Remus should have fought harder for Sirius and Harry!
No, but... how do you know he didn't? Canon is absoluely silent on it. What we know is that Remus didn't see Harry again until he taught at Hogwarts. Canon tells us nothing about what he was doing during this time.
We also know that Dumbledore had Hagrid pick Harry up from Godric's Hollow on October 31 and fly him straight to the Dursley's house. Hagrid tells us that he went straight there on the bike he borrowed from Sirius Black. Harry was placed with his aunt and uncle, by Dumbledore's order, and kept so completely unaware of magic that he didn't have a clue that magic--magic that he could do, by the way--was real until a giant burly man knocked on a shack in the middle of the lake on his birthday.
Harry was hidden by the most powerful, well respected wizard of the time. Sirius was blamed and put in Azkaban without a trial. This is already a terrible starting pace to *finding* and *rescuing* them, even if Remus had the capability to do so.
Remus is not Harry's godfather, he's got no means to care for Harry, and he's got once a month that he knows without a doubt that Harry is in more danger with him than without. Perhaps he knew that Harry was with his aunt and uncle, but no one suspected that the Durselys would abuse Harry as they did. Even if they hated magic, no one expected them to turn him into the boy in the cupboard under the stairs. That's perposterous. It's unthinkable.
Remus has no power. He's a kid with a wand and very little else. He doesn't have a name, he doesn't have money, he doesn't even have a clean bill of health. If he's going to try to get Sirius out and Harry back, he's going to go to the most powerful wizard he knows. Which, after the War, is Dumbledore.
Dumbledore received numerous awards for whatever it was he did during and at the end of the war. He received honors. He was the only one that Voldemort ever feared. he was given designations and authority, and no one really questioned him.
So Remus goes to him and pleads for his help. Let Sirius out, he demands. You know Sirius would never do this to James. He would never do this to Peter. They were his friends. Dumbledore says I didn't think he would either, and yet their dead. Remus says give him a trial, because there must be an explanation. Dumbledore tells him that Sirius laughed hysterically on the way to Azkaban. Sirius confessed, he says. "It's my fault their dead," Sirius says, because he believed it to be true, and they accepted his confession.
Remus begs, but Dumbledore tells him it's settled. Who is Remus to fight Dumbledore? Perhaps he tires, perhaps it's hopless. Or, perhaps, he asks to have contact with Harry. Even if he can't care for him, because no one would trust the boy who lived with a werewolf, let him at least have contact with Harry. Harry deserves to know his parents. Dumbledore tells him no. It will be too confusing for the boy. It will be dangerous if you bring death eaters with you. It's better for him if he grows up believing he is a member of that family. it is better for him if he doesn't have contact with you.
Remus has los everything, and the only person that he thought might help him has turned him away.
Remus has nothing left. He has no one left. No one will listen to him if Dumbledore is against him, and everyone is celebrating while Remus can only think of what he's lost.
What did he do for the next fourteen years? Personally, I think he left the country. Traveld the world as a magical creature exterminator for hire. He had nothing left in England. Why would he stay? Perhaps he didn't even keep track of the years--what do they matter anyway--until he gets a letter from Dumbledore asking him to come back.
He has nothing else. Why not return? Perhaps it's safe for Harry to know who he is, now. He just has to get on the train the morning after the full moon, but it's fine. he can sleep all the way there.
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Today we were being hit by giant fireballs/fire elementals coming at a speed higher than the sound barrier. These things took upwards of damage to destroy, but at the start our hits did up to 2k damage so fine
Except as the fireballs slowed down they got harder to hit (bc of holes in them) and our hits did WAY less damage (around 200 for the higher ones) while the creatures still had something in the vicinity of 4k hit points to lose, which caused the fight to really drag on
And my issue is that I said as much and I meant for it to sound more jokey but it came out more rude/mean (which I realized afterwards was inevitable with the context and all) and now I feel bad -_-
And I kinda don't want to just shoot an apology text and be done bc there's too much room for misunderstandings and ambiguity but at the same time I don't want to let it drag until next week... But also there's the possibility that the DM didn't notice/hear anything wrong (I think he did tho bc he ended the session immediately after)
So. I guess that's going to be my thinky thoughts of the evening -_-
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TFW you decide to turn part of one of your brain animatics into a comic, except you realize half-way through making that one part you actually want to make the whole song into a comic, except that requires a few lyric changes (to make sense) so you have to put some thought into it and since you also can’t draw that much in a day you don’t know long this comic (which you thought was gonna be one-and-done and you could post it tonight) is going to take or when you’re gonna upload it, and also it’s about turtles
Anyways yeah here’s a preview of a comic I’m doing for the Divorce AU (which is really just a Separated AU in my own flavor). No I will not be providing context but kudoes if anyone can figure it out.
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