Countdown to small gifts 3/7: Head canon

[smallgiftsmods]

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Day 3: Head canon

What are your favorite bits of head canon related to Remus and Sirius? Tell us in the comments below!

Comments

[abyss_valkyrie]

1.Okay so we know how Remus likes his sweet stuff, sugar and all. I can't help but imagine Sirius being sort of the opposite or just with the smallest sweet tooth on this planet. I reaaaally happen to enjoy a scenario where Sirius seeing Remus eat a very decadent dessert with layers and layers of chocolate, caramel, icecream and other things on it makes his teeth rot just by looking at it.

2.Remus is a bit of a mama's boy and has absolutely no shame about it.

3.Sirius was gay and probably had a thing or two at Hogwarts with other people.

4.Remus can't study or concentrate on work in complete silence without background noise. I feel like his gramophone thingy in the PoA movie kinda does this justice. Also I just love the idea of Remus doing his summer homework with a Walkman though I don't think they existed then!

[magnetic_pole]

Remus can't study or concentrate on work in complete silence without background noise. I feel like his gramophone thingy in the PoA movie kinda does this justice.

Ah, I'd almost forgotten about the gramophone in the PoA movie. That's a nice interpretation of that detail.

Also, a walkman's totally possible, at least by the late 1970s! M.

[ruinsplume]

I headcanon that that gramophone belonged to James and Lily; before that it was James's father's. Remus rescued it from the rubble of their house after it was destroyed without even really being aware what he was doing. He wanted to go there and save Harry, but of course Harry was already gone. When Remus got home, he found himself holding a gramophone.

[smallgiftsmods]

Aha! *meep* That's lovely head canon but also so tragic.

In my nerdy way, I really enjoying thinking about what it might be like to like in a society that's not consumerist in the same way ours is. One the consequences seems to be a mix of old and new technology, side by side-why favor the walkman over the gramophone when they're both fascinatingly bizarre/mysterious/Muggle? M.

[ruinsplume]

I love what you say about Muggle technology—it makes a lot of sense that if you’re magic, both old and new tech are more equal in your eyes.

[mindabbles]

Oh, that is lovely and heartbreaking. Did you write this? You should...

[ruinsplume]

I wrote a fic (“Circle”) in which Remus has the gramophone, and we know it was James’s father’s, but I’ve never written how he got it other than in this post!

[mindabbles]

I love number one because I love the idea of Remus loving something decadent that Sirius could take or leave. I had never thought about Remus as a mama’s boy, but I like it. I have a vivid image of Remus on his bed with a parchment and a quill, bopping his head with his headphones on.