Thanks very much for your review, I appreciate how detailed you were. 

I agree, Harry's powers ARE scary . . . and they're about to get scarier as the story progresses.

As for Sev and Lily, I also agree that most authors tend to portray Severus as the one who made all the mistakes, but that's not really so, since she chose to begin hanging out with the Marauders and never really offered an explanation for why she'd want to hang out with people who had tormented her best friend . . . and herself by association, I'd assume. Did she now think it was funny to play terrible jokes on Slytherins? I can't help but recall how she was sniggering behind her hand in that Snape's Worst Memory scene at poor Severus, even while she lectured James for his behavior. It sort of made me wonder if she cared for Severus at all or if it was all a show for her "new" friends.  But this Lily is different, as she realizes how her mistakes hurt Severus, and strives to move on with her life while still including him in it.  I think that any relationship would have to have some amount of equality in it in order for it to last.  That's what this version of Lily has, respect for Severus and an equal attraction to him. 

Yes, however I see no reason why Theo can't do something useful for the magical world with his talent, and it's a rather sharp slap in the face to his pureblood relatives, who cast off him and his mother because he was a Squib and crippled to boot. Guess the joke's on them now that he turns out to have inherited the family talent.  Theo can transform every three days for a certain amount of time.

Oh, Draco will be back soon and you'll see more of him and Aradia too. 

About the spanking . . . there won't really be any more of it, since Severus and Lily don't really use it unless they feel it's absolutely necessary.  They did use alternative methods when the boys got into trouble a few times before that, it was only when Harry almost killed Theo and Severus with his deliberate stunt that Lily felt he needed a spanking. As for Theo, Severus felt that because he'd broken his word . . . for the second time to both his mother and guardian, he needed more of a punishment than just scrubbing cauldrons or something.   You'll see in a few chapters that the parents can come up with alternatives that are--to their kids at least--worse than a few smacks. 

Thanks for the review!

Even with the trial aspect, things were just a little too easy; it didn't seem realistic that Wizarding society wouldn't be reacting more to what had happened. I figured there would still be quite a bit of mass hysteria going on, and with other Death Eater trials happening 'off-screen' so to speak, it made sense that the breeding project would have been leaked.

I'm not sure Snape needs to be broken out--the actual Death Eater trials are being done by the book through the Wizengamot, but that's not to say that they're going to be all that impartial. A lot of people are thirsting for vengeance, and like in any conflict, a lot of time it comes out afterward that good people went down with the bad.

And you're right, with the exception of when they went after Neville and Harry as babies, they were more focused on Muggleborns as a whole than just the children--not that it really makes them any better, as they did slaughter whole families, right down to the infants. The babies just weren't usually the initial targets. Gotta keep that in perspective.

I plan to have the next chapter up by this weekend, though it usually takes the mods a day or two to validate new chapters, so stay tuned.