some sirius hinting... yay puns!

[huntergreen_3]

No: HPFGUIDX 110179

>>>Justine:
Jo was the one who brought up marriage... why? <snip> unless his big
rebellion was experimenting with homosexuality or just being gay,
period, then this sounds like a "Sirius and Remus were not lovers"
answer. It's more a "Sirius was too busy fighting the forces with
whom his family agreed to get married" or "Sirius was too busy being
a manslut to get married." I like them both. :-D<<<

Stefanie:
>>...or Sirius was rebelling against an arranged marriage? With his
family...it doesn't seem terribly out of line with such pureblood
mania as has been shown. However, by 6th year, he's been burned off
the tapestry; at the point of Harry's christening it seems like he
wouldn't be bound by a family decision anyway. (Now why can't people
ask questions about Wizarding traditions like that instead of
QUESTIONS THAT ARE ASKED ALREADY ON JKR'S WEBSITE </rant>) Heh.
Manslut Sirius. Heheh.<<

HunterGreen (also giggling at 'manslut Sirius'):
I like the idea that pureblood familes have arranged marriages, 
especially in cases like the Blacks or the Malfoys where marrying an 
obscure pureblood is VERY important (makes me wonder about Draco, 
perhaps him and Pansey Parkinson...). However, there's nothing in the 
books to support that, and since he was no longer considered a member 
of the Black clan by then, I doubt thats what he was rebelling 
against. Sirius was pretty young at that point, only early 20's, he 
may have just been 'playing the field' (however, I do like the idea 
of a Remus/Sirius ship, it seems to fit, although I don't know why, 
and I usually never agree with suggestions like that). He may not 
have had time to date at all, as JKR hints at. James already knew who 
he wanted, and was going after her in school, I think Sirius and 
Remus never had that serious of a relationship, and Peter, well, we 
can all guess what the girls thought of him.


Stefanie wrote:
>>why is Peter the only marauder we know anything about during the 
years between MWPP/L/S graduation and 10/31/81? Remus, Sirius, and 
James are complete mysteries during that period, and, as you 
mentioned Remus is after. JKR also hinted in another answer that we'd 
know everything we needed to know about MWPP by the end of the 
series, I do hope there's some "lupine limbo" information in that 
promise!<<

HunterGreen:
I doubt the info she gives in the next two books will be anywhere 
close to the amount of backstory some fans (myself included) want. I 
think what she meant was that we'd have the amount we'd need *for the 
story*, so it probably means necessary information only. The dating 
habits of Sirius and Lupin may not be included in that. Between their 
graduation, and Voldemort's fall, Lupin, Sirius and James were 
probably all joining the order and working for Dumbledore. I guess 
that would be enough to fill their time, although I wonder what James 
and Lily did for money. Sirius had inheritence, Lupin probably was 
living with his parents or with either James or Sirius (or perhaps he 
managed to find work more easily then), James had to get all that 
money from somewhere. I wonder if he had inheritence too?

What I am quite a bit curious about, is what Lupin was up to between 
Voldemort's fall and PoA, and again what he's doing during GoF. He's 
absent. He doesn't even come forward to meet Harry before he's hired 
as a professor (I know *I* would be curious to see what my late best 
friend's son looked like). 

>>Stefanie
Who refuses to believe that there are so many Wizarding bachelors
out there: "The world must be peopled!" (Benedick, Much Ado About
Nothing)<<

Not to mention the number of families with only one child. Perhaps 
its just because its simplier to write, but the only siblings that we 
know of are the Weasleys, the Creeveys, the Blacks, the Evans' the 
Dumbledores and the Patils (who only sort of count because the girls 
are twins). This leaves us with many, many, only children. With 
wizarding families being so far apart, you'd expect less people to 
have only one child because their kid would have no one to play with 
(unless you want to bother with playdates with floo powder and all 
that). 
If you factor in the pureblood mania it makes even less sense. Why 
did Lucius and Narcissa only have one child? Why did Sirius' parents 
only have two? I'd imagine with each generation purebloods become a 
little rarer, so that's all the more reason for a pureblood union to 
have at *least* two kids. I'm sure there's some sort of "magical 
birth control", which results in fewer 'accidents', but those sort of 
things have been around in the muggle world for several generations 
now, and there are still plenty of people who choose to have more 
than one child. Its just a little strange to me.