SHIP: Sirius/Remus

[Dicentra spectabilis]

No: HPFGUIDX 110674

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)"
<catlady at w...> wrote:

> 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 know that it's common to cite the canid connection between the wolf
and the dog as a suggestion that the two were or could have been
sexually involved.

But this is the thing: Sirius's animagus form is a dog because it
corresponds with his personality and character traits.  

But Remus's werewolf form is NOT an animagus form. He doesn't
transform into a werewolf because it corresponds to his nature -- he
had the CURSE thrust upon him. Werewolves are also not really wolves,
not really canines, not really the ancestors of the domestic dog. 
They don't possess the nature of a real wolf, just the outward form.  

Furthermore, Remus as human is not more wolf-like than he would have
been sans the bite. Is there any canon evidence to show that he's
wolf-like as a human? Sirius has a dog-like bark, the shaggy black
hair, and the protector-of-the-pack instincts in real life. Remus
isn't described in wolf-like terms at all.  It doesn't appear that his
werewolf form bleeds into his human personality the way Sirius's dog
form seems to.

I don't know what form Remus's animagus would take (I doubt he'd
trouble himself to learn the charm), but wolf probably isn't it.

--Dicentra