Sirius's whereabouts in GOF and S R SHIP

[eileennicholson at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 131435

 
In a message dated 24/06/2005 21:24:49 GMT Standard Time, _jlnbtr at _ 
(mailto:jlnbtr at m)  writes:

I agree, we don't really know where Sirius was, but
here's what I  *know*:

During the summer between PoA and GoF he was probably
in  some tropical paradise (remember the birds).

When Harry wrote him  saying the scar was hurting, he
went back north, then we learn he's in  England.

He first talks to Harry through the chimeney, still
living  in a house I think (Short hair, clean)

Eileen: 
 
Apologies first; never having been good at building  up little snippets 
through careful analysis into a sound theory (just  wish I could), I compensate for 
it by taking a hypothesis and pushing it  to extremes, to see where the weak 
points are. So I have just read PoA again,  taking the point of view of a 
confirmed S/R shipper.
And it seems to me to stand up pretty well. Remus' behaviour is now much  
more plausible to me than it was before. But maybe this is just because the  
friendship between Remus and Sirius is a whole lot stronger than I thought  when I 
assumed it was platonic during my previous reading?  
 
But when Sirius writes to Harry at the end of PoA, he no longer  sounds like 
a 'demented' prisoner on the run. He's calm and collected, has  somewhere safe 
to hide, is making plans, and is focussed on reassuring Harry.  He apologises 
for the fright his appearance gave Harry at Privet Drive, and  encloses 
permission for Harry to visit Hogsmeade at weekends.This  seems to me like a big 
change from the Sirius who appears in the Shrieking  Shack.
 
Did Dumbledore tell him where to go, I wonder? But I digress  

When Harry sees him packing at the end of PoA, Lupin has just lost the  job 
that he valued so highly, has had to admit to Dumbledore that he betrayed  his 
trust by not telling him about the Animagi transformations, and  knows that as 
he has now been publicly exposed in the wizarding  world as a werewolf, he 
will be facing a future full of the sort of  reaction that Ron displayed to him 
in the Shrieking Shack scene. Along  with Harry, I was quite distressed for 
him when I first read this scene,  watching him packing in order to slink away 
as quickly as possible, with  that apologetic smile and his tail between his 
legs... 
 
But when I read it again, that smile of his strikes me.  Harry manages a 
grin, but is miserable, and Dumbledore is sober, but  Remus seems unable to 
suppress that smile for long (5 mentions  in two pages), and can't wait to get away. 
Now, if he was off to meet  Sirius.....
 
Reading the letter again, I can better understand why Sirius sounds so  calm 
and organised...it becomes easy if I picture Remus at his shoulder,  telling 
him (grimly) about Trelawney and Harry's teacup, suggesting that he  still owes 
Harry an apology and providing the Hogwarts permission form for him  to sign. 
Perhaps they're planning a  tropical holiday?  
 
Eileen
Who, if she were going to meet Sirius, would be smiling like that  too.  







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