Ooh, yes, we surely could all use a gentle Nedouard right now. And you're right, there's rather a Potterwatch feeling to this atmosphere of hunkering-down but also trying-to-keep-each-other's-spirits-up-despite-the-hunkering-down. Maybe it'll inspire some writing. (It's true that writing could be a great balm in these times. Do you want prompts? It could be fun to brainstorm prompts!)
And you've given me an additional idea about the Remus scenario... I'd rather that it be Remus' impetus to insist on being the one to raise Harry and/or to do the research to prove their family connection – the whole thing of it making a better story if it's driven by the character's action/choice rather than a passive thing that happens to them.
But then that begs the question, so why does this AU unfold differently from canon? What's the different factor that makes it so that here Remus dares to step up for Harry, where in canon he walked away? So my latest idea is that maybe it came up at some point during their Hogwarts years, just in passing: Lily happened to learn Remus' mother's maiden name and said oh hey, that's funny, I think we've got some of those somewhere in my family tree, too. And that one little suggestion left in Remus' brain is enough that when he hears about James and Lily's deaths, that possible family connection is what springs to his mind, and his feeling of responsibility to Harry is stronger than his desire to run away, and the first thing he does is research the hell out of the thing until he can prove to Dumbledore that he has just as much claim to raising Harry as Petunia does.
Anyway, it's fun to think about. :-)
I hope you're keeping okay! These are scary times.
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Date: 2020-03-19 12:29 am (UTC)Ooh, yes, we surely could all use a gentle Nedouard right now. And you're right, there's rather a Potterwatch feeling to this atmosphere of hunkering-down but also trying-to-keep-each-other's-spirits-up-despite-the-hunkering-down. Maybe it'll inspire some writing. (It's true that writing could be a great balm in these times. Do you want prompts? It could be fun to brainstorm prompts!)
And you've given me an additional idea about the Remus scenario... I'd rather that it be Remus' impetus to insist on being the one to raise Harry and/or to do the research to prove their family connection – the whole thing of it making a better story if it's driven by the character's action/choice rather than a passive thing that happens to them.
But then that begs the question, so why does this AU unfold differently from canon? What's the different factor that makes it so that here Remus dares to step up for Harry, where in canon he walked away? So my latest idea is that maybe it came up at some point during their Hogwarts years, just in passing: Lily happened to learn Remus' mother's maiden name and said oh hey, that's funny, I think we've got some of those somewhere in my family tree, too. And that one little suggestion left in Remus' brain is enough that when he hears about James and Lily's deaths, that possible family connection is what springs to his mind, and his feeling of responsibility to Harry is stronger than his desire to run away, and the first thing he does is research the hell out of the thing until he can prove to Dumbledore that he has just as much claim to raising Harry as Petunia does.
Anyway, it's fun to think about. :-)
I hope you're keeping okay! These are scary times.