blink. That's true. Hmm. I will have to look at PoA again to see how Remus is when Sirius is mentioned... did he utterly believe it or did he just consider himself powerless to help? Because James, Sirius, and Remus were supposed to be very close (well so was Peter and we saw how that turned out). Perhaps Remus was a little distant from the group... I just for some reason have the impression that James and Sirius were more similar to each other than to Remus. Maybe just because Remus wasn't in on the bullying or that the ideas of how to deal with Remus's werewolf situation were thought up without him. So maybe Remus did believe Sirius did it. That really shouldn't startle me, but it does.
Sirius did hate his family while he was in that house, but then being in that house was driving him slightly crazy. Maybe it even did bother him to hear his mother saying how the mugglelovers betrayed him. After all, didn't they? As you said, Sirius has always had a second class status except when James protected him. And if he vicerally hates his family to the point of having no sympathy for his brother and kicking around the house elf, that's partly because he really was going nuts.
As annoying as it was to her to have Mrs. Weasley turn on her, there's no reason it would break her heart.
I didn't mean Hermione was distant from the Weasleys because of that, more that it was another example of how they aren't so closely bound. But yes, Hermione enforces rules not just because of her distance from the twins but because its in her nature to enforce rules. She's even threatened to turn in Harry when she thinks he's doing unecessary things. Though has she ever done so? I can't recall.
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blink. That's true. Hmm. I will have to look at PoA again to see how Remus is when Sirius is mentioned... did he utterly believe it or did he just consider himself powerless to help? Because James, Sirius, and Remus were supposed to be very close (well so was Peter and we saw how that turned out). Perhaps Remus was a little distant from the group... I just for some reason have the impression that James and Sirius were more similar to each other than to Remus. Maybe just because Remus wasn't in on the bullying or that the ideas of how to deal with Remus's werewolf situation were thought up without him. So maybe Remus did believe Sirius did it. That really shouldn't startle me, but it does.
Sirius did hate his family while he was in that house, but then being in that house was driving him slightly crazy. Maybe it even did bother him to hear his mother saying how the mugglelovers betrayed him. After all, didn't they? As you said, Sirius has always had a second class status except when James protected him. And if he vicerally hates his family to the point of having no sympathy for his brother and kicking around the house elf, that's partly because he really was going nuts.
As annoying as it was to her to have Mrs. Weasley turn on her, there's no reason it would break her heart.
I didn't mean Hermione was distant from the Weasleys because of that, more that it was another example of how they aren't so closely bound. But yes, Hermione enforces rules not just because of her distance from the twins but because its in her nature to enforce rules. She's even threatened to turn in Harry when she thinks he's doing unecessary things. Though has she ever done so? I can't recall.