fic 37 - and the damp patch in the kitchen and etc. [remus/sirius]

[ijustwishiwere]

title: and the damp patch in the kitchen and etc.
fandom: Harry Potter
pairings: Remus Lupin/Sirius Black
rating: R
synopsis: It's a year of long silences and questions which go unanswered because they were never asked.
author's note: Set, for the most part, during the year of OotP but with some later events. SPOILERS UP TO AND INCLUDING DH.

Comments

[freudian_fuckup]

oh good god, i think i'm going to cry. no, seriously, my whole face hurts. that was heartbreaking. just lovely.

i am a marauder-era girl myself, and i usually have SO little patience for trio-era angst, but this was just wonderful. elegant language, beautiful shifts in perspective, and, rarest of all, a take on their relationship that i've never seen before (which is saying something).

and the ending. oh gods, the ending. i... i really am going to cry. but it's a good cry. like it's too beautiful and beautifully sad for my eyes to not just make lots and lots of tears, no matter what my brain says on the matter.

in short (or long, rather), i love this.

[hravan_maranwe]

Sorry it took me so long to read this. Life's been a pile of crap lately.

My favourite things in this piece are:

This description:
"There was something attractive about it, about being in Grimmauld Place, like sucking at a burn-almost the thing that would heal it but, really, just a stinging pain, the coaxing of a memory, reminding you that you‘re broken, you‘re burnt."

The description of the Marauder's Map as a fleeting record of all the wizards that have passed through Hogwart's (beautiful, really! I wish I'd thought of that!)

and, as everyone else has already said, the healing of the tapestry.

Really, this is a gorgeous piece. I love it a lot. The only HP fan-fiction I get into is that which involves the Marauders (esp. Sirius/James, but I'm not picky). Thanks for this! I'm starting to watch "Supernatural", right now. When I get further into it, I'll go back to read your SPN fic. posted before this one.

[ijustwishiwere]

No need to apologise~ I should be thanking you for bothering to read & comment even though life's not been treating you so well lately.♥

I'm really seriously glad that you loved it. When I wrote it I was really apprehensive about it because I loved it (in a way that I rarely love my own stuff) and I thought that probably meant that it must be dreadful. It took me months to build up the courage to post it.

And I've always wanted to write Sirius/James but I've never quite managed it. Maybe I should give it another shot?

I'm such a bad influence if I've made you watch Supernatural though. & I'm sorry for the terrible lack of fic lately. I have a few things I ought to be posting soon though.

Thank you so much for reading and leaving such a lovely comment. I hope your life starts looking up soon.

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[anonymous]

Very amusing idea