Fic: Guess Who's Coming to Dinner

[tegdoh]

Title: Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?
Author: tegdoh
Format & Word Count: fic, 1900 words
Prompt: 3. distance, 22. flowers
Warning: none
Summary: The Tonks take Dora and their new son-in-law out to dinner.
Author's Note: Loosely inspired by the Hepburn-Tracy movie.
And, per usual, many thanks to shield_wolf for the beta read.
(Edited to fix the

Comments

[shimotsuki]

This is wonderful. Your details of characterization fit beautifully with canon and yet flesh the characters out and make them believable. (They also match really well with my personal images of these characters, heh...) I'm quite sure that what Remus says to Harry about the Tonkses being "disgusted" by the marriage is a product of his breakdown and doesn't reflect what Ted and Andromeda really think -- but at the same time, I'm sure they must have had reservations.

I adore your controlled, polite Remus here, and the tender moments between Remus and Tonks that are all the more poignant for being seen from an outside perspective. The way you have Ted slowly warm up to Remus before the Montgomery blow falls works really well. And then Ted, making the connection to the history of his own marriage, and Andromeda, who has reservations of her own about this son-in-law, but also has strong enough family loyalty to turn all frosty when Remus is attacked from outside -- those are great bits of characterization.

I eagerly await your AU futurefic where the Montgomery angle comes back into play. :)

[tegdoh]

Thanks very much for the encouragement, especially re: characterization, which is one of those things I fret most about.

I imagine that even the slightest reservation on Ted's or Andromeda's part would have been amplified in Remus' mind to the point of disgust, simply because that is what he has come to expect.