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[lls_mutant]

Is it THAT hard to believe that Sirius and Remus were friends? Really? I can understand completely that a lot of people don't see a romantic relationship. Totally fine. But is it really that hard to believe they were supposed to be as close as brothers?

Sigh.

If you want to know what I'm talking about, head over to Fiction Alley Park>MWPP>Can't Remus be Bi?

Really. Sirius CAN have more friends than James.

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[ignipes.livejournal.com]

No. You're wrong. Wrong wrong wrong. Sirius was friends with James, and only James, and nobody else in the whole wide world. He was completely, totally incapable of any sort of affection for any other person. He was indifferent to Remus and Peter, he despised his brother, and he didn't even love Harry for being Harry, but for being mini!James. Honestly, Lissa, can't you read?

[lls-mutant.livejournal.com]

Nope :) Which really is a mystery as to how I manage to post on these boards at all.... (Course, I think the person in question is also a Sirius/James shipper. Which explains a lot.) Love the icon, by the way!

[ignipes.livejournal.com]

poisoninjest has a bunch of Holy Grail icons that are hilarious.

I don't really have a problem with different interpretations of the friendships and relationships in the books, but once the interpretation starts requiring more convolutions and twists than the most obvious answer...well, why? That's one of the reasons I do like R/S so much -- because it's a complicated story, but it doesn't require *any* radical interpretations of either character. It just fits, with the story as written and the characters as they are. Even with R/T in the picture now, it still fits, no acrobatics required.

But something like, "Remus and Sirius were never even friends!" makes my brain hurt. That requires a very creative reading of the text. :)

[lls-mutant.livejournal.com]

I need more icon space or something, I think. Must ponder. (Or figure out LJ a bit better.)

That's exactly what I like about R/S as well. It does fit. It's part of the reason I can't get my head around H/D. Wouldn't Harry/Ron work SO much better, if you really wanted to slash? (Not that I'm knocking people who ship H/D, especially as since most of them don't remotely care that it isn't even close to canon and have other reasons for playing with it.)

But yeah, Remus and Sirius were never friends goes up there with the theories that Ron would be a wife-beater, and evil Lupin. JKR does do the surprises, but they never require a lot of mental gymnastics. I mean- Sirius and Peter switched places and Peter was really the secret keeper. Moody was really Crouch in disguise. These surprises don't take a lot of explanation- a sentence really kind of sums it up. When people say she never does what's expected, or her hints are really subtle... no. Her hints vary to very well done to anvil sized, and she sometimes does the unexpected. That's what makes the unexpected hard to spot.

So bizarre.