I've returned to SIYE to find a bunch of chapters waiting! As if back-to-school couldn't get any better, thanks so much!

Hopefully Harry will start getting the help he needs. I can see Molly being super fussy and Harry scowling, but it's such a cute picture. I like to think you give us the cute stuff as payment for the horrible. I'm guessing the horrible will include the press soon...

Ron & Hermione needed to hash this out. Had they done so at the Burrow I think it would have been much more explosive. They'll be better for it. Outstanding, as usual :)

Author's Response: Welcome back! Thanks so much for taking the time to review each chapter. I liked the image of a tipsy Hermione going over all her facts. It amused me, so I thought others might find it funny, as well.

well tht converstaion went well for hermione and ron,,,,,i think a bull elephant would have been easier to fit in the room then the converstaion...but it is something that needed to be done....as for harry well he is on the road to recovery but soon he will have to deal with his past somemore, and i think its that thats scaried him more than anything else.....kutgw

Author's Response: LOL - I was amused by the image of that conversation in my head. I could picture Hermione's drive feeling she needed to know, and Ron's panicked face so clearly. Alas, Hermione still needs to learn the lesson that sometimes, it's easier not to know. I believe you're right about Harry dealing with all his emotions over his past scares him. His standard M.O. has been to suppress everything, but that can only take him so far. His demons are beginning to leak out.

Love this story. Ginny really knows how to deal with Harry, and somehow seems so much more mature than he does. It was nice to see a bit of Ron and Hermione's journey - hope there's more to come - and how well they complement each other even with some issues to resolve.

Author's Response: I think being at Hogwarts would've brought a lot of forced maturity. She will have her moments, too, however. They're all still recovering.

Now, I'll admit decades(!) of experience before Hermione first opened her eyes, but I seem to have learned a while back that if I don't want to hear certain answers, I shouldn't ask the questions that prompt them. Granted, she's been stressed beyond most folks' breaking point, and I suspect that she hasn't built up much tolerance for alcohol (and given her mass, it wouldn't take much to have an effect anyway).... There are some lessons folks need to learn the (well, "a") hard way; perhaps this is one of them for her.

Ron is rather funny (initial exposure to Muggle technology & entertainment)....

Now that Harry is healing, Ginny seems to be doing a lot better. :-)

Yeah, flashbacks would be expected with PTSD; it's a bit encouraging that Harry actually admitted having them (to Ginny, at least).

I think Ginny enjoyed seeing her mother feed Harry just a wee bit too much (for Harry's comfort, at least). :-} And that one reason Molly enjoyed it was it helped give her a temporary sense of being "in control" at least of some small part of her world, despite rather overwhelming evidence that so much is NOT in control.

Kingsley is still a relative bastion of competence -- -and that's a Good Thing.

It should be interesting to find out more about the attackers. :-}

Author's Response: HA! You hit on exactly what Hermione will eventually feel - sometimes not knowing is better. She and Ginny will have a discussion about this when she returns to The Burrow. I think so often Hermione is portrayed as only the source of information, but she's a teenage girl, too, with all the emotions that go with it. I can't help but believe the thought of Lavender would nag at her. This scene was meant to be funny, actually. It amused me, anyway. It's about time they had a competent Minister, don't you think? He forever won my heart in DH when he told Harry that he was more important than guarding the Prime Minister. I always wanted to see someone put Harry first, but I never would've called Kingsley as the one to do it.

Find myself dreading Harry becoming an Auror at the end.

Pray that Ginny gives him potent permission to no longer have to be 'good', to be 'responsible'. That he (and they) are entitled to that missed childhood ...and they can actually take several years off to heal and rejuvenate, without having to justify it.

Author's Response: Um, not sure what to tell you. If you don't like the idea of Harry becoming an Auror, this won't be the story for you. I'm of the belief that he'd never be happy doing nothing, and he'll eventually get to do a lot of his missed childhood things along with his own children. That's me, anyway.

Poor Harry - things don't seem to be getting easier for him. I'm glad that the Weasleys and Kingsley are there for him. Ginny is doing a great job of being there for him. Ron will flip when he finds out what happened. I can see Hermione being so insecure and anxious. I'm glad she's confronting him about Lavender so she can get past what happened in sixth year. Can't wait to see her parents' reaction.

Author's Response: I'm so pleased that everyone is worried about Ron's reaction, lol. He's suffering from his own bit of PTSD after seeing Harry's "body, so, yeah...he's going to have some trouble.

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Poor Harry, the boy really doesn' get some rest. I hope life will be a bit kinder on him in the next chapters, although I have a feeling that there'll be more trouble for him.

Good thing Ron and Hermione stopped at this point. And Ron even managed to say the right words in the end!

Author's Response: Thanks! I thought Ron showed a lot of maturity during the battle in DH. I think a lot of stories tend to show him stuck in his fourteen-year-old self. Ron grows up, too. Kinder to Harry? The story would be over then! ;)