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! Severus will get some naptime in -- and eventually, he'll gets lots of hugs, too.I'm glad you enjoyed the chapter! Thanks for the review!

Thanks,

! I'm glad that you liked it and found it touching. :) Gareth is a real "hands-on" type, you're right.You'll get to see him with Gertrude & Hermione in the next chapter.Thanks very much for the review!

I think it's pretty lasting, more or less, if very uncomfortable for Severus as he tries to understand and cope with his feelings and with intimacy of different sorts with various people in his life.Thanks much for the review! I'm glad you liked it!

Hugs back!You know how important it was to me to hit the right notes in this and the ensuing chapters. I'm glad you think it polished up nice and pretty! I think you'll be pleased with the others. :)I appreciate the review! It's good to have a little GLM out there! Thanks!

Snape goes through a lot of different twists and turns on his path over the next several chapters. Then it's not a smooth path even after that, but that's to be expected, I suppose, as he's feeling his way after living such a constrained life.Thanks for the review! I'm glad you enjoyed it! (And yes, Gareth only wants what's best for Severus -- probably even more so than Severus himself!)

That will be in a couple of chapters. Severus's romantic life kind of begins to hiccup to a start in Part Three, but the more "Romance" part of the fic starts in Part Four and picks up speed in Part Five. Of course, it doesn't go smoothly, but who could expect it to? ;)I'm really glad you liked the interaction between Gareth and Severus. Their relationship will continue to change and go through stages, but it will be a support to Severus.Thanks for the review!

Well, the conversations have all been with different people at widely separated times -- and he's decent looking, but she just never thought of him that way, particularly since he's married, and it was a shock for her to find this guy she'd not felt a bit of a stirring of attraction for suddenly lighting her fire, so to speak. LOL!Yep, that weighed on his mind, and he felt uncomfortable about doing anything with Helena without mentioning something about it to Poppy.I'm glad you have the next chapter to enjoy! ;-) I hope you do, anyway! haha!Thanks for the review!

Thanks,

! I really appreciate it! And I'm very glad you liked those particular bits! Since I'm starting to post the little "Suzie Sefton" story, the next chapter of LVS won't be up for about a week this time. Probably I'll post it over the weekend. But don't panic if you don't see it!Thanks again for the review!

Nine, I think. It may end up being eight, but probably nine. I am most of the way through seven. Thanks for the review! Glad you liked the chapter! (I won't be posting another chapter of LVS until the weekend, since I'm starting to post the Suzie Sefton story this week -- it's just a short little fic of about 3 chaps -- and I posted the first chapter yesterday. I didn't want to wait tooooo long to post the next chapter of LVS, though.)Thanks for the review!

"And did I mention how adorable Twiskett is? I'd love to carry him around in my pocket."LOL! I love that! Severus finds him kinda cute, too, despite himeslf!Yeah, Hermione has quite the little crush going on Severus, and Gareth is like the big brother who teases her a bit. They do live in the same house, so I'm sure Gareth's pretty clued-in about what's going on in her head. He's not like some of the boys she hung around with at Hogwarts. I think that Severus will try to be sensitive to her feelings -- as well as his own, whatever they might turn out to be. After all, he's had more than enough experience in alienating people who might have been close friends if he'd let them, and he's trying not to repeat the mistakes of the past even if he is a bit stiff, nervous, and inexperienced. But he'll have help getting over his fear of letting anyone close . . .Thanks for the review! BTW, don't know if you saw it, but the Suzie Sefton story is posting now, so I won't be posting another chapter of LVS until the weekend. (I don't want LVS to lose too much steam.)

He had far more people fussing over him than he'd expected, too!Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it so much!

You're right -- he had fun and felt loved! Completely overwhelming.Thanks for the review!

Still intrigued by it? *grin*He did have a good birthday, and it was simply and literally an incredible experience for him. I'm glad you liked it!It'll be a while before we get to the duels, but I hope you enjoy them when we do! (I practically sweat blood over chapters like that -- it's worse than writing a lemon! lol!)Thanks for the review! Hope you have a great week!

Thanks! Suzie should be making her appearance very shortly.

I'm glad you found that aspect of the chapter (and story) so resonant with your own knowledge and experience. Thanks!Asperger's must be very difficult to live with -- it's hard to imagine what it must be like for someone -- but it's great that it's understood so much better these days. I'm glad that your son sounds like he's making progress. I'm sure that having a loving family and friends around him helps a lot!Thanks very much for the review!

I like to tell people that asperger syndrome is no easier to live with than severe autism for the person who suffers it.  In some ways it's harder for people with asperger syndrome because in most ways they seem so "normal" and "typical" but then they say something odd or they react strangely to certain stimuli or they keep talking when nobody wants to discuss the topic that interests them.  Asperger Syndrome is definitely easier for parents than severe autism, I believe.  It has some bad days but if you know what to do it can be fun and wonderful.  Kind, supportive and understanding people who can be calm when a kid is completely freaking out for some inexplicable reason are necessary.  They're frightened by their own emotions a lot of the time, I think.  If I act just as angry then he's frightened of himself AND me.  I've had to work hard to figure all of this out and I have a degree in psychology and prior experience working with autistic people.  It's not the same when it's your own kid, though.Anyway, I think Snape being kind of an outsider and ostracized pretty much from the day he was born just has made me feel a lot of empathy for him.  It wouldn't have taken as much work as my son did for Snape to get the social skills he needed and everyone let him down.  But he's putting that away and moving forward.  People get caught up in blaming everyone in the past and that just doesn't cut it with me.  If you're an adult it's time to take responsibility.  I grew up in a crappy environment but I don't sit around blaming my parents.  I do sit around blaming Snape's parents, though.  Hey, it's fiction, I can amuse myself with it in any way I like.  LOL. As much as I see parallels in my own life I also use fanfiction as an escape when I'm stressed.Thanks for writing this amazing series!  I think I've read pretty much all the stories that came before this one.

"I grew up in a crappy environment but I don't sit around blaming my parents.  I do sit around blaming Snape's parents, though.  Hey, it's fiction, I can amuse myself with it in any way I like.  LOL."I loved that -- I actually laughed. I know what you mean. (Except that I was fortunate and had great parents.) But sitting around and dwelling in the past and on what other people did to you -- whether true, relevant, or whatever -- isn't a productive way to get on with life. That doesn't mean that I don't empathize with people who find it difficult or near-impossible to get past certain events or traumas -- or even entire periods of their lives -- and so forth, but that's my own personal philosophy for my own life given my own disposition.I'm very glad you've been enjoying the series. You might like the Suzie Sefton story I'm going to begin posting today. It's a light little fic, nothing particularly serious.Thanks again!

Thank you,

! I'm glad you're still enjoying it!

And there were more who cared about him than he'd thought, too!Thanks very much! Glad you liked it!I'm glad you liked the little sneak peek at the next part. I will probably start posting "The Sorting of Suzie Sefton" tomorrow or Tuesday, if you'd like to take a look at that. I'm not sure when I'll post the next chapter of LVS, but likely by next weekend so the momentum isn't too diluted.Thanks again for the review, Esmelle!

Thank you! I think that for all the appreciative greedy meeses out there, I'll include the little preview at the end of the next chapter.Yes, Minerva thought that Albus had waited long enough -- and been "punished" enough for his crack about her wanting to kiss all the good-looking wizards -- that he should have a bit of a reward. And she didn't want to wait any longer, either. I think that everyone had a good time, and that even Severus enjoyed himself, on the Snape-scale-of-enjoyment, anyway!You know I love to write little Twiskett, so it's great to find a spot for him to pop in and be his little Twisketty self! Thanks for the review!

Thanks.

No, she doesn't have a problem with his using a Glamour. She was worried that one time, decades before, that he'd cut off his hair and beard, and at the time, he looked un-Albusy to her. But she'll like it just fine. After all, that's the spirit of a fancy dress party! He'd be rather limited in his choices if he had to keep his beard and hair length --though they are shorter than he's worn them in a long time, they're still unusually long! The Scarlet Pimpernel is a fun sort of Muggle "superhero" for him, I thought, and rather fitting to his personality & his "barmy old wizard" persona overlaying the powerful wizard beneath. haha! Of course, she also became rather used to him beardless (among other things) when he was "Robbie", and if she can learn to deal with such a massive changein his appearance (and it was the particular appearance that he was taking,not the lack of hair or beard, or the fact that he was Polyjuiced that bothered her most), she can be amused by and attracted to his Sir Percy look! Oh, yes, the billowing! (Not swishing and swirling -- or so he says!) He does have a certain billow about his personality, doesn't he? Thanks for the review! TTFN!

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!He has some basic depression combined with some ptsd, hardly surprising! Poor guy . . .Thanks for the review! Hope you continue to enjoy it!

If you mean Death's Dominion, yes, that would be an excellent idea! Glad you like it so far! Thanks!

Severus will find it an interesting party, to be sure! ;)Glad you like the costumes!Thanks for reviewing!

Yes, he looks quite the dapper dandy in his Scarlet Pimpernel outfit! Glad you liked it! :DI enjoy writing Wilspy -- she wasn't above interfering in Albus's life back in RaM, either -- remember her "little breeze" while she was "dusting"? lolYep, he and Severus are back on the road to a more solid, closer relationship!Glad you enjoyed the prospect of an ADMM cuddle moment! Thanks!

I know what you mean about WIPs. Sometimes, so much time passes between updates, I have to go back and either reread a chapter or two before the new one or, if it's been a really long time, sometimes even the entire fic! There may be a little bit more of a delay between chapters than usual this time, since I'll be out of town and don't know  if I'll be able to update while I'm gone.Thanks for the review! I'm very glad you're enjoying the fic!