@m@nd@: Yes Harry was 'moody' in the 5th but didn't he have every reason to be that 'moody' all the rest of his life and he'd denied the impulse? Ok, so he saw some PRETTY awful stuff at the end of the 4th but really...!!! Get over yourself mate! The reason he was so 'moody' was because he thought that the world and the war should revolve around him; that HE'D been the one to witness Voldemort's return and therefore HE was as indispensible to the war effort as he had been to the resurrection; he'd begun to believe the hype about himself/ that he was important!!! Sirius was the exactly the same.

I'm really sorry that Sirius/a young bloke with lots to give and all the potential in the world, ended up shunned and ruined and in Azkaban but.. get over it! Your a father now! But Sirius didn't get over it. As much as he wanted to love and protect Harry he and 'The Course' would always have come first for Sirius because that's where his glory and his 'reason detra(sp?)'('reason for being') was. Without the fight; without something to hate, Sirius would have been nothing. He would not have made a good parent. Maybe Snape might do better...???