HP Fanfic: On the Mend

[mrstater]

Title: On the Mend
Author: MrsTater
Fandom: Harry Potter
Characters & Pairings: Remus Lupin, Severus Snape, Harry Potter, Teddy Lupin; inferred Remus/Tonks, Snape/Lily
Rating & Warnings: PG-13 for language
Format & Word Count: one-shot, 4315 words
Summary: Having survived the final battle, Remus Lupin and Severus Snape need healing from more than just

Comments

[mrstater]

Thanks very much! I was more confident at having written the dynamic between them fairly in-character than I was about the story as a whole, so I'm pleased you felt it worked on both levels. Once the premise popped into my head, it wouldn't leave me alone! These two are interesting to write because you can explore the way bring out the good and bad in each other, and I suspect this won't be the last time I write them...

I particularly love Snape's "Oh GOD WHY" reaction after he sees Harry's face when he wakes up, because death would honestly have been preferable to him at that moment.

Perhaps I'm a little bit of a sadist, but that's maybe one of the more appealing things to me about the possibility of Snape living: he's always been a complete enigma, clinging to his privacy, and then everybody knows the things he's held closest to his chest. Talk about being forced to change!

I love how Remus is the one making the overtures, taking the risks because he IS a Gryffindor while Snape is still knotted up inside.

I'm so glad that came through, because one of the ideas I was playing with is the idea of bravery and how Snape's bravery in playing the double agent all those years isn't quite the same as being brave enough to be emotionally vulnerable for the sake of good. Remus learned a lot about that with Tonks, so it's close to his heart...

Snape's gesture of reconciliation was brilliant!
And that was one of the things I was most worried about being plausible. (Seems I needn't have worried.)

I would love a sequel with Remus's second year of teaching DADA with a post that is no longer cursed!

Hee! I've got this idea now about poor Remus being the object of an over-keen Snape constantly pranking him...

Again, I really appreciate your lovely comments. I'm so very pleased you liked the fic. :)

[sea_thoughts]

These two are interesting to write because you can explore the way bring out the good and bad in each other, and I suspect this won't be the last time I write them...

*claps hands in glee*

Perhaps I'm a little bit of a sadist, but that's maybe one of the more appealing things to me about the possibility of Snape living: he's always been a complete enigma, clinging to his privacy, and then everybody knows the things he's held closest to his chest.

If you're a sadist, then I am, too, because it makes me grin to myself at what he'd go through.

one of the ideas I was playing with is the idea of bravery and how Snape's bravery in playing the double agent all those years isn't quite the same as being brave enough to be emotionally vulnerable for the sake of good

Definitely not. Physical bravery and emotional bravery are two different things. Snape never cared about his physical safety that much but God knows he's always guarded his thoughts and feelings jealously. He is the best Occlumens in the world, after all.

Hee! I've got this idea now about poor Remus being the object of an over-keen Snape constantly pranking him...

Oh dear, poor Remus! Still, I'm sure he can come up with some counter measures.

[mrstater]

If you're a sadist, then I am, too, because it makes me grin to myself at what he'd go through.

And he deserves it, really!