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birdsofshore) wrote2013-06-04 06:58 pm
birdsofshore) wrote2013-06-04 06:58 pm
Hold me while I show you my Lupin feels
I feel like I'm spamming everyone this week, but I need to discuss my overwhelming feels for Remus Lupin. I've been reading Prisoner of Azkaban with my eldest son for a while now (we only get 10 or 15 mins most nights without his brothers, but I love sharing it with him) and I've enjoyed it an awful lot more than I did on the times I've read it alone. I remember a discussion recently on ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
hp_canon_love about what was your favourite book, and LOADS of people picked POA. I was really surprised, as I actively disliked a lot of things about it.
For instance: Dementors *huge shudder*. They are just WAY TOO SCARY after what's at heart been quite a jolly children's series up til then. They really jarred with me the first time I read POA (read: scared the wiggins out of me), and on rereads I still find them too sinister, depressing and basically about the worst thing I can imagine. And to have 13-year-old Harry having to listen to the sounds of his mother dying every time they come close - UGH. 13 is just nothing; he's so young. I find it all very upsetting.
However, my son J loves it all, doesn't give a shit about the Dementors, and thinks Sirius Black is the best thing since sliced bread (although you'll be pleased to hear Lucius Malfoy is still his favourite :DD). That's my other problem with POA - I don't care that much about Sirius - at least not as much as I am meant to, I don't think. BUT. LUPIN, OMG. He's INCREDIBLE.
I've always liked Lupin, I mean, obviously, he's a very likeable character, but I think I underestimated him until now. He is just SO DECENT. This is a quality that's maybe not that sexy until you are in your 40s. I know I've always been more about the bad boys. But now, suddenly, I've got 3 kids who I need plenty of help supporting, and I'm not very attractive or fertile any more, and my sexual organs are going "HELLOOOOO NICE DECENT MEN, you look good to me. You don't seem like you'll run off just because I've got a saggy arse and the baby's keeping us awake every night.". Suddenly decent men are really what it's all about. (although Lupin DOES run off, silly git, but we'll pass over that for now. At least he comes back).
Lupin is such a fabulous teacher, and he's so saucily laidback and in control of everything. I mean, he takes on the Boggart in DADA, because he thinks Harry's Boggart is going to be Lord Voldemort and freak everyone out. The Boggart, of course, turns into the moon in front of the whole class, thereby giving the biggest clue yet that Lupin's a werewolf, and presumably making him feel quite frightened, and yet he just says 'Riddikulus' "almost lazily." ALMOST LAZILY. Yowzers. Basically I want to throw my knickers at him.
Today, my son and I just got to the Shrieking Shack, and it's so exciting and Lupin is a complete and utter BAMF. But all wrapped up in a cardigan-wearing, nice-decent-bloke package. First of all, he gets it virtually straight away when Sirius says Pettigrew has been hiding as Scabbers. He thought he was coming to save Harry and co. from Black, the evil murderer, but when he sees Pettigrew on the map and finds out he's been a rat for twelve years, he takes about three seconds and then goes "ah, so.... Sirius, you changed places as Secret Keeper and didn't tell me? Pettigrew killed James and Lily and faked his own death? You're completely innocent and you've come to rescue Harry from Pettigrew? Right then, I'll just work that all out without any explanation, and completely take it in my stride, without breaking a sweat."
THEN, when everyone is screaming and threatening to kill each other and getting completely over-excited, Lupin is doing things like saying "Certainly, Hermione," courteously and "Not at all, Padfoot, old friend," casually. I love that JKR abuses adverbs almost as much as me, and what delightful adverbs they are. Everyone else is frothing and capslocking like mad, and Lupin is standing there ROLLING UP HIS SLEEVES. This is what awesomeness looks like, and my underwear just flew off all by itself.
So, is Lupin this incredible in all the other books? How did I miss this?
hp_canon_love about what was your favourite book, and LOADS of people picked POA. I was really surprised, as I actively disliked a lot of things about it.For instance: Dementors *huge shudder*. They are just WAY TOO SCARY after what's at heart been quite a jolly children's series up til then. They really jarred with me the first time I read POA (read: scared the wiggins out of me), and on rereads I still find them too sinister, depressing and basically about the worst thing I can imagine. And to have 13-year-old Harry having to listen to the sounds of his mother dying every time they come close - UGH. 13 is just nothing; he's so young. I find it all very upsetting.
However, my son J loves it all, doesn't give a shit about the Dementors, and thinks Sirius Black is the best thing since sliced bread (although you'll be pleased to hear Lucius Malfoy is still his favourite :DD). That's my other problem with POA - I don't care that much about Sirius - at least not as much as I am meant to, I don't think. BUT. LUPIN, OMG. He's INCREDIBLE.
I've always liked Lupin, I mean, obviously, he's a very likeable character, but I think I underestimated him until now. He is just SO DECENT. This is a quality that's maybe not that sexy until you are in your 40s. I know I've always been more about the bad boys. But now, suddenly, I've got 3 kids who I need plenty of help supporting, and I'm not very attractive or fertile any more, and my sexual organs are going "HELLOOOOO NICE DECENT MEN, you look good to me. You don't seem like you'll run off just because I've got a saggy arse and the baby's keeping us awake every night.". Suddenly decent men are really what it's all about. (although Lupin DOES run off, silly git, but we'll pass over that for now. At least he comes back).
Lupin is such a fabulous teacher, and he's so saucily laidback and in control of everything. I mean, he takes on the Boggart in DADA, because he thinks Harry's Boggart is going to be Lord Voldemort and freak everyone out. The Boggart, of course, turns into the moon in front of the whole class, thereby giving the biggest clue yet that Lupin's a werewolf, and presumably making him feel quite frightened, and yet he just says 'Riddikulus' "almost lazily." ALMOST LAZILY. Yowzers. Basically I want to throw my knickers at him.
Today, my son and I just got to the Shrieking Shack, and it's so exciting and Lupin is a complete and utter BAMF. But all wrapped up in a cardigan-wearing, nice-decent-bloke package. First of all, he gets it virtually straight away when Sirius says Pettigrew has been hiding as Scabbers. He thought he was coming to save Harry and co. from Black, the evil murderer, but when he sees Pettigrew on the map and finds out he's been a rat for twelve years, he takes about three seconds and then goes "ah, so.... Sirius, you changed places as Secret Keeper and didn't tell me? Pettigrew killed James and Lily and faked his own death? You're completely innocent and you've come to rescue Harry from Pettigrew? Right then, I'll just work that all out without any explanation, and completely take it in my stride, without breaking a sweat."
THEN, when everyone is screaming and threatening to kill each other and getting completely over-excited, Lupin is doing things like saying "Certainly, Hermione," courteously and "Not at all, Padfoot, old friend," casually. I love that JKR abuses adverbs almost as much as me, and what delightful adverbs they are. Everyone else is frothing and capslocking like mad, and Lupin is standing there ROLLING UP HIS SLEEVES. This is what awesomeness looks like, and my underwear just flew off all by itself.
So, is Lupin this incredible in all the other books? How did I miss this?
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Prisoner of Azkaban has always been my favourite book, though I should probably reread the series soon. I think it was the steadily-growing background darkness (as well as engaging characters) that really hooked me in to the series in the first place. I was about sixteen or so when I read the first three for the first time (my grandad gave them to me and said if I liked them he'd buy me the rest of the series, which he duly did as each one came out), and the other books I was reading at the time included things like A Clockwork Orange and Nineteen Eighty-Four, so Potter barely registered as mild peril, to be honest. It was Goblet of Fire and Cedric's death that made me think JKR might have a bit of steel to her - killing off an innocent (though not a well-loved character) was a bit more meaty.
Anyway, so, yes, Sirius has always been my Potter fantasy guy, and PoA is his book - cool! But I agree, Remus is completely wonderful and I like him very much. I think I do go for the nice guy outside of fantasies - my husband is FAR more Remus than Sirius. Although he doesn't wear cardigans. Yet.
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