Hehe, I find that enjoying the torture is actually a nice thing for a reader since it means they hold out hope that he'll get help and healing afterward... see, we're really optimistists with his best intentions at heart if you think about it... really, really hard ^^ - 'cept those who read them just to imagine him being tortured... cruel, cruel peoples... not like us... ^^  Heh, poor JK's Harry, he's been ethosized... totally a word... or a bizarre new form of working out... he's just so easy to pick on (and I am not whining... I'm noooot) (far too much sugar... sorry ^^) - and I think we prefer a weak Harry because he's so much more realistic (not that there's anything unrealistic about a 17 year old defeating a mass murderer with a wand... it's just as realistic as a population believing he was born to after all ^^) - and come on, who doesnt love Save-'em Sev ^-^ (ooh, he could totally be a superhero! ^^)

Thank you ^^ I'm thrilled you're still interested enough to keep reading (both the fic and this reply ^-^) - an unconscious Harry is infinitely easier to write... though somehow more angsty... go figure...

And that's the best way I've heard it put so far; I'm going to be packing as much Sev (seething, fluffy, angstful (angstful?), cuddly and all) into the rest of this fic as I can... realistically ^-^

Thanks so much *have points and muffins!*

Heh, I suppose Harry could have been doing a little something else, lol.  I hadn't thought of that, but then again, I haven't spent a lot of time around babies either.  I'm glad you enjoyed it a second time!

-P.G. 

Hi Lesley,

I'm glad that you liked it. It's strange, but when it popped into my head to write "little" Lesley, the name also did, and then as I started to write her, I coulcn't help thinking about little Bonnie. I think that Bonnie is a little younger than Lesley though, but I just kept picturing her in my mind as I was describing her. Yeah, Canadians love Halloween. At least most of them. I know that in England, it's probably not as big, but JK did have Hogwarts have a feast and everything, so I figured it wouldn't be too farfetched to have Harry trick-or-treat, and it was fun to write. Oh, that spraying of the cars, and eggs, sometimes happens here the day before Halloween. They call it "Matte" Day or something like that.

The story is very loosely based on Sparks Will Fly, but although SWF, will feature Sirius, the scenario will be a bit different, as you will see later on. It's strange but Sirius' presence in this story was a spur of the moment decision. It just sort of popped into my head as I was writing about the Haunted House. I'm not really sure why!  I just thought that it sort of fit in with the way that Severus was trying to get Harry to view Halloween in a different light, and this is why I also made Harry fourteen, instead of thirteen or fifteen, so that  Sirius would have still been on the run, the third year would be over, but Voldemort's return wouldn't make Severus stop Harry from going out altogether for Halloween. 

Anyway, thanks for the review, and I'm glad that you are okay with me dedicating the story and basing little Lesley after Bonnie!! I love that story so much!

Thank you ^-^  hehe, hmm, you're the second one to ask about a back story... or maybe the third (I'd say I've lost count but it would make it sound like their were more than their were ^^)  Perhaps I should explain their finding each other (... after I've thought of it... sorry, did I lose some mystery there? ^^  and I sincerely doubt it... but then with Harry he'd probably let anything slide so perhaps... ^^

Ahh, I do it Kris Kringle but I doubted they did in the UK... perhaps they do, though I've been told they dont... so confusing TT - I thought I should get it right for this though since I think I buggered a few things up in Impossible ^^ - plus I'm a sucker for alliteration so I like the idea of a Sev's Secret Santa scene ^^

Merry Christmas to you bigger ^-^, hope your holidays are going well ^^