I know, I know!  I still get chills every time I re-read it, and I wrote it!  I'm glad I'm not the only one who thinks it was intense.  It was intense writing it.

I will plege to work my hardest on swift updates, but alas, RL tends to oft get in the way.  And I won't be releasing chapters until they reach a decent length (my goal is 3000 wpc), so my guess is updates will be kind of slow.  Particularly once school starts back up in a few weeks, I'm thinking probably once a month. **cringes from soaring rotten apples and tomatoes**  Don't hurt me!  Yes, kind of upsetting, but I'd rather go for quality than quantity for updates.

Thank you for the review!

Thank you so much for the speechlessness!  Or lack thereof. lol

Snape is there, even in Chapter 1, although he is not named in this Chapter.  He will be having a very large part in the following chapters, including the next, in which you will figure out where he was in the first.

Please keep reviewing!  Reviews are pure gold.

Yes, "poor Harry" indeed.  And it will only get worse, I will warn you.  Although I wasn't intending it be Horror genre when I came up with the idea, it took a dramatic turn on its own and now is definitely a very dark story.  Hopefully everyone will stay in for the long haul.

Regrettably, you won't learn the answer to your question until the very end, which is a while in coming.  Be assured though, that all will eventually be made clear.

An update is coming, just not for a while - the story's kind of slow in coming at this section.  I have many scenes already planned out word-for-word, but this next chapter is not one of those easy ones.  Oddly enough I tend to get my best inspirations while standing in line in the Dining Hall at college... Maybe that's why this is coming so hard, since I'm not there for the summer.