Thanks for all the kind words and I'm glad you liked it. It was fun to write although worrisome as it's my first foray into the mind of Dudley Dursley and wanted to get him *right*. He did seem set on the path to some sort of redemption in DH so I just let him continue on. Plus if you think about what happened from his point of view, it was pretty harrowing, esp for a young boy who didn't know he was doing anything wrong in terms of his treatment of Harry.