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Wolfstar

Wolfstar proper noun: the ship of characters Remus Lupin and Sirius Black of the Harry Potter series.

Proper noun

Wolfstar

  1. (slang) The ship of characters Remus Lupin and Sirius Black of the Harry Potter series.
    • Remus’ lycanthropy almost always features in Wolfstar fics precisely because it is his lycanthropy that brands his sexuality as disallowable.2016, Jaquelin Elliott, “Becoming The Monster: Queer Monstrosity and the Reclamation of the Werewolf in Slash Fandom”, in Revenant, number 2, page 99
    • The continued enthusiasm demonstrated here alludes to the power SBP has within HP fandom: as Emmie describes it, SBP is “the cornerstone of the Wolfstar fandom” (“Shoebox Project”).2018, Kasandra Arthur, "We Are Having All Kinds of Fun: Fluidity in Shoebox Project", thesis submitted to the University of Waterloo, page 142

Origin of Wolfstar

From wolf + star: Remus Lupin is a werewolf; and Sirius Black is named after the dog star Sirius (Sirius Black is an animagus who turns into a dog).

Questions about Wolfstar

What does Wolfstar mean?
Wolfstar means the ship of characters Remus Lupin and Sirius Black of the Harry Potter series.
What part of speech is Wolfstar?
Wolfstar is a proper noun.

Words near Wolfstar in the dictionary

  1. wolfsona
  2. wolfsonas
  3. Wolfsons
  4. wolfspeak
  5. Wolfspitz
  6. Wolfstar
  7. Wolfstein
  8. wolftaur
  9. wolftaurs
  10. wolftonite
  11. Wolfville

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