I failed to tell you in more detail how I enjoyed the way you depicted Molly’s behaviour. It must have been a good choice to use only Remus’s perspective in addition to her own in the scenes where she was present and to give a lot of space to hers. This is how we get to share the experience of a person who can’t help her deep-rooted prejudice – and of the person who suffers from it – instead of seeing it from the outside and hurrying to condemn it as something that we, good people, would never be guilty of.
And it’s wonderful how she’s so brutally (or innocently) honest to herself. Also how she observes Remus and we find out that she can value people on the basis of their tidiness! It looks so realistic that these observations have now already started to change her attitude.
Thank you so much for countering! I almost regret showing that I have something against Remus having predictable interests – while I hope I said clearly enough that your Remus did not disappoint me. But only almost. I’m so happy to read more about why your Remus is good at magizoology and cleaning. I do agree that the latter is mainly common fanon, the former a well-justified interpretation of and extrapolation of canon. To be completely honest, I’ve now realised that I felt the need to comment on these elements because you had included them so convincingly that I got worried about the chances of my more unusual extrapolations to convince and interest someone who writes so excellently and so close to canon as you.
I’ve read enough Remus stories to have become a bit bored with stories in which it’s taken for granted that Remus is a Defence specialist, or a teacher – and hardly anything else (that he’s actually worked in that field all through the lost years, even though he says in canon that he couldn’t get paid employment). But you’ve made me realise what an excellent ides it is to make the most of the grindylow tank he carried when leaving Hogwarts. By getting deeper into and behind such canon details you can build a consistent whole of such a life for Remus which readers can easily accept as the truth about him. Still, it can be quite original enough in its accurate, vivid details. I’d very much like to read that story which features the Institute of Magizoology.
I think the importance of having conrol, too, is common in Remus fanon. In any case there’s nothing wrong, on the contrary, in developing this as a personality trait which evolves in your Remus and affects his behaviour, also serving your stories like here.
Oh, I have to wonder why I didn’t invent that law. (I’ve just assumed that a wizard, and particularly someone like my Remus, who did not have a Muggle parent and did not grow up in close contact with the Muggle world, would be like an illegal immigrant – from a very different culture – and not in a very good position to get a proper job in the Muggle world.)
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Date: 2009-08-23 08:31 pm (UTC)And it’s wonderful how she’s so brutally (or innocently) honest to herself. Also how she observes Remus and we find out that she can value people on the basis of their tidiness! It looks so realistic that these observations have now already started to change her attitude.
Thank you so much for countering! I almost regret showing that I have something against Remus having predictable interests – while I hope I said clearly enough that your Remus did not disappoint me. But only almost. I’m so happy to read more about why your Remus is good at magizoology and cleaning. I do agree that the latter is mainly common fanon, the former a well-justified interpretation of and extrapolation of canon. To be completely honest, I’ve now realised that I felt the need to comment on these elements because you had included them so convincingly that I got worried about the chances of my more unusual extrapolations to convince and interest someone who writes so excellently and so close to canon as you.
I’ve read enough Remus stories to have become a bit bored with stories in which it’s taken for granted that Remus is a Defence specialist, or a teacher – and hardly anything else (that he’s actually worked in that field all through the lost years, even though he says in canon that he couldn’t get paid employment). But you’ve made me realise what an excellent ides it is to make the most of the grindylow tank he carried when leaving Hogwarts. By getting deeper into and behind such canon details you can build a consistent whole of such a life for Remus which readers can easily accept as the truth about him. Still, it can be quite original enough in its accurate, vivid details. I’d very much like to read that story which features the Institute of Magizoology.
I think the importance of having conrol, too, is common in Remus fanon. In any case there’s nothing wrong, on the contrary, in developing this as a personality trait which evolves in your Remus and affects his behaviour, also serving your stories like here.
Oh, I have to wonder why I didn’t invent that law. (I’ve just assumed that a wizard, and particularly someone like my Remus, who did not have a Muggle parent and did not grow up in close contact with the Muggle world, would be like an illegal immigrant – from a very different culture – and not in a very good position to get a proper job in the Muggle world.)