fic for laurus_nobilis: Detention with Professor Longbottom (Neville, Teddy, PG)

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Title: Detention with Professor Longbottom
Author: jncar
Recipient: laurus_nobilis
Rating: PG
Characters: Neville Longbottom, Teddy Lupin
Summary: After hexing some of his classmates, Teddy Lupin is surprised to spend his detention having a heart to heart with Professor Longbottom.
Author's Notes: Two of my recipient's requests were Neville as a professor and

Comments

[merlins_babe]

Absolutely brilliant story.
I love the way that you developed the characters.

[slam_girl]

That was very sweet. I liked the way you incorporated some of Remus's characteristics into his son, that was a concern of his and I think it was done it a realistic way with Teddy being more sensitive to the lunar cycles. And it was nice to have Neville be the one to help him, I imagine he could relate to Teddy quite a bit. Lovely job.

[lareinenoire]

Oh, this is just wonderful. I love how you've extrapolated grown-up Neville from what we've seen of him in canon, and how you've taken the parallels between his childhood and Teddy's (which actually hadn't occurred to me until read this fic) and turned them into a wonderful bond between them.

And I really find your theory on how werewolf characteristics might manifest themselves in children very interesting; as well as Andromeda's 'cure', which is lovely and sweet.

[norisis]

Like lareinenoire said, this story made me realise the parallels between Neville and Teddy, which are almost more startling than those between Teddy and Harry - especially in this story, with the boggarts! And this is a nice look at young Teddy, and his issues with the 'demons' of the past... the bit about Harry and everyone else only wanting to tell Teddy about the good points of Remus, because they don't want to 'spoil' their memories (or Teddy's impression) of Remus was excellent. And I just about melted at the idea of "Teddy Days" - Andromeda is one smart cookie.

There's a sense of 'full circle' in this story, especially with Neville growing into the kind, inspirational teacher that Lupin was to him. "Professor Longbottom was full of great ideas tonight." Indeed! I love the image of a wolf in a bonnet and diaper with a dummy/pacifier in its mouth. Hee. (And rather randomly, I quite like the idea of Teddy helping out Hagrid!)

Lovely story, I greatly enjoyed reading it!

Detention with Professor Longbottom

[catsintheattic]

I enjoyed this a lot. Neville was just like I imagine him to be as a teacher. It's like he now had the chance to hand the courage that Remus taught him over to Teddy.

So much love for Andromeda's Teddy Days! &hearts &hearts &hearts

Thank you for sharing!