Beautiful insights into Alastor's mind, into the fine lines between necessary preparation and unhealthy obsession. You capture his character so well, and your details about Bella (the ones he chooses to remember) are characteristic and revealing -- of both of them.
Some may say 'cowardly', but Alastor would have it as 'efficient' - valour is for those who die, after all; the wily get away with most of their limbs intact. Yes, I can definitely see Alastor holding this philosophy.
until the room looks like the explosion of twenty filing cabinets.
Or, perhaps, a shrine. I love his self-awareness here -- and yet just because someone is aware of something doesn't mean he's in control of it.
Beautiful insights into Alastor's mind, into the fine lines between necessary preparation and unhealthy obsession. You capture his character so well, and your details about Bella (the ones he chooses to remember) are characteristic and revealing -- of both of them.
Some may say 'cowardly', but Alastor would have it as 'efficient' - valour is for those who die, after all; the wily get away with most of their limbs intact.
Yes, I can definitely see Alastor holding this philosophy.
until the room looks like the explosion of twenty filing cabinets.
Or, perhaps, a shrine.
I love his self-awareness here -- and yet just because someone is aware of something doesn't mean he's in control of it.
Shivery last line.