Wonderful fic, from start to finish!! I love this pairing, but I've also become rather picky about them. *g* I love how you portrayed them here, and bonus points for hitting all my student/teacher kinks. :)) I love the idea of a new "Professor Lupin," and actually, apart from all the hot sex, this was a really nice look at a struggling young teacher. It's a profession I know a little bit about, and it is hard to be young and new at it and lacking in confidence. Not to mention how hard it can be to assert your authority. I thought you captured all those anxieties very well for Teddy.
And then having to teach the Potter kids and keep it on a professional level would of course be a challenge. I like how you opened the story with Teddy and James having snogged a bit but nothing more - leaving it wide open to temptation once they got to school. :)) You did amazing things with the UST and chemistry between them, and with taking it slowly, ratcheting up the tension more and more with each scene through the fall term. That detention!!! OMG. The story is so good precisely because of that slow development between them. And GOD, are they ever hot together. a;lksjdlfaksj. Brilliant sex scenes, every single one!! OMG.
I also loved the subplot with Laura - again, a very real fear for a young, male teacher. I was biting my nails frantically during the meeting with Bagman, thinking James would have to provide an alibi for the Saturdays Laura said Teddy had spent with her. Eee! But it also suited her personality, it seems to me, that she would back down under pressure and her story wouldn't hold up. Whew! I'm glad Teddy got away with his affair with James, but even though this was meant to be a happy ending for them -- and hey, this is erotic fiction and we can imagine whatever we like between hot students and hot teachers -- I like how you did give a nod to the moral issues, making the reader think twice about why we are so worried that Teddy will be wrongly accused of sleeping with a student... when he is!
Fantastic story all around, and I loved the ending. ♥ !!