More like a case of boneheaded stubbornness than Weasley temper, that and fear manifesting itself as boldness.  Remember, Snape has her in detention every night, and he’s been making her pay for the news articles even though she didn’t leak them to the press, just to the students of Hogwarts (though one did lead to the other).  She’s also feeling very guilty, but doesn’t want to admit she’s wrong.

I’m glad I finally got Harry and Snape to the point at which they can have a snippy little fight that doesn’t turn into a huge row.  Granted, it was right after a huge row, but it’s progress.

I enjoy writing those little moments of “Oh my God, my genes actually manifest in him!” and at some point I need to have Snape do a “he really is related to me!”  Poor Snape, his self image is finally changing.

This story cleaves pretty close to canon, including the epilogue, (the only difference is that I suppose Albus Severus would have a different middle name) so, I hate to disappoint you, Harry will get back together with Ginny.  Yes what she did was inexcusable, especially the spying itself.  She will come to her own mental and emotional reconciliation with this fact and grow up for it.  She still really is a child, and all the more so because everyone around her, including Harry, kept her deliberately childlike.

Her outburst in the common room was neither malicious nor planned.  I come from a family in which nearly everyone yells when we’re mad, and we yell exactly what we’re mad about for the whole world.  Because of this, no one in the family is ever angry for long, but dozens of hurtful secrets have been thus revealed.   Ginny is this way.  When she’s angry, things she doesn’t intend to say come out.

And I believe I did mention that Snape at least thought she deserved to be expelled several times over, but he couldn’t prove any of it, because no one who could would speak against her.

I rally have shown Ginny’s worst side in this fic, and Harry would deserve far better if that were her only side, but she does have others.  More importantly, she will grow up.

Thanks, I'm glad you liked it.  Actually, I wasn't planning to write any more of Draco, and actually, I only have a few chapters to go.  draco isn't my favorite character to write.  I'm afraid you'll have to wait for the chapter after next for Teddy and Andromeda.

You know, as much  as I like conflict(it's a requirement, it is) I don't like conflict within the trio.  I'm glad they made up too.  Poor Ron and Hermione. they were trying so hard.

Thank you, I’m glad you liked it!

Well, Hermione at least is chagrined and has learned her lesson.  In her defense, she really was conditioned to think of secrets as dangerous both to her and to their bearer.  She was worried, and isn’t mad that he kept it secret.  Ginny on the other hand, who is used to being kept on the outside of secrets and is a bit sick of it, has one hell of a lot of growing up to do.

If I were wanting to get Freudian, I’d say that Harry likes domineering women because of the primal loss of his mother, or because of the way he’s had to take care of himself for so long that he subconsciously doesn’t mind someone else having control for a little while, or perhaps he just likes Ginny because of his Oedipus complex, but he does seem to like the ones that like to order him about.