Thank you! I'm so glad that you like both Snape and the pace. :) Unfortunately, Real Life has been kicking me in the behind the past couple weeks, and because of that I haven't had a chance to finish Chapter 28, so it won't be posted until December now. Sorry. :( But hey...it's not a decade this time, so I still get an Exceeds Expectations, right? ;)

If you want a NaNo buddy to keep you motivated, you can add me: ChaiGirl. I'm lagging slightly behind the word count goal, but not by too much. I just have to accept that some days I can write a lot and some days barely anything. It's the daily habit that matters. :) Good luck on your story! 

Thank you for the review! I like the way you think with the love twister! :)

When I started writing this story back in 2007, I planned it as a summer-only fic. Then I was having so much fun with it that it grew and grew in my imagination until I’d plotted out multiple story arcs for a year-long, possibly even two-year-long, whole-war story. Unfortunately, that led to me feeling overwhelmed and not sure whether I could put that much writer’s sweat and tears into it…which I think played a large part in my abandonment of it. In order to complete it this time around, I’ve reined it back in to its original plan. Summer only (though it may overlap with the beginning of the school year), and it won’t cover the whole war. However, we’ll get some answers by the end of OME as to how Harry will be able to defeat Voldemort. So it will have a certain amount of war resolution.

Anyway, I do have plenty of material already worked out if down the road, I want to do a sequel to conclude the war. I just can’t even think about or commit to that until this story is done and wrapped up with a neat bow or I’ll go crazy. ;)