You're welcome :) I like when I actually have time to write them, and of course it helps when the piece I'm reviewing provokes such thought and reaction! :)
Hmmm - maybe it just has to do with closure - or lack thereof. Your stories that I've read always seem to have that sort of purpose to them - where you're actually telling a story, even if it's just a 'missing scene' like the ficlet where Remus and Sirius have that impromptu picnic on the roof. This didn't actually seem to go anywhere - it was was, if you know what I mean. A moment without a true beginning or end - just a moment. And it's not a matter of right or wrong, just personal preference.
As a scene in a larger epic, this works, too - a scene of a shifting perspective. Even in OotP, time seemed to stop for everyone when Sirius fell - most notably Harry and Remus as it was written from Harry's point of view. And this was what Sirius was hearing/feeling/seeing, etc. at that frozen moment.
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2005-05-09 23:25 (UTC)Hmmm - maybe it just has to do with closure - or lack thereof. Your stories that I've read always seem to have that sort of purpose to them - where you're actually telling a story, even if it's just a 'missing scene' like the ficlet where Remus and Sirius have that impromptu picnic on the roof. This didn't actually seem to go anywhere - it was was, if you know what I mean. A moment without a true beginning or end - just a moment. And it's not a matter of right or wrong, just personal preference.
As a scene in a larger epic, this works, too - a scene of a shifting perspective. Even in OotP, time seemed to stop for everyone when Sirius fell - most notably Harry and Remus as it was written from Harry's point of view. And this was what Sirius was hearing/feeling/seeing, etc. at that frozen moment.