OMG this comment, Ami, how do I even start to reply to this?! I think you broke me with how amazing this was!
I am SO happy you liked The Veil, and how Sirius returned! It was really interesting thinking about it, and how he left us, and how he might come back (Lol, I like how I said 'us' and not 'Harry' haha, but really, are any of us over Sirius? Apparently not)
The ghosts are definitely not like those in canon, I envisioned these as something in between real ghosts and Sirius's memories or people, rather than events even, which are bubbling to the past. I love what you say about how they are memories which he is interpreting in the safest way possible, and which give him comfort, that's lovely and seems really fitting.
I think the most striking thing about this is the calm acceptance with which it is told. I mean, we still get a sense of the Sirius we know from canon, it's still very much him, but he has grown, as he rightly should. It's as if all this history, all these painful memories and difficult experiences... Sirius has just come to embrace them as a part of who he is as much as he mourns the parts of who he was that he has lost.
Omgosh, this is what I wanted to do, so much, and thank you to heaven and back for saying it so well <3 this comment is amazing, and so are you lovely!!
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I am SO happy you liked The Veil, and how Sirius returned! It was really interesting thinking about it, and how he left us, and how he might come back (Lol, I like how I said 'us' and not 'Harry' haha, but really, are any of us over Sirius? Apparently not)
The ghosts are definitely not like those in canon, I envisioned these as something in between real ghosts and Sirius's memories or people, rather than events even, which are bubbling to the past. I love what you say about how they are memories which he is interpreting in the safest way possible, and which give him comfort, that's lovely and seems really fitting.
I think the most striking thing about this is the calm acceptance with which it is told. I mean, we still get a sense of the Sirius we know from canon, it's still very much him, but he has grown, as he rightly should. It's as if all this history, all these painful memories and difficult experiences... Sirius has just come to embrace them as a part of who he is as much as he mourns the parts of who he was that he has lost.
Omgosh, this is what I wanted to do, so much, and thank you to heaven and back for saying it so well <3 this comment is amazing, and so are you lovely!!
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