Sirius as Father Figure (was:Re: How Sirius' death suits Dumbledore?...)

[finwitch]

No: HPFGUIDX 130946

> 
> Betsy Hp:

> And I've noticed as I've paged through OotP looking for canon that 
> Sirius displays a definite rollar-coaster of emotions.  First he's 
> an excellent parental stand-in, holding off Molly and telling Harry 
> what Harry should be told.  Then he's horrid and cruel.  Then he's 
> back to giving Harry good, solid, advice.  Then he's picking a 
> stupid fight with Snape.  Then he's quite mature in handling 
Harry's 
> father-crisis.  It's enough to give you whiplash.  So the idea of 
> someone deliberately tampering with Sirius' emotions makes sense to 
> me.  
> 
> (I do doubt that the culbrit is Kreacher, however.  For one, I 
> imagine there's pretty strong magic preventing house-elves from 
> poisoning their owners.  For another, the poison is wizarding 
enough 
> that it's studied at Hogwarts and house-elf magic always seems 
quite 
> apart from wizard magic.)
> 
> But in either case, there needs to be a reveal; the inherited 
> problem is discovered or the mystery is solved.  So I do expect 
that 
> if there's more to the tragic story of Sirius Black we will learn 
> about it future books.  This could be done with the details of the 
> prank (See! Sirius was mentally unstable even back then!) or with 
> the discovery of the ESE!fill-in-your-favorite-name (Don't trust 
> him/her!  She/he poisoned Sirius!). Only JKR knows for sure. <g>

Finwitch:

I think the idea of Sirius being fed that plant that causes 
recklessness etc. IS true. It hit me right as Harry was reading about 
the plant - is someone feeding it to Sirius?

As for Kreacher doing it -- Sirius wanted breakfast and began calling 
Kreacher. So if Kreacher usually makes his food he certainly had 
opportunity. And it's the *plant's* magic, not even a potion -- so 
Kreacher has as much chance at doing it as any other (like Snape). 
And that plant wouldn't even be *poison* as such - it's not lethal 
per se, is it? It's affect on a house-elf might be different, though.

For all we know, Narcissa gave it to Kreacher with instructions... 
Kreacher was missing when Hermione tried to give that blanket -- soon 
after that we witness Severus Snape vs. Sirius Black fight... Wonder 
why it didn't work on Harry, though? Or did it, but with different 
delay/went off to teen-angst? Dumbledore wasn't there, Snape didn't 
stay to eat (Sirius wouldn't let him), Moody wouldn't eat it (you 
know how he is)... Molly with her nasty comment to Sirius -- was she 
under influence, too? Lupin didn't seem to be, but if the plant was 
served on full moon... or maybe it's not effective on werewolves?

Finwitch