To Sirius: “Are you insane?” said Harry, his voice easily as croaky as Black’s. “DIED RATHER THAN BETRAY YOUR FRIENDS, AS WE WOULD HAVE DONE FOR YOU!” ( PA19) “THEN YOU SHOULD HAVE DIED!” roared Black. “You don’t understand!” whined Pettigrew, “He would have killed me, Sirius!” “What was there to be gained by fighting the most evil wizard that ever existed?” said Black, with a terrible fury in his face. “Of course,” said Black, and the ghost of a grin flitted across his gaunt face. “And will you forgive me for believing you were the spy?” “Not at all, Padfoot, old friend,” said Lupin, who was now rolling up his sleeves. “I assume that’s why you didn’t tell me, Sirius?” he said casually over Pettigrew’s head. Lupin: “Not if he thought I was the spy, Peter,” said Lupin. It would have been impossible to say which face showed more hatred. “Give me a reason to do it, and I swear I will.”īlack stopped dead. Snape to Sirius: “Give me a reason,” he whispered. I want to commit the murder I was imprisoned for…” ( PA18) “All right, then,” Black said, without taking his eyes off the rat. “But if you knew the whole story.” ( PA17) “You killed my parents,” said Harry, his voice shaking slightly but his wand quite steady.īlack stared up at him out of those sunken eyes. A livid bruise was rising around Black’s left eye and his nose was bleeding.

Harry stopped right above him, his wand still pointing at Black’s chest, looking down at him. His thin chest rose and fell rapidly as he watched Harry walking slowly nearer, his wand pointing straight at Black’s heart. In the Shrieking Shack: Black was sprawled at the bottom of the wall.

Padfoot would like to register his astonishment that an idiot like that ever became a professor.” ( PA14) If you’d told me what he was going to become, I’d have said you’d had too much mead.” ( PA10)įlitwick: “You’d have thought Black and Potter were brothers!” chimed in Professor Flitwick. Madam Rosmerta: “Of all the people to go over to the Dark Side, Sirius Black was the last I’d have thought … I mean, I remember him when he was a boy at Hogwarts. Purveyors of Aids to Magical Mischief-Makers Quotes by and about Sirius Black From Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

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