Day 9 - Team MWPP - Fic: A History of Joy and Love

[rsgamesmods]

Team: MWPP
Title: A History of Joy and Love
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: mild sexual content
Word Count: 7208
Summary: Energetic friendship between four cheeky wizards and a youthful romance that survives the bleakest of winters.
Notes: thanks to GA, my other ever faithful Potterdom beta. “Helter skelter in the summer swelter” is a lyric from American

Comments

[leontinabowie]

While I love the relationship between Remus and Sirius, I also love the Marauder friendship, and I'm glad that had a big part in this story (and more so that you made Peter likable)

“What manner of useless wizard are you if you can’t stop this happening to our son?” Oh gosh, that line was powerful. I know Remus' mother wasn't the focus of the story, but I've wanted to know more about her after Rowling revealed that small bit of information, and I could completely see Hope reacting like that to the bite.

But moving more onto the focus of the story :) I loved how Remus told the others what it was like to be a werewolf. My poor baby though, at least he'll have the Wolfsbane in a few years time, but it must have been hell for Remus to get lost in the wolf, and you portrayed his feelings very in-character and realistic.

“No underage sex in my pool!” Prongs declared bossily. That made me laugh. I could have stopped reading there and gone on about my day still laughing about it, but I did read on, of course LOL But then the

[queenkerosene]

A lot of the little details of this story were what really made it remarkable for me. I especially enjoyed a lot of the background stuff with Remus and his parents -- the big with the dragon dressing gown was so cute, I wanted to die. Seriously, I wanted an entire story dedicated just to that. But I also really enjoyed Remus' later epiphany that his parents weren't scared of him, but scared for him.

I also enjoyed having a strong sense of good-friend Peter. I think, in general, he's a bit tricky for a lot of people to write. (I know I usually avoid actually writing him, ha.) But he worked well in this fic, I think.

[bookgrrrl2006]

this was darling, but more importantly, it felt really accurate. i mean that in the sense of boys being boys and the complex lines of friendship you drew amongst them. i very much felt as if i were right there, one of their group, being a real part of the action. and that made it really great.

it was a great use of theme and prompt, too. i liked the way you divided it up into sections for each season and how the theme of each season was interwoven with the action of the story. that was very clever and unique.

i also have to say that i loved peter here. i used to be a real peter hater until someone (one of the mods here) pointed out that there had to be something good about peter of these guys would never have been friends with him. sure, he turned out to do a terrible deed, but he really was once their friend. you seem to really understand this, too. his speech was dead awesome and i very much loved him for it. and i loved you for writing him that way.

good job, mystery author.

[youcantseeus]

This was great!

I loved how you used the prompt and how each section seemed to convey each line of the prompt so well.

I also really liked what you told us about Remus as child and the dragon game. This line killed me:

The game stopped once Remus became a werewolf and his parents’ fear of him became real.

and this:

“What manner of useless wizard are you if you can’t stop this happening to our son?”

And your Peter was awesome -- seriously, one of the best Peters I've ever read. I really like the idea of him feeling closest to Remus and I actually think this is the first fic where I've seen that idea explored although it would seem to fit in with what we were told in the new Remus Lupin biography on Pottermore.

Anyway, great fic!

[pavlablack]

Great story that pulled me in from the start-that opening scene from Poppy’s point of view was brilliant. And in the next scene, Remus’s mother’s reaction to his condition broke my heart, while James’s made me laugh. I love the slow progression of the romance between Sirius and Remus, and especially Peter’s and James’s reaction to it-truly excellent portrayal of Peter by the way. And that last scene was so well-done-I especially loved how you used Sirius’s transformations into Padfoot to show how he and Remus move from hurt and anger to forgiveness, and the last two paragraphs. Wonderful ending to a wonderful story.