i really am so very glad you liked this! i love your stories, and have a weakness for snack :) so you were my perfect recipient :)
i am glad my sirius was believable, and yes, snape was still young then, and still not the hard, bitter man he would later become.
and yes, i wanted peter to be a bit different. as i told lookfar - rats have a superior sense of smell, and are generally believed to be smarter than dogs (or stags :D) - i haven't seen delacroix's painting yet, but i had thomas gainsborough's 'blue boy' in mind :D