(Standing and cheering) More chapters!!! Yay!!!

Love your story, and hope we get lots of it (keep this going through school year please, I'm really looking forward to see the interaction between Snape and Harry in Hogwarts after this summer together). Don't bring Sirius back! That's so wrong... I'm sure you'll make Snape explain to Harry the dangers of playing with time (after some good smacks I hope), this is one of his stupidest ideas!

Oh, foolish, foolish Harry :-) One thing you can say for him: he's tenacious. Once he gets an idea in his head, no matter how foolish, he will follow up on it. The sad thing about this Sirius thing is: Sirius would probably make a very bad parental figure. Let's face it, even before Azkaban he was a flighty, unreliable character with a cruel streak a mile wide. Not that he would intentionally harm Harry, but he would forget things like supper or bedtimes when tinkering with his magical motorbike or snogging his latest girlfriend. Harry suffers from something all children who lost their parents before age ten, eleven suffer from: he has never interacted with them as a hormonal, rebellious teenager. Very young children see their parents as supergood and allknowing. This changes of course when they become teenagers and again when they mature. It's all a matter of natural progress. But Harry is stuck in the 'my parents were supergood and allknowing' phase, because all he has to go on is a photo from when he's a toddler and his hopeful childhood fantasies. The same with Sirius. He hardly ever interacted with Sirius, let alone on a daily, ordinary basis. He transferred the superdad fantasy onto Sirius, but this experience as Snape's ward is closer to a real and true parent-teenager relation that anything he could have with Sirius. At least Snape is trustworthy. Sirius is too flighty by half. So even if he did manage to get his hands on that necklace (which I doubt), he would be severely disappointed. Can't wait to see him planning and plotting, though :-) "I don't plot anything", indeed!

Heh, I somehow hope that for some reason or another (can't think *how*, but I hope nonetheless) Snape will turn into a giant canary or something. Snape will think Harry has fed him a Canary Cream and Harry can't say "I never went to Fred and Georges' shop" because he will then have to 'fess up going to Borgin and Burkes. Hah! Am I really so evil I want to see Harry in trouble with Snape? YES! I am!!