I happily consider this a replacement for that horrendous Epilogue of JKR's and consider this Book 8. Gleeful dance. Now, this makes me happy! And your appreciation of Flitwick as well. One of my betas said she wanted to go out for drinks with my Flitwick, and I must admit I do as well. Quite a bit of the Flitwick back story and the Filius/Luna romance hit the cutting floor, I am sorry to say, in an effort to keep the focus on harry and Severus. (I got a lot of heat from one of my beta for the Malfoys part. She felt concentrating on other romances was not catering to Snarry shipers's interest. She was right of course.) I do have about 60000 words of Filius/Luna, Neville/George and Hagrid/Irma (Pince) in this AU on my hard drive. I love these guys! Thank you for appreciating the details of the story, about the wizarding world, its laws and its traditions and so on. I always worry I put too much, so it's lovely to find someone who appreciates the minutiae I have to create in my head to make that world real and in living colors, to make it "habitable" by my characters. Thank you altogether for commenting, it is such a pleasure to know someone has been touched by something I wrote. Marie