Title: Success, and Ambivalence Challenges: the first time snape100, Remus/Neville (implied), Remus/Alice (past) lupin100
The potion worked.
Lupin had recovered slowly. He had been catatonic for months, and the arthritis caused by his lycanthropy had gotten bad enough that the staff had been ready to give up. For the first time Snape felt something close to pity for him.
At least it worked for Lupin. The same could not be said for Frank Longbottom, who proved allergic to one of the ingredients. Snape was certain he could reformulate the potion, but until then Frank would have to wait.
If only he could stave off the demands to heal Alice until her husband was well…