Lol, actually, you're really not almost up to the new updates--the chapters start getting a lot longer in the 30s. by word count, you're not even half way done... *blushes*. Sorry, hated to burst your bubble there. But by all means, keep pluggin along!

As for Harry's wand, I figure that since at this point, Voldemort still thinks Snape is spying on Dumbledore for him, he would have allowed him to retrieve the wand as another way to convince Dumbledore that Snape is loyal. That would be a good thing to include, actually.

As for Hagrid's accent- I cannot tell you how much I dread writing him, merely for the fact that it is difficult to get that accent down. I always have to sit here with a book in front of me for reference.

Thanks so much for your review, as well as for the ones before this!

~Gonnabe