mary_j_59

I personally believe that the reason she paired off Tonks and Lupin, two of the least compatible characters in the series, was because a lot of fans and critics were reading them as queer, and Lupin's condition as a metaphor for being HIV+. Having the Riot Grrl and the guy with the mysterious wasting disease into loving, martyred parents was a neat way of shutting down the critics cold, or so she must have thought.