Hi! Thanks for the review! 

I just want to clear one thing, though: I don't care what Rowling says in the interviews or in the books. Everyone has a good side and a bad side. I know that. Heck, I LOVE that fact. I know all the Slytherins are not all bad. Hence, I wrote some of the Slytherins as objecting to their housemate's behavior in "Never Tickle a Sleeping Dragon". And that's also why Harry says, in the same chapter, "I'll let the Slytherins sort you out in their own time." The way Harry and Ginny and Sirius and Dumbledore are interpreting the newspaper article, though, is as a warning. There are people looking for Severus, watch out! They're looking at the worse-case scenario (which is what most parents seem to do in instances like this) and interpreting it as the fugitive Death Eaters' version of an APB, or an APW in the UK. After all, if you want to thank a man who's recuperating from a coma, why would you hunt him down like a pack of hungry dogs? Breaking into his quarters and searching his house top to bottom? Why can't you just send him a letter of thanks instead? That'd be the more considerate thing to do. It would be better for him since he won't have to strain himself entertaining guests and such. The lengths at which those people went through are what alarmed Harry and Ginny, and what caused Harry's temper to spike. 

And I'm sorry to be the one to spoil your enjoyment, but Snape won't be re-aged by the end of the story. This story is a clean restart for him. And the way his character is developing, his prior life (which he tried to get rid of anyway with his suicide attempt) becomes but a cautionary tale at the back of his mind. There will be moments where his old snarky self breaks through, but in many aspects, his suicide attempt succeeded in that it got rid of his old life and gave him a new one. And what exactly is wrong with Gryffindors? They're no different than Slytherins. Or Ravenclaws. Or Hufflepuffs. That whole house-sorting thing just isolates the dominant part of a person's personality (at the moment) and classifies them as a particular kind of person. I, for one, am highly opposed to that sort of stereotyping. What I'm trying to convey is that Sev is growing into this new life and his new personality is developing. It's changed from his old personality which formed when he was with his first set of verbally abusive parents to a different kind of personality which is forming with Harry and Ginny and this whole new life. So, for Sev, all those years were not lost, but rather they were a dream that he could use to steer his life differently this time around.    

So, in short, thanks so much for the review, I know very well that Slytherins are not all bad, after about the first week, Sev wanted nothing more than to stay with Harry and Ginny, Sev won't be re-aged, and he thinks of his old life more as a cautionary tale, and...oh! Just like there's nothing wrong with Slytherins, so too there's nothing wrong with Gryffindors. :-)

Once more, thanks for the review!

Winger