Er, I don't think I am who you thought I was, but thank you very much for the lovely feedback. Glad I could provide you with a communist!Sirius fix - it's a combination I'd honestly never thought of before reading elucreh's original when I got my assignment, but it really does make an awful lot of sense. I hope you didn't miss anything too important in your lecture, but it's very nice to know that my story was so distracting.

And yes, the "by the time I'm thirty" bit is horribly heavy-handed dramatic irony, but I also think it's important to remember that they don't have any notion of their Horrible Doom - they may see the clouds gathering, but have no idea what the storm will bring, not even Remus, who thinks he's already jaded.