[HPforGrownups] Sirius as Father Figure /Depression/Paralles with Barty Jr.

[Miss Melanie]

No: HPFGUIDX 130945

> Betsy Hp:
> Oh, I'm not and I haven't.  I hope I didn't come across as 
> presenting myself as an expert!  I do appreciate your insight.  It 
> makes the Depressed!Sirius a bit more palatable to me.
> 
> However, I still have problems linking Sirius' behavior to being 
> kept in the Black house alone.  For one thing it puts him in a 
> weaker (character-wise) position than Barty Crouch, Jr.  Barty, 
> though in Azkaban for less time than Sirius, was locked in a house 
> he hated for a longer time, and was still emotionally stable 
enough 
> to pull one over on Dumbledore right under his nose.
> 
> There are such obvious parallels between Sirius and Barty (and 
their 
> families), and I somehow think that JKR would have us see Sirius 
as 
> the stronger, more resiliant, of the two.  So I have a hard time 
> believing that she'd have *only* the atmosphere of the Black House 
> do Sirius in.

My reply:  We are severly underestimating Sirius the man is incredibly clever.  Not only did he conceal the fact that he was infact an animagus, sneak into a castle, and escape Azkaban.  All of this is just as interesting as the concealments that Barty Crouch did, inmho. So by you to say that Barty was in more of a sane mental state makes makes no sense to me.
 
I would argue that it is possible that he could be drugged or even that it's just that he wasn't trying to be clever in book five.  Who was he trying fool?  Not really anyone....
 
~Melanie  
 
 

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