All about Lupin

[Juli]

No: HPFGUIDX 121819


 
Tonks wrote:
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>>Lupin is a very compassionate, caring person. He is
male and males in that society (as in ours until a
few years ago) did not touch each other. Also not
touching is a very English thing to do. So Lupin wants
to comfort Harry, but the Macho code comes in. Lupin
is not gay, and not a pedophile!!! And he is not evil.
There is not even one hint of his being an evil person
in the books. I certainly never read it that way. As
to the other media, any reference to *people like me* 
is to werewolves, nothing more. I think too many
people today, in the U.S. (I don't know about other
countries) read far too much into things and see *gay*
everywhere. I can't even go places with my best female
friend without some young person asking if she is my
lover. <<


Juli now:
I agree 100% with you Tonks, I've read all five books
about a million times and I never thought of Remus as
gay, much less a pedophile. The scene I think you're
talking about is during the Patronus class, right? I
always believed that Remus just didn't Harry to know
how much he cared for James, that's just my opinion. 

Juli