Ah, Minnow, I love this! Although I have to say it's a bit of a painful read--you don't often find authors who really try to work through what might have been wrong with that relationship (there are so many possibilities, even discounting a possible previous relationship with Sirius and a sexuality crisis on Remus' and/or Tonks' part). I need to go back and read the fic you remixed, but I thought using the Muggle therapist was a brilliant stroke, because it takes the relationship out of a context where no one seemed troubled by it and forces us to think, alongside the POV character, about where and why this couple might be having problems. Which they obviously are. You really captured the two different worldviews so well, and the tension between them came across beautifully for me here:
I wish she’d come and see for herself, because our flat’s amazing! We even have a lilac bush in the back garden.’
‘Technically, we don’t ‘have’ anything in the garden,’ Remus pointed out, drawing the quotation marks in the air.
Ouch! As always, a lovely, thoughtful fic. Brava! Maggie
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Date: 2009-07-27 10:57 pm (UTC)I wish she’d come and see for herself, because our flat’s amazing! We even have a lilac bush in the back garden.’
‘Technically, we don’t ‘have’ anything in the garden,’ Remus pointed out, drawing the quotation marks in the air.
Ouch! As always, a lovely, thoughtful fic. Brava! Maggie