This is gorgeous, Gina. As much as I loathe Peter, I loved your characterization. It's even sadder to think that he really didn't want to betray his friends and that he did it only because he was too much of a coward to to fight with them.

And Sirius, it is heartbreaking to see him lose everyone he loved in one fell swoop. Of course he'd go crazy in that moment.

You are so good with these characters, and this is just amazing.

~Lea

Author's Response: Aw, Lea, thank you so much! I really enjoyed writing this fic, although its so desperately sad to think of what they all went through. I sometimes wonder if the Marauders' story isn't as good or better than Harry's sometimes. *sigh* Poor James and Lily - and Sirius! Guh! Sirius! Thanks so much for reading this and leaving one of your rare, golden reviews. I appreciate it and am so glad you enjoyed it! ~Gina :)

Great job with this one, Gina. I was sure you were writing about George. Poor Arthur, no one ever seems to write about how lost he must have felt; it's always about Molly or George. This is really lovely but so very sad, especially the whole first paragraph. It's so difficult to put into words how the grief of losing a loved one makes you feel physically and you captured it perfectly. I really love this
~Lea

Author's Response: Thank you so much, Lea! It is rather sad and I did sort of want readers to think it was George at first, so I'm glad you did, hee hee. I really have no idea if Arthur would have reacted this way, but I did want to explore his character a bit with this, as well as keep his identity secret until the very end. I'm so glad you liked it, thank you for the review!! ~Gina :)

Gina, thank you so much! I don't even know where to start. I love this so much and I got teary again with my second reading. Remus is perfect, as usual. I want to hug him so badly.

I've always love to see his and Lily's friendship because I definitely think that they would have been close and I love how much she cares for him especially when he needs it the most. I never thought of him endangering a whole pub full of people just by being there and I love that Lily is able to make him realize how bad of a mistake it was but understanding him the whole time.

How awful to think that the people that you've trusted since you were eleven no longer trust you. Even though we know what Sirius is like and that he does lash out at whomever is around, it makes me want to shake him. And thank Merlin James comes around in the end. I think I might not have stopped crying if Remus didn't know that James trusted him before he died.

I know it's movie canon, and all of that, but from now on, whenever I watch PoA, I will be thinking of Lily pulling Remus out of that pub when he is telling Harry about how kind his mother was.
Thank you so much! ~Lea

Author's Response: You'reeeeee welcomeeeeee! Yay! I'm glad you like it. I was worried it was far too sad a birthday present. But I'm glad you liked Remus. I'd like to think he was close with Lily as well. I can even go for the odd Lily/Remus story before she starts dating James, hee hee. And yes, I have to believe James trusted him because to think otherwise is too heartbreaking. And that line from the movie was, I believe, the prompt for the original drabble. So connecting it to PoA is perfect! Yay! I'm glad you liked it, thanks for the review!! ~Gina :)