Excellent chapter, T, as always. I particularly like the part where you make the Slytherins less a bunch of clueless prats and more of a bunch of cunning manipulative prats. Ambitious people tend to be clever after all.
Pity about Ginny. She should have just been sorted into Slytherin in the first place, at least then she could have had allies for her particular brand of "Harry stalking."
Nice plot device - having the Potter family (Harry) take the Granger family (Hermione) as a vassal. I wonder how that will play out with Hermione's parents. They are, after all, obvious targets for the death moochers.
Write on!
N!