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marginalia) wrote2004-06-02 10:21 pm
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chapter eighteen: moony, wormtail, padfoot, and prongs
[Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot, and Prongs] - Remus
He wonders what would happen if he spoke with them through the Map, whispering secrets and watching the ghostly words appear. Words from versions of themselves, imprisoned in parchment. Alone in the early morning hours he knows, bitterly, that it's only magic.
He knows all of this, and yet he thinks on what to say. There are too many words and yet too few for this house divided. Sometimes he dreams he'd just ask Padfoot, why?
It has only been nine years. Two dead, one shell locked away, and one Dark creature who does not want to know the answer.
He wonders what would happen if he spoke with them through the Map, whispering secrets and watching the ghostly words appear. Words from versions of themselves, imprisoned in parchment. Alone in the early morning hours he knows, bitterly, that it's only magic.
He knows all of this, and yet he thinks on what to say. There are too many words and yet too few for this house divided. Sometimes he dreams he'd just ask Padfoot, why?
It has only been nine years. Two dead, one shell locked away, and one Dark creature who does not want to know the answer.
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Oh I could have used so much more of that fic!
*sniff* Lupin!
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I'd love that.
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it was a different kind of angst, back in those days, and i rather preferred it. one could choose to wallow in those 12 years or to look forward with hope.
and i can read this and roll around in the angstiness of it while thinking you're going to find out, it's horrible, but it's not what you think in a hopeful sort of way and try not to think about what happens next.
thanks, man.
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Lovely, Jaci. :)
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thank you :)
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That's such an interesting idea, using the Marauder's Map as a way to "communicate" with its makers. Something potentially dangerous like the Mirror of Erised, you know?
'Tis done beautifully.
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thank you :)
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aw, thank you :)
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Is it Friday yet?
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As to this drabble, it is refreshing, in a way, to go back to PoA-era Remus. It's quite beautiful the way you've shown the map as presenting a quandary for Lupin - how can such anguish be solved by asking a simple question? Love this drabble.
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I don't think I can say anything. I'm just too stunned.
This is beautiful. Truly beautiful. Poor Remus, all alone of the four *holds him* *sniffle*
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