Any chance of getting more chapters on this story, and possibly the ending? You've got things nicely setup at this point, and have me intrigued with all the challenges you've accepted for inclusion into the story--though, with the long break, one does have to wonder if your muse took a look at the complete list and just fainted :) I hope your muse and schedule will allow you to write and post more chapters sometime soon. Keep up the good work.
Zafaran
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Thank you very much for this review.
I was recently inspired to take a good look at this story. I honestly don't think I can continue the story the way it has started, but I've rewritten the beginning and it definitely looks like I'll be able write a complete story. (Which is will start in basically the same way, but, you know, better written.)

i lovee this story, are you ever going to update it?
its really good (:

Actually just a curious question...If an Avera Kedevera kills a human would it possibly give life to a vampire?

This is definately a great fic! I have a suggestion but I don't know if you'll do it... Since the Weasley twins have access to the kitchens and Dobby the house elf why don't they have Dobby help them with a prank... it doesn't have to be written out but explained later for laughs. Like dye in his shower head so he is Malfoy the smurf boy (His hair IS almost white ;) ) or something in his food that makes his teeth black... LOL Those are muggle jokes. Ta!

Oookay. Fred and George demonstrate their inability to keep a secret, by spilling the beans about Harry giving them the joke shop money, so Giles decides that he can trust them with more secrets. Makes sense to me. (Not!)

Oh dear *sheepish grin* I hadn't even seen that in the scene. There wasn't any foreshadowing of George's decision to trust Giles, but Giles can't really betray their joke shop. It's not illegal and Molly will have to know about it eventually. By telling the story George shows that he knows the difference between keeping a secret (lying about who gave them the money) and not letting on that there is a secret (that they have money in first place).
Having Giles in Fudge's good books is an advantage for Hogwarts, but it is not crucial in the war against Voldemort.
Thanks anyway for commenting. I was glad to see that you were reading, and hope you haven't been too put off.

After reading your response to my last request, I have to agree. I do have a very strange imagination/thought process/whatever. =] And aren't you glad? =D

About the whole spacing business, it would probably be better if you did a copy-paste manouver to post on this site. Then, go through the text (before you click to add the part) and make sure that there are the correct number of spaces and such. Then, if you want to have something italicized, all you have to do is make sure that you place before the text a < the letter I and another > to begin, and < with a / followed by the I and > to finish the 'coding' for HTML. Bolding is done the same way, only using the letter B instead of the I. It certainly can be all sorts of confusing, trying to make everything look nice. =] Let me know if you want any HTML help, since I know a little and may be able to assist you.

Thanks. I did that for my new story, and it seems to have worked. I can do the basic html coding myself, italics, bold etc. (Since I started on livejournal). But thanks for the offer. I'm going to see how clever I can be using Word.
I'm glad someone said something. :-)

Yeah, the formatting really gets to you after a while. Gack. :(

Intersting so far. The spacing is a bit of a pain. If you compose in HTML, use tags and then delete carriage returns so that you upload as a solid chunk of text. Actually, I believe that might work in text area too. TtH takes both and a carriage return to be an enter, so if you use to end a line, hit enter, and then start the next, you're really getting two enters.

Gonna keep reading though. :)

I'm sorry about the formatting, but I don't really understand what you're trying to say. I don't know how to fix it, really.
I write everything in Word, on a Mac, and then save 'display information only' as a .htm document to upload it. That used to be the only way I could uplaod the same document onto ff.net and here.
Would it better if I simply copied the Word document text and posted it into the text upload option here?
I'll also ask in the Author's notes next chapter. If you could email me, that would be much appreciated.
majethrim@hotmail.com

Whoa.. Haven't been around here for a while.. And a long-ass while, at that. *grins sheepishly* My sincerest appologies. But this is going good, I really like what your doing with it. One request, though? Bring in the AI gang ASP? PLEASE! And more Draco, cause you know how much I love my!Draco. *grins big* More soon, please?

-Face

Draco will be around more. I have to wait til February Angel-time to bring them in, sorry.
Your!Draco? And you've let me play with him? I'll see how much fun I can have.

I just had a sudden urge. It is rather insane, but I hope you can play with it.

I remember Umbrige and Sybil Trelawny didn't get along very well. (Yes, understatement.) So, I was thinking that it could be fun if Sybil developed a crush on Giles (either unrequited or not) because he expresses faith in her being able to do her job well, and that it has an influence on her being able to do divinations.

I think that they would be small things that she 'sees' like a snowstorm or a minor illness or injury to someone, and that she would be puzzled as to why she was saying the things that she does (since they aren't the stuff she usually predicts).

Perhaps she would tell Neville that he won't have to hand in an assignment that is due on the following Monday since he will have the stomach flu and so she will accept it on the Wednesday when he is feeling better.

Obviously, she would be aware of the predictions, unlike how she is when she does the 'big' predictions about Harry and such. She would be as shocked as anyone else when her predictions come true, but does her best to hide the surprise.

What do you think? Could you work that one in? =]

Ooo, you have a strange mind. I think I could that. The depth of it depends on how long I can draw the story out. But I can put the idea in there. Hmm.

Nice interlude chapter.

I wouldn't worry too much about ff.net. I rarely read it anymore especially because many of the authors I like to read don't post on it anymore. Since they limited their search capabilities and to a single category, its harder to find stories you are interested in. Still you could probably repost the story in a few weeks as long as you edit out all the information on it being interactive and all requests. I doubt the webmasters will remember it anyway considering the amount of stories posted. They don't seem to have a problem with challenges so you can always say it is a challenge story and pick the three or so favorite challenges.

As for other sites, I haven't found many good ones other than this site. Do a web search such as +Buffy +archive, and check a few out.

Fun! I can't wait to see Minerva take Snape in hand. Is that going to happen soon? I would love to see Riley brought into the fic, perhaps as a strategist (without the ubiqitous pi**ing contest with Spike over Buffy), in a positive way and not just to be abused . Also, remember he is a psychologist - Joss never really used that and neither do most writers, it would be interesting to see that somewhere. ANyway, looking forward to more!

Riley, that would be fun. I can probably bring him in some time after he would have appeared in teh show, and after Buffy and Spike have worked things out. (There's still stuff to happen there).
Minerva and Snape is a long term thing, and I'll have to get myself there slowly. Although there can be Minerva exerting her authority over him as regards the visitors without the romantic entaglements which will come later.
And that's given a few more ideas, thanks muchly.
Hopefully I'll be able to get a chapter done a week.
Thanks for the review.

Another good chapter! Just wanted to note that when I suggested "colored" robes for Snape, I was thinking very dark blue, gunmetal grey, deep forest green, or perhaps dark chocolate in color. I didn't mean that he would show up one day wearing sunshine yellow. =] But, even the slight change to some color rather than black would be fun to see. I can even imagine Harry and Ron debating, "Is that robe green?" "No way! It must just be a trick of the light or something. Snape always wears black."

Aha, we can have some real fun with that. :-) Snape already dislikes forest green (especially with embossed flowers). I serious like your Ron Harry comments there, they shall be used. (now to find an approriate place, hmm).

Doh, of course Dracula is famous. Oh well, I knew what I meant.

I thought up two more challenges

Some problem with the Black family and his upcoming marriage to Anya.

Xander finds out that that he has certain obligations or must meet some strange wizard requirement that Xander has to meet before his next birthday, that he isn't happy about. Whatever it is, is up to you.

I get what you meant about Dracula.
Marriage problems and tests, hmm, fertile territory, thanks muchly.

Very good story so far:

I have two challenges.

1. Something involving Fred, George and other accomplices seeing a few things relating to muggle culture (DVD's, CD's, computer games, etc.) from the Scoobies that gives them ideas on pranks to play. There should be at least three pranks, one that includes 3 of the male teachers thinking they are the Three Tenors and giving an impromptu concert (Snape, Dumbledore and Hagrid would be funny). One prank should be against Giles, others against whoever you want.

2. There have been various fanfics mentioning the Scourge of Europe. This is far too overused. Some other less famous vampires and possibly demons from either history or both the Angel and BtVS should show up in various texts. I.E, Harmony being listed number one in the twenty stupidest vampires in the last five centuries. Dracula being overrated, Spike himself may have had something to do with this one.

I think I can do the pranks, SDH and Giles, I'm sure I can think of something.
I don't know any non-Buffyverse vampires, but I can do obscure, Harmony's a good one.