Thanks very much for the comments. I'm always grateful to hear your thoughts about the characterizations and the scenarios.
I'm glad you like Molly and her family worries. This thread will return, probably in the final chapter (Ch 6), so this is a little bit of setup here.
I catch myself feeling almost irritated by Remus’s calm and competent teacher behaviour. ... He is so sure he knows what’s important and also how to act and when.
Ah, but note that we are seeing Remus through Molly's eyes in this scene -- likely what's going on in his own head is more complicated. Perhaps I didn't make enough of this contrast, but I do have him subside immediately into uncertainty once the children have gone off, at least until Molly acts reasonably encouraging. I think Remus forgot his present worries for a moment in the enjoyment of interacting with the children as a teacher again.
Also, part of what I wanted to show here is that (my) Remus is naturally a very good teacher -- when he isn't overthinking things or being wracked by indecision. While this characterization is popular in fanon, I think it's got good canon support -- Remus in PoA seems to have very good teacher instincts, and seems to know how to make his lessons interesting to students. And I think in general OotP year is a very good one for Remus, since he has Sirius's friendship back as well as concrete things to do in service of the Order.
I'm also glad you like the little twist in Bill's reaction. He seems to understand goblins well in DH, which makes sense given his job, and I do think that shows that he's pretty open-minded.
(Also, I know you didn't have e-mail access for some days last week, so I wanted to let you know that I did finally respond to your comments on "Porridge". I'm sorry it took me as long as it did to reply there.)
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Date: 2009-10-04 06:22 pm (UTC)I'm glad you like Molly and her family worries. This thread will return, probably in the final chapter (Ch 6), so this is a little bit of setup here.
I catch myself feeling almost irritated by Remus’s calm and competent teacher behaviour. ... He is so sure he knows what’s important and also how to act and when.
Ah, but note that we are seeing Remus through Molly's eyes in this scene -- likely what's going on in his own head is more complicated. Perhaps I didn't make enough of this contrast, but I do have him subside immediately into uncertainty once the children have gone off, at least until Molly acts reasonably encouraging. I think Remus forgot his present worries for a moment in the enjoyment of interacting with the children as a teacher again.
Also, part of what I wanted to show here is that (my) Remus is naturally a very good teacher -- when he isn't overthinking things or being wracked by indecision. While this characterization is popular in fanon, I think it's got good canon support -- Remus in PoA seems to have very good teacher instincts, and seems to know how to make his lessons interesting to students. And I think in general OotP year is a very good one for Remus, since he has Sirius's friendship back as well as concrete things to do in service of the Order.
I'm also glad you like the little twist in Bill's reaction. He seems to understand goblins well in DH, which makes sense given his job, and I do think that shows that he's pretty open-minded.
(Also, I know you didn't have e-mail access for some days last week, so I wanted to let you know that I did finally respond to your comments on "Porridge". I'm sorry it took me as long as it did to reply there.)