Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

by

J. K. Rowling

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Sirius Black Character Analysis

Harry’s godfather and James Potter’s best friend. A member of a prominent Death Eater family, Sirius defected to the Order of the Phoenix and was disowned by all of his relatives – like Harry, he rejects his family’s bad values in order to become a better person. Since meeting Sirius in Prizoner of Azkaban, Harry has been bolstered by the presence of a paternal figure in his life. However, Sirius’s recent death at the end of Order of the Phoenix demonstrates that the authority figures in Harry’s life aren’t infallible, and can’t always stand between him and Voldemort.

Sirius Black Quotes in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

The Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince quotes below are all either spoken by Sirius Black or refer to Sirius Black. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
Good vs. Evil Theme Icon
).
Chapter Four: Horace Slughorn Quotes

[Harry] could not quite keep a note of derision out of his voice; it was hard to sympathize with Slughorn’s cosseted existence when he remembered Sirius, crouching in a cave and living on rats. “Most of the teachers aren’t in it, and none of them has ever been killed – well, unless you count Quirrell, and he got what he deserved seeing as he was working with Voldemort.”

Related Characters: Harry Potter (speaker), Lord Voldemort / Tom Riddle , Horace Slughorn, Sirius Black
Page Number: 72
Explanation and Analysis:

His eyes burned suddenly and he blinked. He felt stupid for admitting it, but the fact that he had had someone outside Hogwarts who cared what happened to him, almost like a parent, had been one of the best things about discovering his godfather…and now the post owls would never bring him that comfort again…

Related Characters: Harry Potter, Sirius Black
Page Number: 77
Explanation and Analysis:
Chapter Sixteen: A Very Frosty Christmas Quotes

“You are determined to hate him, Harry,” said Lupin with a faint smile. “And I understand; with James as your father, with Sirius as your godfather, you have inherited an old prejudice. By all means tell Dumbledore what you have told Arthur and me, but do not expect him to share your view of the matter…”

Related Characters: Remus Lupin (speaker), Harry Potter, Albus Dumbledore, Severus Snape, Sirius Black, James Potter
Page Number: 333
Explanation and Analysis:
Chapter Thirty: The White Tomb Quotes

…People who cared about him had stood in front of him one by one, his mother, his father, his godfather, and finally Dumbledore, all determined to protect him; but now that was over. He could not let anybody else stand between him and Voldemort; he must abandon forever the illusion he ought to have lost at the age of one, that the shelter of a parent’s arms meant that nothing could hurt him. There was no waking from this nightmare, no comforting whisper in the dark that he was safe really…the last and greatest of his protectors had died, and he was more alone than he had ever been before.

Related Characters: Harry Potter (speaker), Albus Dumbledore, Lord Voldemort / Tom Riddle , Sirius Black, Lily Potter, James Potter
Page Number: 645
Explanation and Analysis:
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Sirius Black Quotes in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

The Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince quotes below are all either spoken by Sirius Black or refer to Sirius Black. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
Good vs. Evil Theme Icon
).
Chapter Four: Horace Slughorn Quotes

[Harry] could not quite keep a note of derision out of his voice; it was hard to sympathize with Slughorn’s cosseted existence when he remembered Sirius, crouching in a cave and living on rats. “Most of the teachers aren’t in it, and none of them has ever been killed – well, unless you count Quirrell, and he got what he deserved seeing as he was working with Voldemort.”

Related Characters: Harry Potter (speaker), Lord Voldemort / Tom Riddle , Horace Slughorn, Sirius Black
Page Number: 72
Explanation and Analysis:

His eyes burned suddenly and he blinked. He felt stupid for admitting it, but the fact that he had had someone outside Hogwarts who cared what happened to him, almost like a parent, had been one of the best things about discovering his godfather…and now the post owls would never bring him that comfort again…

Related Characters: Harry Potter, Sirius Black
Page Number: 77
Explanation and Analysis:
Chapter Sixteen: A Very Frosty Christmas Quotes

“You are determined to hate him, Harry,” said Lupin with a faint smile. “And I understand; with James as your father, with Sirius as your godfather, you have inherited an old prejudice. By all means tell Dumbledore what you have told Arthur and me, but do not expect him to share your view of the matter…”

Related Characters: Remus Lupin (speaker), Harry Potter, Albus Dumbledore, Severus Snape, Sirius Black, James Potter
Page Number: 333
Explanation and Analysis:
Chapter Thirty: The White Tomb Quotes

…People who cared about him had stood in front of him one by one, his mother, his father, his godfather, and finally Dumbledore, all determined to protect him; but now that was over. He could not let anybody else stand between him and Voldemort; he must abandon forever the illusion he ought to have lost at the age of one, that the shelter of a parent’s arms meant that nothing could hurt him. There was no waking from this nightmare, no comforting whisper in the dark that he was safe really…the last and greatest of his protectors had died, and he was more alone than he had ever been before.

Related Characters: Harry Potter (speaker), Albus Dumbledore, Lord Voldemort / Tom Riddle , Sirius Black, Lily Potter, James Potter
Page Number: 645
Explanation and Analysis: