Sirius & Remus (replies to many posts)

[Tonks]

No: HPFGUIDX 131341

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Juli <jlnbtr at y...> wrote:
> I'm sorry, but I think you got the idea wrong, I have
> absolutely nothing against homosexual people, in fact
> a very good friend of mine is gay, and I love him for
> everything he is. (Snip) As a straight woman in this world I like
to dream about characters in books, and I fell in *love* with
> Sirius since the Shrinking Shack scene at PoA, so
> personally it would be a huge disapointment if he
> turned out to be gay because then he'd be out of
> reach. Of course there can be homosexuals in JKR's
> world, I have no problem with that, but I just don't
> want it to be Sirius or Lupin.

Tonks:
I agree with everything that Juli says here. And I would like to add
this: Remember when Sirius tells Harry that the world isn't divided
into DE and everyone else or something like that. Well the world,
WW or otherwise, isn't divided into those in a *relationship*, or
looking for a *relationship*, and the dead. I know a lot of folks
on this list are young and that tends to be where you mind is when
you are young. You are in the phase of life where you are looking
for the perfect relationship, your life partner, paring of whatever
variety, but that is not how the whole rest of the world lives.
Believe it or not, many people the world over live perfectly
satisfactory and productive lives with out a sex partner of whatever
persuasion. And Remus and Lupin are in (what) their late 30's
early 40's. Maybe *looking for love* is not uppermost on their
mind. I don't think that the sexual or romantic paring is a big
thing in the books and it is not a slight to homosexuals if they are
not represented. It is JKR's books after all, and children's books
at that, and she can do whatever she wants. And fans can read
whatever they want into it for that matter, even if it was not put
there by the author. I choose to see a few of the characters as part
of the group that has not yet *come out of the closet* and that
group are those who are celibate.

Ah, except for Lupin, of course. ;-) Hey Juli maybe we can double
date. ;-)

Tonks_op