Hello my Marie! Thank you so much for reading! It's funny about the trees--I found it vaguely annoying to have to look up on wikipedia about what kind of trees grow in what region, etc, but when my husband was betaing he was like, 'the tree stuff is actually pretty interesting!' :D It's interesting to me that you could picture the Other Man here clearly--what's he look like to you? I was thinking fairly nondescript brown hair/eyes, average height (taller than Harry, possibly shorter than Snape), hard-to-pin-down age (older than Harry, younger than Snape) and decently if not remarkably attractive, with a perpetually mild expression...