Countdown to Small Gifts 6/6: Happily ever after

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Hi, folks! If you're just joining us, we're on DAY SIX of six days of discussion before Small Gifts begins posting. Start off by introducing yourself (and meeting fellow participants and watchers) over here!

Today's question: if you could give Remus and Sirius a happily every after, where and when would it be? At what age? In what circumstances? I know our art and fic address this question all the time--in fact, many in our exchange will do so!--but chime in with your thoughts today, right now. Are there parts of their story that are essential to them and their dynamic--parts you'd need to keep despite the tragedy? How would you go about making them happy?

Comments

[ruinsplume]

I absolutely wrote them a happily-ever-after fic for this fest!

For me the part of the story I'd need to keep IS the tragedy (except the part where they die, of course). Not only because those tragedies shaped them as people, and as partners, but because the story I want--and the story I want to live--is the one that tells us that in spite of the tragedy and trauma we experience, happiness and love are still possible.

[mindabbles.livejournal.com]

Beautifully put

[magnetic-pole.livejournal.com]

Hurrah! I'm looking forward to your fic.

I'm also one of those angsty folks who needs the tragedy (as Shaggy points out below, there's really something wrong with us); Sirius particularly strikes me as someone who only makes sense having had both good fortune and tragedy in his life. M.