did 
not help him much, I think that "befuddlement draught" may appear in 
the book for a reason ( I hope it is not another Mark Evans, though )

Sirius WAS depressed in OOP. Not letting him do at least some useful 
things for the Order was, as I argued many times just one in the 
chain of idiotic decisions Dumbledore made.

But even though Sirius behaviour could be explained without potion, 
it could be explained better with one. What if potion specifically 
designed to make depression worse?

>Carol
, who would not want to spend so much as a minute alone in the
> Black mansion

Alla :
Me neither