I left your comment to reply to last, because surely such an awesome comment requires an equally awesome reply! I'm very glad that it worked out how it did in the end, because I struggled just a little bit to come up with the right setting. Thank you for comparing it to canon! I feel rather chuffed to have one of my stories described in such a way; obviously I'm doing something right somewhere. :-)
The smut! Aah! I forgot how difficult I find it to write smut without giggling stupidly and making ridiculous comments to myself. Those sections actually took the longest of them all. In fact, I would write a couple of sentences, and then stop, do something else for a while, before coming back to it. Hence why there was so little of it! Thankfully, it seemed to balance out in the end up--I'm glad that you enjoyed it!
Finally, thank you, thank you for your style comments! Like I replied to another comment, this is the first story I've written in fandom since 2005 or so, and I was terribly worried that it wasn't going to work properly! I enjoyed doing something conventional for a change, compared to (I will quite frankly admit) the pretentious twaddle I spat out in my earlier years.
Thank you again, and I'm just so glad you enjoyed it!
Oh, and just for your pleasure, a blooper!
It takes Harry the last of his strength to Side-Along Apparate himself and Ron to the street-front near Purge & Dowse Ltd. As he takes half a minute to get his breath back, he tries not to think about the look that will be on Hermione's face when she finds out what's happened.
This paragraph, in the original story that I submitted to my beta (after a rather hurried editing procedure), read "It takes Harry the last of his string to Apparate." Somehow, both myself and my exceptional beta (hermionemalfoy on LiveJournal!) managed to miss this! I laughed myself stupid when I finally noticed it. Any other mistakes still hiding in the text are my very own, and quite frankly, I'll just pretend not to notice them to save myself the embarrassment.