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Dogfather because we all love padfoot PART II

Give Harry to me, hagrid, I'm his godfather, I'll look after him.
~from the book

Ah, let me count the ways in which the fandom interprets Sirius black infuriated me. One day I will write an essay, but as I don't have the time to pen an 100000 word essay-

This is literally the moment that possibly defines Sirius the most, and it's the one that everyone forgets

Everyone knows the story- Sirius arrived at Godric's hollow, saw the potters bodies, and tore after peter pettigrew in a blind, thoughtless, reckless rage.

Um, except he didn't

He tried to take care of Harry he tried to get hagrid to give Harry to him and when hagrid refused he even tried to argue with hagrid

What do you think he was planning to tear after Peter with Harry tucked under his arm of fucking course not. It didn't change the fact that he wanted to murder Peter, that he would probably would be happy to find and kill him later- but he wasn't planning to murder anyone, to throw his life away, to even sit in a dark corner and drink himself to death while holding his fucking godson

This is Sirius' godson the person he promised his dead best friend he'd protect and whom he now loved more that anyone alive he's asking for the kid so he can take the kid and that means devoting himself to a lifetime of raising nurturing being patient being patently changing nappies and nursing fevers and a million other VERY. RESPONSIBLE. THINGS.

do we know how good Sirius would have been at doing that ?! Hell no

But what we do know is the most important thing- that he was willing to try

Hagrid cites dumbledore's orders and won't give Harry up

So it's really only once everything is really gone- that Sirius's Responsibilities and attachments are nearly all truly severed- that he decides there's nothing else to do but go after peter and kill the one person who helped cause
All the pain
All the loss
All that empty was