Goodness gracious, MA! That was wonderful. :) I thoroughly enjoyed their slow journey to get to know one another (lots of walking indeed, lol). This is my favorite sort of AU story. One in which one canon detail is changed and we take a different path to the ending. The canon bits you kept were perfect, and the ones not included were not necessary. The story flowed beautifully, and you kept me on the edge of my seat the entire time wondering how this would all play out. Severus was brilliant, and you kept Harry recognizably himself, despite the changes in his upbringing and his circumstances. All in all a great job!