sweet chapter
I particularly love the way that Ginny and Harry tried to use Mad Eye as a go between with Scrimgeour - very amusing

I'm sorry if I come across as being picky, it's not my intention. I get what you say about Voldemort wanting his mother buried near the link to Merlin but she would have been buried long before he knew he was a wizard, let alone anything about Merlin. Anyway, I'm not being picky, I just wondered about it though.

Author's Response:

I know you are not being picky, so don't worry about it. Actually I never thought about the point you raise. If I had thought about it and put it in the story, I would have said something like, he found her grave later on (or looked through the records when he was in the orphanage) and disinterred her and moved her later on. There would have been no way for anyone to know that by the time Hermione discovered the connection, though, so there was no way to slip it into the story anyway.

Thanks again for leaving all these reviews. -- Peter

when harry has a gut check everyone should lissen....and great for them to get firebolts...and scrim can go take a leap off a bridge perfeably a high one....kutgw

Great chapter. There were lots of things that I liked, but it would take too long to list them all down, s I'll just name a few.

I'm glad to see that Molly has finally calmed down over Harry and Ginny, and it was very nice of Ginny (and Harry as well) not to get mad at Mrs. Weasley for being her overprotective self.

The Christmas presents for Hermione, Ron and Ginny were just so appropriate, and I'm happy that Harry thought enough of Ron to give him his own Firebolt. Ron tends to get shunted to the background too many times, that people forget that without him, Harry would have probably wound up with Malfoy as a best friend.

I felt that your description of Harry literally feeling the wave of support the Weasleys have for him, with Ginny at the forefront of that wave was very moving. The picture of Arthur shaking his finger in Scrimgeours's face was particularly entertaining and touching. It's high time that Harry recognizes that this support will be what will eventually help him defeat Voldemort.

Again, great chapter. I can't wait for the next one!

Author's Response: Great comments. I originally tried to think of another present for Ron, but then came to the same conclusion that you did. And poor Molly is beginning to see the empty nest in her future. Thatwill be a big change after raising 7 kids. It seemed like a natural reaction to me. Do you really think that Harry could ever have been Malfoy's friend? He could have ended up in Slytherin, I suppose. But that's a topic for a forum some place. Thanks for the review.