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[godricgal]

Hee, I'm cooking my first proper fic since the  rt_challenge April ficathon. It's an angtsy break-up, going to the wolves kind of fic. So, I'm considering including a wee bit o smuttiness. An emotionally charged 'last time' scenario. Since my flist contains some avid RT writers/readers I thought I would pose the question: does that seem realistic to you? 

I've always had this half-formed idea that the break-up wasn't absolute in the beginning (there is of course,  no doubt in my mind that they did have a relationship in OotP). That it was, in the first instance, a protective measure for the duration of Remus's stint with the wolves and that perhaps his refusal to reinstate the relationship was the result of some serious self-loathing that was the product of his time with the wolves. Anyway that is the basis of this particular ficcy, thoughts any one?

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[mrstater.livejournal.com]

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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. :)

[godricgal.livejournal.com]

If I were on my feet I'd be falling over on them by now I'm so tired, but I'll attempt to coherently reply to your points:) (I added you to my AIM buddies list, you are the only one, I only downloaded it as an experiment for work)

Oh yes, the break up issue holds the basis for endless amounts of R/T true love sweetness. I think we can assume that they broke up because he loves her too much; she counters that with her love and the persistence that that breeds. We can do so much with them and it's so much fun.

Yes, basically it is founded on the premise that if he looks into her eyes, he will be drawn in because he loves her so and they can never lose the intimate connection they have to one another.

The werewolf mission must shake Remus to his very soul, it is against everything that we have seen him to stand for and the xmas scene at The Burrow shows us the only instance of bitterness towards his condition so far.

I'm talking about xmas in so far as she couldn't face her parents then, I have some fairly well formed ideas about her relationship with Ted and Andromeda that is perhaps the subject of another discussion. I can't imagine that she'd go and stay with them in the wake of the breakup/separation with Remus. Yes I think she probably did live in Hogsmead, although with the gift of Apparition, geography hardly matters;) *insert envy here*

The GoF line has bothered me too. The reason I don't think he rented is because I don't think he'd have the funds to perpetuate a tenancy agreement! I have to think that he has an ancestral home, one that he could not bear to part with for money. I don’t mean to imply that the home is palatial or grand or anything, just that he’d keep it for loyalties sake.

Mysteries indeed, I once again assert my wish/plea for a complementary novel about the adult characters in the books.