[HPforGrownups] Re: Why Do You Like Sirius?

[Magda Grantwich]

No: HPFGUIDX 122482

--- nrenka <nrenka at yahoo.com> wrote:

> I have this problem with Prank discussion.  It almost always ends
> up 
> in some kind of circular reasoning, because we lack the actual 
> information for what happened and why (and make no mistake, we do--
> unless you have some version of the books that I don't?).  To 
> elaborate: Sirius is the kind of person who doesn't think about his
> friends, we know this because he didn't think about Lupin, and he
> did the Prank the way that he did because Lupin wasn't really 
> important to him.  This is self-validating: if you are inclined to 
> think of Sirius as not caring for his friends, the reading of the 
> situation becomes straightforward.  If you are inclined to 
> go "something here 
> doesn't quite add up--why would he do that?", the situation is more
> complex.


Did I say that Lupin "wasn't really important to him"?  I did not.  I
said that Sirius was capable of regarding Lupin as a monster when it
was convenient (ie, scaring Snape).  He certainly did regard Lupin as
his friend, probably his best friend after James.  That was what made
the act such an emotional betrayal.  Sirius is not Peter Pettigrew,
who I believe really didn't give a toss for James, Sirius and Remus
as individuals but worshiped the Marauders instead.  I'm quite sure
that afterwards Sirius felt like a guilty little s**t for it but that
doesn't quite make up for the original action entirely.

The backstory about the Prank that we lack concerns the relations
between Snape and Sirius; JKR has said this.  We've got all the info
we need about the relations between Sirius and Remus.

Magda 



		
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