In the Aftermath

[gilpins_tales]

Title: In the Aftermath
Genre: Angst/Romance
Word Count: 7395 words
Rating & warnings: Pg-13 Mild swearing, but the narrator's stressed. ;)
Summary: There are some things, some looks, so private you shouldn’t ever see them. After the shock of Dumbledore’s death, it’s a night of many revelations for Ron. The events that take place in and after

Comments

[kuri333]

Having already replied to your other two messages, I'm starting to fear - again - you will think I'm a stalker. I'm not, honest!

The first HP fic I've ever wrote was an After The Hospital Wing Scene, I must confess. It wasn't great, or original, or even good... but it was my first attempt on writing Tonks and it was fun. I'll stand by what I've said: yours is the finest one I've ever read! I love how you write about some scene we all know about and yet you do it with angles so unexpected it actually keeps me on edge, wondering what will happen next.

Tonks is such a great character (meaning I'll never forgive JKR for killing her and I'll stay in Land of Denial for as long as possible), so complex and rich, strong and yet you could almost see the potential... I don't know... tenderness on her. I love to imagine her that way. No matter how terrible things are, no matter how terrible she feels, she just summons energy out of nowhere to do what she has to do when she has to do it.

What you say about showing feelings and being affected by them is so true. It wouldn't have been believable - or she would have been a very shallow character - if she would have stayed all cheery through HBP and later on and if she would not eventually lose her nerves the way she does. I like to think that shaking thing is something she had done to him before... only we don't know when. So, of course it's a shock for everybody back then, but that's just only because we didn't see that coming. (When I read the book for the first time I was flabbergasted and yet it all made so much sense)

I'm rambling again, sorry about that.

The point is, thank you very very much for your reply and I'm glad the comment made you grin, that was one of the ideas behind it. The other idea was just to put on writing how amazed I was by your story.

Thanks a lot for sharing it.

Cheers!