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| Quotes |
| My goal in this quote section is to catalogue, by book and chapter, everything Sirius ever said (for the extensive quote-searcher), as well as everything other characters have said about him. And maybe any impressive desciptions of him, and if I'm REALLY bored, quotes from J.K. Rowling about Sirius. Let me know if there's any I missed. |
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| Quotes BY Sirius |
| 'He's at Hogwarts...he's at Hogwarts.' (Sirius talking in his sleep at Azkaban) "Mr. Padfoot would like to register his astonishment that an idiot like that ever became a professor." (from the Marauder's Map, to Severus Snape) "Expelliarmus!" he croaked, pointing Ron's wand at them. (In the Shrieking Shack) "I thought you'd come and help your friend," he said hoarsely. His voice sounded as though he had long since lost the abit of using it. "Your father would have done the same for me. Brave of you, not to run for a teacher. I'm grateful...it will make everything much easier..." "Lie down," he said quietly to Ron. "You will damage that leg even more. (Ron had stood up to support Harry) "There'll be only one murder here tonight," said Black, and his grin widened. "No," he hissed, "I've waited too long ---" (Harry just attacked Sirius) "Going to kill me, Harry?" he whispered. (Harry is pointing his wand at Sirius' heart) "I don't deny it," he said very quietly. "But if you knew the whole story." (Harry just said "You killed my parents.") "You've got to listen to me," Black said, and there was a note of urgency in his voice now. "You'll regret it if you don't....You don't understand...." "Get off," he murmered, trying to push Crookshanks off him. (Crookshanks had lept on Sirius' chest to protect him) "That's not a rat," croaked Sirius Black suddenly. (Talking about Scabbers. Lupin had come in by now, and has been talking.) "An Animagus," said Black, "by the name of Peter Pettigrew." (Lupin had just said that Scabbers was a wizard.) "I meant to," he growled, his yellow teeth bared, "but little Peter got the better of me...not this time, though!" (Harry said Sirius killed Pettigrew 12 years ago) "We can explain afterwards!" snarled Black, trying to throw Lupin off. (Lupin stopped Sirius from attacking Scabbers) "All right, then," Black said, without taking his eyes off the rat. "Tell them whatever you like. But make it quick, Remus. I want to commit the murder I was imprisoned for...." (Sirius agreed to let Lupin explain) "They didn't see what they thought they saw!" said Black savagely, still watching Scabbers struggling in Ron's hands. (talking about the witnesses that "saw" Pettigrew die) "If you're going to tell them the story, get a move on, Remus," snarled Black, who was still watching Scabber's every desperate move. "I've waited twelve years, I'm not going to wait much longer." "Hurry up, Remus," snarled Black, who was still watching Scabbers with a horrible sort of hunger on his face. "Snape?" said Black harshly, taking his eyes off Scabbers for the first time in minutes and looking up at Lupin. "What's Snape got to do with it?" (Lupin had mentioned Snape's name, and now tells Sirius he teaches at Hogwarts) "It served him right," he sneered. "Sneaking around, trying to find out what we were up to...hoping he could get us expelled...." (Lupin mentioned the trick Sirius played on Snape that almost killed him) "The joke's on you again, Severus," Black snarled. "As long as this boy brings his rat up to the castle" --- he jerked his head at Ron --- "I'll come quietly...." (Snape just burst into the room & said he had hoped he'd be the one to catch Sirius) "You --- you've got to hear me out," he croaked. "The rat --- look at the rat ---" (Snape threatened Sirius with the Dementors' Kiss) "You shouldn't have done that," said Black, looking at Harry. "You should have left him to me...." (Harry, Ron, & Hermione just kocked out Snape) "Fudge," said Black. "When he came to Azkaban last year, he gave me this paper. And there was Peter, on the front page...on this boy's shoulder....I knew him at once...how many imes had I seen him transform? And the caption said the boy would be going back to Hogwarts...to where Harry was...." (Remus had asked where Sirius got the Daily Prophet) "He's got a toe missing," said Black. (Talking about the picture of Scabbers) "Just before he transformed," said Black. "When I cornered him, he yelled for the whole street to hear that I'd betrayed Lily and James. Then, before I could curse him, he blew apart the street with the wand behind his back, killed everyone within twenty feet of himself --- and sped down into the sewer with the other rats...." (Lupin had asked if Pettigrew cut off his own finger) "This cat isn't mad," said Black hoarsely. He reached out a bony hand and stroked Crookshank's fluffy head. "He's the most intelligent of his kind I've ever met. He recognized Peter for what he was right away. And when he met me, he knew I was no dog. It was a while before he trusted me....Finally, I managed to communicate to him what I was after, and he's been helping me...." (talking about Crookshanks) "He tried to bring Peter to me, but couldn't...so he stole the passwords into Gryffindor Tower for me....As I understand it, he took them from a boy's bedside table...." "But Peter got wind of what was going on and ran for it...." croaked Black. "This cat --- Crookshankes, did you call him? --- told me that Peter had left blood on the sheets....I supposed he bit himself....Well, faking his own death had worked once...." "Yes, I have," said Black, with an evil look at Scabbers. (Harry just said "And now you've come to finish him off!") "Harry...I as good as killed them," he croaked. "I persuaded Lily and James to change to Peter at the last moment, persuaded them to use him as Secret-Keeper instead of me....I'm to blame, I know it....The night they died, I'd arranged to check on Peter, make sure he was still safe, but when I arrived at his place, he;d gone. Yet there was no sign of a struggle. It didn't feel right. I was scared. I set out for your parents' house straight away. And when I saw their house, destroyed, and their bodies...I realized what Peter must've done...what I'd done...." (Harry said that Sirius said he'd killed his parents) "Togather?" he said quietly. (Sirius & Lupin about to change Scabber back to a wizard from Animagus form) "Voldemort, teach me tricks?" he said. (Pettigrew said You-Know-Who mush have taugh Sirius tricks to get out of Azkaban, and Sirius laughed) "What, scared to hear your old master's name?" said Black. "I don't blame you, Peter. His lot aren't very happy with you, are they?" (Pettigrew flinched when Sirius said 'Voldemort') "You haven't been hiding from me for twelve years," said Black. You've been hiding from Voldemort's old supporters. I heard things in Azkaban, Peter....They all think you're dead, or you'd have to answer to them....I've heard them screaming all sorts of things in their sleep. Sounds like they think the double-crosser double-crossed them. Voldemort went to the Potters' on your information...and Voldemort met his downfall there. And not all of Voldemort's supporters ended up in Azkaban, did they? There are still plenty out here, biding their time, pretending they've seen the error of their ways....If they ever got wind that you were still alive, Peter ---" Black's face contorted. "How dare you," he growled, sounding suddenly like the bear-sized dog he had been. "I, a spy for Voldemort? When did I ever sneak around people who were stronger and more powerful than myself? But you, Peter --- I'll never understand why I didn't see you were the spy from the start. You always liked big friends who'd look after you, didn't you? It used to be us...me and Remus...and James...." (Pettigrew accused Sirius of being Voldemort's spy) "Lily and James only made you Secret-Kepper because I suggested it," Black hissed, so venomously that Pettigrew took a step backward. "I thought it was the perfect plan...a bluff....Voldemort would be sure to come after me, would never dream they'd use a weak, talentless thing like you....It must have been the finest moment of your miserable life, telling Voldemort you could hand him the Potters." "I'll tell you why," said Black. "Because you never did anything for anyone unless you could see what was in it for you. Voldemort's been in hiding for fifteen years, they say he's half dead. You weren't about to commit murder right under Albus Dumbledore's nose, for a wreck of a wizard who'd lost all of his power, were you? You'd want to be quite sure he was the biggest bully in the playground before you went back to him, wouldn't you? Why else did you find a wizard family to take you in? Keeping an ear out for news, weren't you, Peter? Just in case your old protector regained strength, and it was safe to rejoin him...." (Hermione and Pettigrew asked why, if Pettigrew was working for Voldemort, hadn't he tried to harm Harry already) "I don't know how I did it," he said slowly. "I think the only reason I never lost my mind is that I knew I was innocent. That wasn't a happy thought, so the dementors couldn't suck it out of me...but it kept me sane and knowing who I am...helped me keep my powers...so when it all became...too much...I could transform in my cell...become a dog. Dementors can't see, you know...." He swallowed. "They feel their way toward people by feeding off their emotions....They could tell that my feelings were less - less human, less complex when I was a dog...but they thought, of course, that I was losing my mind like everyone else in there, so it didn't trouble them. But I was weak, very weak, and I had no hope of driving them away from me without a wand.... "But then I saw Peter in that picture...I realized he was at Hogwarts with Harry...perfectly positioned to act, if one hint reached his ears that the Dark Side was gathering strength again...." Pettigrew was shaking his head, mouthing noiselessly, but staring all the while at Black as though hypnotized. "...ready to strike at the moment he could be sure of allies...and to deliver the last Potter to them. If he gave them Harry, who'd dare say he'd betrayed Lord Voldemort? He'd be welcomed back with honors.... "So you see, I had to do something. I was the only one who knew Peter was still alive...." "It was as if someone had lit a fire in my head, and the dementors couldn't destroy it....It wasn't a happy feeling...it was an obsession...but it gave me strength, it cleared my mind. So, one night when they opened my door to bring food, I slipped past them as a dog....It's so much harder for them to sense animal emotions that they were confused....I was thin, very thin...thin enough to slip through the bars....I swam as a dog back to the mainland....I journeyed north and slipped into the Hogwarts grounds as a dog. I've been living in the forest ever since, except when I came to watch the Quidditch, of course. You fly as well as your father did, Harry...." "Believe me," croaked Black. "Believe me, Harry. I never betrayed James and Lily. I would have died before I betrayed them." Black kicked out and Pettigrew recoiled. "There's enough filth on my robes without you touching them," said Black. "Of course," said Black, and the ghost of a grin flitted across his gaunt face. He, too, began rolling up his sleeves. "Shall we kill him together?" (Sirius & Remus forgiving each other for thinking the other was the spy and about to kill Wormtail) "If you made a better rat than a human, it's not much to boast about, Peter," said Black harshly. "HOW DARE YOU SPEAK TO HARRY?" roared Black. "HOW DARE YOU FACE HIM? HOW DARE YOU TALK ABOUT JAMES IN FRONT OF HIM?" "You sold Lily and James to Voldemort," said Black, who was shaking too. "Do you deny it?" "DON'T LIE!" bellowed Black. "YOU'D BEEN PASSING INFORMATION TO HIM FOR A YEAR BEFORE LILY AND JAMES DIED! YOU WERE HIS SPY!" "What was to be gained by fighting the most evil wizard who has ever existed?" said Black, with a terrible fury in his face. "Only innocent lives, Peter!" "THEN YOU SHOULD HAVE DIED!" roared Black. "DIED RATHER THAN BETRAY YOUR FRIENDS, AS WE WOULD HAVE DONE FOR YOU!" "Harry, this piece of vermin is the reason you have no parents." Black snarled. "This cringing bit of filth would have seen you die too, without turning a hair. You heard him. His own stinking skin meant more to him than your whole family." (Still talking about Wormtail - Harry just said not to kill him) "You're the only person who has the right to decide, Harry," said Black. "But think...think what he did...." "But if you transform, Peter," growled Black, his own wand pointing at Pettigrew too, "we will kill you. You agree, Harry?" (Lupin just tied up Wormtail. Harry agrees) "And two of us should be chained to this," said Black, nudging Pettigrew with his toe. "Just to make sure." "You know what this means?" Black said abruptly to Harry as they made their slow progress along the tunnel. "Turning Pettigrew in?" |
| Prisoner of Azkaban |
| Chapter 14: Snape's Grudge |
| Chapter 4: The Leaky Cauldron |
| Chapter 17: Cat, Rat, and Dog |
| Chapter 18: Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot, and Prongs |
| Chapter 19: The Servant of Lord Voldemort |
| Chapter 20: The Dementor's Kiss |