Sorry it has taken me twelve chapters to finally review, but I was reading them all in one chunck and didn't want to stop between.  This has been a very enjoyable read and I can't wait to see what happens next.

Glad Hermione submitted to a little bit of self-pampering...sometimes that's the best therapy of all!  Also, I so empathized with her Christmas shopping experience--I also try to get all of my shopping done months in advance, but there's always one or two people (usually my parents) that are so hard to shop for and they wind up still needing to be done at the eleventh hour.  Hope Hermione has a better time than she expects at the Burrow this year!

I really didn't have expected to see her like that. I know thee was a war. Bug ther be must something else for her to shut herself away from her friends. I hope she'll get better.