A Thrill of Hope

[author_by_night]

Author/Artist: author_by_night

Title: A Thrill of Hope

Rating & Warnings: PG-13

Word Count/Art Medium: 2,390

Prompt(s):

24. Remus Lupin: "You shouldn't have! Teddy needs you."

Nymphadora Tonks: "He'll sleep till dawn and snore like his father. It's you who needs me tonight."
(Deathly Hallows Part II Movie - a deleted scene.)

Summary: An

Comments

[shimotsuki]

Lovely story! First, it gives Remus and Tonks a way out, and I'm always in favor of that. ;) But I like the what-ifs -- if Tonks hadn't been there, Dolohov would have gotten Remus, and then if Dean rather than Remus had been covering Tonks, she wouldn't have made it through... The first scene with Harry is great, too, with nods to their first meetings in PoA, and with Remus seeing himself in Harry and knowing what advice to give him.

[author_by_night]

Thanks!

I enjoyed writing the PoA callbacks - I still think PoA was one of the best books in the series, and not just because of Remus. ;)

[evenscribbles]

This was beautiful and a wonderful beginning to this twelfth night event.

I enjoyed how easily each section flowed together and how much love and understanding there was between the characters; Tonks and Remus, Remus and Harry, and Tonks and Harry. Be that last one shown by how quickly she gave Teddy up to him.

I also adored the flashback to POA with the chocolate and how Minerva was like of course Remus needs to come back to teach after the war.

All in all, I chowed down your story like a chocolate bar, and am now looking at the empty Hershey wrapper, sad there is no more. I cannot wait for the next one that you come up with.

[mollywheezy]

I love this. Your title is beautiful and the way you tied it into the story was perfect.

I chuckled at "You just defeated Voldemort, and a baby intimidates you?" :)

Great job!

[gilpin25]

Like this event is becoming an annual tradition, so is you getting us off to such a good start!

I like the way you've used small changes to make such big differences, and the story gets stronger as it unfolds. The scene with Harry is a real stand out, with echoes of the past, the humour they've always shared, and Remus recognizing himself in Harry and the similar choices facing them both. I loved Harry saying "That's bleak", lol, and the line about the chocolate.

It seems most appropriate that our first story is a lovely one, where they get to live (as they should have done!), and there's so much promise for the future. Yay. :D

[author_by_night]

Thank you!

(Sorry, I thought I'd thanked you before. That week was crazy.)

[starfishstar]

I agree with everyone who commented on how well your "fix-it" choices for how to save Tonks and Remus worked - they were little details that very, very believably could have happened, it could easily have gone that way instead of the way it did in canon.

I especially liked the post-war sections - Remus looking at Harry and seeing himself, but also seeing the opportunity for Harry to *not* go the lonely, painful, self-blaming route that Remus did, that's perfect.

And that was a delightful little PoA callback with the not-poisoned chocolate. ;-)

[author_by_night]

Thank you!

I think Harry had a bit of Remus in him, and I think both of them were very jaded from their respective battles. (Really, I feel having been in two wars caused Remus's issues as much as anything else. Fans always seem to forget that before he lost James, Peter and Sirius he lost half the Order.)

I love PoA, so the callbacks were fun.