FIC: Forgiveness

Title: Forgiveness
Rating: PG
Fandom: Haru wo Daiteita (Embracing Love)
Pairing: Iwaki/Katou
Word count: ~2,080
Disclaimer: No money is being made off this story; consider it a little wish fulfillment on my part.
Summary: This is a companion piece to Comeback Part 1 and Part 2, which explains how Iwaki came to recommend Kikuchi to the Inside Report director.

Author's note: As far as I can tell, the director of Inside Report is never named in the manga. I didn't feel comfortable making up a name for him, so I figured it would be all right for Iwaki to address him by title, since that seems to be a common practice in Japanese show business. However, "Director-san" sounded a little awkward, so I stuck with the Japanese term, "Kantoku-san".
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Redemption vs. Revenge

Wow, I think National Blog Posting Month has really inspired me! I used to go a long time between posts, and now I'm still writing up a storm in December, though it's still early days. ^_^

This essay on Snapedom about "How much would you be willing to forgive Severus Snape?" started me thinking about forgiveness and redemption, and it reminded me of something I've noticed while watching (subtitled) detective dramas on the local Japanese language TV channel. (The Snapedom essay is very interesting in itself, btw. It seems from DH that Snape probably didn't actually kill anyone, since otherwise he wouldn't be so concerned about his soul possibly being torn if he murdered Dumbledore. So would we forgive him if he had killed people? Would we forgive him if he had tortured people, or conducted magical experiments on them? Are there crimes so horrible that we cannot forgive even if he is repentant? These are the difficult questions that are asked, and there are a number of interesting responses.)

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