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

[Sherry Gomes]

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He was blaming himself and his self steem was pretty low in that moment. All
he could probably think about was how he just wouldn't have the power to
protect Harry, how his best friend was dead and how useless he had been...
and so he gave Harry and his own motorbike to Hagrid, because he was going
to face the traitor and he wasn't expecting, or even intending to make it
back alive. He was probably ready to throw his life away, so he put his most
prized possessions in the hands of someone who could protect them and love
them as he would.

Not that I think leaving a motorbike and a baby in Hagrid's hands was sane,
but Sirius was never known for having common sense anyway.

Elanor Pam

Sherry again:

I think you are probably dead on about Sirius' mindset at that time.  The
rage and guilt he must have been feeling would have been overwhelming.
However, I actually think there was noone better to give Harry to than
Hagrid.  We've seen how Hagrid is so tender and loving with the fiercest of
creatures.  I bet he was incredibly tender with Baby Harry!  i can
absolutely picture him cooing over the baby, comforting him in his
instinctive and gentle way.  He might be kind of scattered about some things
and not good at keeping secrets, but he'd be gentle and careful with a baby,
I think.

Sherry