Them turning on Harry was the reason I needed Snape to bind them with an oath. Also, I can't see him trusting teenagers to do anything they are told to do correctly after his own teenage years went so terribly. If he didn't tell them, they would continue to look into it. If he lied to them or tried to prevaricate, they would have continued to look into it because someone had to have told Snape they were digging into it anyways OR they would have gone to Dumbledore. As much effort as Snape put into hiding Elias, he really only had a short period of time to do it in and he had to operate in some rather grey territory to get it done. There's bound to be some pretty obvious holes and it definitely didn't help that Elias kinda shot it in the foot while he was confused.

I love Sirius, but Snape definitely doesn't. Honestly, I think the reason I didn't have Remus tell Sirius was that he hasn't really been at Grimmauld Place all that much. Besides, I don't think Remus would have told him unless questioned directly. Hermione kind of backed him into a corner he wasn't prepared for when he wasn't feeling all that great. I think you'll like what I'm going to do to Sirius though.

I hope you'll find the next chapter an adequate one in regards to conversations between our various factions!

It wasn't as late as you think, it was only lunch time which puts him in prime awareness time, unfortunately. I will say, as much as I would love for Shannon to help Remus, her primary focus is spell damage and lycanthropy is not a spell. It would make for a lovely interaction, but I don't think she would really want to take him on as a patient when she is actually quite busy dealing with an ever unfolding crisis in Belarus/Ukraine.

Oh, no, you have no idea how much your inadvertent spoiler made me laugh when I saw it. And I know that you have absolutely no clue what it was as it is a simple linguistic mistake that I am 100% playing with in this story and plays very much into one of the main plotlines (not the secret one I keep alluding to, though). If you do end up doing it again, I may poke fun at it, but I am so so so confident that you don't know what you said and that no one else will pick up on it that I have been cackling literally since I saw it. If you do do it again, know that it only makes me laugh to see it.

Hope you're enjoying Twitch btw. Like I said, radically different from this story in so many ways, but you can pick up on a lot of the similar elements between the stories. I don't really do "outlines" per se so I can't really send that, but I may post a chapter at the end of all of this that is just pure notes I made while writing this that has all of the references and some of the more comedic elements I put in the story for myself so I can enjoy it more as I read through it over and over and over again to try and keep the continuity there.

As always, glad you enjoyed!