Prompt 18

[telwyndubois]

Title: Spoken in the Night (The Pain of Living)
Author: telwyndubois 
Word Count: ~ 1600
Prompt: Eighteen for dogdaysofsummer 
Rating: PG-13 for language
Summary: I didn’t even know that Sirius and Regulus talked at all, Remus thinks, wondering what else he doesn’t know, what other things Sirius might have kept from him. Set in the same

Comments

[remuslives23]

I loved those last lines especially. It's like a scared kid naming their fear and realising that nothing bad happened.

I really am starting to enjoy stories about Sirius and Regulus and their relationship, and I loved reading your take on it. :)

Great job!

[telwyndubois]

Aww, thanks! Yeah, I thought about exploring the Sirius-Regulus interaction, but the idea started to get too complex...

And, secretly, Sirius is just a little kid. =P

Commentary

[telwyndubois]

Commentary: This started out as a fluffy fic where Remus was sitting at the kitchen table, correcting Sirius' bad grammar on a summer essay and lamenting the way grammar and words are abused...because we all know that Remus is a grammar Nazi.

But apparently I have a hard time with fluff now, and all I can come up with is angstyness.

(There was also a version where Gideon and Fabian died, but, trust me, that would've been a 5,000 word one-shot)

[werewolfsfan]

A very good read. They feel young here which is missing in too many stories. And I like your take on the prompt too. You've really connected it to the Potterverse because certain words their really do have power.
The one thing that I disagree with is this:

And Remus, as a supposed Dark creature (only after Voldemort declared them as such

I believe the fear and prejudice that werewolves face in the wizarding world is deep seated and long standing. The expression "Dark Creature" may have originated with himself but the strife did not.

[telwyndubois]

Yeah, I think people sometimes forget that James and Lily were only nineteen when they died...that's kind of a scary thought, isn't it?

As for the werewolf question...I was playing off the idea that the werewolf prejudice was kind of underhanded and quiet though present (because, seriously, how many werewolves do wizards encounter anyway?)...and then Voldemort comes along, has Greyback publicly join him, and recruits nearly all of the werewolves, which have been disliked and considered outcasts for ages...

And, yeah, mostly going off the words "Dark creature" as coming from Voldemort. =D

[werewolfsfan]

Pssst...... Have you been taking Maths with JK Rowling? James and Lily were born in 1960 and dies Oct. 31, 1981.

I think that some of the confusion comes from the film actors. Snape, Moony and Padfoot in canon are only twenty years older than the trio. I believe Alan Rickman was chosen to play Severus Snape early on and while a part of me likes to think the film producers made a rational decision then to cast older actors for the other roles, I doubt they did. But there is NO EXCUSE for that brown haired middle aged man who plays James Potter!

[telwyndubois]

whoops - meant to say 21. I totally knew that. Who knows where I pulled nineteen from...JKR probably did mention something along those lines.

And, no, there is NO EXCUSE WHATSOEVER for that brown-haired man. Or the fact that JKR was almost Lily Evans. Now, David Tennant as Barty Crouch...*wicked smile*

[batmanboxers]

This was actually pretty brilliant, I loved it. It was very true to form.

[telwyndubois]

Well, I guess I'm glad to have surprised you! Glad you think it's believable!