Thanks!  I've seen lots of abused Harry stories.  Thing is, most authors tend to go overboard to make his case like the ones they see on the news that end up with the death of the victim.  Most simply aren't like that.  I'm not saying it's right, and I'm not saying that it's not a bad situation, because both of those would be lying.  I am, however, saying that probably at least half of physical abuse cases involve bruises, cuts, and a few broken bones.  Grabbing too hard, throwing the child against the wall, shaking the kid... those are all 'normal' in abuse cases.  (Probably Harry's had at least one spiral fracture, which is an absolute tell-tale sign of abuse.)

 Thank you!  I've done my best to keep as closely as I can to the canon representations of the characters.  Snape isn't suddenly going to turn nice and gushy--it's just not him without sarcasm and snarkiness.

You will, I promise.  IIRC, right now the aurors have Umbridge, though.  And with her casting an Unforgiviable on Harry, she's automatically going to Azkaban for life.

In a way, I was sorry to kill Sirius.  I was in shock when JRK did it!  But his existence was a bit superfluous with my plot, so I decided to follow canon in that he died.    I think, however, that I gave him a better death than he had before.

Anyway, I'm glad you're enjoying this, and I hope to be updating soon.