A Merry Auld Christmas

[bratty_jedi]

Title: A Grimmauld Merry Auld Christmas
Author: bratty_jedi
Format: Fic
Rating & Warnings: Pre-teens. Sirius is a bit of a potty mouth.
Prompts: Spellotape and Father Christmas (largely just his hats)
Word Count: ~3,500
Summary: Sirius made his way through the halls and down the stairs, humming merrily to himself and mentally reviewing his holiday

Comments

[lady_bracknell]

This is really fun. I loved the way you characterised Sirius - he is very chipper for the early part of Harry's stay so I found his , and I thought especially during his interaction with Buckbeak (which was hilarious) that you gave him just the right amount of moodiness for him to be believable.

I loved the very near kiss with Sirius snooping - it was a very nice tie in for his comedy ranting about Remus' santa hats.

All in all, a very enjoyable read.

[lady_bracknell]

Sorry - slight kittens on the keyboard situation, there. The missing words are:

he is very chipper for the early part of Harry's stay so I found his demeanor here, his stoic and dogged insistence on having a good time really in character, and very fitting, and I thought especially during his interaction with Buckbeak (which was hilarious) that you gave him just the right amount of moodiness for him to be believable.

[bratty_jedi]

No problem. I'm having dog issues of my own at the moment.

I'm really tickled Sirius seems right. He is so happy with Harry (and everyone else) there for the holidays, but his moodiness comes back so suddenly after Christmas, I can't believe it ever went very far. I'm really glad my interpretation makes sense to someone else and came across in the story.

I wanted to get Sirius into a hat since he is the primary one pushing Christmas on everyone else, making him the Father Christmas of Grimmauld. After the trouble he gave Remus with the colored hats, having Remus put him in one just seemed like the way to go. So I had Remus stop him from spying on all the kiss and then realized that I had the kids interrupt the mushy stuff in my last meta fic and with this added, I was going to develop the reputation for refusing to actually write kisses. So I let him see the end of a kiss. Not much, I know. Maybe my goal for the next round should be to write a full snog session?

Thanks for your comments.

[auror_ithilien]

I loved the beginning with Buckbeak! I like all the songs, they are much more fun than the originals. People around my house are getting annoyed with my current Shrek version so perhaps it's time for a change. Great story, I liked all the characterizations, you got them all just right! The part with the kids decorating was great too.
I did find a typo you might want to edit. "I'll just you live kids to it then," should probably be 'I'll just leave you kids to it then"
Wonderful story and wonderful song! :D

[bratty_jedi]

Oddly enough, I was debating cutting the Buckbeak stuff because I wasn't sure it worked. Glad I kept it and you liked it :)

It was fun to play around with some of the characters I've never really done before and I'm very pleased the characterizations worked.

Thanks for the typo catch and taking the time to review.

[norwyn]

I'm glad you left in the Buckbeak scene. I think it added to the piece, which was well done. I agree that it is more likely that Sirius was just barely hanging in there, as far as keeping his spirits up, and that is why he became so foul so quickly after the holiday.

You did an excellent job with Sirius, and I love the pink hat to limit his snooping on a holiday song/snog.

[bratty_jedi]

Thanks for commenting. I'm glad you liked the story and Sirius rang true.

Remus conjuring a pink Father Christmas hat for a snooping Sirius was just too awesome a visual for me not to include it when the idea popped into my head. :)

[majorcarter_sg1]

i love your version of the 12 days of christmas...i may take to singing it. I thought your approach to this fic was brilliant. It had a great look into Sirius as his busseled about and still found himself rather trapped while at teh same time giving us some great r/t.
lovely!
-Sam

[bratty_jedi]

Thanks for the comments. I'm glad you liked it. I was moderately concerned there would be some disappointment over the R/T not showing up until the last 1/3 of the story, but everyone's reactions have been great so far.

Oh, if you're interested, I wrote a Weasley Twin version of the 12 Days of Christmas as well and posted it here.

[majorcarter_sg1]

Ha! Dude the Twin's version is sweet! thanks for shareing.
-Sam

[devonwood]

Oh no...

...not *that* song! XD That's going to be stuck in my head now, and like Sirius, it's going to be an odd jumble of the original and your new version. :)

I was a little bit concerned before I got reading that there wasn't going to be much Remus/Tonks going on, but I loved how you ended it. I wonder how Tonks convinced Remus to let them switch jobs. ;)

Also, Buckbeak and Sirius singing in the beginning was absolutely hilarious. :D

[bratty_jedi]

Sorry to have planted the song brain bug. But it was too much fun to write :)

I wonder how Tonks convinced Remus to let them switch jobs. ;)
Now that could be an interesting out take. Not to mention how they got the decorations done so quickly to scoot off to the library together.

Thanks for reviewing and I'm very pleased you liked this both in general and in the R/T ending.