Sherbet Lemons

[rosemaryandrue]

For the royal_almost prompt sherbet lemons. Some gifts are not welcome in the Black House. Complete with an attempt to write in the style of the young Sirius Black who has some issues with spelling and sentence-structure.

Comments

[juliette_kelley]

Oh, wow. This is amazing.

P.S. Sorry. Things are different here. You’ll see next year.

I love how Sirius is trying to comfort his brother. His knowledge of the vomit-inducing spells his mother would use chilled me.

How strange, he thinks, that redemption should taste of lemons.

I love how that sentence is layered with meaning; the sourness-- the bitterness-- Regulus feels at having lost his brother, and now that he's trying to stop Voldemort he can't do anything to reconcile with Sirius. This is so painful. Never before have I come across a more compelling portrayal of Regulus and Sirius's relationship.

and Andromeda lost twenty points for Slytherin

Just to nitpick-- I believe Andromeda was in Ravenclaw, not Slytherin. :)

[rosemaryandrue]

Sirius does understand, in his own way, but he's too young to have the right words to express it. I feel so sorry for them - I can't believe they weren't close as children and Sirius' sorting must have ripped the whole family apart.

I believe Andromeda was in Ravenclaw, not Slytherin. :)

I'm pretty certain that's fanon, not canon :) I don't have the books with me here but I've just double-checked against the lexicon and there's no mention of her house there.

Ah - just found a copy of OotP - Sirius doesn't mention her house in the tapestry chapter, just that she married a muggleborn and was his favourite cousin. I like redeeming Slytherins and what hints we've had about her make her sound quite cunning so I sort her into Slytherin.

[juliette_kelley]

Oops! I could have sworn Sirius mentioned her being in Ravenclaw, but obviously I'm mistaken. Sorry about the false info. *sheepish grin*

[rosemaryandrue]

If you could track it down I'd be interested. I couldn't find anything definite in the books but enough people use it that I'm worried I've missed something.

[shinzuku]

"Professor McGonnergal knocked her porrige off the table when Mother started on about how the Mudbloods would murder us all in our beds. "

That was a funny image.