"Kreacher’s
really old, he probably couldn’t manage -”
”You’d be surprised what Kreacher can manage when
he wants to, Hermione,” said Sirius, who had just entered
the room carrying a bloodstained bag of what appeared to be
dead rats. pg.
95, ch. 6
Comment: I don’t know it’s just me, but I have
a feeling Sirius paid a lot of attention to Hermione. Even
from afar… he’s springing out of nowhere…
well, okay, it’s just me, then.
“The
Mudblood is talking to Kreacher as though she is my friend,
if Kreacher’s mistress saw him in such company, oh,
what would she say -”
”Don’t call her a Mudblood!” said Ron
and Ginny together, very angrily.
”It doesn’t
matter,” Hermione whispered, “he’s not
in his right mind, he doesn’t know what he’s
-”
”Don’t
kid yourself, Hermione, he knows exactly what’s
he’s saying,” said Fred, eyeing Kreacher with
great dislike.
Kreacher was still
muttering, his eyes on Harry.
”Is it true?
Is it Harry Potter? Kreacher can see the scar, it must be
true, that’s the boy who stopped the Dark Lord, Kreacher
wonders how he did it -”
”Don’t
we all, Kreacher,” said Fred.
”What do you
want, anyway?” George asked.
Kreacher’s
huge eyes darted towards George.
”Kreacher is
cleaning,” he said evasively.
”A likely story,”
said a voice behind Harry.
Sirius had come back;
he was glowering at the elf from the doorway.
pg. 101, ch. 6
Comment: Ron’s and Ginny’s angry voices might
have brought Sirius to the kids. And knowing who they were
talking to, and who the ‘mudblood’ is, he appeared
as angry as the others at the elf. Again, like I said, he
seems to be popping out of nowhere where Hermione is concerned.
He was ‘glowering from the doorway’; meaning
he has been there for quite sometime.
“Sirius,
he’s not right in the head,” Hermione pleaded,
“I don’t think he realizes we can hear him.”
”He’s been alone too long,” said Sirius,
“taking mad orders from my mother’s portrait and
talking to himself, but he was always a foul little -”
”If
you could just set him free,” said Hermione hopefully,
“maybe -”
”We can’t
set him free, he knows too much about the Order,”
said Sirius curtly. “And anyway, the shock would kill
him. You suggest to him he leaves this house, see how he
takes it.”
pg. 103, ch. 6
Comment: Sheesh! Hermione and her spew! Sirius still seemed
kind of put off with his house elf at the earlier event.
Also, it seems that he’s trying to throw some sense
into Hermione about those creatures.
Sirius went as far as to threaten him with clothes, but Kreacher
fixed him with a watery stare and said, “Master must
do as Master wishes,” before turning away and muttering
very loudly, “but Master will not turn Kreacher away,
no, because Kreacher knows what they are up to, oh yes, he
is plotting against the Dark Lord, yes, with these Mudbloods
and traitors and scum…”
At which Sirius, ignoring Hermione’s protests, seized
Kreacher by the back of his loincloth and threw him bodily
from the room. pg.
109, ch. 6
Comment: Abusing houseelves! Tsk tsk! Well, I can’t
blame him… calling ‘your girl’ a ‘Mudblood’
deserves that!
“You belong at Hogwarts and Sirius knows it. Personally,
I think he’s being selfish.”
”That’s a bit harsh, Hermione,” said Ron,
frowning as he attempted to prise off a bit of mould that
had attached itself firmly to his finger, “you wouldn’t
want to be stuck inside this house without any company.”
”He’ll
have company!” said Hermione. “It’s Headquarters
to the Order of the Phoenix, isn’t it? He just got
his hopes up that Harry would be coming to live here with
him.”
”I don’t’
think that’s true,” said Harry, wringing out
his cloth. “He wouldn’t give me a straight answer
when I ask him if I could.”
”He just didn’t
want to get his own hopes up even more,” said Hermione
wisely. “And he probably felt a bit guilty himself,
because I think a part of him was really hoping you’d
be expelled. Then you’d both be outcasts together.”
”Come off it!”
said Harry and Ron together, but Hermione merely shrugged.
”Suit yourselves.
But I sometimes think Ron’s mum’s right and
Sirius gets confused about whether you’re you or your
father, Harry.”
”So you think
he’s touched in the head?” said Harry heatedly.
”No, I just
think he’s been very lonely for a long time,”
said Hermione simply.
pg. 144, ch. 9
Comment: Sirius being sad that the kids are going off for
school. Here, we might think that Sirius is upset not only
because his godson is leaving, but Hermione; which is why
he kept to himself most of the time. Hermione seems to understand
Sirius’ state and that somehow makes me think that
Sirius and Hermione had had a private one-to-one conversation
with each other, before.
“He shouldn’t have come with us,” said Hermione
in a worried voice.
pg. 166, ch. 10
Comment: Hermione’s worried about Sirius’ safety?
Hmm…
“Wait a moment,” said Hermione suddenly. “Oh
no… Sirius!”
”What’s happened?” said Harry, snatching
at the paper so violently it ripped down the middle, with
him and Hermione each holding one half. ”’The
Ministry of Magic has received a tip-off from a reliable
source that Sirius Black, notorious mass murderer…
blah blah blah… is currently hiding in London!’”
Hermione read from her half in an anguished whisper.
pg. 257, ch. 14
Comment: Hermione’s concerned about Sirius’
safety, now that the public have learnt about his whereabouts.
“Sirius’s head?” Hermione repeated. “You
mean like when he wanted to talk to you during the Triwizard
Tournament? But he wouldn’t do that now, it wouldn’t
be too – Sirius!”
She gasped, gazing at the fire; Ron dropped his quill. There
in the middle of the dancing flames sat Sirius’s head,
long dark hair falling around his grinning face.
pg. 270, ch. 14
Comment: Hermione seems kind of excited at the thought of
Sirius appearing in the fire, and at the same time nervous
too.
“But what if you’d been seen?” said Hermione
anxiously.
”Well, I think a girl – first-year, by the look
of her – might’ve got a glimpse of me earlier,
but don’t worry,” Sirius said hastily, as Hermione
clapped a hand to her mouth, “I was gone the moment
she looked back at me and I’ll bet she just thought
I was an oddly-shaped log or something.”
”But, Sirius,
this is taking an awful risk -” Hermione began.
”You sound
like Molly,” said Sirius.
pg. 270, ch. 14
Comment: Again, Hermione shows her concern, and Sirius not
wanting her to worry about him too much, is kinda saying
something. What with him commenting her sounding like Mrs
Weasley and all…
“You didn’t say you’d written to Sirius!”
said Hermione accusingly.
pg. 270, ch. 14
Comment: She seemed mad that Harry didn’t tell her about
writing to Sirius. Perhaps she wants to get involve in whatever
Harry’s written or whenever he made contact with his
godfather.
“What’s she got against werewolves?” said
Hermione angrily.
”Scared of them, I expect,” said Sirius, smiling
at her indignation. “Apparently, she loathes part-humans;
she campaigned to have merpeople rounded up and tagged last
year, too. Imagine wasting your time and energy persecuting
merpeople when there are little toerags like Kreacher on the
loose.” Ron
laughed but Hermione looked upset.
”Sirius!”
she said reproachfully. “Honestly, if you made a bit
of an effort with Kreacher, I’m sure he’d respond.
After all, you are the only member of his family he’s
got left, and Professor Dumbledore said -”
”So, what are
Umbridge’s lessons like?” Sirius interrupted.
“Is she training you all to kill half-breeds?”
”No,”
said Harry, ignoring Hermione’s affronted look at
being cut off in her defence of Kreacher.
pg. 271, ch. 14
Comment: Eek! Sirius smiled at her!! AND he’s teasing
her about SPEW. Haha! Hermione of course goes upset about
it. Oh! I just love his teasings.
“When’s
your next Hogsmeade weekend, anyway? I was thinking, we
got away with the dog disguise at the station, didn’t
we? I thought I could -”
”NO!” said Harry and Hermione together, very
loudly.
”Sirius, didn’t
you see the Daily Prophet?” said Hermione anxiously.
”Oh, that,”
said Sirius, grinning, “they’re always guessing
where I am, they haven’t really got a clue -”
pg. 273, ch. 14
Comment: Both Harry and Hermione debarred him from taking
any more risk than it is.
“You want to choose your meeting places more carefully,”
said Sirius, grinning still more broadly. “The Hog’s
Head, I ask you.”
”Well, it was better than the Three Broomsticks!”
said Hermione defensively. “That’s always packed
with people-” ”Which
means you’d have been harder to overhear,” said
Sirius. “You’ve got a lot to learn, Hermione.”
pg. 329, ch. 17
Comment: Oh! I pity Hermione. That was a blow on the face,
if you ask me.
“I know it was. I just wondered what Sirius thought,”
she said, shrugging.
pg. 330, ch. 17
Comment: Hehe! She’s interested in Sirius’ opinions,
eh?
“How about the Shrieking Shack?” suggested
Sirius.
”Hey, that’s an idea!” said Ron excitedly,
but Hermione made a sceptical noise and all three of them
looked at her, Sirius’s head turning in the flames.
”Well, Sirius,
it’s just that there were only four of you meeting
in the Shrieking Shack when you were at school,” said
Hermione, “and all of you could transform into animals
and I suppose you could all have squeezed under a single
Invisibility Cloak if you’d wanted to. But there are
twenty-eight of us and none of us is an Animagus, so we
wouldn’t need so much an Invisibility Cloak as an
Invisibility Marquee -”
”Fair point,”
said Sirius, looking slightly crestfallen.
pg. 331, ch. 17
Comment: Hermione finally gets back at Sirius by dismissing
his suggestion, earning him looking… what was it?
‘Crestfallen’. Haha!
“Let’s
get this straight,” said Harry angrily, as they put
their bags back on the floor, “Sirius agrees with
us, so you don’t think we should do it any more?”
Hermione looked tense and rather miserable. Now staring
at her own hands, she said, “Do you honestly trust
his judgement?”
”Yes, I do!”
said Harry at once. “He’s always given us great
advice!”
pg. 335, ch. 18
Comment: Hermione knows Sirius loves achieving daring acts,
which relates to the DA. Therefore, not trusting the whole
concept of the organisation any longer.
“You don’t think he has become…
sort of… reckless… since he’s been cooped
up in Grimmauld Place? You don’t’ think he’s…
kind of… living through us?”
”What d’you mean, ‘living through us’?”
Harry retorted. ”I
mean… well, I think he’d love to be forming
secret Defence societies right under the nose of someone
from the Ministry… I think he’s really frustrated
at how little he can do where he is… so I think he’s
keen to kind of… egg us on.”
Ron looked utterly
perplexed.
”Sirius is
right,” he said, “you do sound just like my
mother.”
Hermione bit her
lip and did not answer.
pg. 335, ch. 18
Comment: Hermione’s sudden perception of Sirius perturbed
both her best friends. And Ron agreeing with Sirius made
her realise she had somehow crossed her limits.
“I think I’ll just leave his present here,”
said Hermione, laying the package neatly in the middle of
the depression in the rags and blankets and closing the door
quietly. “He’ll find it later, that’ll be
fine.”
”Come to think of it,” said Sirius, emerging from
the pantry carrying a large turkey as they closed the cupboard
door, “has anyone actually seen Kreacher lately?”
pg. 446, ch. 23
Comment: Just like I’d mentioned earlier, I feel Sirius
keep popping out whenever Hermione speaks about Kreacher
when she’s in his house… ooh! Maybe he’s
stalking her?
Sirius looked slightly disconcerted for a moment, then said,
“I’ll look for him later, I expect I’ll
find him upstairs crying his eyes out over my mother’s
old bloomers or something. Of course, he might have crawled
into the airing cupboard and died… but I mustn’t
get my hopes up.”
Fred, George and Ron laughed; Hermione, however, looked reproachful.
pg. 446, ch. 23
Comment: Hermione’s demeanour about houseelves’
rights couldn’t restrain itself when Sirius himself
is hoping to have his elf dead.
“But
why,” Hermione persisted, “why on earth would
Voldemort want to use Sirius to get the weapon, or whatever
the thing is?”
pg. 646, ch. 32
Comment: Even though Hermione seems to try pouring some
sense into Harry, there was still a slight worry in her
tone about Sirius’ safety.
“Sirius told you there was nothing more important than
you learning to close your mind!”
pg. 648, ch. 32
Comment: Hmm… she actually remembered Sirius’
words?
“Please let’s just check that Sirius isn’t
at home before we go charging off to London. If we find out
he’s not there, then I swear I won’t try to stop
you. I’ll come, I’ll d-do whatever it takes to
try and save him.”
pg. 648, ch. 32
Comment: ‘Do whatever it takes’? Wow! Sigh! If
only it was canon…
“I can hear them too,” breathed Luna,
joining them around the side of the archway and gazing at
the swaying veil. “There are people in there!”
”What do you mean, ‘in there’?”
demanded Hermione, jumping down from the bottom step and
sounding much angrier than the occasion warranted. “There
isn’t any ‘in there’, it’s just
an archway, there’s no room for anybody to be there.
Harry, stop it, come away -”
She grabbed his arm
and pulled, but he resisted.
”Harry, we
are supposed to be here for Sirius!” she said in a
high-pitched, strained voice.
pg. 683, ch. 34
Comment: As much as I think Luna is a loony, I do believe
in her ‘extraordinary beliefs’. Since most of
them happens to be true. ‘There are people in there.’
This is exactly the very quote which led to my denial that
Sirius is truly dead. And as for Hermione, she’s trying
to keep her focus on saving Sirius. Good girl.
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