Wonderful! You had me from the portkey. I love the comfortable relationship you've painted between Harry and Snape. I love your Severus and his outlook toward the "dalliance," the Slytherin attitude, and yet how he finally decides that it should shop. I love you most of all for not including a melodramatic scene of Harry learning the truth. I really enjoy reading a story in the angst category that does not leave me sobbing. It has such a feeling of not-black reality.