Thank you for this wonderful response, too. First of all, for the praise for my username. I am glad I managed to keep some distance between my fandom identity and my main viewpoint character, by at least not using his or his lover’s name. Paula is not my real name either. It derives from Paul Simon and another Paul, an aspiring American poet I met some ten years before meeting Remus. ANYWAY.
I’m happy you can feel grateful for entering this fandom late. There was some sadness in those days when writers and readers let their (favourite) stories be crushed. I was too addicted to mine to let that happen, but I remember channelling energy to trying to make people agree that HBP did not prove that Remus loved Tonks or that he hadn’t loved Sirius romantically. In any case, since I was still in the (unexpectedly long) process of writing a story set in autumn 1996, I had to defend its value as an AU or book-one-to-five-compliant fic, and hope some readers would stay interested.
I’d definitely be curious to have a look at a (post-canon) fic by you, if you want to give me a link in turn. We seem to share interest in such themes as building a better society.
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I’m happy you can feel grateful for entering this fandom late. There was some sadness in those days when writers and readers let their (favourite) stories be crushed. I was too addicted to mine to let that happen, but I remember channelling energy to trying to make people agree that HBP did not prove that Remus loved Tonks or that he hadn’t loved Sirius romantically. In any case, since I was still in the (unexpectedly long) process of writing a story set in autumn 1996, I had to defend its value as an AU or book-one-to-five-compliant fic, and hope some readers would stay interested.
I’d definitely be curious to have a look at a (post-canon) fic by you, if you want to give me a link in turn. We seem to share interest in such themes as building a better society.