Summer School (For The Romantically Challenged)
Proulxes85 Reviews | 6.81/10 (85 Ratings, 0 Likes, 20 Favorites )
Dear Severus, Following our recent conversation, I am writing to confirm that you have agreed to take part in our new Summer Extension Programme at school. Working as part of a team with school staff and visiting professors, you will be partly responsible for the delivery of 'Perfect Your Potion Making!' a challenging and inspiring course for adult learners....
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*Bows very low* Pxx 
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*Bows very low* Pxx
I always love it when the necessary insight comes from Luna. Great story. Fun.
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Hi
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! Glad you liked it!! Thanks for the review! I think Luna is fabulous. Best wishes, Pxx
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Hi
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! Glad you liked it!! Thanks for the review! I think Luna is fabulous. Best wishes, Pxx
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s? I'm flattered!
Response from Proulxes (Author of Summer School (For The Romantically Challenged))
I really should have asked permission (eeek, sorry!) but your name just kept pinging into my head when I was writing the chapter and I ... erm... stole it.Blushes.Gladyoudon'tmind!!Pxxxx
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s? I'm flattered!
Response from Proulxes (Author of Summer School (For The Romantically Challenged))
I really should have asked permission (eeek, sorry!) but your name just kept pinging into my head when I was writing the chapter and I ... erm... stole it.Blushes.Gladyoudon'tmind!!Pxxxx
The staff meeting was hilarious! I truly don't envy Minerva. who's finally going to evaluate whom? Narcissa telling Severus on privacy in marriage is spot on. Amazing, how civilised SS can be, I just wonder is it the beginning of Cissy's plot or his frustration/defeat? Will Ginny and Cissy join forces?Many thanks for a great read!!
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Hi
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! Thank you for your review. I'm glad you liked the staff meeting. :) I think Severus has given up. Bless. Last chapter due on Friday. Pxx
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Hi
Response from Proulxes (Author of Summer School (For The Romantically Challenged))
! Thank you for your review. I'm glad you liked the staff meeting. :) I think Severus has given up. Bless. Last chapter due on Friday. Pxx
I have to be honest. I was hoping Lucius was going to open the letter. I don't know why I have the sudden need to see him tortured in an amusing way, but I do.Cissy is such the 'calm in the storm'. Loved it.I really wanted audio for the meeting just so I could laugh more.The sticky notes were brilliant.Severus' heart is breaking. Again I would guess. Love the story. You're the best.
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Brilliant! Thank you, Phyllida! Have no fear, though -- Narcissa is a better Slytherin plotter than Severus! Final chapter is due on Friday! Pxx
Response from Proulxes (Author of Summer School (For The Romantically Challenged))
Brilliant! Thank you, Phyllida! Have no fear, though -- Narcissa is a better Slytherin plotter than Severus! Final chapter is due on Friday! Pxx
Funny, love the monologes. New character is fascinating. Hope to read more soon!
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Great! Glad you liked it! More next Friday.... Pxx
Response from Proulxes (Author of Summer School (For The Romantically Challenged))
Great! Glad you liked it! More next Friday.... Pxx
no detectable curses… 
So glad Lucius is going to continue to play a part.
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Ooooooh yes. He may wished he hadn't initially at least... but he's very, very important. As is his cane....! More coming soon, Pxx
Response from Proulxes (Author of Summer School (For The Romantically Challenged))
Ooooooh yes. He may wished he hadn't initially at least... but he's very, very important. As is his cane....! More coming soon, Pxx
Still giggling madly imagining the tone in Minerva's voice as she advises Jerry to call Professor Snape 'Sev.' And Lucius' last letter seems to be a masterpiece of understatement. I am sure Hermione will have quite a lot to say when she is in touch! Wonderful comedy and the letters move the plot along without ever missing a beat.
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Thanks
Response from Proulxes (Author of Summer School (For The Romantically Challenged))
! I'm delighted you enjoyed it. Trying to get that gentle teasing between colleagues into the story was my aim, as wells some slapstick stuff, and (wouldn't be me otherwise) a little bit of deeper feeling.... :) next chapter up soon. Pxx
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Thanks
Response from Proulxes (Author of Summer School (For The Romantically Challenged))
! I'm delighted you enjoyed it. Trying to get that gentle teasing between colleagues into the story was my aim, as wells some slapstick stuff, and (wouldn't be me otherwise) a little bit of deeper feeling.... :) next chapter up soon. Pxx
*snort* *giggle* ROTFLMAO! Love the dating advise. Pre-emptive healing salves will DEFINITELY be in order. ^_^
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Oh yes... It's not going to be pretty (but you should see what she did to Lucius first...!). So pleased that you're enjoying it! Pxx
Response from Proulxes (Author of Summer School (For The Romantically Challenged))
Oh yes... It's not going to be pretty (but you should see what she did to Lucius first...!). So pleased that you're enjoying it! Pxx
Another wonderful chapter!Oh, so "Sev" 
used to be in the category 'male' in Hermione's experience--this changes my understanding, but not exactly to his advantage. I bet whenever he learnt about every single of Hermione's preferrences, it was because Hermione reacted similar to his darn potion upon his own failure. Adding Ron and Lucius? Let's hope that this universe is indeed fiction--or you must have a death wish!
Response from Proulxes (Author of Summer School (For The Romantically Challenged))
Lucius was a hoot to write in this story, and it was fun to try to depict him in a comic but in canon character way... more from him later on! Hermione did not take well to having her date interrupted.... Next chapter will be up soon! Pxx
Response from Proulxes (Author of Summer School (For The Romantically Challenged))
Lucius was a hoot to write in this story, and it was fun to try to depict him in a comic but in canon character way... more from him later on! Hermione did not take well to having her date interrupted.... Next chapter will be up soon! Pxx
I do hope the queue for the next chapter is short! You have me definitely hooked, thank you for a thrilling story! (What did happen back then? It must have been something major if Harry and Lucius remember so clearly)
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Hopefully the next chapter will be up on Friday next week! Really pleased you're enjoying this little romp. Poor Severus is going to suffer badly for love.... Pxx
Response from Proulxes (Author of Summer School (For The Romantically Challenged))
Hopefully the next chapter will be up on Friday next week! Really pleased you're enjoying this little romp. Poor Severus is going to suffer badly for love.... Pxx
Dear Sev, Can I call you Sev? Minerva said you'd "love it if I did..." LOL! Minerva is having a high old time, isn't she? I love it when she gets up to something.Gracious! Harry is going to have his hands full during his Quidditch training class. "Boom! Boom!" and "Sev" in the same class. The Bludgers are sure to be flying... I wonder if "Sev" will try to jinx the Bludgers so that Jerry will find himself flying for his life? Would he do that? I enjoyed the clever advice Severus gave to Jerry for winning Hermione's affections. But according to Lucius' latest message, things didn't go "quite as we had planned." If Hermione is on her way to see him, and "pre-emptive healing salves may be in order," perhaps his advice to Jerry wasn't as clever as he had hoped it would be. Poor Severus.I have two final questions:•what happened with batches twenty-nine, thirty-one, and thirty-two?and more importantly,•what happened with Severus in 2002?I'm loving this!!! 
Beth
Response from Proulxes (Author of Summer School (For The Romantically Challenged))
Hi Beth! Lovely to hear from you! I'm so pleased you liked the chapter. Lucius is great fun to write and I'm channelling lots of his sneery loyalty in this story. But just wait until you meet Narcissa...! Pxx
Response from Proulxes (Author of Summer School (For The Romantically Challenged))
Hi Beth! Lovely to hear from you! I'm so pleased you liked the chapter. Lucius is great fun to write and I'm channelling lots of his sneery loyalty in this story. But just wait until you meet Narcissa...! Pxx
Heeee! Love Severus' advice to Boom Boom--ha! A delightfully Sytherin tactic--yes, I am still laughing and grinning so that my face cheeks hurt. Yes, hurt--thank you, Px, you naughty, delightful tease you! More, more, more!
Response from Proulxes (Author of Summer School (For The Romantically Challenged))
Hello nag! Thank you for your review! I'm so pleased you liked Severus' hopeless plotting. It will get worse for him, poor dear.... Pxx
Response from Proulxes (Author of Summer School (For The Romantically Challenged))
Hello nag! Thank you for your review! I'm so pleased you liked Severus' hopeless plotting. It will get worse for him, poor dear.... Pxx
I am thoroughly enjoying your tale. :D Please post again soon!hm88
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Hello,
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! Next chapter is ready to go on Friday next week, barring any unforeseen issues! Glad you're enjoying it. The next chapter is probably my favourite one... :) Pxx
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Hello,
Response from Proulxes (Author of Summer School (For The Romantically Challenged))
! Next chapter is ready to go on Friday next week, barring any unforeseen issues! Glad you're enjoying it. The next chapter is probably my favourite one... :) Pxx
Along with a more and more delightfully *frustrated* Severus --HA!, I love the fantastic range of writing style and play with punctuation and format that just heaps onto and propels the momentum & pacing of the witty rivalry going on; a truly riveting, whirlwind of dynamics and fun erupting all over the place, all leading to contribute to the *exploding* cauldron--poor Severus, he's in the thick of it in more ways than one! Hahaha!
Response from Proulxes (Author of Summer School (For The Romantically Challenged))
Thank you, nag!! I'm so happy you liked it - and it hasn't really got going yet... More very soon. I can't see Severus behaving well when he meets Jerry, can you? And there is the matter of Hermione's attraction towards the American Arithmancer too.... Thank you for your review! Pxx
Response from Proulxes (Author of Summer School (For The Romantically Challenged))
Thank you, nag!! I'm so happy you liked it - and it hasn't really got going yet... More very soon. I can't see Severus behaving well when he meets Jerry, can you? And there is the matter of Hermione's attraction towards the American Arithmancer too.... Thank you for your review! Pxx
"Gods, you're good. Smug bastard." *gigglesnort* I really love the chain-letter format and you present all the different voices beautifully. So many things to like, including the insufferable Jerry and Severus' mad-scientist turn in the Potions lab! Great fun.
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Hi
Response from Proulxes (Author of Summer School (For The Romantically Challenged))
! Thanks very much! I'm so pleased you had a laugh over it. More coming soon, as Severus begins to plot. Badly.... Pxx
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Hi
Response from Proulxes (Author of Summer School (For The Romantically Challenged))
! Thanks very much! I'm so pleased you had a laugh over it. More coming soon, as Severus begins to plot. Badly.... Pxx
Ah, that was absolutely hilarious--especially the special instructions for delivery!
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*Grins broadly* Brilliant! So glad to have entertained. It's going to get worse for the poor bugger soon.... Pxx
Response from Proulxes (Author of Summer School (For The Romantically Challenged))
*Grins broadly* Brilliant! So glad to have entertained. It's going to get worse for the poor bugger soon.... Pxx
That was delightful! I giggled through the entire chapter. My favorite letter though, by far, was when Severus asked, "What fresh hell is this?"
Response from Proulxes (Author of Summer School (For The Romantically Challenged))
Thank you, LadyK! Delighted you're enjoying it! Pxx
Response from Proulxes (Author of Summer School (For The Romantically Challenged))
Thank you, LadyK! Delighted you're enjoying it! Pxx
Something went BOOM BOOM in the dungeons! ^_^
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Ha Ha! Boom Boom!!! (Basil Brush moment) Pxx
Response from Proulxes (Author of Summer School (For The Romantically Challenged))
Ha Ha! Boom Boom!!! (Basil Brush moment) Pxx
Oh, let Harry stew for a while still! Ginny knows he deserves it, so she will survive it.However, when he sees Snape after that volatile chain reaction, he might have a field day. A great read once again!
Response from Proulxes (Author of Summer School (For The Romantically Challenged))
Yes, silly chap. He can't help the big brother complex! Hermione will let him off the hook... But why is she becoming more interested in the dodgy American...? Pxx
Response from Bettina (Reviewer)
Well, as Harry is out of bounds, what are her alternatives? One colleague, Flitwick, isn't fully human, others, like Sprout, aren't male. And a certain someone might just as well fall into both these categories ... from her point of view. However I trust (hope??) that she isn't as easily fooled/impressed anymore as she was at the age of 12.
Response from Proulxes (Author of Summer School (For The Romantically Challenged))
Aaaah... Quite... That's the mystery here...! Next chapter will be up on next week and we'll see how things... Er.... Develop..... *giggle* Px
Response from Proulxes (Author of Summer School (For The Romantically Challenged))
Yes, silly chap. He can't help the big brother complex! Hermione will let him off the hook... But why is she becoming more interested in the dodgy American...? Pxx
Response from Bettina (Reviewer)
Well, as Harry is out of bounds, what are her alternatives? One colleague, Flitwick, isn't fully human, others, like Sprout, aren't male. And a certain someone might just as well fall into both these categories ... from her point of view. However I trust (hope??) that she isn't as easily fooled/impressed anymore as she was at the age of 12.
Response from Proulxes (Author of Summer School (For The Romantically Challenged))
Aaaah... Quite... That's the mystery here...! Next chapter will be up on next week and we'll see how things... Er.... Develop..... *giggle* Px
Increased volatility is immediately observed in the potion, a chain reaction is clearly in progress within the—OH BUGGER!I hope Severus cast that 'PROTEGO!!!' in time to keep those activated leptocephali hormones from getting all over him. We wouldn't want him going all slim-headed and transparent now, would we? I'd love to read all the notes he takes with his new Quick-Quote Quill. Perhaps that fact that it records everything it "hears" will help Severus figure out just what happened to set this potion off.Lucius is a true friend, isn't he? How thoughtful to send his buddy a Calming Draught. I can't wait to find out just how "Boom Boom" came to get his nickname. I'm certain there's a good story there... and what has he to do with Severus?Thank you for a very funny chapter!!!Beth
Response from Proulxes (Author of Summer School (For The Romantically Challenged))
My pleasure -- we're only getting started! Lucius will feature again in the next chapter as Severus is moved to inteoduce some Slytherin tactics... Pxx
Response from Proulxes (Author of Summer School (For The Romantically Challenged))
My pleasure -- we're only getting started! Lucius will feature again in the next chapter as Severus is moved to inteoduce some Slytherin tactics... Pxx
Sweet Merlin on a pogo stick. I'm sorry, but Lucius stole that chapter with his single letter. Hilarious. So looking forward to more.
Response from Proulxes (Author of Summer School (For The Romantically Challenged))
*Grins* Glad you liked it. Lucius is such a scene stealer...! More coming soon!! Pxx
Response from Proulxes (Author of Summer School (For The Romantically Challenged))
*Grins* Glad you liked it. Lucius is such a scene stealer...! More coming soon!! Pxx
Oh well done! 
I absolutely love letter format stories and wish there were more of them. You continue to please.
Response from Proulxes (Author of Summer School (For The Romantically Challenged))
Thank you, ma'am! *Bows low* Chapter 2 is up today and chapter 3 will be ready for next weekend, Easter holidays willing! Pxx
Response from Proulxes (Author of Summer School (For The Romantically Challenged))
Thank you, ma'am! *Bows low* Chapter 2 is up today and chapter 3 will be ready for next weekend, Easter holidays willing! Pxx
LOL. What a lovely way to start the day. Will Granger come to the rescue? It would be icing on the cake if she found the quick quotes still intact...Sigh. I guess I'll just have to wait to read your next installment.Thanks for posting!hm88
Response from Proulxes (Author of Summer School (For The Romantically Challenged))
Thank you!! Glad to ease the way into Friday for you! It will get worse before it gets better. And balder. Pxx
Response from Proulxes (Author of Summer School (For The Romantically Challenged))
Thank you!! Glad to ease the way into Friday for you! It will get worse before it gets better. And balder. Pxx
Oh my, what have you cooked up her?! This concoction is highly volatile already with the figures we know and the history you gave them. Adding a Daily Prophet reporter and Mr Boom Boom is calling for disaster. A certain S Snape might find delight in testing his newest creations on you.
Response from Proulxes (Author of Summer School (For The Romantically Challenged))
It will not go well. That's all I'm saying. Not well at all.... *Snort!* Thanks for getting in touch! Pxx
Response from Proulxes (Author of Summer School (For The Romantically Challenged))
It will not go well. That's all I'm saying. Not well at all.... *Snort!* Thanks for getting in touch! Pxx