Winter Dreams

[evrdream33]

Title: Winter Dreams
Author: evrdream33
Rating & Warnings: PG
Prompt: Hogwarts Express

Off with my overcoat, off with my glove
I need no overcoat, I'm burning with love!
My heart's on fire, the flame grows higher
So I will weather the storm!
What do I care how much it may storm?
Oh, I've got my love to keep me warm- "I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm,"

Comments

[lady_bracknell]

I really liked this. You totally had me fooled - I thought it was AU and definitely them saying goodbye to Teddy after the Christmas holidays, and I loved the way you pulled that out from underneath us and sent us back in time. It makes it very poignant, I think, knowing that this never happened for them for real, but that when he sat staring into the fire, it was what Remus was thinking about.

I really liked him telling Celstina to shut up, too, lol.

[evrdream33]

Thanks! =) I was going to make it AU, but then it would have been just too happy in a one dimensional way that felt like more of an escapism of their "reality." Call me a sadist, but I wasn't too happy with that, so I just made it Remus' escapist fantasy instead.

[gilpin25]

I'll join those who were fooled as well - even though I read the title, but it still obviously didn't register with my brain! However, I think that's a compliment to you; I thought you made it seem a perfectly convincing and possible AU, and yet the hints of a dream were there all the time with the son never being named and how you always seem to fall at some point just before you wake up (or is that just me?!)

I liked the dialogue too, and the characterisations. Very nicely done!

[evrdream33]

I actually think I would have been fooled too. I think it helps that titles usually tend to be metaphorical rather than literal. ^_^

Thank you!

[mrstater]

Aw, this is both so happy and so heartbreaking. I do believe Remus and Tonks had gotten to the point of talking about marriage and a family before he had to go away, and it makes sense being among the Weasleys at Christmas would only stir up those feelings and give him this sort of dream of the future he wants.

And you tricked me, too! I was so caught up in the fun of Remus and Tonks taking Teddy off to school. I really really loved Teddy saying, "She's doing household spells" and Remus wincing -- I LOLed.

Good work!

[evrdream33]

Happy and heartbreaking was what I was aiming for, but I didn't originally intend for the dream sequence to last so long that people would be so sucked into it. It was just so much fun that I just kept writing.

Thank you!

[seer_of_spots]

Poor drowsy Remus. (Even, you know, with his world shattered with his waking up he's still adorable, lol.)

I loved the little things in this story - the trunk, the cab driver, the gnome!angel ... all very neatly slipped in.

A lovely, bitter-sweet Christmas piece.

[evrdream33]

Stubbornly noble as he is, yes, he is indeed adorable still. ^_^

Thanks! =)