I've seen a lot of fics where people are writing, and the idea itself is really awesome, but the execution is... lacking.
Heh. I know exactly what you mean. I've even done it occasionally myself. Sometimes I reach for something really cool and...it's just outside my grasp. But you got it just right here. :-)
I planned it so that Harry was accepting his feelings, and then he finds out the truth about what happened to his father, and Bob's knowledge of it.
He's just starting to find peace, and then wham!, everything gets shaken up again. :-(
There had to have been some kind of fight between them, just to clear the air, so that they could still be friends when the series airs. (If that sentence makes any sense.)
It makes sense! And yeah, if there wasn't some release of what they were both thinking and feeling, it would always been hanging between them, coloring every interaction.
The vignettes were meant to be significant moments in Harry's life that were turning points or milestones
Oh, yes. Particularly in a series like this, there isn't much point in writing a moment that doesn't have significance somehow. But I feel like the other ones were milestones, marking important moments in the progression of Harry's life/feelings, but this one felt like it was marking something that changed, not just developed.
You have a very good point of teacher/student and adult/child needing more of a significant event to jar one out of those mindsets? I mean, I'm the youngest of four kids, and my older siblings still treat me like a little kid sometimes, so I can understand whatcha mean about Harry and Bob needing to adjust their mindsets toward each other.
*nods* It's like, your parents are always your parents, no matter how old you get. Given how much of a role Bob had in raising Harry, I think they'd need a big shock out of that way of relating before it could develop in another direction.
If nothing else, this is the first spoken conflict between them where Harry is in a position of power over Bob, and he actually ends up exercising it. The fact that this happens just after Harry discovers that Bob knew about his father's murder... well, it's kinda scary? :D?
Oh yeah, scary as heck. It would be interesting to see some of this from Bob's POV. At this moment in time he must feel like he's lost everything.
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Heh. I know exactly what you mean. I've even done it occasionally myself. Sometimes I reach for something really cool and...it's just outside my grasp. But you got it just right here. :-)
I planned it so that Harry was accepting his feelings, and then he finds out the truth about what happened to his father, and Bob's knowledge of it.
He's just starting to find peace, and then wham!, everything gets shaken up again. :-(
There had to have been some kind of fight between them, just to clear the air, so that they could still be friends when the series airs. (If that sentence makes any sense.)
It makes sense! And yeah, if there wasn't some release of what they were both thinking and feeling, it would always been hanging between them, coloring every interaction.
The vignettes were meant to be significant moments in Harry's life that were turning points or milestones
Oh, yes. Particularly in a series like this, there isn't much point in writing a moment that doesn't have significance somehow. But I feel like the other ones were milestones, marking important moments in the progression of Harry's life/feelings, but this one felt like it was marking something that changed, not just developed.
You have a very good point of teacher/student and adult/child needing more of a significant event to jar one out of those mindsets? I mean, I'm the youngest of four kids, and my older siblings still treat me like a little kid sometimes, so I can understand whatcha mean about Harry and Bob needing to adjust their mindsets toward each other.
*nods* It's like, your parents are always your parents, no matter how old you get. Given how much of a role Bob had in raising Harry, I think they'd need a big shock out of that way of relating before it could develop in another direction.
If nothing else, this is the first spoken conflict between them where Harry is in a position of power over Bob, and he actually ends up exercising it. The fact that this happens just after Harry discovers that Bob knew about his father's murder... well, it's kinda scary? :D?
Oh yeah, scary as heck. It would be interesting to see some of this from Bob's POV. At this moment in time he must feel like he's lost everything.
So, um. I rambled. *blush*
Hee! That's okay, I like discussing stuff. :-)