Calling Tonks Nymphadora, and Snape's button pushing in general

[Joe Goodwin]

No: HPFGUIDX 152128


Leslie41:

Ah, but why is Sirius at the Department of Mysteries anyway? Because 
he has a bad temper.  He was yelling at Kreacher to get out of the 
kitchen.  He treats Kreacher very badly.  Understandable, but hardly 
admirable.  Dumbledore even comments on it.  This allows Kreacher to 
interpret the order "out" to accomodate his leaving the house, which 
sets the whole disaster at the Department of Mysteries in motion.  
It's no mistake that Sirius Black's bad temper was the catalyst for 
what happened there.  No, he's not "responsible" for his own death, 
but his own actions put himself there, where he was killed.

Joe:
 I don't see how his bad temper was the catalyst. Several Order members showed up. Given that in the past war that the Order had been badly outnumbered it would make sense to bring everyone you could to the first real fight of the war.     
  Not to mention that Sirius has good reason not to leave saving Harry up to Dumbledore. Imagine how you would feel if you found out the the man you trusted to protect your godson and allowed to directly confront Voldemort/ Quirell in his first year at Hogwarts? Sirius has no reason to think the Order will do any better if he had remained at #12.
   
  Sirius spent years in prison for the deaths of James and Lilly suffering from the horrid effects of the dementors only to escape and find out that his worst enemy(Snape) who was directly responsible for Voldemort knowing that Harry might be his undoing is not being punished for it but instead was protected from going to Azkaban by Dumbledore. Then Snape has been allowed to treat Harry terribly while teaching at Hogwarts.
   
  You say Sirius acted as a hothead. I say Sirius had a pretty frim grasp of the way things are and acted so.
   
  At this point Sisius would have had to truly be mad to just trust that Dumbledore would take care of things.
   
  If Sirius had truly been a real hothead he would have just killed Snape. He had a pretty good reason to.
   
  Joe