Road Trip Wednesday! - Favorite Couple

Greetings!

How long has it been since I've done Road Trip Wednesday? I can't remember either. Let's fix that.

This week's topic is: "Who are your favorite literary couples? You know -- the ones you like by themselves, but LOVE together!"


Off the top of my head? I don't know. Probably Tonks and Lupin from Harry Potter. They're only my favorite pairing in the history of anything. Let me tell you why.


Lupin is pretty much my favorite character in the whole Harry Potter series. The only time in the whole series is in Chapter 11 of Deathly Hallows which broke my heart. But other than that, Remus is the bees knees. He's smart, probably funny (you don't really see Remus cracking jokes but you can just tell he is), and he's a genuinely nice person. But he's human too. He dislikes people like Umbridge, he holds grudges against people like Snape who, even as an adult, was an asshole to him, but is able to still treat him like a person. And of course, he's able to love.


Ah, love.


He loves Tonks, who is, by far, the best person ever. I mean, wouldn't you love to change your appearance at will? And on top of that, she's clumsy, a Hufflepuff and still manages to go out and kick some serious death eater butt as an auror. How many Hufflepuffs do that? Not many, I'm assuming. And yet, despite being this young, multi-talented, kind of out there girl, she loves Remus, a werewolf, slightly older, probably not the best looking guy around and he probably makes her feel stupid sometimes when talks [in a good way, like sometimes when my boyfriend talks about math (which I hate) and he just goes on and on about it, I don't have a clue what he's talking about, but the fact that he knows SO much about it is pretty hot].


The story of how they came to fall in love with each other is something that can only be guessed at or read in fanfiction, but it must've been magical. Unrequited love is a bitch. You can just imagine it, he tells her he loves her, but because of his condition they can't be together, but her love for him runs so deep that she won't give up and she can't let go and it causes her body to STOP FUNCTIONING PROPERLY.


Also, she got really weepy, all of the time, which I did find slightly annoying. But what I found even more annoying is that the weepiness could've been avoided if Lupin had simply given into his feelings because he really had no legit reason that anyone could see for denying himself love. All you need is love, damn it. He could say that she deserved someone younger or better looking or with more money but at the end of the day, what she deserved was love, which was all anyone of us deserves.


But then , they got together and all was well (until the end of book seven--I still cry myself to sleep at night over what happened to them).


Tonks and Remus aren't the worlds most fantastic couple, no, but for some reason, their struggle together tugs on my heart strings more so than anyone else's. Maybe it's just because they're both my favorite and I'm elated that my two favorites are together. But They are together and that makes me really, really, really, happy.


And oh, the fanfiction you can write about it.


Fare thee well,
April <3