#tpotp

Doylist answer: nah, that isn't the read intended by the books.

Watsonian answer: you could write a 100% canon compliant fic where that was the case, and I would read it. I think there's a case to be made that Dumbledore just doesn't trust Sirius because Sirius (beautiful, brilliant, dark magic background) reminds him of Grindelwald. I think you can say the same thing about why he has such a knee-jerk aversion to Tom Riddle

Ooh yay! I love that I'm getting an ask about The Prison of the Phoenix. The easy answer to this was always going to be that my favorite part is getting the chance to write with @wisteria-lodge. But that’s hardly unique to this fic and doesn’t feel like it’s really in keeping with the spirit of the question. But I wanted to say it anyway.

My real answer is that there have been a few favorite parts about it.

In a lot of ways, this fic has been a long term dream of mine. I remember reading long Snape POV fics when I was younger and wanting to write something like that someday. At the time, I didn’t have the skills and it seemed like such a far away impossible goal. But now I’m at a point where I can write the kinds of stories I dreamed of.

I really love the way Severus POV lets you talk in narration. It let you phrase things in certain ways that other characters we've written don't. Like calling academic articles he disagrees with “rank absurdities,” or letting me casually drop in words like “hematemesis”.

I also really enjoy every time this man is wrong about something. It’s often a reasonable conclusion or prediction based on what he knows at the time, but we know more about the situation than he does. He’s a very fun man to put into situations.

Finally!!!

THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA

It was only a matter of time before I did some cute Drarry art.

I write him as a Lion Badger, with a pretty banged-up primary.

I think his Badger secondary comes through loud and clear. Remus caretakes, he's a good teacher because he's aware of what each individual student needs (Neville to feel competent, Harry to feel protected.) He knows his stuff in a mild-mannered, dependable sort of way, and has a very Badger-flavored weaponized kindness that he wears as a defense. He is also easily at his best and most effective when he's part of a group. Being a werewolf, then... is tough, because it forces him into this permanent position of outsider.

Remus associates his Badger secondary with his humanity, and there's a part of him which would *just* like to live out his days in that Badger secondary and be done with it. Because the Lion primary is the Wolf. The wolf wants things, it makes snap judgements based on vibes, it feels very, very strongly and carries a lot of anger. Remus knows that the Wolf protects him and has kept him alive... but he's also spent most of his life deeply distrusting and hating those instincts.