Sirius' motivation for breaking with his family

[Wendy Dupuy]

No: HPFGUIDX 154152


ericoppen <oppen at mycns.net> wrote:
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I think that we may have seen a clue to Sirius' motivation in our
first minutes in his family mauso--er, his family _mansion._ What
if Little Sirius had had a house elf that he really, really loved,
that was his favorite playmate---and one day he comes downstairs to
find out that Mama has had that elf's head cut off and mounted on a
plaque?
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Winkadup:
I totally missed the nice elf that was beheaded? What reasons would they behead the house elf? I remember seeing a row of house elves on a the wall, just forgot what the crime was.