As soon as you wrote Severus' new profession, my imagination immediately drummed up Rickman's liquid tones. So, I must say that every time Harry sat outside the room, listening to Severus read aloud, I was sitting right there with him in ecstasy.
Such a powerful rollercoaster of emotion you have given us; from loneliness and self-denial, up the bank of never-dimmed sexual tension, right over the peak of the big twist and down to the mellowness and ease of lasting devotion.
Thank you so much for taking me along for the ride.