exam period. Sirius was left financially independent by his uncle's generous bequest and eventually got a place of his own. Sirius is described in the books as being able to transform into a dog about the size of a bear. Sirius was once again a wanted man, although alive, soul intact, and innocence known to at least certain people. After Lord Voldemort returned in 1995, Sirius rejoined the Order. The Muggle authorities were warned that Black was dangerous. Then he pushed Antonin Dolohov, which tried to curse Harry and use the Summoning Charm on the prophecy. Many teachers regarded him and James as troublemakers or practical jokers. When Harry arrives in the fire, Sirius never even questions why Harry has decided to use the much riskier floo network instead of the very convenient two-way magic mirror Sirius had given him just a couple of months earlier. Nevertheless, he still trusted Dumbledore enough to confide in him about how Harry felt Voldemort awaking inside him the night that Arthur Weasley was attacked. Sirius also met Hermione Granger during the 19931994 school year, following his escape from Azkaban. [17] This was witnessed by a distressed Harry Potter. Besides all this, Sirius seems to have some traits related to his Animagus form of a dog. Years later, Harry paid tribute to Sirius by naming his first son James Sirius Potter. However, Sirius would know better. Like the rest of the wizarding world, Dumbledore initially believed it was Sirius who betrayed James and Lily to Voldemort, but he was quick to accept Sirius's innocence when he learned the Secret-Keeper had actually been Pettigrew, and he helped Hermione and Harry to save Sirius from the Dementor's Kiss and to escape from his Ministry captors by means of a Time-Turner and Buckbeak. Hermione's letter to Harry for his birthday in POA is mostly about Ron lol. In the final cut of the movie, Harry's scream is muted entirely. Sirius was named the godfather of Harry James Potter, the only son of James and Lily Potter. During an interview with BuzzFeed, the actor said that the death of Sirius Black (played by Gary Oldman) in "Order of the Phoenix" was the "definitely the hardest" for more than one reason. During the match he witnessed Harry's excellent flying skills, which he later commented mirrored James's skills. For more information, please see our However, their rights were superseded by Black's will, which designated Harry Potter as heir to all his worldly possessions. For anyone who either read the series or watched the films, seeing Harry repeatedly lose people that he loved was emotionally challenging. His relationships with his mother and cousin Bellatrix became particularly antagonistic; Walburga disowned Sirius when he left home at the age of sixteen, burned his name off the family tree, and even treated her brother Alphard to the same punishment simply for leaving money to his nephew. In his youth, he was a witty and talented wizard, but he was also quite an arrogant and mischievous troublemaker and, sometimes, a bully. His exciting young life cut short; the very notion of George without Fred; the dreadful effect on his parents and siblings. Although Sirius was angered by Fred's words (he even seemed to Harry like he would have liked to strike Fred), Sirius let the slight go, and their relationship recovered shortly after. Harry felt riddled with guilt over the incident but eventually managed to compartmentalise his grief, knowing that Sirius wouldn't have wanted him to shut himself up. His vigorous support of Dumbledore's Army worried Hermione, who thought that Sirius was attempting to live vicariously through them. RELATED: Harry Potter: 5 Times Sirius Black Was Inspiring (& 5 Times Fans Felt Sorry For Him). Like the fact that the person Sirius cared most about in the world was you. It is unknown whether Sirius learnt that the Marauders Map was once in Fred's and George's possession, and it is unknown whether Fred and George learnt that Sirius was one of the map's creators (although it is possible they did learn it considering Sirius mentioned Pettigrew's nickname "Wormtail" in front of them while explaining Voldemort's plans to them). Even now, many years on, his death is too much for words. Loki was a trickster god in Norse mythology, a possible allusion to Sirius's days of mischief-making as one of the Marauders. When Harry entered into Snape's memory, he saw a sixteen-year-old Sirius finishing his exams while being ogled by a girl who sat a few rows behind him due to his considerable good looks and casual, yet elegant, attitude. Sirius wished for Harry to be allowed to rest for his ordeal but was overruled by Dumbledore. This most likely meant that Pettigrew went into hiding as a rat in hopes of avoiding the half of Voldemort's followers who avoided imprisonment, afraid that they will be motivated to kill him if his continuing existence became known if not return to their master. She was scared of the Veil and considered it unnatural. He asked Sirius to resume his human form and make his peace with Snape, although neither was pleased (Sirius also frightened Molly Weasley when she first saw him as she believed him to be a murderer). After giving Severus Snape a cryptic message informing him of the situation and then ditching Umbridge in the Forbidden Forest, Harry, along with Ron, Hermione, and fellow D.A. The document listed Sirius's blood status, his status of his family, and his security status. Marked as Prisoner 390, Sirius was placed in solitary confinement at the mercy of the Azkaban guards, the Dementors. She loves a good story, even if she has to write it herself. Sirius later claimed to have "hated the whole lot of them," referring to his family, aside from his cousin Andromeda, who also rejected the notion of blood purity and married a Muggle-born wizard named Ted Tonks. He also willingly answered all of Harry's questions about the Order and Voldemort, though most of Harry's mentors felt Harry was too young to handle the burden of the truth. For Daniel, the moment where he screams for Sirius out of grief was mostly good acting, fans surmise. He also apologised to Ron for the loss of his pet, asking him to accept the owl in place of "Scabbers". This gives Sirius time to process Harry's arrival and consider why Harry did not use the mirror instead. It can be theorised that he would have been comforted if he had known that his brother had died defying Voldemort. He was particularly loyal to his best friend, James Potter, a fellow Gryffindor. Plenty of emotional moments take place in the 'Harry Potter' series, but one of the worst was when Harry lost his godfather, Sirius Black. Harry's kind of outgrowing that now. Brave of you, not to run for a teacher. After a short duel between Dumbledore and Voldemort, the latter fled, but not before he was seen by Cornelius Fudge himself and several other Ministry officials, finally forcing them to abandon their smear campaign against Dumbledore and Harry and admit the truth to the world. Privacy Policy. [22] After Sirius's innocence was proven by the end of the 1994-1995 school year, however, Dumbledore insisted that the two put their differences aside and ally against Voldemort, which they accepted. The 29-year-old went on to say that "the character's death just comes so out of the blue as well" and "was a real shocker.". Harry told Sirius about seeing Barty Crouch when he was working on the second clue on his way to the prefect's bathroom. However, the Dementors evidently were not concerned about these apparent temporary disappearances since they thought it meant he was losing his mind like every other convict in their custody, including Bellatrix and some of her fellow Death Eaters. Sirius died after Bellatrix struck him with a curse that sent him falling through the veil. In the aftermath of Sirius's death, Harry, enraged and grief-stricken, unsuccessfully attempted to take revenge on Bellatrix before Voldemort arrived, even attempting to use the Cruciatus Curse. During the First Wizarding War, they both became members of the Order of the Phoenix and fought in several battles. Several of the Order members fought alongside Sirius at the Battle of the Department of Mysteries, and when Sirius was killed by Bellatrix Lestrange, Kingsley Shacklebolt continued his duel with Bellatrix. And her son, just like Harry, was left alone never knowing his kind, gentle and wonderful parents. It could be implied these brands were done to him as a form of a testament to his crimes. With one hex against the chest, Sirius is lost to Harry and the world. Orion's death was from an unknown cause, while Regulus's death was caused when he drank the Drink of Despair while trying to destroy one of Lord Voldemort's Horcruxes, and when he tried to get water to quench his thirst, he was dragged to his death by the Inferi, although Sirius never learned the details of his death. Having no great love for 12 Grimmauld Place, the house that held so many painful memories for Sirius, Harry chose to give it to the Order of the Phoenix for their continued use as Headquarters. Sirius was allowed to stay with Harry in the hospital wing in his dog form Dumbledore telling Madam Pomfrey that he was very well-trained and remained so even as he heard Cornelius Fudge besmirch Harry and question his credibility on Voldemort's return. Sirius rejected these values, leading to conflict with his family. Equipped with this highly valuable information, Voldemort and his Death Eaters organised a plan that lured Harry to the Department of Mysteries with the intention of rescuing Sirius, who Harry believed was being held captive and tortured. Together, this group created the Marauder's Map. WIZARDING WORLD Publishing and Theatrical Stage Rights J.K. Rowling. When their son Harry was born, James and Lily named Sirius godfather, thus designating him as Harry's guardian in the event of their deaths. After he escaped from prison in 1993, he told Remus the truth and, together, they planned to kill Peter for his treachery, though they were stopped by Harry. Sirius was the last of the family to which he was enslaved, but he felt no true loyalty to him.Kreacher's intense dislike of Sirius. It's possible that Snape never knew Sirius was an unregistered Animagus, as he didn't recognise him in dog form at the end of the 1994-1995 school year, but he showed a mix of horror and hatred when he recognised him for what he was. He is described in the book as "very tall", which is contradictory given that the average height of men in England was 174.4 cm in 1998. Sirius also, however, told Harry that he was ashamed of his treatment of Snape in their younger years.[17]. Sirius is derived from the Ancient Greek , Seirios, meaning "glowing" or "scorcher." His freedom being bought with one . She was loyal, capable and she fought for the person she wanted to be with. I offered it to Dumbledore for Headquarters about the only useful thing I've been able to do.Sirius trying to be useful. But it is worth mentioning that Regulus' received his middle name from his grandfather, Arcturus, so it is possible Sirius was named after his father. Kreacher mimicked the family's pure-blood supremacist values, believing he should only serve pure-blood wizards; as such, he accused Sirius of being a "blood-traitor" and "breaking his mother's heart." Snape went there during a full moon, and James was forced to rescue him. That changed in their later years at Hogwarts, presumably after she had ended her friendship with Snape and got to know and understand Sirius better. I don't know how I did it. She currently works in the Canadian film industry and in her spare time she likes practicing yoga, talking about movies, and petting dogs. Ought to have left the office early once in a while gotten to know his own son.Sirius's contempt for Bartemius Crouch Senior. Top editors give you the stories you want delivered right to your inbox each weekday. Filled with the desire for revenge and concern for Harry, Sirius took his Animagus form and (thinned from undernourishment) was able to slip past the Dementors when they opened his cell door to bring him food.
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