It's only fanon that makes Sirius the "straight" one, right? I don't have the books with me to check, but the only scene I can recall that touches upon his romantic interests is the one in OotP where he's too focused on his friends to notice the girl crushing on him, which isn't exactly a ringing endorsement of his heterosexuality.
If I'm right about that, then it would appear that people are making a rather ridiculous assumption based upon Sirius's personality and modern gay stereotypes. This isn't to say that all of the stories that portray him as more straight--or more confused--than, say, Remus are wrong; many of them are brilliant and believably characterized and I love them. But I also love the idea of Sirius being unapologetically gay as a student at Hogwarts.
I'm thinking there ought to be an icon of Sirius with the text "Not all pansies are shrinking violets" or something similar, though that's rather beyond my artistic capabilities at this point. Someday, maybe.
If I'm right about that, then it would appear that people are making a rather ridiculous assumption based upon Sirius's personality and modern gay stereotypes. This isn't to say that all of the stories that portray him as more straight--or more confused--than, say, Remus are wrong; many of them are brilliant and believably characterized and I love them. But I also love the idea of Sirius being unapologetically gay as a student at Hogwarts.
I'm thinking there ought to be an icon of Sirius with the text "Not all pansies are shrinking violets" or something similar, though that's rather beyond my artistic capabilities at this point. Someday, maybe.
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somewhat relatedly, though, i think there's a whole case to be made for sirius being sort of majorly stunted in the romantic area. the only thing you really see of him in ootp is what you mentioned before, and i think that's sort of normal teenage boy behavior, but he really wasn't that far out of high school (just a couple years, right?) when he went to prison, and then he spent the next thirteen years cut off from, well, everything. i think a lot of the way sirius is characterized in the books stems from some arrested development (and this, of course can lead to some pretty awful fanon and caricature-type behavior).
all the things he does post-break-out sort of play into this, the way he's so intent on protecting harry, his continued close relationship with remus (i could write a little essay about their one true love here, but i'll just assume you've heard it all before). i really like the idea of sirius being this really sort of fucked-up thirty-five year old who doesn't really know how to be anything other than seventeen, but it's got to be done carefully, yeah?
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1.yes, it's all fanon. You are free to choose whether you think Sirius is straight, gay, bi, only interested in Remus, there's honestly no textual support except the bit in OotP where he doesn't notice the girl.
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