[ SECRET POST #4345 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4345 ⌋

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Notes:

Sorry for the exceptionally late, thought I'd already posted this today! At least it'll be here for everybody in the morning.

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I love Sirius, but blue and orange is giving him WAY too much credit.

he doesn't have a totally alien system. he's just a deeply unhealthy person with stunted maturity and a vindictive streak and no default breaks

all of which makes perfect sense given his history

I think the fact that he was *drawn* to James and Remus and *let* them point him, after receiving a steady stream of deeply toxic values from his family that we only rarely see other purebloods break away from, speaks to the fact that he wants and tries to be a good person, even if he has major and disastrous and spiteful fuckups on the way

would Sirius have made a great parent? no. but I think it's either disingenuous or stupid to extrapolate from his treatment of Snape, whom he hates, to Harry, whom he loves possibly more than anyone alive. Especially when one of the moral values he does hold dear is loyalty. And Harry needed someone who would love him, instead of despising, dismissing, using, or manipulating him, very badly.

not to mention, he's the parent Harry wants. that kind of matters to people, when it comes to abused kids having agency, and when it comes to people interpreting a book through the lens of its POV character.

and lastly of all an AU where Sirius gets to adopt Harry is also one where he isn't forced into hiding in Grimmault, and possibly able to work on some of his damage

[(Anonymous)]

The Wizarding World doesn't seem to have a lot of therapy going on, js. And no, it's not just his treatment of Snape, but what we see later on and the snapshots we see of him even before he was arrested. He was reckless to a fault. That's what would have killed Harry, because he has a problem with not thinking things through.

I love Sirius. But he's not a great person and the boner fandom has for him and how he'd be The Best Dad EVAR because Harry, an abused teenager who had a guy feeding into him with not just love but indulgence and encouragement of even some of his more reckless ideas, wanted, well, a positive parental relationship and was an abused teenager. He needed someone like McGonagall. Someone who'd love him but also wouldn't go, "Hey, this sounds cool!" and then not think it through and get Harry killed.

[(Anonymous)]

Snapshots of him before he was arrested include jerkish episodes from school when he was not yet an adult, and a context-free scene of him and James tangling with Muggle police while being chased by presumed Death Eaters. And going after Peter Pettigrew in revenge I guess, but I don't know how you could fault him for that. Where is the moral failing?