Maybe he's impotent. That would explain his hatred for Sirius.
(**Ducks flying missiles, hexes, bricks, desk lamps, et cetera.** Oh, HELP, I'm turning into Taulai!)
**Tucks up her skirts nervously for fear of the two-inch spider currently running around her floor.**
Mm. Now that issue is one of the ones that I religiously avoid touching in any and all of my fics. The same applies to (for example) Voldemort's desire to kill Harry, or when Pettigrew is finally going to get caught, slit open, and led around a tree to which his intestines have been tied until they wind out of him and all around the trunk. Yeah. (The Celts may not have been very nice, but dang, they were good at some things.)
It sounds hypocritical, after the tantrum I threw upon finding out that Jo has her own ideas for other secrets such as Sirius' past. I don't know the reason myself why I feel I can screw around with his history and then stand piously back from certain other unanswered questions, vowing to let the author take care of them. I think it may be because Sirius' childhood, no matter how interesting it may be, isn't likely to have much impact on Jo's story. Whereas Snape's bitterness, Pettigrew's demise, and Voldemort's fixation on killing Harry in the first place, are all fairly major plot holes that are bound to be filled. I don't want any of my fics to become hopelessly obsolete with the next publication.
**Blathers away quietly to herself.**
But privately, here, I think Snape's hatred for Harry, Sirius and Remus is probably centred on James, and not in the battlefield of love. I will be extremely surprised and disappointed in JK Rowling if it turns out he was just part of a love triangle and got beaten out and that's why he's bitter.
I can't begin to construct my own theory as to just why he hates James and therefore everyone affilated with him so bitterly, and I don't think I'll even bother to try.
This is changing the subject slightly, but the only person I could see Sirius falling for is Lily. I bet, I just bet there was some point at which he had a huge crush on her. I mean, come on, she's beautiful, and she's in the arms of his best friend.
... I think the only reason I tolerate even this is because he obviously got over it. ^^;;; Evil me.
I admire your courage, Tina. I rarely read fanfiction, because most of the stuff I find is either tripe, or deals with issues that I feel I own a controlling interest in (**watches Tyne roll her eyes**), or both. Why don't people ever THINK before they take off on a squishy, self-satisfying, literary expedition?