Sirius & Remus (replies to many posts)

[susanmcgee48176]

No: HPFGUIDX 131335

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Juli <jlnbtr at y...> wrote:
> 
> 
> --- Tonks <tonks_op at y...> wrote:
> 
> > Been biting my tongue on this one, but I can't stand
> > it a minute 
> > longer. I suppose that it is just a sign of the
> > times, but I am really 
> > sick of people thinking that because two people of
> > the same sex are 
> > best friends, and like an old married couple, that
> > they have to be 
> > homosexual.  I have had young people ask me when I
> > take my best friend 
> > somewhere if she is my mother or my lover. NO, she
> > is my *friend* and I 
> > am straight. Geech
  I think that we have gone too
> > far in the other 
> > direction. Sometimes people are friends. Can't two
> > people be friends 
> > anymore!? Does everything have to be sexual?  I
> > think that Remus and 
> > Lupin are just that, friends.  Which is a deeper
> > bond than lover, if 
> > you ask me. A lover can leave, a real friend never
> > does.
> 
> Juli (replies to many posts)
> 
> I agree with you 110% Tonks, and after reading all the
> posts about people who think they may be gay, and I
> haven't read any argument that may persuade me into
> thinking otherwise... Shippers are just basing their
> theories on scenes that are perfectly straight
> (AFAIK), I mean, they could easily be scenes between
> me and my best friends, either my best girl-friend
> (and we're not gay), or my best guy-friend (and we're
> not a couple). As Tonk says the bonds between two
> friends is much deeper than a lovers'. Let's consider
> that Remus and Sirius have known each other for about
> 20 years, they sure are closed. Remember that Sirius
> (& co) even became animagi just to keep Remus company
> while the full moon, if it isn't true friendship I
> don't know what is. Unless Jo shows us in a more
> explicit way their "relationship", I'm sticking to the
> Just Friends Theory.
> 
> And just to show a bit of canon from Jo's website
> (News- J K Rowling at the Edinburgh Book Festival)
> 
> "Does Harry have a godmother? If so, will she make an
> appearance in future books?
> 
> No, he doesn't. I have thought this through. If Sirius
> had married
 Sirius was too busy being a big rebel to
> get married. When Harry was born, it was at the very
> height of Voldemort fever last time so his christening
> was a very hurried, quiet affair with just Sirius,
> just the best friend. At that point it looked as if
> the Potters would have to go into hiding so obviously
> they could not do the big christening thing and invite
> lots of people. Sirius is the only one, unfortunately.
> I have got to be careful what I say there, haven't I?"
> 
> Juli
> 

OF COURSE TWO PEOPLE can be friends and affectionate and love each 
other forever, without being lovers...but can't you see that by 
rejecting the idea that ANY INDIVIDUAL in the HP universe might be 
gay, that you are affirming the dominant view of the universe? That 
EVERYONE must be heterosexual? That by suggesting that someone might 
be gay or lesbian that you are insulting or demeaning them?

Susan




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