Thank you, Pandora!  I'm really glad you liked it and am grateful.  I love the idea of the challenge, but I don't think I did it justice.  This could have easily been a much longer story, but since I was writing under a time constrainst, I felt that I rushed the solutions, that Salazar was too quickly persuaded and the whole Harry and Severus relationship was hurried, that it would have been better if I had taken more time to develop it a little more slowly.  They could have had many more adventures in the forest, and I originally planned for some other things to happen.  I'd planned for Severus to have to care for Harry when he was hurt, for the healing to take longer, or for it to go the other way and Severus to be the one who was hurt and for Harry to care for him.  I'd planned to have them talk more about their lives and slowly open up to one another.  I wanted there to be some little comment about Severus' greasy hair...for him to say that he knew he was ugly and that no one had ever cared for him so why should he bother, and have Harry to try to reassure him and say something about how he wasn't worried about looks, but that he did care about Severus, maybe even have Severus end with washing his hair.  None of that made it in because of time pressure and also I thought maybe the hair conversation could be interpreted as having romantic overtones which would be inappropriate for here.

Well, anyway, as I said, I loved the whole challenge idea, but just felt that there was so much material there and I rushed things too much.  I probably won't write a sequel just because I've already got a lot on my plate when it comes to writing.  Thanks again!