[HPforGrownups] Re: SHIP: Remus/Tonks, and RL experiences

[Madam Marozi]

No: HPFGUIDX 136395


Del:

> yet he keeps giving stupid reasons why they
> shouldn't be together. 


Marozi:

See, I don't think his reasons are all that stupid. 
The man has real problems, and the Awesome Power of
Her Great, Great Lurve is not going to make it all go
away.  One, he is acutely depressed, and not just
about her.  The first we see of him in HBP, he comes
to Harry's first-ever birthday party and can't talk
about anything but death and destruction.  He is not
in a healthy state of mind at the moment.

Two, I think he *is* too old for her.  He's my age,
and she's my students' age, and the very thought makes
me shudder.  Age difference is not just a number.  In
terms of maturity and life experience, he is several
lifetimes too old for a girly-grrl candy raver.  

Three, I know she says she's ready for the werewolf
thing, but I just don't believe she knows what she's
talking about.  The whole squicky werewolf patronus
thing just made me say, "Girl, that wolf is NOT going
to protect you.  It's going to bite you if it can." 
If I were Lupin, I would run like the wind on the
basis of that alone.  I think the HIV metaphor is very
appropriate here.  You may still want to be with the
person, but "I don't care!" is just not a valid
response.  You had BETTER care, because it is actually
a pretty big damned deal.  


Susan McGee:


> I wonder if she did see all the
> speculation about 
> Remus and Sirius and decided to shut it down
> herself? 

Marozi:

Well, I don't know, but I have to say, If de-gaying
Lupin was the intention, then showing him languishing
to torch songs was probably not the best way to
accomplish it.  That is without doubt the most
old-school camp thing that has ever happened in a
Harry Potter book, Snape in drag NOT excluded. 
Really, he wouldn't be the first gay man to get
involved with a woman, but torch songs?  Hnh.  

Anyway, with Tonks's powers, she could bend him over
the back of a chair without even needing the
attachments.  So maybe the sex will keep them
together, in spite of the fact that he is clearly TOO
OLD for her.  


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