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So, having just spent an absurdly large chunk of my afternoon in the library researching werewolves, i find myself in need of downloading the jumble in my head. (And the last time i babbled at my husband about age differences and how helpful the HP Lexicon was and how sometimes math IS your friend and plot ideas, he responded by blinking a lot and "that's nice, dear"-ing. Hence, babbling here.)
So anyway. Now that i have all this seething information about werewolves in my head... i find myself struggling with the idea of curing Remus. i could, quite easily (well, maybe *doubt rears its unwelcome head*), in a variety of ways. Even staying mostly within canon. (Again, *slight doubt*)
But why? Does Remus want to be cured? Can he imagine his life as -not- being a werewolf? He's been once since he was a kid. (Need to check up how he refers to it, himself, in canon.) Who would want to cure him? Harry? Severus? Sooper Sekrit Romantic Interest Person (SSRIP)? Are any of them academic enough to have done the research that i'm doing? (No, i refuse to bring Hermione into this...*shudder* Oh, the horrors of het... Then again.... Could bring in someone academic... JKR just doesn't give us much variety of female characters to choose from.)
Do i just want to cure him because i did all this research? Because having found the origins of the mythos/pathology, i think i can write a probable cure? Isn't that just authorial wanking of the worst sort? "See how smart i am and all the research i did? Now i'm going to shove it all down your throats in overly-explained rhetoric." (To contrast nicely, of course, with my complete LACK of research/rhetoric in VS, where all i looked up were a few plant names and happened to be remember Hawthorne while thinking about toxic plants.)
Sorry - Back to the quandary: Shouldn't Remus just accept it? All the smart people in canon said it wasn't curable. And i already have a lovely conversation written between RL/SSRIP, exploring the whole mind/body struggle and Descartian duality and wouldn't it just be better to accept the body/beast within, and isn't that really what werewolf-ism is an allegory for anyway?
Blech. Not sure which direction to go. Where is my muse? Come back here, damn you! *chases down muse, sits on him* Now talk, damnit, and quit sneering at me!
So, if anyone has any thoughts or comments to make on this.. i'd be most appreciative. Please? i'd offer things in exchange, but i find myself already owing a nameless something to a Slytherin. *g*
So anyway. Now that i have all this seething information about werewolves in my head... i find myself struggling with the idea of curing Remus. i could, quite easily (well, maybe *doubt rears its unwelcome head*), in a variety of ways. Even staying mostly within canon. (Again, *slight doubt*)
But why? Does Remus want to be cured? Can he imagine his life as -not- being a werewolf? He's been once since he was a kid. (Need to check up how he refers to it, himself, in canon.) Who would want to cure him? Harry? Severus? Sooper Sekrit Romantic Interest Person (SSRIP)? Are any of them academic enough to have done the research that i'm doing? (No, i refuse to bring Hermione into this...*shudder* Oh, the horrors of het... Then again.... Could bring in someone academic... JKR just doesn't give us much variety of female characters to choose from.)
Do i just want to cure him because i did all this research? Because having found the origins of the mythos/pathology, i think i can write a probable cure? Isn't that just authorial wanking of the worst sort? "See how smart i am and all the research i did? Now i'm going to shove it all down your throats in overly-explained rhetoric." (To contrast nicely, of course, with my complete LACK of research/rhetoric in VS, where all i looked up were a few plant names and happened to be remember Hawthorne while thinking about toxic plants.)
Sorry - Back to the quandary: Shouldn't Remus just accept it? All the smart people in canon said it wasn't curable. And i already have a lovely conversation written between RL/SSRIP, exploring the whole mind/body struggle and Descartian duality and wouldn't it just be better to accept the body/beast within, and isn't that really what werewolf-ism is an allegory for anyway?
Blech. Not sure which direction to go. Where is my muse? Come back here, damn you! *chases down muse, sits on him* Now talk, damnit, and quit sneering at me!
So, if anyone has any thoughts or comments to make on this.. i'd be most appreciative. Please? i'd offer things in exchange, but i find myself already owing a nameless something to a Slytherin. *g*
