Fic: Voyage Sentimental

[minnow_53]

Voyage Sentimental
by minnow_53

Disclaimer: These characters belong to JK Rowling and various corporations.
Pairing: R/S
Era: Summer 1985/summer 1979: plenty of R/S interaction.
Summary: Remus returns to a French resort where he once stayed with Sirius.
Rating: PG-13
Thanks: To astra_argentea for the quick read-through.
AN: The lyrics quoted in the story are from

Comments

[paulamcg]

I don’t think this is too angsty at all, and perhaps you could advertise this by also mentioning the parts with R/S interaction - and the first-war era in general. This is, after all, nothing like the plague of my lost years fics, in which fans of Sirius hardly find one mention of a puppy. It’s refreshing to read a fic set outside Britain and JKR’s settings, but I also enjoy the scenes with James, Lily and Peter, as well as the idea of escaping before they all had to admit that the war couldn’t be avoided.

I suppose in this case it is actually evocative that you don’t show only a few intensive moments but almost all the hours of the brief vacation, which seems to pass slowly. It must be realistic to make Remus into a tourist (no, actually a pilgrim, which is what I used to call myself, when in my twenties I made trips - during which I skipped some meals, though - to places where I’d been with people who had then disappeared from my life in admittedly less tragic ways), and the nineteen-year-old boys into drinkers with no hangovers (as tourists). The touches of magic are wonderfully light and easy, too, up to inventing ipods when a walkman with cassette tapes would have sufficed in 1985, too. I wonder how Remus could live with the conviction that Sirius had acted under the Imperius Curse, when Dumbledore should have been able to arrange a trial for him and get him declared not guilty, just like Malfoy.

I’m so happy I got to read a lovely lost-years fic by you before you left fanfic. Thank you!

[minnow_53]

Thank you! I've now changed the header a bit.

...up to inventing ipods when a walkman with cassette tapes would have sufficed in 1985

Yay! I hoped someone would get that, because to me it seemed such a Sirius thing to do. But I won't mention that Walkmans might have been better: my daughter is on something like her 6th iPod under guarantee... :(

I made the point about the Imperius as Remus's interpretation, and also because, in this story anyway, the curse can't be reversed. That seems to chime vaguely with canon, though it's never been explicitly stated. Perhaps it's just Remus's way of trying to accept what's happened, as Shaggydogstail suggested... I'm seeing the Imperius as a form of psychosis, perhaps, though I wasn't intending to be metaphorical. But the point is that somehow Sirius has been irrevocably spoiled, in Remus's eyes anyway, though we know in canon that he wasn't under the Imperius at all. I mean, if you find you're married to a mass murderer, you will make excuses, and the magical world provides plenty of them.

I'm just delighted you enjoyed it! I suddenly remembered that I've got a fairytale challenge to write, but that should be fun. Otherwise, I'll mainly be working. *is gloomy*

*many hugs*

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[paulamcg]

I’ve only worked all July (*is gloomy and exhausted*), besides writing a 100-word piece - about the lost years (so this is not an advertisement)! Oh yes, I noticed the fairytale challenge and thought you’d have to take part. Now I have to find it again to see what you have claimed…

I remember reading in the books that a lot of people claimed they had served Voldemort only due to the Imperius Curse, so it must have been reversible. But I admit I can’t remember everything in the books very well, as I’ve hardly reread them since I started writing and reading fanfic.

[minnow_53]

I always thought that the Imperius was a convenient excuse, which may be why Dumbledore might have ignored it in this case. It's like saying you were hypnotised, but the handful of people who really were hypnotised would have found it harder to come back again.

I'm sorry you've had to work so hard. *empathises* It's a pain, isn't it? I finished this when I was supposed to be getting on with one of the three enormous jobs I've somehow acquired while I wasn't looking.

I've been a bit sketchy with LJ, so I'll go and have a look at your journal now. :)

^_^xx