Only people who questioned the positive information already given to us about them by other characters in the books or by Rowling, seemed to want more confirmation.
Why shouldn't we question it? We might do in real life as well. Everyone has their own POVs, which can make any information they give more or less reliable. Of course Sirius would speak positively of James, for instance -- they were best mates. Doesn't mean it was the whole story. Similarly, Severus hardly loses an opportunity to badmouth Sirius -- they were enemies. Doesn't mean it's the whole story on Sirius either.
He was very controlled and constrained, so it would be easy to imagine his repressed passion.
We needn't imagine it; repressed passions that make him capable of blowing up in rather theatrical ways are right there on the page. We're also directly shown that he was quite passionate about Lily (regardless of whether the reader chooses to think of it as true devotion or as creepy obsession), not to mention non-personal things such as academic subjects.
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Date: 2008-03-31 11:09 pm (UTC)Why shouldn't we question it? We might do in real life as well. Everyone has their own POVs, which can make any information they give more or less reliable. Of course Sirius would speak positively of James, for instance -- they were best mates. Doesn't mean it was the whole story. Similarly, Severus hardly loses an opportunity to badmouth Sirius -- they were enemies. Doesn't mean it's the whole story on Sirius either.
He was very controlled and constrained, so it would be easy to imagine his repressed passion.
We needn't imagine it; repressed passions that make him capable of blowing up in rather theatrical ways are right there on the page. We're also directly shown that he was quite passionate about Lily (regardless of whether the reader chooses to think of it as true devotion or as creepy obsession), not to mention non-personal things such as academic subjects.