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Progress! And in a good way, too. Good to see Severus' personality beginning to emerge, less a ghost of himself. Still, he's a long way off from snarkiness. Besides, how much of all that vitrol was part of his mask, his role to play? Fascinating.

@17 AWWW! I love Luna's gift to Sev, and Harry needs to lighten up. He has some nerve snapping at her for bringing Sev a cat. He needs something, doesn't he listen to Ginny? by the way, I love how you're portraying Ginny. She's rational and go her head on straight, which is a quite different from most Snarry's. I actually like her a lot. It seems that Harry could have avoided a lot of trouble if he had sought out some advice and talked to his wife. lol. Well, I guess it's all for the best, now we get a nice Snarry. I was touched when they took Lily furniture shopping, and I think that Lily is adorable. I love the conversation about Sev being "found". I love the voice prompted furniture. Lots of neat little things in this chapter. Great chapter Em.

Awww, Luna is a sweety...I really like how you wrote her, and she's very IC. I love her reading to Sev, and their conversation about those that were lost was sobering. I like how she recounted who died no distinguishing between the dark and light. Poor Harry, I feel his pain, not liking Diggory at all. Interesting with the interrogation, can't wait to hear more about that...and what's up with Draco not showing up to look after Sev. I hope everything is OK, that doesn't seem like him.

Harry really surprised me in this chapter. The boy definitely needs some sleep. It felt strange that seconds after feeling guilty for being rude to Luna, he would reply "snidely" to her regular "out-there" comments. And really you do like to surprise don't you? Mere seconds after I was relieved that the meeting with Diggory did not go haywire, the Dementor's Kiss issue was surprising. Though Lovely Bones had a "happy" ending, the idea of the Kiss always makes me shudder a bit. Even if these people were those that tortured Snape. While I'm curious as to why Draco did not show up (worried about seeing his godfather so reserved? or busy finding a cure?), I do hope Harry gets his head back on. I hope he remembers to take care of himself soon. Great chapter.

Tripod - an old joke name put to the best use. I love it. The poetry is wonderful, the progress because of Luna and the other caretakers tangible.

Self petting cat.
Great chapter

tripod. rofl. that's just priceless. so irreverant and so luna. i really enjoyed the conversations in this chapter. there's such a reality to their world and the situations they find themselves in. like ginny mentioned, they exist in the gray area. there's no simple black and white problem solving. i find myself loving your harry. he's so endearing and irritating at the same time. he moves snape in without even consulting his long suffering wife and yet wigs out when luna brings a cat home. ha! that's just so like him. your characterization is excellent. i've read many stories where the author seems to give all the players the same personality. so it's like the author is simply talking, using the characters' mouths. it all sounds exactly the same and lacks depth. but you, you seem to understand the subtle differences in the characters. you pay close attention to how several different personalities would go about saying the same thing. how would luna, ginny, hermione or marietta tell harry he was wrong? they would all approach it differently based on who they are and their relationship to him and you recognize this. it's refreshing and makes for an enjoyable read. great work :D

I love this story so much. We were all so spoiled by the constant updates over break that I find myself checking up on it every day in order to see if its been updated again! I can't wait to see more chapters.

Luna is wierd and I like that. The ending was cute and I think Tripod really helped Severus

Very sweet chapter. I admit, the moment with Ginny got me irritated at both Harry and Ginny. For Ginny to be scolding him about the slave bond...good. To win his wife back, I couldn't believe that he'd try to take credit for Snape's work. I can't imagine that being revealed kindly among the other members working together to rehabilitate Snape. But then for Ginny to scold Harry about spending money, when it was her and her family (along with charity and Hogwarts) that he gave his money... If she is going to get angry at Harry for inviting the cat...honestly. This is such a wrong time for her to finally decide she's had enough. She sounds like an ignorant little girl, about as ignorant as Harry is about the slave bond (though about different things). Luna at the end, and Severus with the cat was really sweet though. I like how you described those last couple scenes. Great job with this chapte.r