Congradulations to your 9 yr old.my youngest had a cookie cook off with the local girl scouts and she placed 1st for the brownies.we learned when one is out of sugar to use powdered sugar and sometimes especially in this case it made the cookies awesome.i am enjoying your story very much but we really need to discuss the cliffies that you leave us the poor readers onwaiting for more.happily

She thinks about something:"I can’t afford to earn myself detention for the rest of the year until after Saturday. Is she planning something on saturday?You and your lovely letters, you would make a Jane Austen, you know that? Her Pride and Prejudice is a perfect letter novel. And she would have appreciated to be allowed to write so frankly as you are, but unfortunately her editor had something against it. (read: Pride and promiscuity. This book exists, I've read it. And if it is true, then Jane Austen would have been THE petulant poetess with so much smut and lemon in it as you choose. wonderful)

Just wanted to add the rating this chapter deserved.

This story is one of the highlights of my week.  I really enjoy your writing.  I think it is Neville in the shadows, but I am sure I am wrong (usually am.)  Thank you.Congrats to your daughter.  You most both be proud.Also I would like to say one therthing.     "Go Wallabies" ;)

Will swap: one teenage son for one masterchef daughter. Any offers?

I want some of those pears.  Did he finally figure it out?  I am so looking forward to the next chapter.  I get so excited when I see the notification that one is up.

Great job - I want more!! :)

 OOOO! well done on winning 'sunnys' daughter. great chapter...looking forward to more! :O)

What? What? WHO ON EARTH JUST SNUCK UP ON HER?Oh, and it should be whose fault, not who's fault.

Sunny now that's mean! So glad of Severus and Hermione having a convo even it wasn't about........ I do have a one tracked mind! Hehe.

To what your nine year old cooked-WOW.  I love this story.  I can't wait for Snape to find out! 

Oh dear, Severus is definitely avoiding putting the evidence together.Poached pears with custard and raspberry couilis *yum*!

Ah! Another great chapter with a teasing finish!  My money is on it being Ginny :) 

Love your story, but the waiting is killing me! Come on, Sev, figure it out, or Hermione, get on with it!Love Blaise, so Muggle-ignorant (Oscar??). "Doomed forever to the purgatory of your indifference."

ANOTHER cliffie mongerer! What is it with my favorite authors today. Everyone of you has left your stories hanging off a cliff! *grin* That said, Excellent chapter! I like how SS deals with the portraits. And to watch Hermione running from an owl? Priceless. ^_^

Yes, alright, you made it clear about the patience! But the cliffhanger at the end is real torture! Readers aren´t that patient!I really love your story and check every day for an update. Keep on writing !

Well all right, now, I think maybe if a Hogwarts owl dropped a 2x4 on Severus' head at breakfast instead of another note from 'Grace,' we might start getting somewhere.But that's OK, I love being tortured by suspense as much as the next person ;)P.S. Congratulations to your daughter on her culinary win. Does she do house calls?P.P.S. I vote that it's the Bloody Baron at the end. No good reason. I just think it would be fun as anything.

Just reread this chapter for the third time!Last chapter, my theory on how Severus finds out involved him running into Blaise at the gallery (Blaise is going to see the exhibition now that he knows where it is, right? That is why he asked where it was?). This chapter's theory involves the veritaserum. At first, I thought it would be Hermione who drank it, but now I am leaning towards Blaise being the one to blurt something out under the influence. Of course, it is entirely possible that you will have Severus encounter both scenarios and come up, yet again, without any useful conclusion!I am really loving how you draw the suspense out. So many writers give us the surprise/shock/big-secret-revealed in the first chapter and then spend the next 38 chapters explaining how they resolved the fallout. But you just keep giving us more suspense! Amazing!

Congratulations to your daughter! Sounds wonderful! Yes, please do post the recipe. I'd love to make it with my 8yo girlie. Awesome chapter! I loved all the moments of them bumping into each other and speaking, yet the truth is still undiscovered! Eeee, very nervewracking. Favorite part was her racing the owl out of the hall. LOL. Thanks!

Wonderful!  And, uhm, will your daughter be posting her recipe?

Oops I think Neville is really angry now. And I 'm glad nothing happened to you. BTW Do you think your daughter would be willing to share her recipe because it seems delicious with just the name. Congratulations to her.

Well done to your daughter!! That's awesome.  I can't get enough of this story - I become more and more excited every chapter.  Could that be Neville, or Ginny?!

Hermione's Kinsey lecture rings of their disussion in Chapter 2.  I thought at the time that Snape did not recognize Hermione then because he didn't know her well enough to know that this is how she talked ... but, now ... he got an earful of Hermione defending an academic viewpoint, sounding just like Grace...Yes, I understand he isn't paying much attention since he is all in anticipation mode.Still, if she wished to remain below the radar, she should have reigned in her natural need to exposit everything she thinks on a subject.  But perhaps Hermione's ability to control herself is just as bad as Snape's ability to see the clues around him.And btw, my guess it is Neville.  I think Draco's voice would have always sounded cold, but for Neville to sound cold would be a distinction worth noting.Thank you for all of the effort you have put in to entertaining us (your fans).

Firstly, congrats to kidlet.  That's a complex dish to tackle.Now...Sunny, you are such a bad, bad girl.  You leave us all slavering (for good reason!) for over a week and then tease us even further to distraction.  I must say, the humor in this chapter is legend.  This line got me, "I’ll go down in history as The Woman Who Desnarked the Snape. Slytherins will despair; Hufflepuffs will cry; Gryffindors will rejoice; and Ravenclaws probably won’t even notice."  Desnark.  Snicker.Hermione seems to have a plan and Snape just needs to get a clue.  And then there is this shadowy voice...  Neville?  Draco?  Ginny?More, please!

Severus is so blind! my god, anyone with two brain cells to rub together would have figured it out by now u.u''