doctorabbywatson:

rereadingharry:

doctorabbywatson:

rereadingharry:

rereadingharry:

This moment always gives me a thrill — it never wears off. Look at that! And the look on their faces is totally “maybe we should have told Harry that we like to sit with our arms around eachother (etc.) before he walked in and saw us sitting like this.”

And, like, guys, the whole Order is there. They are having a meeting with the Order and Sirius just casually has his arm around Remus, like, no big deal. And he definitely does — you can see the folds in the fabric on his shoulder where the other side is smooth.

I know this is film!canon, which doesn’t really count as canon support, but it still makes me squeeful. 

Watching Ootp/f tonight and had to pause to rave about this moment. Could they be sitting any closer together?

What I love about this is that something in the book obviously made someone (be it the director, the actors, the writers, whatever) think that this is in character for Sirius and Remus in a public setting. I’m not suggesting that its evidence of their Epic Love (although okay it totally is) but what I am saying is we didn’t imagine the connection. We aren;t making this up. Other peope see something there too, even if to them it is just close friendship, you know?

YES YES, précisément. (I couldn’t even queue this; I wanted to agree right away.)

And I mean, to some degree Rowling must have felt this was natural to them too, and I think it just validates that fact that they are incredibly close and if nothing else they are best friends (because I have seen people legitimately argue that they aren’t friends, that Sirius was only there for James and Remus because he had no-one else) and in this case they are a unit and they act together.

It’s interesting that you say there are a “unit” and “act together” because a very nice gif break-down of this moment led me to state a similar thing, observing the way their hand gestures are similar, as well as nearly synchronized? Here is the relevant gif:

Of course, I do hope that this reflects JKR’s feelings about their relationship, but it’s hard to say with the films, because you never know what she has been particular about and what she hasn’t, what she has allowed to slide vs. agreed with.