[HPforGrownups] OoP: Sirius as close as we're going to get

[Laura Ingalls Huntley]

No: HPFGUIDX 65468

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From: Kathryn Cawte [mailto:kcawte at blueyonder.co.uk]
Sent: Saturday, June 28, 2003 3:31 PM
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Kirstini:
 
"He was very good-looking; his dark hair fell into his eyes 
with a casual sort of elegance neither James's nor Harry's could 
ever have achieved, and a girl sitting behind him was eyeing him 
hopefully, though he didn't seem to have noticed." OotP, US 
Hardcover, pg. 642

>It's funny, but I read this passage as suggesting (ever so subtly) 
>that Sirius wasn't really interested in girls. I remember reading 
>Abigail's pre-OoP theory that Bill Weasley was going to turn out to 
>be the first "out" character in the series - obviously Ms Delacour 
>has scorched that one a bit - and I thought it was a really 
>interesting theory, but unlikely to happen in the Pottersverse, 
>where JKR likes to keep things fairly safe. It would be fantastic, 
>but I wonder if Sirius, not noticing girls (ever, not just in the 
>Pensieve) and unswervingly devoted to James, and therefore 
>certainly with the *potential* to be read as an encrypted 
>homosexual character(funny, I rather thought we'd left that sort of 
>phrase behind in McCarthy-era cinema)is as close as we're going to 
>get. There is, of course, the defence wheeled out again and 
>again, "not in a children's book". Why on earth not? 

Well, I interpreted the above passage as simply another clue to 
Sirius's extreme "coolness" in high school.  Apparently, he was so 
dead sexy he could afford to let the girls come to *him*.  You know, 
the whole hard-to-get routine.  

HOWEVER, it's a well-known fact that a *lot* women get "things" for 
homosexual men -- partly due to, IMHO, their unattainable attitude 
towards women.

So, was Sirius really ignoring those girls, or was he playing a 
delicate, but time-honored game of seduction?

We very well may never know. ^_~

Laura (who thinks Remus/Sirius would be sweet together, and it's 
really too bad that one of them is dead.)

P.S.  Speaking of...Did you know that pyronecrobestiality is against 
the law in California?  Presumably, it had to have been a problem at 
one point. (eek)