I loved it so much! You really captured their bittersweet relationship. :)

Very cute story. It made me smile to see lupin using the old sirius joke. It's a side that we don't often get to see from his. Very well done. Great Job.

Oh, there's so much to say I don't think I can keep track... Stupid memory...

Anywho, when I read the title and summary I was like "Haha, manipulation! Let's see which sucker gets his from a cunning lady..." (Because for some reason I though RLNT meant Ron/Luna-

somethingoranother)

Well, that attitude got kicked out the window when I read the first few lines. You did a superb job of grounding us in the tone of the scene from the very first line (something I WISH I could do, and I'm just gonna go be jealous now). You were excellent in keeping the tone the whole way through. "Despair" didn't seem trite or in any way less than appropriate, and despair is very much a value-laden word.

The entire interaction between the characters, Tonks' thought process (and the subsequent failure/success of her plans) was so perfectly Harry Potter that I honestly felt like this was a "lost chapter" sort of thing, the exact sort of way JK would have written it. I could sympathise with Tonks, even though I've never been in her shoes (so to speak). I loved the level of action and setting description you had in here-one of my greatest struggles is feeling that my own writing is awkward during dialogue, because my characters feel like talking heads to me. There was none of that here. Now I have to eat something with chocolate while I'm sitting here being jealous.

Um, let's see... there was like, one time when He was not capitalized. Easiest (though most tedious) way to find it is the find/replace feature on your word processor... Or, just leave it b/c it really doesn't matter.

Let's see... stupid memory, what was my next thought? Well, only three reviews for this piece is a stinking CRIME, and it's strangely comforting to know that there's someone else out there who checks the number of hits against the number of reviews (what's wrong with me that they don't review? It's got good numbers!-Sorry, that gets a little hard to hold in sometimes...)

This fic made me happy. I loved how it was written and how it turned out. You deserve a fist bump.

All in all, you are a fine addition to my Favorite Authors list, and I think I can take a look at your faves as an indication of good taste...

In Christ,

ZN

Hey,

This was nice! And I don't think you need another line to end it. It's fine the way it is!

md 22

aw..that was so cute, i love stories where tonks acutally has her own personality instead of just being potrayed as a wimp that loves lupin, she seemed kind of smart in your story. nice fresh take on this age old plot line

That was so sweet I loved it. This has to be by far one of the best Lupin and Tonks fics I've read so far. I actually believe that this could have happened after the hospital scene. I think you kept them in character to which is an added bonus. I don't think the ending just petered out I thought it was perfect for these two characters.