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[la_onza]

Title: It Only Encourages Him
Author: La Onza
Rating: PG
Warnings: A brief bit of gore in part IV.
Challenge #12: Sirius is the first Black in Gryffindor. How does he react to his Sorting? How do others react?
A/N: Five vignettes that together make a story arc. About 7500 words total.

Comments

[lovemefearme]

You have each character down. I really would love to see how you think they found out about the wolf. It would be very nice if it is was in this style as well. It was a lovely fic.

-FairyChild.

[la_onza]

Thank you! It's the first time I've ever really tried anything in this style. I'm so glad you think it worked.

[defaultlyric]

I don't know what to say. I. LOVE. This. Marauder fics are my very favorite, and I don't think I've seen them captured quite this way before. Brilliant!

[la_onza]

Thank you so much.

[nassima]

Oh, I love this.

There's magic and this feeling of a slighly old-fashioned boarding school, and it's not just a transcription of Harry's first year. It really feels like there's a world opening to these four boys, and they're all so lovable!

And I love all the glimpses you give on other stories, Snape's family life, and all the horrors of the Black, and the Peter's mother's gossips.

And the way it was Sirius and Remus, and James and Peter, at first, what a wonderful idea! It feels true, like so many school frienships, that change shape and focus over the years. And I love your Remus, so full of joy in spite of everything, and your Sirius, every curious of everything and born with this ability to question authority.

Probably the best story I've read of the Hogwarts times Marauders!

[la_onza]

Thank you, that's so encouraging. I was trying to work with the idea that people at 11-12 are not necessarily miniature versions of what they're like at 35 or even 15, but at the same time there has to be a sort of continuity, a sense of how the adult grew out of the child. It's the sort of thing I think about in my spare time :D.

[seaislewitch]

I loved it! What a wonderful look into the beginning of the Marauders. Sirius being sort of an outcast, until some real bonding goes on. A hint of James wanting to pull Lily's hair. Remus and his excuses. Peter...the snitch from the start, eh? And Snape...slythering around. Well done! Thanks for sharing!

[la_onza]

Thank you! It's the longest, most ambitious thing I've done and it's been giving me fits. I'm so glad it worked for you.

[la_onza]

Thank you! Of course Peter isn't a dumb stick, he just plays one sometimes, which is a very different thing. I enjoyed writing him having gently snarky thoughts about James, the way that quiet people do sometimes about their more outgoing friends' little idiosyncracies.