Oh, I’d be thrilled to hear just that you are interested in Peter as a character, and you adore him! Yes, I’ve actually spent a lot of time thinking about him – more and more now recently. Right before tackling this gift challenge I reached an important turning point which deals with his role in my huge post-OotP story.
Only once have I attempted at Peter’s narrative voice, in a tiny story set in April 1981: Better Stick Together (http://paulamcg.livejournal.com/20366.html). (The other character is – not surprisingly – Remus, and there’s some subtle reference to R/S.) But in two of the novel excerpts, which mainly consist of letters written by Remus to Harry, there is also quite a lot about teenaged Peter: How Human We Are (http://paulamcg.livejournal.com/10926.html) and A Dog Whenever I Need (http://paulamcg.livejournal.com/16772.html).
While I love babbling about my writing and the characters, I’d rather let readers meet my characters in the stories at least before I analyse their characteristics. I believe that each reader must be free to interpret and extrapolate, and I don’t want to give any definite facts about anything that has not appeared in a story (this particular reader has read) yet. But let’s say I suppose my Remus was far from an introverted teenager.
Oh yes, you make sense! It would be a pity if such a treasure as a reader who gets more interested in R/S after the 7th book (which in my view destroyed what little was left of Lupin’s potential after HBP), and finds my fanfic, too, turned out to be a raving lunatic. I hope you’ll let me know when your versions of the first-war Marauders emerge in a story.
I really like the idea that Sirius would continue to be reserved on some level even after finding his new family in the Marauders. After all, it’s not possible to undo the influence of early childhood. That’s why I think I can defend my unusual take on Remus’s character. Because you are not so likely to read what I’ve shown of his childhood in the huge story, I think I can tell you here that he grew up in a (rather unusual extended) family where being friendly and outgoing was the way of life, and this did not change much within the relatively closed community even after the bite, although (as he says in PoA) he didn’t have what a schoolboy might call friends – of his age. I needed him to have this background, so he could possibly – despite the tragedies given to him in canon, and the hardships I (interpreting “unable to find paid work” quite literally, unlike a lot of writers who let him have jobs in bookstores) wanted to give him in the years not shown in canon – grow up to be and remain the man we saw through Harry’s eyes in PoA and OotP, and to tackle the challenges I wanted to give him in my post-OotP story (something far beyond reaching an agreement with a stubborn girlfriend and following Dumbledore’s unreasonable orders).
Thank you once again, for saying that my interpretations are fascinating, as well as for sharing yours. I hope that they can continue to be convincing enough to you within any story by me you read, even though they are different from yours and from the most popular fanon.
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Date: 2007-12-15 08:51 am (UTC)Only once have I attempted at Peter’s narrative voice, in a tiny story set in April 1981: Better Stick Together (http://paulamcg.livejournal.com/20366.html). (The other character is – not surprisingly – Remus, and there’s some subtle reference to R/S.) But in two of the novel excerpts, which mainly consist of letters written by Remus to Harry, there is also quite a lot about teenaged Peter: How Human We Are (http://paulamcg.livejournal.com/10926.html) and A Dog Whenever I Need (http://paulamcg.livejournal.com/16772.html).
While I love babbling about my writing and the characters, I’d rather let readers meet my characters in the stories at least before I analyse their characteristics. I believe that each reader must be free to interpret and extrapolate, and I don’t want to give any definite facts about anything that has not appeared in a story (this particular reader has read) yet. But let’s say I suppose my Remus was far from an introverted teenager.
Oh yes, you make sense! It would be a pity if such a treasure as a reader who gets more interested in R/S after the 7th book (which in my view destroyed what little was left of Lupin’s potential after HBP), and finds my fanfic, too, turned out to be a raving lunatic. I hope you’ll let me know when your versions of the first-war Marauders emerge in a story.
I really like the idea that Sirius would continue to be reserved on some level even after finding his new family in the Marauders. After all, it’s not possible to undo the influence of early childhood. That’s why I think I can defend my unusual take on Remus’s character. Because you are not so likely to read what I’ve shown of his childhood in the huge story, I think I can tell you here that he grew up in a (rather unusual extended) family where being friendly and outgoing was the way of life, and this did not change much within the relatively closed community even after the bite, although (as he says in PoA) he didn’t have what a schoolboy might call friends – of his age. I needed him to have this background, so he could possibly – despite the tragedies given to him in canon, and the hardships I (interpreting “unable to find paid work” quite literally, unlike a lot of writers who let him have jobs in bookstores) wanted to give him in the years not shown in canon – grow up to be and remain the man we saw through Harry’s eyes in PoA and OotP, and to tackle the challenges I wanted to give him in my post-OotP story (something far beyond reaching an agreement with a stubborn girlfriend and following Dumbledore’s unreasonable orders).
Thank you once again, for saying that my interpretations are fascinating, as well as for sharing yours. I hope that they can continue to be convincing enough to you within any story by me you read, even though they are different from yours and from the most popular fanon.