Mummy is Forever in Your Heart: A Parent’s Guide to Navigating a Terminal Diagnosis

“Cancer?”Remus is bending down to slip on a pair of woolen stockings when the word assaults his ears. He pauses, blinks. Offhandedly, he thumbs the knitted seams of his stockings. That can’t be right. He must’ve misheard.“What?”Remus’s mind is buzzing. His Ma made his stockings for him. Her hands are strong, and steady, and not ridden with tumors and other horrible things that happen when one has cancer, such as being sick or losing all of your hair or turning green or whatever the fuck it is that sickly people- not his Ma, mind you- become.---For as long as he has been at Hogwarts, Remus has blamed his monthly absences on a fictitious “ill mum”.Now, it’s his summer before Sixth Year, and Hope Lupin is given a terminal prognosis.Some twist of fate, isn’t it?