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When people tell me that James “grew out of bullying”, I always respond with the canonically sound FACTS that James Potter was 21 when he died, 20 when Harry was born and *19* when Harry was conceived. He had *no time* to change out of his bullying bullshit personality towards Severus. Just take a look around wewe and see if wewe can name half a dozen of your under-21 male friends/acquaintances who wewe think would make such an awesome hubby and father right now (oh, and don’t discount the bullies wewe know who pick on people “just because they exist”). And when we keep telling wewe that...

In February 2006 JK Rowling donated a sketch of the Black family mti for a Book Aid charity auction, and as expected, it generated a great deal of interest and excitement in the Harry Potter shabiki community. And finally, as the mwaka draws to a close, the MuggleNet Encyclopedia has managed to get the full family tree, along with information about the people on it, up on site - and about time too, a lot of wewe might say.

Whilst the mti gives a fascinating insight into the background of one of the oldest pure-blood families of all, it also threw up a number of surprising facts and - perhaps - the...

Sirius Black III:

- In the film version of Order of the Phoenix during the battle at the Department of Mysteries, Sirius accidentally calls Harry James, even though this mix-up never occurred in the book.
- Also during the battle at the Department of Mysteries Sirius was hit kwa a Killing Curse in the movie and survived for about 6 seconds, but in the book he was hit kwa an unnamed curse and fell into the veil.
- J.K. Rowling described Sirius as a "bit of a loose canon" and a "case of arrested development" and she also once described him as "brave, loyal, reckless, embittered and slightly unbalanced...