#what a combo...

thank you very much for the ask, anon!

remus lupin/ron weasley

which also got a separate shoutout from another anon:

now... this is one which has really intrigued me.

i back the idea of shipping lupin with both molly and arthur weasley because it's clear in canon that he really values the emotional support they provide him - and, specifically, how this emotional support takes place in a domestic context alongside other forms of comfort [such as having a decent meal for once] which lupin desperately needs.

and ron does seem to be reasonably well-suited to also providing this comfort - he mentions lupin looking underfed and ill multiple times in prisoner of azkaban, for example, and we know that he's perfectly happy expressing his affection for people by looking after them.

but it's striking - outside of prisoner of azkaban - that ron takes the same view that harry does: that lupin is considerably less important and impressive than sirius.

while sirius is still alive, ron never alludes to lupin as someone he considers an authority or someone whose respect he is interested in winning - and he never seems to consider it unusual that lupin is never in contact with harry, whereas he encourages him frequently to write to sirius.

in half-blood prince and deathly hallows this changes a bit [ron is, for example, "smug" when lupin validates his certainty that the trio weren't found by the death eaters on tottenham court road because harry still had the trace on him], but with the authority ron had previously projected onto sirius transferred to harry [ron doesn't intervene when harry is berating lupin for leaving the pregnant tonks - although he says that he didn't agree with harry's points once lupin is no longer there - whereas he does, for example. intervene when he thinks hermione is trying to undermine sirius by giving kreacher clothes].

you have, then, the thing which i think is interesting in a lot of post-marauders-era ships with lupin also present here - that lupin isn't someone that the lightning generation [with the exception of his ride-or-die stan, dean thomas] particularly care about outside of the confines of the classroom. and so i think that the fun for an author becomes trying to work out what the hook is... because it's certainly not obvious to me.

[what is obvious? that ron fancies tonks - he's so beautifully worried during the seven potters chase that lupin will deck him for touching her, and it always sends me.]

sirius black/ron weasley