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hogwartsexpressed2021-02-12 09:23 am
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the woods are lovely, dark and deep
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π ππππ ππ πππππππ β Maybe you zigged when you should have zagged, but either way, you donβt know where you are, or how to get back to where youβre supposed to be. Alternately, youβre part of the search party sent to go find the missing person, careful you donβt end up lost yourself!
π π ππππππππ β Whatever you did youβve ended up out in the forest after dark following after The Groundskeeper (or maybe you are the Groundskeeper). Careful, donβt hang too far back from the rest of the group, itβs dangerous out there.
π ππππππ ππππππππ β Sure there might be spiders and centaurs, along with who knows what else, but you canβt deny how private the forest is, and how easy it is to steal away behind a tree with that certain somebody.
π πππππππ ππ ππππππ /πππ ππππππππ β Maybe youβre after some extra credit, or just trying to suck up to a professor, heck, maybe youβre a professor trying to date a professor, or maybe itβs a full moon and youβre after some Fluxweed, either way, better be quick about it!
π πππππππππ ππ πππππ! β Death Eaters in the castle! Drama in Ravenclaw Tower! A Professor turned evil! An emotional exit and storming off turned cataclysmic! Dragons! Something serious has happened to bring you to the forest today!
π πππππππ ππππ ππππππ β A Rite of Passage? Or maybe you lost a bet or ran your mouth too much for too long. Whatever happened itβs time to put up or shut up and gain bragging rights for the rest of the term.
π ππππ ππ ππππ! β Whatever it was you were just doing, itβs time to get away, and what better way to make sure your retreat is covered than to cut a path through the Forbidden Forest?
π ππππ πππ ππ π ππππ β You donβt get why everyone thinks this place is dangerous, you love coming to the forest for some fresh air and creature spotting/hiking/bird watching.
π πππ ππππππππππ ππππππππ/ππππππππ ππππππ β Exactly what it says on the tin.
ππ ππππ ππππ ! β Go wild! Live your life!
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Coming from school-age Remus, this would have blown everyone's minds. He wondered wryly if, with all their hardship lines and scars, it still would. Far-reaching bonds did behave like time turners in how one saw each other and felt.
"β¦Orβ¦" This came less easily, but there was no one Remus had ever been able to talk to like Sirius. And if that was what they were reclaiming and encouraging, best to just do it. "β¦I'll take the sugar if I'm washing down Wolfsbane Potion. I can't dilute the stuff but. β¦actually, I welcome the taste even though it's vile. It's pretty much the miracle we used to talk about."
β¦and speak grandly of finding. That mission never materialising had been a private sting in the few years between graduating and cataclysm, though Remus had tried to be reasonable and not expect it. Those years had been the beginnings of loss for him, really, when his work for the Order kept him so far away from the others for so much of the time, while they got to keep sharing their lives without him. It was hard not to feel alienated or forgotten, however irrationally. That distance hadn't made the outcome a whit better of course.
(Why why hadn't they asked him to be the Secret Keeperβ¦Β Why hadn't Dumbledore summoned him back at least for Sirius's trialβ¦ Why hadn't he even met Harryβ¦ Again, more wounds that Sirius's return finally, when nothing else had, began to heal.
Anyway, he knew the answers. Or could guess. Lily had always thought Peter might need a challenge of trust to rise more to his potential, and James would assess him as the least predictable. Remus would never be in the running as guardian for Harry, when his life and very nature could never be safe or stable enough. But not to have been at the trialβ¦Β And not even allowed to be a secret protector at the outskirts of Harry's life, even if, like that muggle village, Harry never knew Remus was thereβ¦Β Those resentments were for Dumbledore. And yet, again and again, if Remus knew anything about Dumbledore, it was that he was always knew five things more than anyone else. So he had to trust.)
Stop. Stop thinking about the past. Like you always always do. For once, in years, again, at last, be in the present. Take the lead, fittingly, from Sirius in that.
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And he almost does. It's nice and easy, like putting on an old pair of slippers. After so many years almost completely alone, he doesn't exactly have a habit of considering other people.
Except this is Remus, and he's telling him something, and he looks like his mind is miles away from tea, sugar or potions.
"You're angry," says Sirius out loud, before he can talk himself out of speaking. "Wanna have a shouting match? We might feel better."
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Now he hesitated again, but he'd known Sirius wouldn't want to be handled with kid gloves, even before he'd said that about all over everyone's face. "Being made to doubt reality turned out to be its own edge of loss. I know I don't need to tell you about that. β¦Funny, I actually hadn't had that before, even though I thought I knew all about insanity." He belatedly scoffed at himself, "To think, people thought I was less arrogant."
Could be an insult, but wasn't. They'd known what people had said about the four of them all through schooling. James and Siriusβhandsome, liberated, and brilliantβwould have been Trickster Gods no matter what. Their inexplicably adopting Peter and Remus had brought it all to a new dimension (intrigue, speculation). β¦But mainly: it hadn't taken all this suffering for them (Sirius and Remus at least) to have been self-aware about what elements of 'what everyone said' were also true. They'd definitely all been arrogant. Even Peter in his way.
"Still," added Remus. "It's not a bad idea. I'm game to be an echo chamber."