Why Do You Like Sirius?

[M.Clifford]

No: HPFGUIDX 123262


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "justcarol67" 
<justcarol67 at y...> wrote:

> I've suggested before that after Hogwarts, the Marauders became
> increasingly distanced from one another. 
<snippage.>
> Peter *might* have made the most of any developing tension between 
Sirius and Remus. It would have been in his interest to do so once 
he had become a spy. Whether Peter had to earn a living, I don't 
know, but Lupin must have tried, undergoing an exhausting and 
humiliating struggle to find and keep job after job, losing each one 
when his identity was discovered and being turned down for new jobs 
as his condition became known. Sirius could not possibly have 
understood or sympathized, and most likely Remus kept his mouth 
shut. 
> Just some random thoughts, but if I try to organize them I'll go 
into too much detail <snip>

Valky:
I really like your suggestion here, Carol. It may, unfortunately, be 
too much detail to become fully canon, but it's very good anyway.
 
I will be very surprised, however, if the posit that Remus became 
very *quiet* at the time when a spy was suspected *doesn't* become 
canon in book seven. It works for me to imagine that his personality 
introverted for the reasons Carol gives, but is mistranslated as 
suspiciously secretive behaviour, by Sirius and James. 

This would also account for the focus being drawn away from the 
activities of Peter, and explaining why it was possible for him to 
be overlooked.