Me again :) Sirius is my favourite too! His character makes me sob every time. Do you have any head canons about if Sirius had raised Harry?
Oooh yes! :’)I already made a post about this a while back- AU where Harry is raised by Sirius and Remus , but your ask got me thinking about several more. Buckle up!
Sirius Black walking around the kitchen, putting together a meal with Harry on his hip probably humming a tune while doing so.
Sirius giving Harry rides on his back when he transforms into padfoot.
Baby Harry gets into the habit of clinging on to Sirius’s leg, so after a point Sirius gives up trying to get him off and just walks around with him still clinging to his leg.
The first year, Sirius calls Remus for every tiny thing (not that Remus is any more knowledgeable about raising a kid, poor guy).
“MOONY I BUMPED HIS HEAD ON THE CEILING BY ACCIDENT” *Exasperated Remus Lupin voice* What were you even doing Sirius? “LIFTING HIM UP IN THE AIR LIKE JAMES USED TO DO”"James used to sit while doing it Sirius”"OH".
Because Sirius is reckless, but not when it comes to Harry’s safety, no, then he’s a worried mother hen.
Sirius swearing out of habit in front of Harry without realizing it. And when he does realize it, he’s says ‘Oh fuck’, and does it again. And then prays to the star gods that Harry’s first word isn’t ‘fuck’ (It’s not, it’s bitch, but Sirius swears he said snitch).
Sirius being very careful about not bringing girls over…well he tries. There is the odd day when Harry hangs out with uncle Remus because Sirius has “important work to do”.
And Harry, oh man, Harry idolizes Sirius.
He’s so proud of him and brags about him at Hogwarts. “Me dad’s a muggle, mam’s a witch” “Yeah, well my godfather has long hair and drives a flying motorbike”.
Sirius not being able to keep a straight face when McGonagall complains to him about Harry’s antics at Hogwarts.
But he tries anyway, and now it’s Harry’s turn to not be able to keep a straight face because it’s SO CLEAR his godfather is just pretending to be serious.
McGonagall sits in her office and wonders what she ever did to deserve a child that had James Potter’s blood and was raised by Sirius Black.
Harry also has someone to talk about girls with.
“Right, so you go up to her and say confidently, ‘Cho,how would you like to go to the ball with me?’ and then you flick your hair back. “I don’t have enough hair to flick back” “Never mind that part then”.
The girls in Harry’s class totally have a crush on Sirius. They hang out of the train window to see him at the platform.
He gets Harry the coolest t-shirts. Muggle band t-shirts, wrock t-shirts, quidditch jerseys etc. He is now Harry ‘well-dressed’ Potter.
Sirius helping Harry with homework!!!!
More dating advice from Sirius: First find out if she really likes you or only wants to date you because you’re Harry Potter.Then find out how she feels about werewolves.
Snape feeling absolutely infuriated because this child is Potter+Black, but he can’t do anything about it, or bully and treat Harry unfairly, because he knows he’ll have to pay for it dearly.
Basically, the Harry raised by Sirius doesn’t walk into Hogwarts scared and undernourished in over-sized clothes. He waltzes in, confident, happy, loved, excited about being there, but also excited to go back home. Because every day with Sirius Black is an adventure.
