What a wonderful comment! I’m thrilled this text seems to convey everything that’s needed, so you can enjoy this as a whole while sensing that there is truly something beyond it. I wanted to try something small enough, so I could complete the gift in time. Some readers have told me that even the shortest pieces of my fic give the impression that there are whole lives around the moments I show.
Real and immediate is my ideal. I strive to approach an illusion of reality, and I want to believe that it is possible to take my readers to the time and place to share the character’s immediate experience. As I’ve developed my Remus and Sirius characterization since 2003, without trying to conform with popular fanon (and recently without taking the last two books into consideration at all), I wouldn’t be surprised if I were told that these portrayals are out of character. While I was writing this, both boys simply did what they needed to do, and only after reading your comment do I become fully aware of the fact that they actually show their feelings for each other – to us, too, obviously!
In this case I actually know quite a lot about the parts of the story close around to the moment I show here. Each reader can complete the story differently, and the explanations I can’t resist offering to you are mainly related to the planning process.
I hoped I wouldn’t disappoint you too badly, even though I ended up not including more about an Order mission and not referring to Sirius’s family at all. I picked the prompt with intentions to challenge myself to writing a violent action scene. Then I decided to set this in 1979, so that Regulus would still have been alive (even according to such information from JKR which I’ve ignored in my fanfic so far – while in my version Regulus dies as late as in March 1981), so there could have been some owls from him or about him, from another member of the Black family. I also figured out what Peter and Lily would be up to. And finally I decided to focus on Remus and his interaction with Sirius, so as to make the story concise enough. Avoiding melodrama became a true challenge when my Remus did not agree to ignore the fact that his parents died in December 1979. As early as in 2003 I had included in my chaptered WiP a scene in which he finally, in autumn 1996, returned to the ancient house and remembered how he had buried his parents.
Thank you so much for the heartwarming praise. I’m so glad you liked this that I couldn’t reply without babbling.
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Real and immediate is my ideal. I strive to approach an illusion of reality, and I want to believe that it is possible to take my readers to the time and place to share the character’s immediate experience. As I’ve developed my Remus and Sirius characterization since 2003, without trying to conform with popular fanon (and recently without taking the last two books into consideration at all), I wouldn’t be surprised if I were told that these portrayals are out of character. While I was writing this, both boys simply did what they needed to do, and only after reading your comment do I become fully aware of the fact that they actually show their feelings for each other – to us, too, obviously!
In this case I actually know quite a lot about the parts of the story close around to the moment I show here. Each reader can complete the story differently, and the explanations I can’t resist offering to you are mainly related to the planning process.
I hoped I wouldn’t disappoint you too badly, even though I ended up not including more about an Order mission and not referring to Sirius’s family at all. I picked the prompt with intentions to challenge myself to writing a violent action scene. Then I decided to set this in 1979, so that Regulus would still have been alive (even according to such information from JKR which I’ve ignored in my fanfic so far – while in my version Regulus dies as late as in March 1981), so there could have been some owls from him or about him, from another member of the Black family. I also figured out what Peter and Lily would be up to. And finally I decided to focus on Remus and his interaction with Sirius, so as to make the story concise enough. Avoiding melodrama became a true challenge when my Remus did not agree to ignore the fact that his parents died in December 1979. As early as in 2003 I had included in my chaptered WiP a scene in which he finally, in autumn 1996, returned to the ancient house and remembered how he had buried his parents.
Thank you so much for the heartwarming praise. I’m so glad you liked this that I couldn’t reply without babbling.