Thanks so much--you're too kind. :) Yeah, while writing I was wondering how much of the Other Man should go in...I pictured him in my head as a youngish (somewhat older than Harry maybe) guy, relatively good looking but not striking, and just sort of ordinary all around. I didn't want to make a scene; didn't want him to make a real claim or argument for Severus, but wanted to make him stick as a character, you know? :) So he had to have some small feeling.