Thank you! This is the first thing I've ever put up for public consumption, so I was quite nervous about it. As I told why_me_why_not, I started out meaning to write something funny, but it morphed into something else.

Yes, as you suggest, I see the possibilities for angst, and maybe someday a happy ending for Severus. With or without Lupin. I'll have to think about it for a bit, because I hadn't plotted any further than maybe another scene when Lupin is leaving the castle for the end of Harry's third year.