Hi,

! Good to see you!Yep, a new story, but just a little one. I hope you enjoy it! (It actually goes with A Long Vernal Season, which is where Suzie makes her first appearance.)Thanks for your review! Glad you enjoyed the beginning!

Yep, it's the same blue suit! LOL! She doesn't wear it very often, after all! She also wore it at the beginning of DD, you may remember. She does have others, but she's always liked that one. ;)Yes, Miranda thought that Minerva didn't seem at all eccentric or alarming -- I don't know what she would have made of Albus, but you're probably right! Thanks for the review! I'm glad you enjoyed it.

Yeah, that sweets trolley -- a danger zone for sure! LOL! I'm glad you liked old Ollivander. Suzie's visit was good for his soul. Glad you liked the monkey pod wood. It was the first thing I thought of when I wondered to myself what sort of wand Suzie would have (yeah, I know, my mind is strange!), and then this story just jumped up and down in my head until I wrote it. haha!Thanks for the review, Di!

Plus the monkey pod tree is in Hawai'i (and elsewhere in the Pacific islands).  The wood, often used to make musical instruments, is gorgeous!

It really is beautiful wood. The grain is so gorgeous, as you say. And as Ollivander put it, it's "vibrant"! :D

Thank you! I'm glad you liked it.

Hi, Pookah! Thanks! I'm glad you like it!Suzie first appears in the chapter "Don't Frighten the Firsties" in A Long Vernal Season, and she pops up at least by reference several other places, and she's in one of the Halloween chapters at the Hogwarts fancy dress party. It's actually a Severus Snape fic, but Suzie can steal a scene! I hope you continue to enjoy the little fic! Thanks again.

Thanks! I'm glad you like the beginning of Suzie's adventures in the wizarding world!Haha! You liked old Ollivander -- he was a hoot to write, too!Yep, that sticky problem of finding Platform 9 & 3/4! LOL!Thanks much for the review!

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! I'm very glad you liked them! I hope you continue to enjoy it!Thank you for the review!

Thanks! I'm glad you like her. She's kind of a hoot and a half, as someone else said. You should see what she dared do at the Hogwarts Halloween party (in A Long Vernal Season).Thanks very much for the review! Hope you continue to enjoy this little fic!

Well, like Suzie said, her parents regulated her sweets. She also doesn't eat meat, and she tried to eat some to fit in, both on the train and at dinner. But basically, way over-eating on the sweets, combined with eating chicken and other things her tummy wasn't used to, had her upchucking on Snape. Then at the feast, she had a wee bit of beef, but the main problem was the droobleberries on the trifle, which she didn't yet know she was allergic to. And then, of course, there were the droobleberries! She does tend to overdo and try to eat all kinds of new things when she encounters them -- she's very curious! -- so that is part of the problem. Just too much of even things she normally could eat in moderation will set her off! LOL!

Awww - poor kid. I see she has some of the same tastes as her Author Mummy! *winks*She is a cute kid and definatly helps paint a better picture for Slytherin.

Suzie is quite earnest about making a good impression!

She's a real cutie - especially for a Slytherin, and Cyrus reminds me of Ron and Andrew reminds me of a kind Percy - like if Percy wasn't such a snob. And Antonia reminds me of a very snobby Hermione. Hehehehehe

I'm glad you like her. :-)Antonia is a bit insecure, so she tries to act like she's not.

I'm glad! Now you see why she lost her lunch -- and everything else -- all over Snape's robes!

Oh HO! Suzie can see the thestrals? hrm.....

Great-grandma died at home when Suzie was a little girl, and everyone was with her. She, of course, has no idea that most of the kids can't see them.

I'm glad you liked that.It can be fun to reread the bits of LVS that go with this story, and I can understand getting the bug to reread the whole thing. I never thought I'd write a fic that focussed on any of the students, canon or otherwise, aside from the parts of RaM that showed Minerva as a student, but this was fun to write.Thanks for your reviews!

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Thanks! Glad you enjoyed the chapter!

Just reminding myself of what was going on in ALVS at the start of the school year and I remember now it was Twisket helping Severus. (so I'm slow.) I can see how it would play though Suzie's eyes and she's certainly developing quite a crush.

I'm glad you liked the tone and the various students and their histories. Suzie saw an older relative die in bed. Nothing too traumatic. :-)Yep, Suzie was a bit too experimental with those sweets and everything. Hardly a surprise she lost it all! And yes, it was Twiskett who Vanished it all -- totally impressing all the kids.Suzie is developing a crush on Snape, that's for sure! Like Draco says later, he doesn't know whether she wants to marry him or be him, but she's got it bad!Just a little trivia: There's no reason you would remember this from RaM, but Cyrus Sprangle is the grandson of Septimus Sprangle, the annoying Head Auror from RaM -- the one who thought it would be a good idea to send Tabby Minerva to France in a bag! LOL! And this is an even more minor (minuscule, in fact) detail, but Albus's Herbology teacher when he was at Hogwarts was Professor Campbell, who is a great-great grandmother (or more than that -- I'd have to look it up) of Andrew. Then Stan Raffles shows up again in the Quidditch bet chapter in LVS -- and he's the grandson of Stanley Raffles, to whom Gertrude spoke about Minerva for Hogwarts, a History in RaM. LOL!

I love all the little details! Thank you. Now that you mention it I definitely remember Septimus Sprangle. Not too bright. LOLYes - wanting to dress like Severus - it is like she can't figure out if she wants to marry him or be him - definitely major hero worship.

Thanks! I'm really glad you enjoyed it! Suzie's mum certainly was out of her element, wasn't she!Thanks again!