mmm, fandon does so many bad things to sirius, but yes, i would say that making him the "straight" one is at the top of the list.
somewhat relatedly, though, i think there's a whole case to be made for sirius being sort of majorly stunted in the romantic area. the only thing you really see of him in ootp is what you mentioned before, and i think that's sort of normal teenage boy behavior, but he really wasn't that far out of high school (just a couple years, right?) when he went to prison, and then he spent the next thirteen years cut off from, well, everything. i think a lot of the way sirius is characterized in the books stems from some arrested development (and this, of course can lead to some pretty awful fanon and caricature-type behavior).
all the things he does post-break-out sort of play into this, the way he's so intent on protecting harry, his continued close relationship with remus (i could write a little essay about their one true love here, but i'll just assume you've heard it all before). i really like the idea of sirius being this really sort of fucked-up thirty-five year old who doesn't really know how to be anything other than seventeen, but it's got to be done carefully, yeah?
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Date: 2004-01-07 11:55 am (UTC)somewhat relatedly, though, i think there's a whole case to be made for sirius being sort of majorly stunted in the romantic area. the only thing you really see of him in ootp is what you mentioned before, and i think that's sort of normal teenage boy behavior, but he really wasn't that far out of high school (just a couple years, right?) when he went to prison, and then he spent the next thirteen years cut off from, well, everything. i think a lot of the way sirius is characterized in the books stems from some arrested development (and this, of course can lead to some pretty awful fanon and caricature-type behavior).
all the things he does post-break-out sort of play into this, the way he's so intent on protecting harry, his continued close relationship with remus (i could write a little essay about their one true love here, but i'll just assume you've heard it all before). i really like the idea of sirius being this really sort of fucked-up thirty-five year old who doesn't really know how to be anything other than seventeen, but it's got to be done carefully, yeah?