Oh, this is so agonizing and beautiful in its pacing. Her slow loss of pink-ness, a little at a time, like falling leaves. The slow build-up to the revelation about Greyback. The way he won't let her touch him, until he does for a while, and then he retreats.
I really like this line:
“And this mission is nothing compared to the dangers you and Kingsley and the other Aurors have to face every day. Certainly nothing compared to what Severus has to endure, every time Voldemort summons him. I must do my part as well.”
It's totally Remus thinking of others, like he does, and rationalizing, like he does. But in ways he doesn't even realize, he's pointing at a parallel between Snape and himself - Snape has to go and serve the monster who killed the only person he ever loved, and Remus will have to go and serve the monster that dealt him that bite. Both assignments are horrible.
“May I still keep that?”
This line did me in completely.
And she did wish he hadn’t stopped calling her Nymphadora. Even if she’d rather cut her own tongue out than admit it.
!! I am intrigued by the many names he calls her over the course of their relationship, because there are three (that we know of!) and they all have slightly different contexts/connotations. It's so fascinating and touching that she prefers for him to say her given name here. Although you don't say it explicitly, the feeling I get is that she likes it because 1, it's kind of professor-y of him, and that's cute, and 2, she allows him liberties that she denies to others (if he'll take them, which he won't right now).
This whole piece is so, so wrenchingly sad on top of being suspenseful. And I love how they are still quite friendly and chatty even with all the mounting awfulness and their personal disagreement. Because you know they're actually pretty solid underneath everything.
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Date: 2013-12-05 03:12 am (UTC)I really like this line:
“And this mission is nothing compared to the dangers you and Kingsley and the other Aurors have to face every day. Certainly nothing compared to what Severus has to endure, every time Voldemort summons him. I must do my part as well.”
It's totally Remus thinking of others, like he does, and rationalizing, like he does. But in ways he doesn't even realize, he's pointing at a parallel between Snape and himself - Snape has to go and serve the monster who killed the only person he ever loved, and Remus will have to go and serve the monster that dealt him that bite. Both assignments are horrible.
“May I still keep that?”
This line did me in completely.
And she did wish he hadn’t stopped calling her Nymphadora. Even if she’d rather cut her own tongue out than admit it.
!! I am intrigued by the many names he calls her over the course of their relationship, because there are three (that we know of!) and they all have slightly different contexts/connotations. It's so fascinating and touching that she prefers for him to say her given name here. Although you don't say it explicitly, the feeling I get is that she likes it because 1, it's kind of professor-y of him, and that's cute, and 2, she allows him liberties that she denies to others (if he'll take them, which he won't right now).
This whole piece is so, so wrenchingly sad on top of being suspenseful. And I love how they are still quite friendly and chatty even with all the mounting awfulness and their personal disagreement. Because you know they're actually pretty solid underneath everything.