[HPforGrownups] Harry and Sirius (was Re: Harry and Boggarts)

[Magda Grantwich]

No: HPFGUIDX 122703


--- Juli <jlnbtr at yahoo.com> wrote:

> There's only one time when Sirius expressed any
> disappointment on Harry (During OoP when Sirius
> suggests they meet at Hogsmeade and Harry, too
> concerned says NO). All other times when Sirius looks
> at Harry you can see pride in his eyes.


Perhaps.  The only time I remember Sirius saying something "proudly"
was when Snape commented "surely you've noticed how like his father
he [Harry] is?" (not exact quote) and Sirius agreed.

Whether Sirius ever really looked at Harry and SAW him is a moot
point.  I don't think he really saw him as James; that's a little too
obvious and Sirius (nor Snape, for that matter) is THAT dumb.  

But Sirius and Snape both assume that Harry has the same reflexes,
the same emotions, the same way of looking at things, the same
feelings.  Obviously Snape thinks this a bad thing that must be
squashed and Sirius thinks this a good thing that should be
encouraged.  But otherwise they're in agreement.

Does Harry actually see Sirius when he looks at him?  Or does he see
his first real chance to have a family, sometime in the future when
he can leave the Dursleys and come live with him?  Does Sirius really
see Harry?  Or does he see the son of his best friend who'd still be
alive if he hadn't comeup with the SK idea?  Or does he see a second
chance to get things right?  Or - like Snape, of all people - does he
look at Harry and see a chance to square things with James?

Because for two people supposedly so close and loving, Harry and
Sirius don't exactly spend a lot of time together, quality or
otherwise.  Harry doesn't feel close enough to him to pursue the
issue of his scar and the vision after the Arthur incident at
Christmas, and he knows that Sirius is depressed and spending long
hours with Buckbeak and does NOTHING to do things with him, to jolly
him out of his sullens.  In short, they don't act like people who are
close act.

On the other hand, when Harry is prevented from communicating with
Sirius, he feels closer to him than ever.  For all these reasons I
think it was the IDEA of the other that each really cherished, not
the present situation but some abstract future time when they could
be godfather and godson, once the uncomfortable present was got over
with.

Magda



		
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