Re: guilt and innocence, muridae_x took the words right out of my mouth.
Which is interesting, if only because the fanon Sirius tends to run around screaming things and generally being the exact opposite of subtle.
Since I'm not a Sirius writer, I've tended not to examine him as carefully as I have other characters, which is one thing I'm trying to rectify in the present re-read. One thing I'm noticing is that Sirius, at this point, is swinging wildly from anguished-yet-controlled to bloodthirsty-screaming-mad. From one paragraph to the next, you don't know which Sirius you're going to get. He feels things so completely -- no room for integration of conflicting impulses.
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Which is interesting, if only because the fanon Sirius tends to run around screaming things and generally being the exact opposite of subtle.
Since I'm not a Sirius writer, I've tended not to examine him as carefully as I have other characters, which is one thing I'm trying to rectify in the present re-read. One thing I'm noticing is that Sirius, at this point, is swinging wildly from anguished-yet-controlled to bloodthirsty-screaming-mad. From one paragraph to the next, you don't know which Sirius you're going to get. He feels things so completely -- no room for integration of conflicting impulses.