Great essay! I really enjoyed your thorough analysis of both Lucius and Sirius' worldviews, and the range of relationship dynamics between the two.

Who says we slashers are just in it for the smut, it takes bloody large amounts of work and thought to come up with plausible plots and motivations for some pairings (although I'll admit sex is usually the carrot that drives us to do all this work in the first place.)