All about Lupin

[arynnoctavia]

No: HPFGUIDX 121750



I will address some of the points I've seen brought up about Lupin 
here. First of all I deeply identify with him. We are both highly 
empathic and nurturing. Both of us have traits about us which 
alienate us from the rest of the world, (Him: werewolf, half-blood, 
poor; Me: Mental illness, Religious minority, and Homosexual)ergo, we 
are both desperate to be liked. 

I cannot see Lupin as evil for a number of reasons.  Since one of 
JKR's main points of the books(so far)is that discrimination is bad, 
I doubt she would introduce us to his plight, just to prove to us 
that the general wizarding population was right about mistrusting 
werewolves. She has said he is one of her favourite characters, would 
she say that about an evil guy?

I have seen it suggested that Lupin might be hiding Pedophiliac 
tendencies. The evidence that the person used to substantiate these 
claims seemed to me to show something else. When Harry is talking 
about his parents, Lupin appears to want to make a move to touch 
Harry's shoulder, then decides not to and pulls away. Not because 
he's attracted to him, but because he's nurturing. If your deceased 
best friend's son was confiding in you about his death, wouldn't you 
comfort him? But he was trying to keep that fact that he and James 
were friends under wraps, so such an obvious display of affection 
would be odd. 

I would love a Sirius/Remus SHIP, but I doubt JKR would ever 
explicitly go into that. I think that Black is sort of hinted at as 
being gay, as evidence by the fact that girl(s) are staring at him 
hopefully and he ignores this and pays more attention to his James. 
And Lupin's persecution could be paralleled to a man who is gay 
and/or HIV +. The only way JKR would write in a gay character would 
be if it wouldn't take focus off the main plot. But, sadly in this 
day and age if she were to write in a gay character, that would be 
the whole focus of the book. Maybe 50 years from now...

--Arynn Octavia (a Lupin Lover)