Yay. Me too. I like to think that our interpretation of that seen *could* be canon, in a better world.

Thank you. I worry about writing him too maudlin and sappy because me? personally? I would *neveR* talk to anyone the way he does, spill my secrets, share my feelings. I'm just not that way. It's therefore been difficult to get the dialog going for Mr. Backstory Lupin himself. ;)