You're welcome. Glad you are enjoying it. It will be a while before Sev and Erin get a chance to be together, but there will be a lot of UST floating around in the air. It will be even longe before Harry and Sev come to any kind of an understanding. Hope you can tolerate the wait.

Lesley

So, you like this better than A Shocking Discovery, do you. Interesting. I have a few people who have said that, but most, I think, prefer ASD. Certainly by the number of hits and reviews on fanfic ASD comes out way in front.

Hope you keep reading both stories, and thanks for the reviews.

Lesley

I've updated both Muggle and ASD since I started uploading this here, Dawn. So, no I am not waiting to catch up. Thanks for re-reading...or did you?

Lesley

Thanks again for another review. But I have to disagree with you I am afraid. SOME people do say things like that, particularly old, gallant men who can still appreciate a pretty face. But I will watch my use of that sort of thing in the future. A young person probably wouldn't compliment soemone else even if they were strung up by their thumbs, but someone as old fashioned as DD would. As I have twenty six chapters written, I am not sure that you won't see DD being gallant again.

And Sue-ish, well, I am afraid this, and other similar terms connected with fanfic have always seemed exceedingly stupid to me. Why would an author write an OC who is supposed to be a love interest and give her no personality and no looks. My knowledge of the term is that an author creates a person that he or she would wish themselves to be. Am I right? Or someone who seems too good to be true. I am 56 years old and I assure you, I do not want to be Erin. And yes, I have made Erin attractive, but she isn't a super model and she is by no means perfect. She has a temper to rival Sev's.

Is a published author ever accused of having created a Mary-Sue? JK Rowling has said that Hermione is a little like she was when she was a child, does that make Hermione a Mary Sue?

Glad you think some of the lines funny. I do try.

Hope to hear from you again.

Lesley

Thank you sandfull_a, for still reading and your review. I am like you, I love reading the long chapter too, particularly with the WIPs because you never know when you will get an update. To tell the truth I was thinking of cutting the chaters down a bit, but I wouldn't be comfortable with anything much under 4,500 words and I rarely have a chapter long enough to cut in half. So I will probably leave it as is. At least you like it!

Probably not enough Harry and Snape interaction in this one either...the chapter where there was got the most reviews. Plus, people do not like OCs.

Thanks for the kind words. I tried really hard to make Erin's reaction believable. Can you just imagine waking up there and seeing the things she is seeing...you would keep thinking it had to be a bad dream.

Cheers,

Lesley