That's how I have been taking it, too. I never got the impression that Rowling was giggling and writing in were!kink subtext or anything close into the character of Remus (or anyone else, for that matter). I think she's intelligent enough to see the similarities between the lycanthopy and homosexuality narratives, but used the analogy as a characterization device, not as a neon pointing sign and a wink-nudge joke for the big kids.
I have always taken the jokes to be just as you said--facaetious, good-natured slef-deprecation, etc. And I'm sorry, as much as I see subtext splashed all over the SW Prequal like buckets of...paint, I highly doubt ol' Georgie was thinking the same things as I do.
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Date: 2005-07-27 06:38 pm (UTC)I have always taken the jokes to be just as you said--facaetious, good-natured slef-deprecation, etc. And I'm sorry, as much as I see subtext splashed all over the SW Prequal like buckets of...paint, I highly doubt ol' Georgie was thinking the same things as I do.