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Midwinter, prompt 25 | Support [part 2/2] (Harry Potter)

Feb 19, 2012 19:08

Title: Support [2/2]
Author: shimotsuki
Prompt: #25 | picture of a switch on a train track
Fandom: Harry Potter
Characters & Pairings: Remus Lupin/Nymphadora Tonks, Kingsley Shacklebolt
Rating & Warnings: PG | AU denial-fic
Word Count: 994 words
Summary: Remus is finding his place in the world after the war when a request from Kingsley threatens to shake ( Read more... )

fandom: harry potter, author: shimotsuki, midwinter: prompt 25

Comments 9

eleanoreleanor February 20 2012, 04:32:47 UTC

I love love love it!!!!

shimotsuki February 20 2012, 04:56:06 UTC

Aw, thanks! :)

sspring92 February 20 2012, 04:42:01 UTC

There is more correct? hint, hint, wink wink!

shimotsuki February 20 2012, 04:58:56 UTC

LOL! Not in this story specifically, but I'll probably write another fic about Remus and his support group sometime. I have another OC werewolf kid living in my head -- his name is Aaron, and he's old enough to start at Hogwarts in September, if they'll let him. ;)

gilpin25 February 20 2012, 18:07:24 UTC

How nice that it's seeing a small, fightened child, and realizing he's the one person who can not only help but who understands, that overrides Remus's doubts about the wisdom of all this. Callie sealing herself away in a bubble was really touching (a poignant reminder of the pain involved), and her mother's response to Remus, while not terribly admirable initially, rang very true. Tonks may have deserved a small medal for calmly pointing out a few facts!

I've really enjoyed this little story, especially the suggestion that the Support is probably going to work for all in many ways. I'm seconding the motion for a sequel/follow up some day. :)

shimotsuki February 20 2012, 19:12:56 UTC

Thanks very much for the kind comments. ♥ I don't think Remus would be able to stop himself from getting involved once he's seen how his help is needed.

I'm glad you liked the bubble...the original spontaneous plotbunny actually had Callie putting herself up in a tall tree (inspired by Harry on the roof of his school?), but then I realized that Remus might not be able to get up a tree pre-moon, and even if he did, no one would be able to so usefully overhear his conversation with Callie! ...Enter the bubble.

her mother's response to Remus, while not terribly admirable initially, rang very true

Glad you thought so. Elspeth, as a Muggle, is really out of her depth trying to raise a little magical werewolf all alone, and her one experience with adult werewolves was about as traumatizing as it gets. She has more of an excuse than Molly to be afraid. ;) (But now wouldn't it be interesting if Elspeth got to meet Matthias with his blue eyes -- and his own set of Slytherin issues about Muggles? *evil grin*)

gilpin25 February 20 2012, 20:24:37 UTC

(But now wouldn't it be interesting if Elspeth got to meet Matthias with his blue eyes -- and his own set of Slytherin issues about Muggles? *evil grin*)

Sounds like an inspired plot bunny to me. ;)

huldrejenta September 20 2012, 10:42:02 UTC

Your stories just keep blowing me away!

“If it finds me, I have to turn into a wolf. But I don’t want to! It hurts!”“I know,” said Remus, still gently, but with an undertone of raw anguish that made Tonks blink, hard.This made me blink too... The raw anguish is both from the physical pain and from all other aspects of being a werewolve that has caused so much hurt in Remus' life, I gather, and I love that seing the same fear in a little girl, makes him change his mind. (No wonder I love him ( ... )

shimotsuki September 24 2012, 03:56:54 UTC

Your comments make me very happy! :) I'm glad you enjoy these stories.

I am in agreement with your reasons why it's too bad Remus and Tonks didn't make it through DH. (Your English is excellent, by the way -- no worries there.) Especially this point:

Equal rights for all, and discrimination against part humans, is an important topic in HP, and who better to work with this than Remus - the born teacher, who has suffered a lot from discrimination himself. It seemed to me that this character was leeding up to this as well, but alas...

That was exactly what I thought, and exactly where I thought JKR was taking Remus's storyline -- which is why I missed the obvious signs that he and Tonks were doomed (see: Teddy, heh) and was quite honestly shocked when suddenly Harry saw them, dead.

your Warp and Weft series (is this story a part of that?)Oh, it is! I didn't realize I hadn't added it to the list. I'll be sure to fix that, soon. I'm glad you find these stories comforting (I definitely do!), and indeed they are meant to be as ( ... )