I'm surprised there are no reviews for this.  You've captured the island setting very well and populated it with intriguing characters.  Kelly, Chris, and Burt are very realistic, but...well...different from the run-of-the-mill Potter fic, and very much the type of ordinary people with extraordinary, pent-up emotions one encounters on islands and in isolated small towns. 

I especially liked the action part with Al trying to bludgeon Sirius.  You set it up very well with the breathing and all, though I don't know if Sirius would have been able to distinguish the color of Al's eyes at such a distance and by moonlight.

I like your humor too and your takes on Sirius' thoughts, which you put across with a phrasing that is uniquely your own:

He hated the stars; they were just as callous as his estranged family.

He had...lived within his own nightmares for over a decade; a few trees were hardly going to get the best of him. 

...a deranged Muggle with a hammer wasn’t going to stop him if a highly skilled Death Eater with a wand couldn’t.

Thanks. 

 

And that last line is quite a teaser.

I love the idea that Buckbeak's dual nature (as horse and hawk) is explained away as just the fact that all the eyewitnesses are druggies.

I'm a little confused about Sirius' comments on the articles he reads:

"He knew for certain that the Dark Arts were brewing in Tibet, [how did he know if he's been in Azkaban all these years?] and yet there had been a number of strange occurrences in Albania of all places. [Why not Albania?]  It was too consistent [what was?] to simply be a coincidence.

What few concrete facts Sirius was able to glean from the articles were too consistent with what he knew to be a coincidence. Albania couldn’t possibly be a hot spot for affairs, could it? [Still can't understand why.]  How often could someone disappear from their hotel room in the middle of the night without any sign of a struggle? And not only were the disappearances unaccounted for, nearly all of the victims were people that Sirius knew were ardently against the Dark Arts.  [I just think maybe this should be explained better.  I know there's supposed to be a mystery to it, but it'sstill hard to follow.

Otherwise, I love Sirius' verbal tussle with Mme. Wright.  Another interesting character  And the vigilante justice!  Whoa, I'm glad I don't live there!

You give me a really strong sense of what it's like to lose your dearest love suddenly, without warning.  Every symptom from the nausea to the pain to the tears made me feel what Cho was going through.

And I love the ending.  A fitting monument.  And a healing gesture.

Thanks.

LOL!  Your humor is dry and sly and hilariously skewed.  I love it.

Love that Snape's gaga in St. Mungo's.

And Lucius as a low-life waiter sans wand--brilliant.

 Love Molly run-in with Mrs. Clearwater.

Ron sure hasn't changed a whit--but Hermione's a bit softer--nice.

I forgot.  i love your epithets:

"Hermione, you mad bat"

"Mother of all magic"

LOL over:

"Just like Sirius was a few years ago, Malfoy is ‘the’ wizard to arrest – if the ministry arrests him, they will be guaranteed huge public popularity, and that is something the ministry cannot get enough of!"  (I wondered when we'd be hearing about Draco!)

and they're going to ask for Snape's help.  This is rich.

I very much like your original characters, especially Teeg.  And the setting and relationships are novel.  Grandfather Dumbledore--I like the sound of that.

You also make Draco's story about D's death very plausible.  You've thought it out.  I especially like Montague's part in the plot, that he sometimes could hear voices from Borgin and Burkes.

The love scene is tender and (thanks) not too graphic.