[HPforGrownups] Re: gay characters

[Kathryn Cawte]

No: HPFGUIDX 70987


 
 
Rebecca
I do not believe that Remus and Sirius were ever a
couple. Mostly, for one reason. In POA they
"embraced like brothers." After that, I always had a
familial relationship in mind when I thought of them.
 
 Me

And yet that's the exact moment that a lot of Sirius-Remus shippers decided
that they might have been a couple. Personally I don't think Remus is the
type of person to be terribly demonstrative except in private and as such a
brotherly hug probably shows a very strong emotion (which may or not be
brotherly) - besides I think it would take a lot more than that brief
discussion to rekindle a relationship, if they had one, after the amount of
distrust, suspicion and guilt that covers the previous 12 years of their
lives. Not to mention that the situation wasn't exactly appropriate for an
in depth investigation of one another's tonsils :)

However like I say there is a lot of evidence that can be interpreted either
in a romantic or a platonic sense. Personally I like to think of them as a
couple. But then what do I know - before OoP most of us SB/RL shippers
thought the worst thing JKR could do was introduce a female love interest
for one of them and look how wrong we were there, she could do *much* worse.

K