FIC: The Fallacy of Hirsuteness (The HJ Hughes Remix) [Harry Potter; Remus Lupin/Sirius Black; PG]

[ludakreusz]

Title: The Fallacy of Hirsuteness (The Howard Hughes Jr Remix)
Author: gunderpants
Summary: Remus Lupin must resort to drastic measures when his friend's self-imposed exile takes a turn for the ludicrous.Rating: PG for language

Comments

[lls_mutant]

Oh. MY. God.

I am 99% convinced I know who wrote this, and if I'm wrong, I will be dead of shock and then revive to introduce you to the person who I thought wrote this. Anyway.

See, THIS is what Remix is about. I always think it's kind of silly when two people with very compatible styles get paired together. Well, not totally, but this is like, textbook for Remix. Take the premise "Sirius is lonely and depressed in 12 GP and Remus does something that snaps him out of it" and take two people's very different ways of writing that (but both writers include pie). There is NO way my mind ever could have come up with this... but that's exactly the point.

Anyway. Very funny fic. Defintetely very entertaining. Most certainly not a cliche. I don't know anything really, about Howard Hughes except what I learned from Monty Burns on the Simpsons, but this was highly amusing. I especially liked the Spruce Polyjuice.

I also really enjoyed Tonks's presence in this, and her advice (which I think was dead on with Sirius, and- OH!- I LOVED her calling Remus a pussy and Dumbledore agreeing.) Remus really needed to listen to her. And I actually really love seeing R/S (ish) stories where it's not their "perfect trandescent love" (gag) and instead they both fuck up in some way.

I applaud you, ma'am (or sir, but I suspect ma'am). And you'd better cross-post this to deathly_lollows after the big reveal! :)

And thank you!

[gunderpants]

LOLOLOLOLOL

I saw that post you made where you guessed me like an HOUR after they were revealed but I sat on my hands the whole time. I am so, so glad you liked it: I was schvitzing and contemplating writing you an email from a sock account apologising for how crappy it was.

It was at least fun not writing in Remus/Tonks and playing with the dynamics of the Remus/Sirius relationship. I enjoyed it and from my perspective I felt that I did something a little different and fun with it. It's definitely made me keen to write more of the ship.

In other words, I'm glad you liked it. And thanks for being such a lovely person and a great author to actually inspire me.