Such a good read -- I really felt as I were reading the official missing history of the DH year. Your characterizations are very well done; I loved seeing this gallery of people, because it makes for such a full and believable world. The scene with Dean and Gran in the beginning is particularly effective. (I'm a huge Augusta fangirl, and I love to see her presented thoughtfully and not as a cute-old-lady joke.) The tension during the school year is very believable, too.