[HPforGrownups] Re: Was Sirius railroaded? And what was his view?

[Boris Baran]

No: HPFGUIDX 192727

Deborah wrote:
   I might be channelling the girl who kicked the hornet's nest, but I can't think it would have been better for Harry to have been brought up by Sirius rather than the Dursleys. Sirius is charming, dishy, lovable ... and irresponsible. He acts before he thinks, and if this only brings trouble on his own head, then fine - he's brave and resilient enough to cope. But he shows no signs of having moved on from being the boy who tried to get his enemy killed by using his friend as an unwitting weapon. Yes, he loved Harry. He loved James, James's parents and Lupin. Did he love Lily that much, I wonder? She must have got between Sirius and James, and her moral superiority to Sirius was what helped James to become worthy of her love and, surely, opened something of a rift between them. Remember also the way Sirius shows signs of depression in OP? Not a stable personality. Not what you want in a single parent.
 
 
 Now I'm taking on the Beatles: love is not all you need. The Dursleys showed Harry the absence of love, granted, but they provided a safe environment - inadvertently, but in their home Harry was protected. When did Sirius's parents die - after Harry's birth, presumably. So, imagine Sirius, living with Harry in his old home complete with house-elf heads mounted on the walls, a screeching portrait and bedroom walls covered with Playboy centrespreads. Imagine Sirius, innocently no doubt, using Harry's admiration for his late father to, well, lead him astray frankly! To do things that James would have thought were fun. Would Harry have had anything resembling a 'saving-people thing' after a few years of that? As a teenager he can stand up to Sirius; as a toddler, surely his character would not be undamaged in spite of Lily's sacrifice. Seeing how Dudley turned out as a result of excessive and misguided love, I'm inclined to think that Harry was actually pretty lucky, spiders in the cupboard and all.






arisboch:
Mere trifles. Sirius would teach him to stay safe and kick ass (and probably get laid, once he is old enough for that).

 
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