[HPforGrownups] Re : Harry's Role in OotP (long) (was:Re: "Some won't like it"...)

[Mira]

No: HPFGUIDX 130553

> Sherry now:
> 
> I agree with most of your post, Gerry.  however, and
> forgive me for not
> quoting, as all my books are packed away right now,
> But Sirius is both
> Godfather and guardian.  Doesn't he, in POA, tell
> Harry that he is Harry's
> guardian and ask if Harry would like to come and
> live with him?  often time,
> people will make whoever is the godparent the
> guardian as well.  I know it
> was that way in my case, and I was always so glad my
> aunt and uncle never
> had to assume guardianship, which would have been a
> disaster in my life, for
> more than the obvious!  Knowing what we do of the
> closeness between James
> and Sirius, I can't imagine him choosing anyone else
> to be Harry's legal
> guardian.  That's one reason I've always been
> confused about why Sirius let
> Hagrid take baby Harry so easily.  It's one of the
> things I hope will be
> explained someday in canon.

The priority for Sirius was at the time to expose
Peter as the traitor, otherwise he would have had to
take all the blame, as he did in the end. This had to
be his first movement not only pragmatically, but
emotionally as well; he was aching for the deaths of
James and Lily at least as badly as Harry aches now
for his, and of course he screamed revenge. Actually,
looking at how Harry reacts now might be a good way to
understand how Sirius felt back then, guilt included.
I am sure that Sirius didn't stop to think much about
Harry at the time. He only started taking comfort in
having a godson, a second James perhaps, while in
jail. Before this, I think he was in shock and quite
fatalistic as disposition.

Just the way I see it.

Mira

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