Yeah, on one hand it does seem a bit restricted to know that two weeks after Sirius dies, they've broken up a very happy romance. Because I think they had to have been very happy for them to be so completely depressed in HBP. They knew exactly what they'd lost. But I do think in some ways knowing that's coming makes me enjoy the sweetness even more. They're just a good ship to write for, because they cover every genre.
The reason I want to write it this way for this fic has to do with my explanation for why Remus refuses to meet her eyes in the Hospital Wing scene.
Oooh. Intriguing. What's your take, or does that spoil the fic? Is it that he can't refuse her when he looks into her eyes?
I'm now thinking that I will write the Burrow meeting as a quite but tense chat about how difficult it is to be apart. I think it might compound the early feelings surrounding their break-up. I'm torn between that and it being the point at which Remus decides to tell her that he cannot commit to going back to her and that being the reason for her brown locks.
It could be a bit of both. I really like the latter idea. Not that it's my decision.
The idea that he couldn't bring himself to tell her about the mission works well because breaking up with her and going to the wolves have got to be two of the hardest things he has ever had to do and there's a one step at a time thing going on there.
Thanks. It's always nice to get affirmation about an idea like that. In some ways I think it might be easier for him to break up with her, and the werewolf mission shakes him to the core of his humanity. Giving her up is noble and human - opposite of the selfish wolf. (And this is why I love dialoguing with other authors; I'd never really thought of it in that light before.)
I've been thinking about her not being able to face going home. My problem is that I can't think of any where for her to go. With Grimmauld out of commission and the fact that we know she wouldn't go to her parents in a fit of dejection, I can't think she'd make a habit of staying at The Burrow because she didn't stay there the night of Harry's arrival. Perhaps she could make a habit of staying very late at work?
Are you talking about Christmas? I'd always assumed since she's one of the Hogwarts guards, she's stationed out of Hogsmeade. Either a flat there, or a room at one of the inns? Poor thing, she probably volunteered for extra shifts at the school.
Even if he does have his own place as indicated at the end of GoF, I still think they'd stay together in the wake of Sirius's death and her injury, whether at his place or hers.
That line in GoF's always baffled me. Remus just doesn't seem likely to own some place. And where is he? I tend to think he stopped renting whatever it was and has no place during the OotP year, since he's living at No. 12. The many mysteries surrounding Remus Lupin. :)
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Yeah, on one hand it does seem a bit restricted to know that two weeks after Sirius dies, they've broken up a very happy romance. Because I think they had to have been very happy for them to be so completely depressed in HBP. They knew exactly what they'd lost. But I do think in some ways knowing that's coming makes me enjoy the sweetness even more. They're just a good ship to write for, because they cover every genre.
The reason I want to write it this way for this fic has to do with my explanation for why Remus refuses to meet her eyes in the Hospital Wing scene.
Oooh. Intriguing. What's your take, or does that spoil the fic? Is it that he can't refuse her when he looks into her eyes?
I'm now thinking that I will write the Burrow meeting as a quite but tense chat about how difficult it is to be apart. I think it might compound the early feelings surrounding their break-up. I'm torn between that and it being the point at which Remus decides to tell her that he cannot commit to going back to her and that being the reason for her brown locks.
It could be a bit of both. I really like the latter idea. Not that it's my decision.
The idea that he couldn't bring himself to tell her about the mission works well because breaking up with her and going to the wolves have got to be two of the hardest things he has ever had to do and there's a one step at a time thing going on there.
Thanks. It's always nice to get affirmation about an idea like that. In some ways I think it might be easier for him to break up with her, and the werewolf mission shakes him to the core of his humanity. Giving her up is noble and human - opposite of the selfish wolf. (And this is why I love dialoguing with other authors; I'd never really thought of it in that light before.)
I've been thinking about her not being able to face going home. My problem is that I can't think of any where for her to go. With Grimmauld out of commission and the fact that we know she wouldn't go to her parents in a fit of dejection, I can't think she'd make a habit of staying at The Burrow because she didn't stay there the night of Harry's arrival. Perhaps she could make a habit of staying very late at work?
Are you talking about Christmas? I'd always assumed since she's one of the Hogwarts guards, she's stationed out of Hogsmeade. Either a flat there, or a room at one of the inns? Poor thing, she probably volunteered for extra shifts at the school.
Even if he does have his own place as indicated at the end of GoF, I still think they'd stay together in the wake of Sirius's death and her injury, whether at his place or hers.
That line in GoF's always baffled me. Remus just doesn't seem likely to own some place. And where is he? I tend to think he stopped renting whatever it was and has no place during the OotP year, since he's living at No. 12. The many mysteries surrounding Remus Lupin. :)