So loving the plot!!!

Quite the slide down: from the opening suggesting he wanted more personal contact to a mere letter of condolence and congratulations and from there to the bad news.  It may have been a "terrible way," but it fits: a lady depleted and not up to her usual standards.
Chocolate is still the universal cure-all at Hogwarts.


Author's Response: Thanks for the review! Of course chocolate is the universal cure-all, especially if your last name is Lupin!

Sound thinking, Lyall!I do know that one is missing a lot of very well written stories if one only goes for stories with one's favourite characters. I am glad to have caught your's.


Author's Response: That is so kind of you to say.  I'm glad you caught mine, too!  Thank you!

Lovely!

Author's Response: Thank you!

Interesting start, thank you!

Author's Response: Thank you for the review!  The story is pretty much done although I haven't posted it, yet.  

A Black sister full force and get out of her way and do what you're told.
Lyall gradually blending into another color.




Fairfield's response:

Although he may fade to Black

Author's Response: LOL!  
When something is right in front of him, Lyall is capable of some feeling and sympathy.  THanks for reviewing!

A subtle story line.  The takeover of the ministry indicated by people clucking over Lyall's ancestry and a change of dark entities to hunt.  (At least, I'm assuming that's what it is.  Perhaps too subtle for me.)
I agree with Lyall: Remus is not a coward.  He's trying to do the right thing.
Is there a theme of women as forces of nature with adhering to one's family no matter what a primary virtue?


Author's Response: LOL... I pressed the force of nature point a little harder than I intended.  I'm thinking of the people who carry their point, kindly when they can and by some subtle force or other when necessary.  The Ted in my headcanon must have had some of those skills too, incidentally, to marry a Black. ;)  And I think families, whether natural or pieced together, are repositories of some of our greatest strengths sometimes.  Ted, by leaving, lost the benefit of having his daughter's auror skills and his wife's knowledge of the world he was up against.  Meanwhile Remus, by initially leaving, took a lot of emotional support away from Tonks at a time when she needed it.
And that's all I'm going to say about the commission for Muggle Born something or other, LOL.  Lyall knew it was going on in the periphery, but it didn't really affect him so he didn't pay attention to it.
Thank you for reviewing!

Quite the solid introduction.  He may be a gray man, but the undercurrants of emotion are potent.

Author's Response: Thank you for the review!  I try to picture the parents of the people we know as at least somewhat like those people, and the Remus we first meet is a little like this, although much more personable.