Unforeseen Attachments

[shimotsuki]

Title: Unforeseen Attachments
Author: shimotsuki
Rating & Warnings: PG for mild profanity
Prompts: Romantic comedy; Day of Separation; Flesh-Eating Slug Repellent; image #21 (old-fashioned kitchen)
Word Count: 3570
Summary: The Weasley twins apply their formidable research and development skills to the problem of Walburga Black's portrait, but things go

Comments

[gilpin25]

This was such an enjoyable read, full of gentle good humour and a real sense of camaraderie between friends. And obviously Chef!Remus can peel Tonks' potatoes any time, lol.

I loved seeing the twins doing intelligent magic; so often, and understandably, they're great pranksters in fan fic, but they're so intelligent and clever that this seems just the sort of thing they would come up with. I really enjoyed all the little individual moments that came to the forefront when everyone reacted to the problem: Remus immediately going to a far darker place than everyone else and Tonks empathising with him, George cracking jokes while working on the solution, Sirius furiously thinking things through logically, and Tonks being both practical and quick to come up with the solution. I also liked the easy but notable affection between Remus, Sirius and Tonks throughout. Great stuff.

As for Oblivious!Remus - I'm inclined to say it's a pity Sirius didn't throw a potato at him, but I do realise it wouldn't have fitted in with the order of your stories if he had caught on! This was lovely, very enjoyable, and full of those great little touches your stories always have that bring the characters to life so well. :)

[shimotsuki]

Thank you so much for the kind words! I'm very happy that you enjoyed this.

I'm firmly convinced that the twins have to be nearly as brilliant as James and Sirius were said to be, given that they seem to invent and develop new pranks all the time -- their dismal performance on OWLs must have been because they were too busy producing new Wheezes to study...

As for Sirius, I imagine him being torn between wanting to meddle, and wanting to amuse himself by watching Remus being oblivious. Hee.