Thank you for making me think more carefully about my unreasonable reaction to Remus’s competent behaviour. You actually show excellently through Molly’s eyes that what’s going on in Remus’s head is not all simple or based on full self-confidence. I do agree that Remus is a good teacher, and I suppose he can be confident in a teaching situation even when he suspects there can be some prejudice against him. I actually admire how you portrayed Remus’s helpfulness by making him resort to the knowledge and skills we can see in or extrapolate from canon.
I also agree that the OotP year was a good one for him: he could feel he belonged, and was needed, and he had an old friend back... Yes, and you show that it was not pure bliss – that it was not always easy at all to connect with Sirius, since the twelve-year incarceration naturally had its consequences. Perhaps my problem here (yes, mine – nothing that would indicate a shortcoming in your writing, on the contrary) is that towards the end of the chapter I think back about Remus in the library and his thoughts after Dumbledore’s visit, and I look at all that from Sirius’s perspective (even though he wouldn’t, of course, have insight into those thoughts). And I feel sad about the distance between the two men – perhaps particularly because there can’t be any bond of love of the same nature - the same kind of tenderbess - as in R/S fiction.
In fact, I can’t remember much about Bill and goblins in DH, but the earlier canon and your brief references here are enough to make Bill’s attitude completely believable – while it was wonderfully surprising in the Remus-pov scene!
Just excellent, all around, and I’ll be happily looking forward to more from you, while I wish all the best for your real-life projects, too! Thank you again for mentioning my other comment. And no need to apologise, no pressure: I’m glad to return to the stories and continue discussions whenever you’ve got the time.
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Date: 2009-10-06 03:12 pm (UTC)I also agree that the OotP year was a good one for him: he could feel he belonged, and was needed, and he had an old friend back... Yes, and you show that it was not pure bliss – that it was not always easy at all to connect with Sirius, since the twelve-year incarceration naturally had its consequences. Perhaps my problem here (yes, mine – nothing that would indicate a shortcoming in your writing, on the contrary) is that towards the end of the chapter I think back about Remus in the library and his thoughts after Dumbledore’s visit, and I look at all that from Sirius’s perspective (even though he wouldn’t, of course, have insight into those thoughts). And I feel sad about the distance between the two men – perhaps particularly because there can’t be any bond of love of the same nature - the same kind of tenderbess - as in R/S fiction.
In fact, I can’t remember much about Bill and goblins in DH, but the earlier canon and your brief references here are enough to make Bill’s attitude completely believable – while it was wonderfully surprising in the Remus-pov scene!
Just excellent, all around, and I’ll be happily looking forward to more from you, while I wish all the best for your real-life projects, too! Thank you again for mentioning my other comment. And no need to apologise, no pressure: I’m glad to return to the stories and continue discussions whenever you’ve got the time.