the Marauders (Harry Potter (books only))
This is a difficult one, mostly because I’ve seen so many people’s different headcanons and I’m a little sad that I disagree with so many of them. I don’t dislike people just for having different headcanons, it’s just that it makes it difficult to find fanfics and such that include my headcanons, if you get what I mean. Anyways, here goes:
James Potter is the group’s comfort cishet. He uses he/him pronouns, but doesn’t care if you mess up and call him something else. He might be cishet, but he’s not completely allo! He’s both demiromantic and demisexual. He doesn’t develop crushes easily, but as proven by Lily, when he falls, he falls hard. The bigger they are, the harder they fall, or something like that. He may or may not have ADHD, but was never diagnosed as he presents it in the more inattentive type. Both him and Sirius have really good memory, which lead them to be referred to as ‘the brightest in their year’. They didn’t pay much attention in class, or study much, but they did enough that their good memory did most of the work.
Sirius Black gives off the biggest pan-energy to me. He’s probably a gender-non-conforming cis man, who let his hair grow out to annoy his parents. For the same reason, he uses he/it pronouns, not letting his pureblood family’s attempts to hurt him get to him. It actually enjoys using it/its pronouns sometimes. He is a demiromantic pansexual, and had a massive crush on Remus for years without realising it (mostly due to the homophobia of the time period, he didn’t realise what he was feeling was attraction until quite a bit later). Even once he realised what it was, he didn’t say anything to anyone, until he got out of Azkaban and finally got the courage to say something to Remus. James had noticed long before, and tried several times to subtly coax it out of him. Sirius is ADHD, much like James he is also undiagnosed, but for different reasons. While he is more outwardly hyperactive, there was no way his parents would let any doctor say there was something ‘wrong with him’. He didn’t bother getting a diagnosis later in life because he thought it’d be too much effort.
Remus Lupin is the character I probably projected on way too much, but I don’t care because everything I’ve projected onto them feels right. Remus is non-binary (amab), and uses they/he pronouns (although they prefer they/them, they’re not at all offended by people who use he/him for them all the time). They’re a bi-oriented aroace, and felt queerplatonic attraction towards Sirius, although it only really started once they got closer, and he didn’t even acknowledge it to himself until after Sirius had been put in Azkaban. When Sirius admitted his crush to them, Remus was scared to hurt his feelings by rejecting him. Sirius took Remus’s coming out pretty well, and eventually they decided to try a queerplatonic relationship. It worked out very well, and lasted until Sirius’s death, which Remus took a lot harder than he let on (very few people knew about their relationship, so they weren’t sure it was safe to show their pain as openly). I could write a whole post about Remus’s relationship with Tonks, so if you’re interested please say so. Even during my first read of HP, I felt that Remus was autistic-coded. Maybe it was too subtle for most people to see, or maybe it wasn’t there at all and I’m projecting, but to me they’re definitely autistic. They had to try a lot harder than Sirius and James when it came to getting good grades, and they most certainly did. Remus put the most effort into his studies out of all the Marauders (heck, out of all the Gryffindors in general?) and was aptly labelled a bookworm. He was almost always open to helping others study, which is how he became close friends with Lily, and her friends. They hung out more with Lily’s friend group near the beginning of their time at Hogwarts, before the Marauders really became a thing. I could write a lot more about Remus, but this is already a frighteningly long paragraph... tell me if you want more.
Peter Pettigrew is surprisingly similar to James when it comes to my queer headcanons. He’s a cis man, and uses he/him pronouns. He’s heteroromantic and greysexual. I don’t have much for him, I’ll be completely honest. I don’t think about him a lot. I just know that the way he was raised and the different people (dark wizards mostly) he interacted with influenced him a lot, and he could have gone a completely different path if circumstances had been different (like if there hadn’t been a war going on).
So that’s it, a surprisingly long post for 4 people. I might do other Harry Potter characters later, but these were some of the ones I was most opinionated about, so I wanted to put it out there.
