romuluswasadick

[romuluswasadick]

sometimes ppl in this fandom headcanon remus as being from south wales and that’s great but it’s so fucking funny when people do that, and talk about him having a welsh accent and stuff, and make an effort to put in welsh phrases and bits of welsh culture.........and then turn around and make him polite and bookish and middle class and apolitical

like mf. he’s from SOUTH WALES in the SEVENTIES. take it from a welsh person in south wales NOW, most of us don’t have much of anything. we’re poorer and tireder and more working-class than the english, more likely to live in poverty, less likely to leave our country. the seventies were REALLY politically turbulent in wales, esp in the south and the valleys. chances are as a halfblood, half his family would’ve been miners or port workers or fishermen, and he wouldve grown up in an underfunded school that didn’t allow the kids to speak welsh, so he would’ve never learned it. and he would call his mother ‘mam’ and get all his grammar wrong and have an inferiority complex about o-level results and stuff, and feel stupid and embarrassed about his culture and try to hide his accent, and get in arguments with english muggleborns in the common room about workers’ rights

like, give me rough little miner’s son remus with a chip on his shoulder who’s never had two quid to rub together, leaving wales for the first time in his life on the train from bridgend station to paddington and getting lost in london on his way to king’s cross. gimme a mean little bugger who takes more than he can eat. give me a remus who doesn’t really know much about politics but he can regale you with stories of miner’s strikes and union conflicts for hours. give me remus hitting fifteen and realising he can actually sit down and learn to speak welsh once he’s done his OWLs and learning in the summer before sixth year. give me a remus who is learning to get in contact with his culture for the first time and it sort of sucks but he does it anyway yknow?

tldr ‘remus lupin is from south wales and speaks welsh and has a welsh accent in the 1970s’ and ‘remus lupin has no cultural baggage and doesn’t have a strained relationship with his nationality at all, and is middle class and complies to middle class decorum’ cannot coexist