SHIP - SB/RL

[Lynete]

No: HPFGUIDX 131380

My 2 cents on the discussion. Let me begin by saying I'm a straigt, 
happily married woman of middle-age and while I've been friends with 
lesbians I've never known that any men in my circle of friends and 
acquaintances are gay. My husband and I really disaggree about this 
ship, too. 

I had a sort of frisson about SB/RL in PoA, but it wasn't the hug, it 
was the way Remus reacted to Harry when he brought Sirius up,
dropping 
his briefcase, asking "Do you really think anyone diserves that?"
about 
up the Dementor's Kiss. Snape's badgering about Remus letting Sirius
in 
the castle. 

Then at the end of GoF there was the "Lay low at Lupin's" remark of 
Dumbledore's.

Then in OotP, it was the Grimmald Place scenes. Lupin stares at
Sirius 
for 40 lines of text at one point! And Remus is definitely the only
one 
who can control Sirius: "Molly, be quiet! Sirius, sit down!"(quote
from 
memory) Oh boy, does Sirius look whipped there. Remus and Sirius
really 
get along a lot like Molly and Arthur do: as a couple. 

I almost choked in the theatre at the 'old married couple" comment,
and 
I wondered if Lupin's reference to "people like me teaching their 
children" wasn't an indirect refernce to parental homophobia. If it's 
true, poor Remus is probably doubly outcast.

Perhaps as my husband suggests I'm reading too much into this. I find 
nothing incongurous in that JKR might address prejudice against 
homosexuals in an indirect manner in light of her rejection of other 
froms of societal prejudice. 

So what do I want out of HBP? Perhaps a talk between Harry and Remus, 
where Remus says, "Of course I miss him, Harry. Although James was my 
friend, I was closer to Sirius than to anyone else."