Fic: Pensieve

[pinkhairedauror]

Title: Pensieve
Author: pinkhairedauror
Format & Word Count: Ficlet, 784 words
Rating: PG
Prompt: 14: Spain
Warning: Sadness.
Summary: Teddy actually realises, truly, what the words he's heard all his life about his parents being gone mean.
Author's Note: Ah... This may be brushing at the edge of R/T (although I think it very much applies). If

Comments

[annabtg]

Aww, this was really well done. Very bittersweet.

Keep up the good work! :)

See ya,
Anna.

[pinkhairedauror]

Thank you very much!! ^_^

[shimotsuki]

Oh, this is such a lovely and fitting use of the prompt, and I'd certainly say it's R/T enough, because we see so much about them as Teddy looks back on (what he can find of) them.

I'm happy to say I don't know what it's like to grow up without parents, but Teddy's reactions here seem very real -- he can't miss them in the same way that people do who knew them, but he can regret not knowing these people that others around him loved, and -- maybe most viscerally -- he can miss having parents.

I love the glimpses of his parents' happiness that Teddy pieces together from the photos and the Pensieve, and the snippets of personality you bring out in those images. And I really love the way Teddy thinks of Harry, that what he does usually has a Big Point. And of course Harry would have a very good sense of what it means for Teddy to see a Pensieve memory of his parents.

And that last paragraph is a fantastic ending.

[pinkhairedauror]

Thank you very much!

I also have had the fortune to not know... but it made sense to me that at some point a child would make the transition between knowing something as another of the rules around, and actually comprehending it.

:) I am glad that you loved what went into the fic, because writing it was a little like putting together little small elements, that are probably disjointed but fit together in my mind - if I managed to write them that they fit, I am glad!

:)) Thank you very, very much!!

[tegdoh]

I sometimes skip over canon Teddy fics but oh, that was lovely. And for some reason it was bittersweet, but not painfully so.

[pinkhairedauror]

Aww! Thank you! I am glad I could be one of the exceptions that you liked! :)

[tegdoh]

By the way, I've been meaning to ask, mind if I friend you?

[pinkhairedauror]

You are very welcome to! :) (Keep in mind, this is a roleplaying journal though, and anything not labelled 'ooc' is either fic or pretend! <3)

[merryb87]

sniff beautifully done, bravo! It was very believable and guh, it worked out very well. Poor Teddy. :'(

[pinkhairedauror]

Thank you!! And yes, poor Teddy indeed! ;_;

I am so glad that it worked! Thank you for reading and letting me know!

[plynn78]

Oh My, That was wonderful. I need a tissue. Thank you for that wonderful look into Teddy's life.

[pinkhairedauror]

Thank you! I've been about there with the tissue for most of the time between getting the idea and actually writing it! <3
Thanks a bunch for reading and commenting!