New SQ drabbles

[shimotsuki]

I'm not sure what deep meaning this might have, but Sirius keeps turning up in my SQ drabbles. Here are the newest ones:

• prompt = run -- Vernon's unexpected news makes Petunia remember Sirius. (PoA>GoF)
  
  
• prompt = gold -- Sirius may be a desperate fugitive, but at least he's a desperate fugitive with a large bank account. (POA)

Comments

[shimotsuki.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the comments; glad to hear you liked the drabbles! I am so curious about just how well Petunia knew Lily's friends. There's no sign that she knew the name Sirius Black when she heard it on the news. And she didn't seem to recognize Remus at the station in OotP, but maybe she was deliberately ignoring him, or maybe Harry just wasn't watching at the right moment.

Just to go off at a slight tangent for a sec, do you think the "awful boy" was James? Or could it be Snape? I keep reading this theory and wondering... ;)

Yep, I really wonder about that too. I feel like James is the simplest, most likely interpretation, and I've used that in a fic or two. But JKR loves her red herrings, and there's no denying that Harry responds to Petunia's that awful boy remark with something like, "If you mean my mum and dad, why don't you say their names!" -- to which no one responds, leaving the reader to assume Harry's right, in classic red-herring style.

I'm pretty sure we're going to find out that Snape loved Lily, and that's why Dumbledore trusted him. I don't think Lily loved him back, but she might have been his friend. And here's something I'd love to see in DH:

HARRY: Dumbledore? He's dead! Snape killed him! *snarls*
PETUNIA: Snape...? You mean Severus? *querulously* Severus killed someone?
HARRY: ...!!!

[gilpin25.livejournal.com]

It does indeed seem like a well set-up red herring and everything seems to point to Snape having had feelings for Lily - I'm presuming this was why Voldemort didn't really want to kill her - so, yep, I think I've signed up for that one. Besides, there's surely got to be big revelations about Lily in DH; we've spent six books reading Harry only interested in his Dad, and everyone else only interested in discussing him...

If that scene appears, I'll tell everyone you're better than Trelawney! It would be a classic moment and I'm sure it would result in Capslock!Harry for about the next six chapters. ;)