Harry Potter: 10 Things That Make No Sense About Sirius Black

Sirius Black is an iconic character in the Harry Potter world, but here are 10 things that really don’t make sense about him.

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Sirius Black, like his friend Lupin, is one of the most tortured and tragic figures in the Harry Potter series. While his temper and restlessness is understandable, there are still a few things about Sirius that don’t make sense.

Some of his character flaws make perfect sense, while a few should have been taken care of as he matures and grows as a person and a character. Despite the fact that Sirius really only plays a major role in three of the seven Harry Potter books, he still had a lot of time to raise a lot of questions for fans.

10 Continued to be a Bully

While Sirius’ anger at Pettigrew is super understandable, the fact that he continues to play the bully he did in school doesn’t make much sense. Of course there will always be hard feelings between Sirius and Snape, Sirius was still the one who almost got Snape killed as a teenager.

The fact that the pair cannot even sit in a room together and be civil for ten minutes is hard to watch, and doesn’t work with the role model that Sirius is at least attempting to be for Harry.

9 Doesn’t Show Remorse

Sirius offers to let Harry live with him, once he’s no longer on the run of course, and that shows that Sirius really does want to look out and take care of Harry. His first act after Pettigrew escapes? He signs Harry’s permission slip to visit Hogsmeade.

However, he can’t show remorse for nearly murdering a fellow student. This doesn’t seem to match up with the responsibility that Sirius is trying to take for his life and for Harry’s.

8 Didn’t Trust Lupin

Why Sirius thought that Lupin was the traitor in the Order never really makes sense. He’s a werewolf of course, but that’s not news to his former best friend, Sirius has known that Lupin was a werewolf since they were children.

Lupin is the quiet, bookish, moral compass of the group, and yet Sirius doesn’t talk about switching Secret Keepers with him because he thinks Lupin is spying for Voldemort? After everything Lupin let Sirius get away with when they were young? That’s just weird.

7 Hating on 12 Grimmauld Place

Sirius hated the house he grew up in because he had quite the history of being abused as a child there. His hating Grimmauld Place is understandable, but what makes no sense is his offering it to the Order and then being angry that he also has to stay there.

What did he think was going to happen? That he wouldn’t have to attend meetings? That the Order would use his house and in return set him up with a cozy flat somewhere else?

6 Conflate Harry and James

Sirius misses his best friend, that is understandable, but his inability to separate Harry and James at certain points doesn’t make sense. Harry is far gentler and kinder than his father was (a bit more like Lily than James). He is also a child where Sirius is an adult.

While Sirius may lack experience with children, that doesn’t mean that he would just treat Harry as if he weren’t his own person. He’s already seen Harry take his own initiatives and save Sirius’ life. It shouldn’t be hard to let Harry be his own man.

5 Encourages Harry to Be Reckless

Sirius jumps at the chance to head to the Ministry of Magic to protect Harry because he cares about him. Yet, up to that point, Sirius was encouraging Harry to be nothing bu reckless.

To start the DA, to call Sirius whenever, to meet him in Hogsmeade. It’s hard to understand why Sirius would both work so hard to keep Harry safe while also encouraging Harry to continually put himself in danger.

4 Ripping the Fat Lady

When Sirius first breaks into Hogwarts in Prisoner of Azkaban, he doesn’t know the password to get into Gryffindor Tower. In anger he rips the Fat Lady’s portrait.

While Sirius’ frustration is understandable, he was a Gryffindor. He knows the fat lady is only doing her job and keeping his beloved house safe. The fact that he would harm her, rather than just expressing his anger in another way, is strange.

3 Always Ready to Commit Murder

Sirius is always trying to distance himself from his dark arts-loving family. He’s a Gryffindor. He’s a member of the Order of the Phoenix. He’s a good friend to Lupin. Yet, Sirius is ready to commit murder in front of teens on multiple occasions.

Whether it was enticing Snape into the Whomping Willow or preparing to execute Pettigrew in front of Harry, Ron, and Hermione, it’s strange that he’s so into killing.

2 Injures Ron

Sirius was desperate, and Ron was holding Pettigrew, but it would seem like, with all his experience in animagus form, Sirius might be able to pull Pettigrew back into his clutches without mangling Ron quite as much as he does.

He knows Ron is Harry’s best friend, he knows Ron doesn’t know who Pettigrew is, and yet Sirius the “good guy” still injures Ron, and whoever he has to, to get to Pettigrew.

1 Makes Pettigrew Secret Keeper

Of course Pettigrew is less likely to be suspecting of Secret Keeping for the Potters, but Sirius also knows that Pettigrew is the weakest and least talented of his friends. How he actually thought Pettigrew being Secret Keeper was a good idea will always be confounding.

Why not Dumbledore? Or literally anyone else? He was suspicious of Lupin, but still, picking Pettigrew out of everyone they knew is still a very odd choice.

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