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A little bit of R/T puzzlement
Mar. 5th, 2008 12:17 amA post-DH Remus/Tonks trope that doesn't quite sound right to me.
Maybe it's just me and I haven't been looking in the right places (very possible, I've kind of lost enthusiasm for Remus/Tonks fic since DH), but there seems to be a common assumption that Remus had abandoned her before arriving at Grimmauld Place -- but then after his fight with Harry, he went back and the two of them had blazing rows about him walking out before reconciling.
Er ... dunno?
They were together at Bill and Fleur's wedding, where Tonks, at least, was happy and Remus was still trying to fake it when she was looking and doing a decent job of it. When he turns up exhausted at 12GP, it's only three days later, and he states that he intended to come directly there but first had to shake off a Death Eater tailing him(*). From his description of what happened after the Trio escaped, the Order members evidently had a lot of other stuff to occupy their attention, and it sounds like he'd been away most of those three days.
Sure, he could have walked out, but to me it reads more like Tonks quite happily and unknowingly waved him off on his mission to find Harry as soon as the dust had settled, and that he kept any plans to leave her behind entirely to himself. (Secretive!Remus isn't totally uncanonical, right?) After all, he didn't know he'd find Harry there, or what kind of mission he was planning, and his argument to Harry isn't "it doesn't matter, I've already left her" but rather "she'll be all right if I come with you".
In other words, Tonks may well not even have known about any of this (assuming that Remus had the sense not to mention it on his return after talking with Harry), and thus they had no reason to row about it?
(*) Bonus query which again has always puzzled me: how exactly was the DE tailing him? Remus himself says a few lines later that "it's impossible to track anyone who Apparates unless you grab hold of them as they disappear".
Maybe it's just me and I haven't been looking in the right places (very possible, I've kind of lost enthusiasm for Remus/Tonks fic since DH), but there seems to be a common assumption that Remus had abandoned her before arriving at Grimmauld Place -- but then after his fight with Harry, he went back and the two of them had blazing rows about him walking out before reconciling.
Er ... dunno?
They were together at Bill and Fleur's wedding, where Tonks, at least, was happy and Remus was still trying to fake it when she was looking and doing a decent job of it. When he turns up exhausted at 12GP, it's only three days later, and he states that he intended to come directly there but first had to shake off a Death Eater tailing him(*). From his description of what happened after the Trio escaped, the Order members evidently had a lot of other stuff to occupy their attention, and it sounds like he'd been away most of those three days.
Sure, he could have walked out, but to me it reads more like Tonks quite happily and unknowingly waved him off on his mission to find Harry as soon as the dust had settled, and that he kept any plans to leave her behind entirely to himself. (Secretive!Remus isn't totally uncanonical, right?) After all, he didn't know he'd find Harry there, or what kind of mission he was planning, and his argument to Harry isn't "it doesn't matter, I've already left her" but rather "she'll be all right if I come with you".
In other words, Tonks may well not even have known about any of this (assuming that Remus had the sense not to mention it on his return after talking with Harry), and thus they had no reason to row about it?
(*) Bonus query which again has always puzzled me: how exactly was the DE tailing him? Remus himself says a few lines later that "it's impossible to track anyone who Apparates unless you grab hold of them as they disappear".
