[HPforGrownups] Re: Sirius' motivation for breaking with his family

[Tim]

No: HPFGUIDX 154150

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "ericoppen" <oppen at ...> wrote:
>
> While I'm sure that Sirius liked attention and standing out in a
> crowd, that alone might not have been his motivation for breaking so
> completely with his family. The Wizard World operates on patronage
> and family influence (it's pre-Victorian, almost Regency, sometimes,
> at least that's how it feels to me)and turning one's back on a
> powerful source of influence such as the Black family would not be
> something done lightly.

Bookish Rose wrote:

> I think Sirius is a rebel who had the debatable fortune to be born
> into a family that needed to be rebelled against. Had he been the
> son of fervent aurors he may have turned to the dark side, or he may
> have rebelled in some other way I don't know.

Personally, it would be interesting to know whether Sirius rebellion was
completely defined before encountering muggleborns at Hogwarts. I
suspect (in homage to another thread) that Sirius had an essence that
was just and well meaning and in rebelling may have taken the Fred and
George route in rebelling against rules that restricted, and attempted
to simply uphold some ethical right to some kind of liberty rather than
rebelling against the ethics themselves.

Tim who is glad to have moved out of the shadow world and is finally
participating.