Twenty minutes later, they’d dropped the boys off at Hope and Lyall Lupin’s house. Remus had his father’s height and lanky frame, but otherwise was the spitting image of his mother, who greeted them all—including Sirius—with hugs that were unreserved in their happiness and excitement. She looked incredibly young, with barely a wrinkle on her pretty, freckled face, and soft golden curls tumbling over her shoulders. She was barefoot and wore a white, cotton, ankle-length dress and a silver pentagram necklace with a piece of black crystal in the center.