I modelled Ron after my father and brother. It would appear that some men get more "lecherous" with age. Some have called it unrealistic, but having the misfortune to bear witness to father pestering mother while she's slaving over a hot stove cooking, I thought it could work for the story. But I do concede that for a first chapter, it may be a tad shocking. Thank you for your kind comments.

Thank you for your review. please bear with me as i am dictating this response to the person who shares my computer. i am currently sick and unable to personally respond.

In the many years of writing fanfic, I have had the experience where readers would ask me to explain something that I had already explained in a previous chapter. I learnt the hard way (by replying to multiple reviews and emails asking the same questions) that readers very rarely cross-refer to a previous chapter to look up a definition or explanation. To obviate such a thing happening, I repeat footnotes. However, I get tired of typing the footnotes so I always say "Term/word: c.f to ft in ch X where it was explained" It always works for academic writing and it has worked for me in fanfic.

Furthermore, it has also come to my attention that there are some who do not read the footnotes. these readers still believe that Chambers=law firm. that is not true, if you look at the definition of chambers and the definition of firm - they are different as night and day. there is also still existent the misconception that "pupil" means student in this story. this is despite the fact that i have explained "pupil" in the footnotes, and that pupil (the legal noun) does not mean student. a pupil in the Br. legal sense of the word has already gotten his/her LLB in Law. The pupillage is a period when the pupil has on the job training before he/she takes the bar exams and is called to bar (only if he/she passes the exam). I tried explaining this but apparently no one reads the footnotes, and when I see online discussions of it getting the facts wrong, it annoys me. this is especially since i cannot respond directly owing to the rules of the challenge.

Now that i have explained myself please try to understand and respect my decision for repeating footnotes. *ft=footnotes, c/f=cross refer.

Also please note that my author's notes are different from my footnotes. footnotes are explanations of terminology. author's notes are warnings and overviews. There is a difference, and I have made it deliberately so. It is also my experience that people skip author's notes and then complain that the story does not prepare them for X or Y. That is why - to minimise this sort of nonsense, I repeat author's notes as well.

OH! Sorry. I read the foot notes each time and with each chapter, although reciently I've just been scanning them, only stopping when something new catches my eye.
It's crazy that people don't read the notes, especially when someone is using technical terms and titles usually only associated within a particular field. Sorry, I didn't mean to offend, but I now fully understand... Please by alll means - continue with the story. I'm looking forward to seeing where this goes...

i don't mind your comment. it was very insightful, and i appreciate the time you take to go through the story from top to bottom. very little offends me these days. as for where this goes - the whole story wraps up in ch 11, so be patient. :)

Ah yes... I am mean and terrible to throw in a cliffhanger. Fear not, things will be more or less expounded upon and explained by and by.

Older people in my experience do call females younger than them chits, more so if they do not think much of them. The dream sequence is a bit of a foreshadowing yet not quite. 4 more chapters to go. All will be revealed by and bye.

4 more chapters to go - all will be revealed by and bye.

4 more chapters to go - all will be revealed by and bye.

Thank you, I write from observation and am glad that it translated well into the printed medium.

Thank you, I write from observation and am glad that it translated well into the printed medium.

Yes! At last, someone who finally gets why I use the Greek! Thank you. *air kisses*

Yes! At last, someone who finally gets why I use the Greek! Thank you. *air kisses*

All my writings are researched. Fortunately, this tale has been a pleasure to write.

All my writings are researched. Fortunately, this tale has been a pleasure to write.

I am glad you liked the correspondence. I tried to make it oblique without being too technical and philosophical. As many readers have asked what happens to Severus, let me just say that the clues are in this chapter. Thank you for reading.

I am glad you liked the correspondence. I tried to make it oblique without being too technical and philosophical. As many readers have asked what happens to Severus, let me just say that the clues are in this chapter. Thank you for reading.

There are perfectly logical reasons. They will be revealed by and bye... Thank you for your continued interest in this story

Thank you so very much for your effusive praise. I only write to as a means of stress relief. So I am very happy that others take a little bit of joy in my writing. Thank you once again.

It was just as complicated to write I assure you. Read on.

Let's just say Anthony/Daphne is fan-service for you because you mentioned it in a review some time ago. Do npt worry, it only required minor rewriting of the chapter (and as it does not affect the rest of the main story, I threw it in). No need to prostrate at my feet, I am just an ordinary person - a writer in the fandom as you are. But I do thank you for the effusive remarks and praise. I am deeply touched. Contrary to popular belief, affection is a pressure that I can bear very well.

(1) Clues as to what may have happened to Snape are in Ch 5 - go through everything that Hermione sees and thinks about and discovers in the British Library.

(2) The Tony Blair and Labour bit is an inside joke between my prelim reader and me. We are Tory supporters or would be if we were in the UK. The floo thing is just to demonstrate that the bureaucratic machinery has gotten worse due to out-sourcing, which has happened in the country of my birth. It is a thinly veiled criticism of the political machinery in the country of my birth.

All the questions about the young German... well, time will reveal all, or almost all. Some bits require thinking on the readers' parts.

Ron is what he is, and his behaviour and words are based on that of a male that I have had great opportunity to observe.

Well... let's just say he's a bit of a bystander...

That is one of the things I was trying to project - another is that some chaps are one thing when you date them and another thing when you marry them.

There is no polyjuice. Have you ever felt the need to clear your head by going to the loo and just splashing water on your face so that you will "wake up" because something disquieting has just happened? I have. The same goes for young Perseuss.

There is no polyjuice. Have you ever felt the need to clear your head by going to the loo and just splashing water on your face so that you will "wake up" because something disquieting has just happened? I have. The same goes for young Perseuss.

Thank you for the kind compliment.

Thank you for the kind compliment.

Ah, I have lost count of the questions on the young German... Only time will tell. Have patience.

Ah, I have lost count of the questions on the young German... Only time will tell. Have patience.

I do try. Thank you.

I do try. Thank you.

Ah, the German fellow. So many questions about the young chap, but I am not going to reveal anything yet. Read on...

Ah, the German fellow. So many questions about the young chap, but I am not going to reveal anything yet. Read on...

So glad you liked it. My beta and I initially worried that the plot was too dark or depressing, but it seems to be holding its own. Thank you for expressing an interest in this.

So glad you liked it. My beta and I initially worried that the plot was too dark or depressing, but it seems to be holding its own. Thank you for expressing an interest in this.

I fangirl, obsess and can be scary too, so no harm done. Hmm, when the big reveal is over and done with, let me know what RP this is. My last RP has fallen and closed. Well, I did throw them in Chiswell Square Chambers. As for whether they are having a "thing" - who knows?Ah, Ron - one of the biggest arses I have writteb. Well, he knows the children are his. It is insinuated in the plot that Hermione had only lately (within the last 3-5 years) begun to immerse herself totally in her work. Because she has lately been so work-oriented instead of Ron-oriented, he thinks she is having an affair only recently (as in the late 3-5 years). And since the children were born before the last 3-5 years, he knows they are his. Well, that's my rationale at any rate.It seems my young German is giving my readers a bit of something to mull over. *snerk* Time will reveal all. 

Sadly that particular one will probably close too within the next six months at the most and they're not accepting new players. I'm going to miss my Tony/Daphne madly. I've got basically the same Daphne in a different game as well (except she's younger and somewhat depressed and generally mentally unstable at the moment), which is only a few months old and I know the modlies would be thrilled to get more players. :) Soon as I know who you are, I'll try to remember to shoot you a message. :)

And YAY for the possiblility of behind-the-scenes Tony/Daphne! :D

As for Ron, I'll admit I hadn't considered that. I was too caught up in all his other accusations. :p

I could be stalking you after the reveal, for all we know... lol. Tony and Daphne aren't the leads in this drama however, we have yet to uncover the many questions raised in the chapters thus far. Only time will tell.

I fangirl, obsess and can be scary too, so no harm done. Hmm, when the big reveal is over and done with, let me know what RP this is. My last RP has fallen and closed. Well, I did throw them in Chiswell Square Chambers. As for whether they are having a "thing" - who knows?Ah, Ron - one of the biggest arses I have writteb. Well, he knows the children are his. It is insinuated in the plot that Hermione had only lately (within the last 3-5 years) begun to immerse herself totally in her work. Because she has lately been so work-oriented instead of Ron-oriented, he thinks she is having an affair only recently (as in the late 3-5 years). And since the children were born before the last 3-5 years, he knows they are his. Well, that's my rationale at any rate.It seems my young German is giving my readers a bit of something to mull over. *snerk* Time will reveal all. 

Sadly that particular one will probably close too within the next six months at the most and they're not accepting new players. I'm going to miss my Tony/Daphne madly. I've got basically the same Daphne in a different game as well (except she's younger and somewhat depressed and generally mentally unstable at the moment), which is only a few months old and I know the modlies would be thrilled to get more players. :) Soon as I know who you are, I'll try to remember to shoot you a message. :)

And YAY for the possiblility of behind-the-scenes Tony/Daphne! :D

As for Ron, I'll admit I hadn't considered that. I was too caught up in all his other accusations. :p

I could be stalking you after the reveal, for all we know... lol. Tony and Daphne aren't the leads in this drama however, we have yet to uncover the many questions raised in the chapters thus far. Only time will tell.

Patience, my dear, patience. The new instalment will be up sometime next week. And thank you for taking the time to read and review.

Patience, my dear, patience. The new instalment will be up sometime next week. And thank you for taking the time to read and review.