SHIP: Sirius/Remus

[Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)]

No: HPFGUIDX 110252

Justine wrote in
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/110168 : 

<< but this seems to be the first implication from Jo, herself, that
Sirius fancies women; (snip), 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 >>

That is not what it says to me, but I've always thought that Sirius
was quite the ladykiller (manslut, I guess, in your words) while he
and Remus were lovers in the good old days of Voldemort Reign of
Terror I.

Lissa wrote in
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/110200 :

<< There's a couple things that always annoy me about R/S fanfiction.
Why does everyone assume that James knew they were together, if they
were? Why does everyone always assume they were committed and
acknowledged they were in love? It's VERY possible that they were
fooling around and not telling everyone because, frankly, it was
private. I mean, no offense to the wonderful men on our list at all,
but most guys do NOT jump into commitments as early as James did! >>

I agree with just about everything in your post -- I already posted my
repetition of your much better statement that it is not implausible
that so many wizards are bachelors when they're 21 -- and I very much
agree that Sirius and Remus would have kept their 'extra' relationship
secret. It was for all practical purposes still the 1970s, even for us
advanced Muggles!

I imagine that Remus was living with Sirius, in what everyone else
thought was a 'roommate' situation, because Sirius had a place of his
own and Remus had very little money and very little paid work. I even
kind of wonder if 'Lupin's place' (as in 'lie low at Lupin's' at the
end of GoF) was originally Sirius's place of his own, and he willed it
to Remus's even before Harry was born, as who else did he have whom to
bequeath?

As for the relationship ... dogs are promiscuous, but wolves mate for
life. I imagine that, in those days, Sirius viewed it as 'fooling
around' with a friend, and Remus viewed it as True Love, but Remus
would never have been the first to say so: too much fear of being
rebuffed.

I imagine a very angsty period late in the search for "who is LV's
spy?", when Sirius has somehow got a notion that it might be Remus,
but tries very hard (and rather unsuccessfully) to act normal to avoid
letting Remus know he suspects him, and Remus worries about why Sirius
is acting so strange. After the All Saints' Eve/Day events, Remus
would have looked back and figured that Sirius had been being
secretive of his plan to betray the Potters.