You will definitely learn Snape's reaction in the next chapter, don't worry about that! Thanks for the review! :)

Thank you very much! Hopefully I should add the next chapter the queue in a couple of days.

You'll find out his reaction in the next chapter, never fear . . . ;)Thanks for the review!

Thank you! I'm glad to know that is coming across. Thanks again!

:) Thanks! You'll find out exactly what Snape thinks about it in the next chapter, I promise! I think you're right about the yelling, it would have been much less disturbing . . . ;)

So it seems! ;) More fun for the readers, though . . . :)

Thank you very much! Poor Hermione, she got a bit carried away, I think! :)

Nope, I'm sorry to say that she got distracted . . . I'm sure she'll work out some other way to let him know, though.Thanks for the review!

Thank you very much! She got a bit carried away, didn't she? :)

Thank you very much! Dumbledore found himself having to confront old demons regarding his sister, Arianna.

Oh, yeah!  Fogot about her.

Easy to do, particularly since I was writing the scene from Severus' POV, and he would have had no idea what was going on. I admit I was feeling a little vindictive towards Dumbledore when I wrote the scene: he's always so ready to make Severus feel guilty for his past actions and I wanted him to feel a little inadequate at the realisation that Severus had succeeded where he had once failed.

Dumbledore was shocked by the fact that Severus was able to save someone who was blocking because of the history with his own sister, Arianna, who died of a similar cause.Thanks for the review. :)

Poor Albus is having to face up to his own inadequacies. Reading DH I couldn't believe how manipulative Dumbledore was to Severus about his past misdeeds, when it turned out that Dumbles himself had plotted to be the magical world's Hitler and was hugely responsible in the death of his sister. So, hearing that SS has saved someone who is blocking, I imagine, might leave Dumbledore feeling a little guilty.

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Eventually, eventually: yes. And that will start becoming more apparent, but it's a slow-moving romance.Thanks for the review. :)

Arianna it was! Thank you for such a lovely and thoughtful review. :) I just added the next chapter to the queue, so it won't be too long.

Thank you! I particularly enjoyed coming up with some comments for Severus to write :)

Yes, I can't imagine that Snape asks for help very often! Thank you for the review.

Thank you! There were so many loose ends about Muggle-borns in DH that really bothered me, and the Ariana storyline was one of them. It seems logical (if awful) to me, that violence would be something relatively common among Muggle-born witches and wizards. Anyway, thanks for reviewing.

Thank you very much! :)

Thank you very much for a lovely review. :) I think Hermione might have something useful to impart.

Thank you very much! :) The next chapter is already in the queue, so it shouldn't be too long. The plot only gets more complicated from hereon in, I'm afraid . . .

Thank you very much -- for the review in general and the specificity of these comments in general. I spent a lot of time planning the story out, because I wanted it to fit with the events of HBP, but not repeat things to the extent that it was boring or didn't have a plot line of its own.

Thank you! It seems that Severus has started to think about Hermione in a sense that is quite different from the way he's thinking about Jocelyn . . . interesting, no? ;) Thank you for the review.

Thank you, thank you! Ah, yes, it's early days yet. Right now, Hermione just wants his attention, and she'd just been feeling so happy that he had called her "Granger" and not "Miss Granger" . . . ;)

But, of course! ;)

I'm so delighted that you like Prof. Vector, I'm very fond of her. In my experience mathematicians can be such interesting (if unusual) people that I feel sure Arithmancers would fall into a similar category.Thank you for such a lovely review! :)