Siri laughed. “I remember. I was out to get you. I wanted to make you angry.” “You made me furious,” Obi-Wan said. “You always knew how to do that.”

“I know. And you were always so right. So fair. You made me furious, too. Lots of times.” “And then we became friends.” “Good friends.”

star wars planets: melida/daan

I see what you did there, Jude Watson. 

We see Siri exhibit a tenderness with Ferus that she doesn’t with anyone else, with the possible exception of Obi-Wan Kenobi, though her tenderness towards Obi-Wan is distinctly different than towards Ferus. 

We see habitually impatient Siri slow down conversations to ask Ferus about his feelings and opinions, we see her take time out of planning to listen to Ferus’s concerns and address them. With everyone else, we see Siri ready to rush in as soon as the plan is settled, seeming mildly annoyed when someone stops to question the plan, and wanting to move now. But with Ferus, she actively stops the conversation to address his feelings. She engages in the conversation with him, drawing out his opinions that he otherwise would not have voiced. 

We see Siri, who so casually tells Obi-Wan “well here I am to save your sorry self again” when answering his distress call, get furious when she thinks that Obi-Wan has kept her Padawan’s disappearance from her. We see Siri express genuine concern about Ferus’s wellbeing once they find him, even though he’s physically unharmed, in contrast to a situation when she rescues Obi-Wan and he’s visibly limping, and she lightly teases him.

We see Siri take her role as Ferus’s mentor, teacher, and Master very seriously, and we see just from Ferus’s growth over his life how much time and thought she put into training him. We see how often Ferus thinks about her and her teachings years after he left the Order ( and years after her death ). We see the memory of her teachings get him out of trouble multiple times. 

We see her trust him deeply, from very early on in their relationship. And we see him trust her, too, so much that he feels he can ask her anything without judgment, and we see that he trusts her so much that he asks her about not one, but two of the most taboo subjects for Jedi: attachment, and the Dark side. 

And we see Siri go immediately from being Adi’s Padawan, to going on an extremely dangerous undercover mission for two years, ( that left her in a very dark place afterwards ) to taking Ferus as her Padawan immediately upon returning from that mission and being Knighted. Teaching Ferus, and Ferus himself, undoubtedly had a significant influence on Siri’s healing from the deep damage that her undercover mission did to her. ( A number of context clues point to Siri having ptsd after that mission, but that’s a different topic. ) 

Then she let him go. She spent five years teaching a stiff boy ( a born leader who suppressed himself to try to be a perfect follower ) how to think for himself; how to do what he thought, not just what the perfect Jedi would do. And then when he finally made a decision for himself, when he decided to leave, she let him go. To cherish without keeping.