[Kaleidoscope update] Now Wait for the Tide to Turn
After all those revised chapters, finally, here's an entirely NEW chapter for Kaleidoscope! This is the first chapter of Part II, Mirrors, which covers the HBP year, but in terms of the story timeline this installment actually begins the morning after Blindsided. In other words, Remus has just gone into full-on noble-prat mode
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There seems to be a fair share of Remus-is-simply-being-a-stubborn-prat-about-this around, but I can't help but see why he's feeling the way he does.
Oh, me too. He's been so damn unhappy for so much of his life (...a fact which a certain recent bio only reinforces, heh), and he doesn't want to inflict that on other people. I think Remus is incredibly strong to hold out for so long against what he wants so badly, even though (as you say) I wish he hadn't taken quite so long to work out that Tonks ought be given the chance to decide for herself what she really wants. (I also suspect Remus is afraid that if Tonks tries being with him, his miserable situation will end up making Tonks unhappy, and she'll leave him, meaning he'd only end up losing someone else he needs. But that's another whole side to their dynamic.)
why didn't Sirius leave Remus anything..?
I know! Harry didn't really need it, or not all of it, what with the Potter gold. My personal theory is that Sirius wrote his will when he was made godfather, when Harry was a baby, and just never updated it because thinking about wills means facing your own mortality. But what a difference even just a part of the Black family fortune would have made for Remus. :(
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