[HPforGrownups] Re: A Defense of James Potter(Whose flaws are bigger)

[Sherry Gomes]

No: HPFGUIDX 175537

Mim;
And I must say I'm not terribly impressed with their choice of 
godfather either. The idea in times of war is that the guy can keep 
it together enough to take care of your kid and Sirius messed up 
quite spectacularly there. Of course, no one knows what their 
reaction to such guilt and pain would be until it happens to them 
but Sirius definitely wasn't the most reliable guy. He did try once 
he broke out of Azkaban but he was too damaged to the point that 
eventually it was Harry who had to worry about him and take care of 
him and not the other way around.



Sherry now:

We have absolutely *no* canon telling us what Sirius was like when the
potters died, except that in his grief and rage he went after peter.  I can
think of many people who might go after the person who betrayed the family
they loved to an evil dictator or something similar.  We do not know if
Sirius would have been a good godfather/guardian if he had not been sent to
Azkaban for 12 years for a crime he did not commit.  In my opinion, we
really can't judge Sirius' behavior or child raising that could have been if
only he hadn't been sent off to Azkaban.  How he was after those 12 hellish
years doesn't have anything to do with who he could have been if that had
not happened.

Sherry