So, you asked for Alphard stuff:

The family as it started out: Alphard putting up with his neices Bellatrix, Narcissa, and teenaged Andromeda. It's a sorta Victorian girls-living-with-patriarchal-chaperone-until-married kind of thing. Smart Andy got herself to college, though, and Bellatrix is too *mean* too marry, so it looks like Narcissa is the only sister honorably waiting for her betrothed to finish school and get round to marrying her.

(I totally arranged that marriage in Sim PE - Narcissa and Lucius HATE each other.)

So Alphard's doing the family duty thing by letting the girls live with him, but he isn't your traditional chaperone. He's cheering on Bella and Cissa to beat the crap out of each other. (While his boyfriend du'jour and his boyfriend's wife wife take time out of their impending divorce to act horrified.)

Alphard's not exactly -- ahem -- a paramount example of exemplary, moral Black family behavior. Tsk tsk, with a Muggle-born, even. (Lily's dad, who was *briefly* married to Mrs. Black.)

I don't know where I got the idea that your Alphard was large with the free love; I guess sim-Alphard overdoes it a bit, but I feel like Mentors-Alphard had an active social life -- which he kept Remus innocent of. I mean, why not? He's handsome, wealthy, likeable, and has a good heart; I didn't get the sense that Alphard was locking himself away in his mansion, despite his angst over being a werewolf. (I do, however, think he wasn't happy.) In fact, it was that social activity that made it hard; if he had become a hermit, things would be easier, but Black family loyalty extends to keeping up appearances in the social circles.

Was your fic the one where Andy and Alphard give Sirius The Talk at that wedding? I had Andy and Alphard standing at the back of the wedding party, snarking at the whole Pureblood silliness; he's also loyally protecting Ted from any nasty "what are your intentions?" questions. Sirius is actually the teenager talking to James, but little Regulus is goggling at the idea of two more black sheeps in the family.

Alphard and Remus chatting on James' parents' bed (don't ask). They talked for a really long time; sims don't have "mentor" relationship categories :) but I set up a close friendship between the two of them. Remus calls Alphard even more than Sirius does.

The "Alphard is attracted to Remus but in a totally honorable way" is just fun to mess with in the Sims, where there's no nitpicky moral questions about, ykno, statutory rape. :) I swear the relationship was totally innocent, despite appearances ....

... but it's all fun and games until someone gets a broken heart. Somewhere along the line, Alphard developed the pink hearts for Remus, and apparently Remus never told Alphard that his unrequited crush on Sirius had become quited.

Alphard got over it, though, and had a nice visit with his neice and nephew, whom he hadn't seen since they went off to college.

Yup, Alphard's down with that kid stuff.

And other AiL-inspried stuff:

Frank and Alice. They were dumpy teenagers, but they're in college now and are quite cute (albiet still rather cherubic). I'm fostering a friendship between Alice and Sirius, and Frank and Remus.

The first time James brought Lily home was his seventeenth birthday party, and his mom laid in with the Serious Adult Conversation. Lily is *not* happy with the woman. Looks like Mrs. Potter is concerned about nonmagic children and such, and seventeen-year-old Lily is thinking, "Look, lady, I love your son, end of story."

*sigh* How easy things are to the young. :)

After the party, Mrs. Potter continued the conversation with James. "I know we're young, but we're in love and we're planning on getting married. It'll be difficult, and we've thought about the risks, but we want to be together."

I liked the idea of giving Peter a girlfriend, so I gave him Rory Gilmore -- she'd probably be considered Pureblood. In general, I'm making Peter out to be a rather normal boy who, as he got older, just didn't get along with his friends as well as he did in high school.

The four boys roomed together the first year of college, but after James and Lily and Remus and Sirius paired off, Peter rushed a fraternity (ie, joined an exclusive group -- of idiots -- where he felt more accepted than he did with his friends. Although I'm sure "shenanegans" at a frat are more along the lines of kegstands, not so much firebombing private homes. Probably.) It wasn't that he felt excluded from his old friends, but he wasn't terribly included, either. Junior year, Peter moved in with his brothers and the other four rented a house off campus. They just grew up and grew apart.

Other random stuff, just cuz:

My fave pic of James and Sirius.

My pretty, pretty Remus.

Nuff said.