Thank you for your wonderful review - it made my day. I am really glad you liked the story so much: I was extremely pleased with it. (You know how sometimes a story just seems to work?) If I don't write anything else like this in 2005, I shall still be happy. I do feel that Petunia is very vulnerable now, having cut her last ties to the magical world pretty much forever. I can't imagine how that might feel - to know that your future is now Vernon, Dudley and number four, Privet Drive, and perhaps it could have been so much more.