Thank you!  Yeah, this site is awesome.  It's so rare to find a site that captures both the feel of a small community and has a large number of readers and reviewers.  In fact, this is the only HP gen fic site where I've found that. 

I haven't thought of this as a time travel story.  It does have a sci fi feel to it with the parallel worlds, though.

I added titles to the parallel universe chapters to help clarify things.  But I'm conflicted about it.  I've moved away from author notes because it takes the reader out of the story.  I hate to break into the created world to announce, "this is the canon universe!"  On the other hand, there are excellent published novels that announce at the beginning of each chapter that they are switching time periods or places.  I suppose I should just suck it up and do it.  :)  And then I could add titles to all my chapters, which I've wanted to do.

Thank you for the encouragement!  I've been writing original fiction and was reluctant to get back into writing fanfiction, but I've learned so much from this experience.  Let's hope this will be the thing to finally get me over the hump and into the land of publishing. 

Since several people have mentioned the Dursleys, I should offer a warning/reminder: I wrote most of this before I read any adoption fics, so I didn't realize that Snape-saves-Harry-from-the-abusive-Dursleys was a common theme that was expected.  The Dursleys aren't out of character, but...hmm...well, that's all I'll say at this point.  Intriguing, no?  ;)