Re: Tonks/Remus
I feel like you're asking two questions in one. So I'm going to give you two answers. Your first question - do I think they deserve a second chance? I don't know.
I believe that everyone can change, man. I believe that there is always hope for that. That's just the kind of outlook I like to have. Or maybe it's just an outlook I wish was possible. I don't know. I'm not that smart.
But...maybe everyone deserves a second chance, or a third, or a fourth, but it isn't up to you to give it to them. It isn't up to me, or you, or Sirius, or my mum, or anyone really to go through something if we don't want to.
A personal second chance isn't owed to them. You don't owe them anything. Sirius doesn't owe them anything. And frankly, they owe everyone else. And they, if they really want a second chance, have to earn it. They have to earn it, and they have to accept it when not everyone can or will forgive and forget.
Soooooooooo [the Os she draws turn into a squiggly doodle after a moment of drawing them and then they turn into something that almost looks like a wave so she draws a little stick figure sailboat on it - complete with stick figure pirate - as she contemplates how to keep going. Then after a moment of drawing seabirds....]
So. The second question that is closely related to the first, do I think it's possible they can change? That I don't know. I would hope that bad people, with bad ideals, and ugly hearts can learn to see the world differently. But they have to want to.
And from what I know of my mum's family - They don't want to see the world differently. This crazy nonsense works for them and has for centuries. So while I believe everything I said, I have to finish it with but it's Bellatrix.