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[doggedly]

Yeah, but what d'you mean a sex thing, what could I have thought of that has to do with-- Look, you're the one dating the shapeyshifter, maybe I shouldn't be surprised that you're all right with people just slipping from--

What sex thing, that's a weird conclusion to jump to.

[theshabbiestofmen]

[He huffs an irritated sigh.]

I don't know. What the hell were you thinking of, then?

[doggedly]

Well--

[Remus you have introduced far more distracting and worrying thoughts. So this takes a second.]

--Well, what if--what if we get a girl James!

[theshabbiestofmen]

[. . . gross. That's his first thought, gross, which is quite unkind.]

Then we'll just treat him the same as we always have.

[doggedly]

Her!

[And there is so much anguish loaded into that one word. Full on hand-wringing face-pulling hair-ripping-out sackcloth-wearing anguish.]

[theshabbiestofmen]

Sirius . . .

[doggedly]

What.

brb apping in girl james

[theshabbiestofmen]

Please don't get hysterical. Or I'll suspect you've become a girl yourself.

ok so sirius will be dying a slow and painful death hope that's okay

[doggedly]

I'm not-- a girl? You're actually calling me-- oh, I'm sorry we can't all be perfectly calm and stoic, Remus, but some of us get a bit upset when we realise that our best mate could show up as a girl! Entirely without warning, just-- suddenly, tits! I'm sorry if that's somehow weird to some of us! I'll try very hard to be more like you.

yeah no that's fine just as long as he doesn't mind Jamie hitting on him

[theshabbiestofmen]

Sirius, he's not even here, let alone as a girl-- and don't be crude about it, please. Now, can you count on one hand how many people have shown up as the wrong gender? Yes, I think you can. So getting hysterical about James appearing as a girl isn't just stupid, it's utterly pointless.

OH MY GOD

[doggedly]

I don't know what they were at home! They might all be the wrong genders, we might be the only ones properly what we're meant to be.

And I am not getting hysterical, I'm just-- concerned.

[theshabbiestofmen]

Do you really think that, Sirius? Really?

[doggedly]

It's a possibility!

[theshabbiestofmen]

Erica? You think Erica was a boy? Or Alayne?

[doggedly]

No! No, I just--

Oh, shut up, Remus.

[theshabbiestofmen]

You're being idiotic.

[doggedly]

I am not! What pissed in your pumpkin juice today?

[theshabbiestofmen]

[He scowls at nothing and doesn't answer for a few seconds.]

You are, in fact. What brought this on, then?

[doggedly]

Oh, very nice. I came to you to ask you questions and this is how you treat me? Something's got you in a shit mood.

Anyway, I was talking to this guy, and he said the thing about the changing genders. Mental.

[theshabbiestofmen]

What guy?

[doggedly]

I dunno! Some guy! He was writing things about people having gone home, and then there at the end he just casually dropped in the bit about different genders, as if it was nothing.

[theshabbiestofmen]

Did you ask him if he used to be a girl?

[doggedly]

No, he wasn't talking about himself--he was talking about someone he knows, who came back as a girl. Anyway, how the hell would I ask him that--oh hullo were you once a girl--

[theshabbiestofmen]

Well, it's not precisely coming out of nowhere, is it?

[doggedly]

You can't just ask someone if they were once a girl, Remus.