glumshoe:

JK Rowling: “Remus Lupin is a heavily gay-coded character. I use lycanthropy as a loose metaphor for HIV. But he’s NOT gay. I’m gonna hurriedly pair him off with one of the only other single adult women to demonstrate that.”

JK Rowling: [pairs him off with the one woman capable of effortless shape-shifting, who is likely to have an extremely fluid concept and expression of gender and sexuality]

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