Thank you so much for your beautiful words. I’m thrilled that you, too, liked the womb phrase, and the statement about agreeing to still live, too. I wasn’t sure that this part would work (and not appear as unnecessarily melodramatic) for readers who don’t know that since his early Hogwarts years my Remus has thought about his transformation back to human as renewal, almost as a rebirth in which he accepts the gift of his body back despite the pain (so that the thought here is something natural for him).

I’m happy to know that you enjoyed the way I showed love and caring here. I might not have chosen to write about anyone’s parents’ deaths in my small gift, had I not made my decision about this part of Remus’s life years ago, when writing the early chapters of my chaptered post-OotP story.