An so classes start and the story is a good blend of canon and original material and they work well together. I wonder how long it's going to take Harry to find out that Dumbles was the one who put him in the Dursley's? I suspect it would've been rather safer for Albus to have admitted it up front than to let matters simmer, that just builds up explosive pressures. We can understand Snape a bit better with this info, but, if the eyes are the 'windows of the soul', he's obviously making a major mistake in his dealings and I reckon it will come back to haunt him. Finally, I loved that line about Ron being a lot like Malfoy; too bad he didn't hear it as it might have made him think (well, maybe, this -is- Ron, after all).