I’ve enjoyed wandering with your Remus today. Thank you for this memorable experience. After clicking the link to this on accio_rs_fics I was almost sure I had already read this, because I always hope that in a post-Halloween-1981 story I’ll find my favourite kind of fanfiction – including vivid descriptions of new settings and a well-developed Remus’s interaction with original characters. It was a pleasant surprise that here there was a (physical and emotional) journey I hadn’t made with Remus before. You certainly did not disappoint me, although the succession of landscapes and churches was almost overwhelming.
There are too many lovely details – both in the present time and in the memories – for me to mention them all… e.g. the postcards. Oh, the gloves (but you first said he’d lost them and at the end he had them).
As for the Longbottoms, for a while I thought that perhaps Remus had, after all, heard the news after this past full moon, not in November, and the first version of the news had not been correct, or clear enough for him to understand it correctly yet. Besides, I wondered how your Remus could have worked and could continue to work at the Auror office, for the Ministry, when Lupin in PoA said that he’d been shunned all [his] adult life, unable to find paid work because of what [he] was. Finally, I also found it interesting that Remus here knows so well that Sirius suspected him. On the basis of the discussion in the Shrieking Shack it seemed to me Remus realized only at that moment that Sirius had thought he was the spy. Of course, it’s only fascinating to find well-written stories based on different interpretations.
I remember having admired your writing before, and I'd like to read more.
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Date: 2007-10-20 09:56 pm (UTC)There are too many lovely details – both in the present time and in the memories – for me to mention them all… e.g. the postcards. Oh, the gloves (but you first said he’d lost them and at the end he had them).
As for the Longbottoms, for a while I thought that perhaps Remus had, after all, heard the news after this past full moon, not in November, and the first version of the news had not been correct, or clear enough for him to understand it correctly yet. Besides, I wondered how your Remus could have worked and could continue to work at the Auror office, for the Ministry, when Lupin in PoA said that he’d been shunned all [his] adult life, unable to find paid work because of what [he] was. Finally, I also found it interesting that Remus here knows so well that Sirius suspected him. On the basis of the discussion in the Shrieking Shack it seemed to me Remus realized only at that moment that Sirius had thought he was the spy. Of course, it’s only fascinating to find well-written stories based on different interpretations.
I remember having admired your writing before, and I'd like to read more.