I never understood it to mean that they built the house specifically for Lupin. I thought that the house was already there- old and abandoned- and that they just built the tunnel/entrance to it for him. And then after, When Lupin was transforming there, that Dumbledore just encouraged the rumors of the old house being haunted.

The fact that Sirius communicates with Crookshanks (and even gets him to help), but fails miserably to communicate with everyone else is hilarious

Dumbledore used Lupin as an excuse to build the Shrieking Shack so he could write it off as a school expense and then after Remus graduated Dumbledore was going to renovate it into a nice weekend home for himself but he just never found the time

I feel like "______ is a kid. Do better." applies to every interaction between Snape and any of the child characters in the series.

"The rat killed Lily." All Remus or Sirius had to say.

Ollivander does say that a wand MIGHT change its allegiance if taken by force. He specifically does not say that this happens in every case. The wand still chooses the wizard.

You guys are just stuck on the idea that Peter uses his wand to transform. In the books there is no indication that he uses the wand on himself. He attacks Crookshanks and Ron and then is disarmed, then Harry yells at him to stop, then he transforms. Reread that paragraph and tell me where you think he uses any magic on himself.

The movies are different, it shows him putting some spell on himself, but given that there are other animagus transformations that don't require wands (Sirius and McGonagall, though now that I think of it those all may just have been reverting to human) it could easily be something else. My two top choices are that he has to remove whatever spell Sirius and Remus used to force him to human or that he put some kind of concealment or other protection on himself (since he's planning on running away to Albania [also weird that Voldy is so obsessed with Albania that he hid out there both before and after Quirrel... maybe they have good snakes?]).

I looked up sunset times in Scotland by month, and I think it's entirely possible that even though it was "night" it wasn't dark yet when Lupin left the castle. I don't think being indoors would effect the transformation or else Lupin's howling wouldn't have been coming from inside the shack growing up. But I imagine there would have to be no sunlight left, and it takes a long time for it to get dark in Scotland at the end of spring/beginning of summer.

Can you imagine a dementor bringing food to the prisoners? Is there a kitchen full of dementor cooks?

I think Snape was just caught off guard he would never expected any of them to attack him especially all three

I love this chapter.  It was fascinating to see Snape, Lupin, Sirius and Peter slip back to their teenage selves and how they related to each other.

When snape says “give me a reason and I swear I’ll do it” he’s threatening to kill sirius not to wrap him in ropes.

1:15:00 In HBP, after Sirius dies, Harry despairs that he never asked Sirius if he played as well as James. I find it really heartbreaking (& probably a reflection of reality) that as readers not just relying on memory of this conversation but with a written record we know that Sirius did tell him.

I do agree that Lupin should've fought Fenrir Greyback. Here's a scenario: in the Battle of Hogwarts Harry is running down a hallway looking for the diadem. Fenrir stops him and growls: "I don't know or care what the Dark Lord has planned for you but I'm going to kill you myself." Lupin calmly walks around the corner and goes: "If you want him you got to through me. Run Harry." And as Harry is running away you hear spells going off.

The reason to switch secret keepers is not because Sirius might give them up, but because upon his death the secret would be weakened. When Dumbledore dies this is explained, but I imagine Sirius would refuse to tell the secret and they would kill him, then you would have about 3-5 secret keepers. If you switch and Wormtail doesn’t suck butts and Serius is killed, no harm to the secret.

Just because Peter was the secret keeper, that doesn't mean that Sirius couldn't "find" their house. The secret keeper can tell others where it is. Just take a look at how they handled Grimald Place.

Part 2 of some of my favorite Ron moments. Again, Ron stands up on his broken leg. And then practically grows, "Chain him to me!" The rage of betrayal in that moment. In hindsight, horrendous idea to have Ron, who's still injured, and Lupin, with potential change on the horizon, do it. But still, badass moment for Ron!

1:02:47 Sirius specifically using the phrase “biggest bully on the playground” seems to him self admitting to being a bully during school. Maybe because he just saw how much Snape still hates him after such a long time.

The idea that Lupin was attempting to abandon his family when he tried to join the trio just never made any sense to me. Like when Harry turns him down it's not like he just goes to sit at with his pregnant wife, he's still out doing life threatening missions for the order, so literally what difference does it make? That scene will never not be weird to me

How sad that Harry forgets that Sirius just told him that he flies as well as James.  After Sirius dies, Harry grieves that he was never told if he was as good as James.  I don't know if this is an author error or author torture torment that we readers can't tell Harry that he was told how good he flew.  If only Luna had known, she'd have reminded him.