"Sirius, when you left, I was under the protection of Albus Dumbledore. It was not your fault."
He wasn't going to answer the other questions. It was too easy to get caught up in self-pity, in his experience, and self-pity never fed you.
"When you wanted a job I refused you - yes, I know you were going to ask me about that - because you needed your freedom. I was a coward when the Order had you in Grimmauld, and you died trying to escape from the second prison. We could have left, lived in protection, but still freely. I still regret allowing them that. My refusal didn't have anything to do with... this."
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Date: 2007-02-07 09:13 am (UTC)He wasn't going to answer the other questions. It was too easy to get caught up in self-pity, in his experience, and self-pity never fed you.
"When you wanted a job I refused you - yes, I know you were going to ask me about that - because you needed your freedom. I was a coward when the Order had you in Grimmauld, and you died trying to escape from the second prison. We could have left, lived in protection, but still freely. I still regret allowing them that. My refusal didn't have anything to do with... this."