Thanks so much,

! I'm glad to know you're enjoying this story, and I love reading your reactions. Oh, Hermione. Yes... she's stuck between a rock and a hard place with her parents' situation, much like she was when she was eighteen and making that decision the first time around. To me, it's striking how quickly Hermione abandons them in canon, spending her holidays at the Weasleys or Hogwarts. How much time did she actually spend with her folks after the age of eleven? Did she even write them? I'm not sure she knew them well enough to reverse the memory loss for their sake. You just know there are embarrassing childhood portraits of Draco lurking about... And the Sorting Hat mystery returns in Chapter Fourteen (someone else we will be entering Hogwarts).

Thanks so much for your kind words,

, and just for taking the time to leave a review. This is my first (and only) long story, and I'm delighted to hear that you're enjoying it. Hermione has a lot to learn about what Severus (and Draco) are up to with their research projects and ingredient hunts. And Astoria? I think our only glimpses of Purebloods in canon are pretty extreme, as you're either wealthy and horrible or poor with a heart of gold. Astoria is, for me, the best of the middle ground. I'll be chucking the next chapter into the queue in a few days, so it shouldn't be too long for you to find out what happens with Hermione's parents (queue dependent, of course). Thanks again! 

Poor foolish neighbours, not realising there's a whole house filled with people next to them. (As for Draco, yes, I think you're absolutely correct! Severus likely took him to task afterwards... It just happened off stage of the rest of this story.)

Hee! Thanks,

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Thanks very much,

. I'm glad you enjoyed it. Severus? Push people away? It's a good thing Hermione is stubborn. He's avoids risks when it comes to people at all costs, which I think explains his reaction here. Pensieves are intriguing, aren't they? I know Jo created them as a way to share a part of the story Harry wouldn't have access to otherwise, but the implications for a device that lets you move in and out of any event? Tremendous.

Thanks very much! I'm glad you're enjoying it.

I'm with you, although I think people would have different reactions to it. Severus tends to avoids risks and attachments where people are concerned, Hermione will be questioning his answer as well. She's terribly stubborn, you know. ;)

I tend to think Severus is a bit of a prude... ;)

She does get swept away, doesn't she? Thanks so much for reviewing! I'm glad you're enjoying the story.

I'm delighted you're enjoying the story,

! I do love Hermione at work... She's a force to be reckoned with. 'Hurricane Hermione', one might say? ;)

Hee hee... I tend to see Hermione as quite frank and Severus as a bit of a prude, so she may have terrified him had she continued! But she's a stubborn girl, and unlike Severus, she goes after what she wants. ;)

I'm glad you're enjoying it,

! Thanks so much for taking the time to leave a review. (The next update is in the queue!)

Ah! Poor Neville. I love him so much, but he's not exactly a sexually confident fellow, is he? Jealousy, you say? (Begins perusing later chapters to see if it would work...)I LOVE the albino peacocks at the Malfoys'... really, how ridiculous can you get?

Thanks so much! I really like Astoria - all we've got in canon are terrible pure-blood aristocrats and lovely blood traitors, but Astoria is, in my mind, the best of all the well-bred aristocracy (and maybe the only person alive who happily deals with Draco and Narcissa and Severus and the world at large). On the Obliviate origins story, that one actually comes from JKR herself! When I started this, I thought I should double check what I knew from canon on all sorts of memory issues - the Sorting Hat, the Pensieves, et cetera - and I found a few other things that she made up in her extra writings.

Thanks so much! That makes me think of Samuel Johnson, who said that "to be happy at home is the end of all human endeavor." Hermione's building two little families of friends now that she's back in England.

At least in Scorpius' eyes! (And, really, aren't those the most important ones?)

Potions class is much more pleasant for all involved when Neville's not threatening to explode a cauldron! Hmm... the Longbottoms' health problems being related to Hermione's work? Hmm...As for the Malfoy Manor library, it is (in essentials) my favourite manor home library - the one at the Biltmore Estate in the US. Dark wood, the perimeter balcony, the fireplace, the spiral stairs... it's gorgeous! I'm also quite partial to Severus' library, but it'll be a few chapters before we get to see it.And as for more, it'll be coming out much faster as soon as I'm knocked out of the drabble rounds - so... probably after this week! (They're all fantastic.) Now I'm off to read your latest chapter.

They don't, do they? I like the thought of the Malfoys reclaiming the most terrible space in their home with the innocent play of children. Thanks for a lovely review!

Thanks! I have high hopes for Draco after DH. I think he's still got an ego the size of England to deal with, but I like to think he'd make really different choices with his own son. (There's much brewing to come!)

The possession of albino peacocks ranks pretty high on the 'The Malfoys did WHAT?!?' List.

Oh, thank you very much, Arianna! I'm so glad to know you're enjoying this story. (It's my first one, so I'm still a bit nervous about how everything comes across.) I tend to work dialogue before anything else... it's my favourite stuff to write.  As for the rest? The next chapter's in the queue!

A Snape who's lived in (relative) peace for a decade? I think a bit would have to sneak by!

I love holidays in general, Muggle or otherwise. All of our quirky traditions come out then, from food to songs to family habits.Thanks! I often wonder with the JKR's epilogue... about Neville and Draco (and Scorpius), most particularly. They're just flitting around the edges of it, but we never really see them... And yes, it's in the queue!

So... now for the swottiest response I will probably ever give: Reginald and Archibald are the names of two poets in a Gilbert & Sullivan operetta called Patience. It's Reginald who sings about asphodel in an aria of his, so I thought it only fitting that Severus (as a potions master) keep 'Reginald' for himself, passing 'Archie' over to Hermione.And the thought of Severus with a child he actually likes (but still doesn't know what to do with) amuses me to no end.