Not With A Bang But A Whimper

[kawaii_tenshi27]

Title: Not With A Bang But A Whimper

Summary: Remus grieves. (Supposed to be OotP/post-OotP, but could technically be some other time.)

Warning: 100-word drabble. Oneshot. Implied slash (in my brain, anyway). Duh. The title is from the last line of T. S. Eliot’s poem The Hollow Men.
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Not With A Bang But A Whimper

Remus lets out a choked sob, wrapping

Comments

[brighty18]

Oh, this is quite sad, but also very lovely! It's also very much how I picture it.
That last sentence was perfect. It's interesting, too, how this could be easily read as November of 1981, too, but I think it works best in your era.

It's funny that you invoked Eliot because I've been reading a lot of Eliot lately. (It's April, why not read The Wasteland?)

[kawaii_tenshi27]

Actually, when I wrote the original draft of this, it was supposed to be part of a longer fic, and it was meant to be right after Remus found out that Sirius had told Snape about the Willow. I sort of rehauled it as a scene of Remus grieving after Sirius had died, but his grief in '81 was another thought as well - grief for the deaths of Lily and James, the supposed death of Peter, the imprisonment and supposed guilt of Sirius, and for Harry, who has been orphaned and sent to live with people Remus would probably know enough about to realise how awful they would be.

That last stanza has always killed me, and the very last line struck me as right for the title. If I ever finish my papers and have enough time to read for myself, I would like to do some more Eliot reading - I haven't in a long time.

Thank you.