Incomprehensible comparison of Sirius and Aragorn

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 123362


Juli wrote:
> Really? I read LOTR long before HP, and since the
> first read I fell in love with Aragon, then I read HP
> and the same thing happened all over, I think Sirius
> and Aragon are kindred souls, they seem to have the
> same core. 
> <snip>
> Aragon grew to become a king of both Gondor and
> Anarion, for decades he fought evil, he put his
> personal gains last. And now Sirius, he spent half his
> life in Azkaban, then got out looking for justice, but
> not for himself but for his best friends. <snip>

Carol responds:
Forgive me, but unless you and I are reading different books, Sirius
was not seeking justice in PoA, he was seeking revenge, a whole
different concept. In his own words, he wanted to commit the murder he
had been arrested for committing. It wouldn't bring James and Lily
back; it would cost him his own soul via a Dementor's mouth; it would
accomplish nothing except to still the maniacal desire to plunge a
twelve-inch knife into the heart of a rat the size of the knife blade.
I'm in no way excusing Peter Pettigrew, but Sirius Black in PoA is a
violent and dangerous man with a very fragile hold on sanity.

I see no resemblance of any kind to Aragorn, who is violent only in
battle against Orcs and never at any point desires to murder those who
have betrayed him. (Notice his justice to the Dunlendings after Helm's
Deep, for example.) Aragorn is a born captain, loved by many men (and
two women), concerned not with his personal life but with his duty to
the people of Middle Earth. Sirius cares only for himself and James,
and to a lesser degree for Remus and pre-betrayal Peter. As a boy, he
 wants to be entertained (joining James in hexing Severus two against
one--hardly Aragorn-like. He goes into danger not because he has to
but for the fun of it. I can't imagine the young Aragorn wanting to
become an Animagus in order to run with a werewolf. ("I'm bored. Wish
it were a full moon.") Maybe there's a slight resemblance after he
joins the Order. Maybe he wants to help save the WW (though he's not
destined to lead it). If so, we never see that Sirius.

Carol, who does see a Gollum/Kreacher resemblance and we doesn't like
it at all, no, precious, we doesn't