Love your choice of a song--though the opening 'It was so dull in town...' starts with a man singing, not a woman.

Harry's understanding of his plight is quite perceptive for one so young--but then he's had a lot of time to think in that prison under the stairs, hasn't he?

The first book has always been an emotional favorite of mine, and your story brought the feelings I had when i first read it.

Thanks, Calamur.

 This chapter has all my favorite elements, a dead-on snide Snape, a self-involved, whining Dursley, a mature past-the-bitterness Harry. 

I love Vernon's take on Snape:

"He stared at the transparent figure standing in front of him and felt revolted. The figure was tall, thin, had sallow skin, greasy long hair, a hooked nose, and bore a very ugly expression like there was a bad smell under his nose."

You show a nice understanding Snape's character too:

"Try and befriend me and you will regret it. Just because I dislike Potter doesn’t mean that I like you. "

That's just how he would say it.

And you extrapolated Harry's character to the mature, forgiving person I thought he would turn into:

“Uncle Vernon,” said Harry, as he placed the roses, “I know you and I [have] never seen eye to eye, but at the end of the day, you did provide me with a roof, and I never thanked you for that. Unfortunately, you always hated me for reasons you and I both know of. I hope that wherever you are, you forgive me, just as I have done with you.”

Sorry you won't be writing any more fan fic, but we must all move on.  I'm sure the experience has been a good one for you, as it has for most of us, in the polishing of your skills, at least.

Thanks, Calamur.

I love Remus's rationalizing arguments with himself.  You've hit just the right notes of self-deprecation and need.

The last scene is priceless: two lovers who don't yet know that they are in love, or who, if they do, hide their feelings behind their witty exchanges. 

This is so very Goyle!  You really got into his head and you write his thoughts exactly the way he thinks--slowly, painstakingly.

And the dialogue with Malfoy is a hoot!  Also the ending.  Keep it up.

Oh, how perfect! A must for the new 'Veil' challenge.  Please do enter it.

 Love the twists--not just one, actually, but many--within so small a space.

You build up the tension slowly, making us feel Harry's pain so very deeply, as well as his joy at seeing his loves again after death. 

I confess that your excellent writing disturbs me.  It does indeed make the taking one's life seem a good way out of insurmountable problems.  I hope no one reading this will be influenced by it.  Since no one knows for certain what can be expected after death (even persons of various religious persuasions have only faith to go on), I suppose someone should point out that Harry's happy ending may not be the way it really is.

 Love your work though, as usual.