Wheeee! Yes, I had a whole lot of fun describing Arcadia. (And as for the bigoted fellow -- yes indeed, he was supposed to be pretty odious. You can tell a lot about a man by the company he keeps, eh?)

Can't wait till you see what's coming next!

Thanks! It's funny; I created Cecile as sort of an unimportant bit player meant to move the exposition along originally, but then she took on a soulful life of her own somewhere along the line. It became important for me to get her out of that awful situation at Malfeasant and into a better life.The sock Portkey was intended to be symbolic of Cecile's being sent away by the Malfoys into Emily's service, i.e. "We free you, and abandon you to the tender mercies of your new Mistress" -- without ever knowing how merciful that new Mistress is by comparison! Plus the disposable, icky nature of an old sock would also be representative of the Malfoys' degrading treatment.Re: Dobby, I can only imagine that Cecile must have thought he'd been cast away into the Great Unknown, and since I imagined that the two of them might have been friends back at Malfeasant, I thought she might have been worried about him. It certainly made for a happy reunion between the two when they met in the kitchen at Hogwarts!

Thanks! It's funny; I created Cecile as sort of an unimportant bit player meant to move the exposition along originally, but then she took on a soulful life of her own somewhere along the line. It became important for me to get her out of that awful situation at Malfeasant and into a better life.The sock Portkey was intended to be symbolic of Cecile's being sent away by the Malfoys into Emily's service, i.e. "We free you, and abandon you to the tender mercies of your new Mistress" -- without ever knowing how merciful that new Mistress is by comparison! Plus the disposable, icky nature of an old sock would also be representative of the Malfoys' degrading treatment.Re: Dobby, I can only imagine that Cecile must have thought he'd been cast away into the Great Unknown, and since I imagined that the two of them might have been friends back at Malfeasant, I thought she might have been worried about him. It certainly made for a happy reunion between the two when they met in the kitchen at Hogwarts!

Oh goodness, Lucius Malfoy may have been called by many names during his lifetime, but "white knight" is not one of them. He may look all purty and cuddly and white-knight-ish right now, but... OOOOOH! No spoilers!

As for the Emily/Tonks friendship, there will definitely be more to that later on. Cheers!

Thank you!  I'm glad to see people are enjoying reading this fic as much as I enjoyed writing it.  Cheers! 

Wow, thank you! I'm trying to write an original novel as well as update KEC at the moment, so I do appreciate the positive reinforcement!

Can't wait 'til you see what this story has in store!

*belly laugh* Don't even worry about skipping over the Lexicon at first. One of my betas told me, "You see, G, half the people reading this fic are here because somebody told them about the ahem, EVENTS of Ch. 1. EVERYBODY'S going to skip over the Lexicon and then refer to it as the corresponding plot points turn up." (She has proved to be about 110% right. This does not in any way trouble me.)

Thanks for the remarks about the setting! I love the way JKR treats the various supernatural communities as ethnicities, and it's been lots of fun fitting the Fae into it as an overlapping part of the already-rich world our beloved Canon Goddess Ms. Rowling has given us.

As for my OFC, Emily came about because dammit, I wanted a female character who would be a good match for Snape, as smart and formidable and he is. We've got some great women in the Potterverse, but alas, Hermione is 14, Tonks loves Lupin, Fleur loves Bill, and I don't think the 70ish McGonagall is the type to have mad love affairs (especially when they involve callboxes.) I set out to make up a sort of white-knight version of Bellatrix, and Emily is what I came up with.

Also, don't worry about me stopping halfway through.  There's a LOT more of this story coming, and at this point, I think I'd need to compound fracture both my hands to get me to stop writing fiction!

Thank you!  I shall strive to be worthy!

Don't worry about me stopping in the middle of this story by any means; it's a long, epic tale, with literally dozens more chapters to come.  Thanks for reviewing!

Yeah, somehow I figured the Death Eaters' wives wouldn't exactly be the nicest, least competitive lot of females on the face of the Earth. I envisioned a lot of organized-crime-wife sort of intrigue going on amongst the women. It's all ultra-polite on the surface, but with all sorts of nastiness and back-biting roiling just beneath.

As for the SS/ES/LM interaction, oh sweetie, I'm just gettin' started. Can't WAIT till you see what comes next!

*Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr* I try not to think of the proper mangling they gave KEC at That Other Archive when they moved it, as such thoughts are hard on my tooth enamel. I LIKED the site they had already... *sigh*

Yes, I am indeed working on KEC again, doing some revisions, and getting it all retro-fitted into HBP compliance of course. And yes, I think that by the time I've got all the chapters up here, I might have some new material written. I'll admit I've not been horrifically motivated to submit anything new over at The Other Place because it's kind of demoralizing to look at your properly MANGLED baby all the time and feel any desire to expand it. But another nice thing about this archive is that it allows me to put more than 12,000 words at a pop, so hopefully I won't have to chop up my chapters so much here. That did get kind of awkward IMHO.

Anyway, thanks for the review!

Thank you! I simply cannot wait until you see what happens in the next couple of chapters...

Did Emily change shape during her run in the Forest...well, it was stated in the Lexicon, several chapters ago, that some Faeries are shapechangers - BUT, I'll say no more about it! (Look forward to other chapters for an explanation!) And yes, this fic was always intended to be a SS/OFC/LM love triangle, so I just hope that you'll enjoy the way it plays out!

Thanks-you so very much!  I'm putting up Ch. 35 later today, so stay tuned!

Thanks-you so very much!  I'm putting up Ch. 35 later today, so stay tuned!

Thank you!  A friend told me early on that reading KEC was like "falling into a movie," and I liked that description so much that I've aspired to it ever since.  Thanks for reading!

Thank you!  A friend told me early on that reading KEC was like "falling into a movie," and I liked that description so much that I've aspired to it ever since.  Thanks for reading!