Why Do You Like Sirius?

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Betsy:
Why do I like Sirius Black?  Well... he *is* sexy, but also there's 
that whole, suffering for a crime he didn't commit, and risking 
everything to get his bloody vengence.  And he's all haunted and 
broken and dark, dark, hair and pale staring eyes and he really, 
really needs to be held and rocked and bathed and fed.  Which I guess 
brings it back to the sexy in that twisted hurt/comfort sort of way.

Of course, he's so incredibly loyal to his friends.  And he so 
quickly transfers that loyalty to Harry - who really needs that kind 
of unquestioning support that only a parent can give.  Though, Sirius 
is still too broken to be a parent, rustling around in that house he 
hates, full of reminders of that family he defied.  And so there's 
his nobility in choosing the side of light when he's been groomed for 
darkness.  And maybe that brings it back to the sexy in a tragic 
fallen prince kind of way.

And then there's the horror of Snape's memory, and the realization 
that Sirius is that golden boy, with the Judd Nelson hair (from the 
Breakfast Club days when he was still The Hot), full of brashness and 
sunlight and king of all he surveys, and it's like college all over 
again during the Feminist Literature course when "all men are pigs" 
went up against the rugby club with the golden boys and the mud, and 
Fem. Lit. lost, lost, lost, as did Saturday morning sleep-ins. And 
we're right back to the sexy in a straight forward alpha-male sort of 
way.

So.  Yeah.  That's why I like Sirius Black.  For his mind.

Betsy, who's really appreciative of the rugby club memories. ;)