Oooh, hurray, so glad you liked this! (And "aureate" is a word I learned from "Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell", in fact!)
But oh dear, I do fear Gellert has indeed seen everything, and will be using it to his own advantage.
Well, interesting you say that, because story #2 in this series didn't turn out like I thought it was going to (what I thought about Gellert's attitude towards Albus and what I ended up writing about it are somehow very different) so if you ever feel like it, I'd actually be very curious to know what you were thinking here, what direction you thought Gellert might be going in! (And, if you happen to read the second story at some point, I'd certainly be curious to know if it seemed realistic/fit at all with what you were thinking... I'm still on the fence about the choices I made in part 2, and am wondering if I was too hasty in posting it...or if maybe there are going to need to be 4 stories total instead of 3!)
Oh, Dumbledore, yes, intellectually lonely *and* not trusting himself ever to love again! Yet somehow he seems to have managed to construct a life for himself, in later/canon years, in which he's able to get real joy from seeing *other* people love and be happy.
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But oh dear, I do fear Gellert has indeed seen everything, and will be using it to his own advantage.
Well, interesting you say that, because story #2 in this series didn't turn out like I thought it was going to (what I thought about Gellert's attitude towards Albus and what I ended up writing about it are somehow very different) so if you ever feel like it, I'd actually be very curious to know what you were thinking here, what direction you thought Gellert might be going in! (And, if you happen to read the second story at some point, I'd certainly be curious to know if it seemed realistic/fit at all with what you were thinking... I'm still on the fence about the choices I made in part 2, and am wondering if I was too hasty in posting it...or if maybe there are going to need to be 4 stories total instead of 3!)
Oh, Dumbledore, yes, intellectually lonely *and* not trusting himself ever to love again! Yet somehow he seems to have managed to construct a life for himself, in later/canon years, in which he's able to get real joy from seeing *other* people love and be happy.