pauraque_bk | worlds are colliding

Another one of my co-workers has been spotted reading OotP on her lunch break. She and I were talking about it, and our supervisor (not to be confused with our Evil Boss) came in and started quizzing us on whether rumors she'd heard about the book were true (she's not a fan).... She asked us, I swear to god, whether it was true that one of the characters was gay.

Co-worker, R---, considered this for a moment, then said, "I think Tonks comes over kinda butch."

Supervisor asked who that was, and there was some amusing back-and-forth centering on our inability to pronounce "metamorphmagus". Then Supervisor asked me who I thought was gay.

I couldn't resist -- I said I thought there was kind of a gay vibe between Lupin and Black.

R--- hadn't thought of that before, but agreed.

Later in the day, I ran into A---, the other co-worker who'd previously revealed herself to be a big fan of the books. She asked if it was true that I'd told R--- that Lupin was gay. I admitted that I had. There was a pause. Then A--- suddenly says, I swear to you:

"How about Snape?"

So now I'm regularly having conversations about Harry Potter slash with my co-workers. On the clock. This has suddenly become the coolest job I've ever had.

There was one more thing, too. At another point, I went up to talk to the purchaser (who is, let me warn you, very weird). He was on the phone, so I waited. His end of the conversation was going something like, "That's terrible. ... How did it happen? ... I'm sorry. ... I'm at work, I have to go."

So he hangs up, looks at me, and explains, "Harry Potter's grandfather."

"Okay, I-- Wait, what?"

"Harry Potter's grandfather died. In the fourth book. S--- called to tell me; he was pretty upset."

"Oh! It was his godfather, not his grandfather. And it's the fifth book."

"Whatever. I'm not into it."

"Oh. Okay--"

"But man, that Hermione. Rrrrrrrow!, she's hot. I mean, if she wasn't six."

Told you he was weird.