some starting thoughts about my remus and the rest of the marauders in general.
i want to make something clear with my remus. he loves the marauders, they are his best friends. remus i think was a friendly person and there was a lot of people he was friendly with but also remus wasn’t someone to let people in easily and understandably so. beyond the marauders remus wasn’t close to anyone one. like i think he and someone like lily where friend and remus would think of her as such but before she started like going out with james there was still a huge wall between them. i think even for a long like untill they went out of school remus would still be slightly closed up to lily.
remus couldn’t afford to just trust anyone and even if he did he was so use to always needing to be on guard that he just had a hard time opening up to people beyond his small group...because why would he even need to? remus had all he needed in that group.
my idea of remus was that he deeply protective of his friends and you wouldn’t really see him actually making mean comments about them without them there. he thought the world of them and was just so proud and often star stuck over just how good his friends where. not saying he wouldn’t criticize them but he would never do that in public.
if someone tried to say something snarky or talked shit about his friends to him, remus would i think at times would hold back the want to punch them in the face or leave the conversation completely but he also was raised right and also having enough impulse control to hold those ideas back... what would happen is just the mood would just instantly drop. like any friendliness remus might have had in the moment would just disappear and he would become very cold. like even if they might be kidding... he also, like i think all of them were, was just extremely protective of the others. my remus i think would also be far more snarky in his own comments towards someone. like he wouldn’t hold back if you went at them and would make snarky comments if you gave him the chance and opening for it.
i think remus was better at holding back then like what my ideas of james or sirius where when it came to their protectiveness but he would 100% raise his wand at people. like he was not a push over and remus would push back when it came to certain things like muggle rights or his friends. it was just he also didn’t really need to do it as much as for me either sirius and james or both filled that role.
