Comments | evening12: Fanfiction: To Grow Up (Sirius Black, PG)

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Fanfiction: To Grow Up (Sirius Black, PG)

Jun 03, 2013 18:02

Title: To Grow Up
Author: evening12
Beta: wasureneba
Main character: Sirius Black
Rating: PG
Word count: 243 words
Content/Warning(s): None, except maybe AU.
Summary: Re-imagine a fairy tale.
A/N: I believe this will be the 2nd piece in my series of fairy tale inspired fics. Each fic is stand alone and will most likely be unrelated to the next. The first one can be ( Read more... )

character: sirius black, fic: harry potter, genre: gen

Comments 8

drarryisgreen June 3 2013, 23:40:17 UTC

This is fantastic! ♥

evening12 June 4 2013, 00:07:22 UTC

Thank you for thinking so :)

betta329 June 5 2013, 11:06:52 UTC

That is unbelievably precious. Wow!

evening12 June 5 2013, 12:29:58 UTC

Thank your lovely words.

amorette October 4 2013, 02:55:08 UTC

Wow. I love this. A great character choice for the fairy tale (I'm beginning to think you have a special knack for seeing the characters deeply and how they fit into which fairytale's message or theme). This hooked me from the very beginning, and even the "voice" felt like it reflected a young Sirius. Great drabble.

evening12 October 4 2013, 03:04:47 UTC

Thanks for stopping by!

I've always loved fairy tales and the way that they are written. There's something about them that reads differently from other fictional works. And I think that combined with my tendency to daydream lends well to this types of works.

I felt that Peter Pan was an apt choice for Sirius. Playful and mischievous, but also filled with sorrow at times.

p_for_polkadots November 8 2013, 17:17:07 UTC

This is very lovely! When I think of Sirius as a fairy tale character, I have to admit that for me nothing immediately obvious comes to mind, but this is a very fitting choice. Did you have other options in mind for Sirius before you started writing, or was it always Peter Pan for you?

I love the style in this as much as in the Red Riding Hood one. Here the darkness is much less palpable, but still present, which gives the whole thing a nice double-edged quality. On the one side there's Sirius as someone who will probably always have this mischievous, childlike core that will get smaller with time but never entirely disappear, and on the other you have the Sirius that won't be/wasn't allowed to grow up, who had any kind of a 'normal' transition into adulthood taken away from him by his time in Azkaban. Aww, now I made myself sad. :( Oh well, it's still beautifully written. :)

evening12 November 20 2013, 00:41:55 UTC

Aww thank you.

I don't know if I always had Peter Pan in mind for Sirius. Really it all started with this sentence Grow old. Old. Old. Old. I had that little bit in my head and the more that sentence ran in my head the more it sounded like Sirius. And I saw Sirius enter Remus bedroom and announce that he wanted more stories (in a way that full of cockiness and playfulness that only kids can have) and I knew that it had to be Peter Pan.

I absolutely love Sirius as a character because I can't pin him down. I find him just as believable as this man with a broken spirit that has found his happiness with Remus (Remus/Sirius is my OTP), and as this eternally childlike man who held on to his spirit regardless of everything and experiences glimmers of darkness.