Thanks for the review Neely! 

I'm not sure about the author update option.  I don't think the author's have any control over that.  I do know that option should be available for my author name, as others have taken advantage of it.   Perhaps you weren't logged in when you tried?

Okay, I am sorry for my first review.  Okay I'm really now cause I'm in love with you!  Or rather, your writing.  Please update soon cause I think that I might die with giggling.  lol.

 Ginny

Don't apologize for reveiws, Ginny! 

It was very enjoyable.  I'm really glad that you enjoyed it so much and hope you find the last chapter just as entertaining.  Thanks for the review!

Oh Sib - it just wouldn't be a reveiw from you if you didn't call me on something.  Honestly, if I was still writing this story I would beg you to pre-beta it for me!

Ginny is having a bit of breakdown at the moment - she just feels overwhelmed by it all but she'll come around. Talking to Hermione helped some.

I can't tell you how thrilled I am to hear what you thought of Harry and Dumbledore's conversation.  This chapter took a very long time to write and it was especially tough to do.  I wanted to get Dumbledore just right and he's a tricky customer let me tell you.  So I'm just so happy that you thought it was done well.

I'm glad you like the conclusion too.  The larger  point of the chapter was to acknowlege everyone's humanity and their subsequent fallibility - especially Voldemort.

As for the title, actually the forgiveness was built into the chapter itself so the next chapter title does not include that.  However, I don't think you'll be disappointed by anything that Chapter 6 contains.

am I fast.  It hasn't even been Saterday for four hours and I've got a review up for Chapter 5.  lol. 

While I like Chapter 4 because it's more fun, a lot of really good and important stuff is happening here.  Harry's talk with Dumbledore, Harry's talk with Remus, Harry's acceptance of his feelings for Ginny, these are all big things and they all happen here.  This fic wouldn't work without this chapter, even if it doesn't have Tonks. 

I think Chapter 5, and the whole story, works better with the little Ginny interlude in the beginning.  It helps set up everything that happens in the next chapter. 

I'm a big fan of Harry letting Dumbledore know just what a jerk Snape has been to him each and every year.  That is a conversation I would like to see.  Dumbledore laying into Snape for letting Harry down with the Occlumency.  I know Dumbldedore isn't really a yeller, but I can't see that going any other way.  Snape messed up bad and he can't just be let off the hook for it.

Great chapter, can't wait to see a reworked 6.

Casey, it was especially awesome of you to review since I never responded to your chapter 4 reveiw!  Probably because you said you hate me.  I blocked it out but you should know that I don't hate you. 

As you know, I tend to think this chapter is too dry, but it is very important to the story.  Even though it is Tonks-free (I couldn't very well let her hi-jacked the whole story - I let her in to begin with when she insisted, and then let her take most of chapter 4 after all!)

I find stories especially gratifying when Harry convinces Dumbledore of Snape's deplorable behavior and then Dumbledore actually does something about it. Although I didn't include it here, in my mind, Dumbledore really let Snape have it.  Unfortunately though, I think that Snape might take it out on Harry later on - the man has a very long memory for grudges after all.

Thanks Sonic.  I'm glad this filled in the holes for you.  The whole chapter was about being human and I thought that Harry would feel comforted by the fact that Voldemort is, at least in part, human.

On a side note: I must say that I don't often see the word "Ack", but it never fails to amuse me when I do.  Makes me think of Bill the Cat - and in revealing that, I believe that I've just aged myself. 

Nice talk between Harry and Lupin, I'm glad Harry got some of those feelings about Sirius out, although I wish it wasn't so hard for him to express himself.  I'd really like to see Lupin continue to "haunt" the Dursleys.

I'd never given the idea that by killing Harry, Voldemort would be killed as well.  I'm still not sure that would work, though.  I tend to believe that no one BUT Voldemort can kill Harry, and vice versa.  He can be hurt a lot, but one of them as to actually kill the other before the survivor can live "normally".  That's how I'm seeing it, anyway.

I'm glad that you enjoyed the talk between Harry & Lupin.  I think it was really important for them to clear some things up before they could move on and become closer.  This was actually a tough chapter to write, but more so because of Dumbledore.

Harry had a difficult time expressing his disappointment about Sirius because he felt so awful and ungrateful for feeling that way and he didn't want to expose that to Remus.  Harry is pretty reticent anyway, I think.

You're probably right about Harry and Voldemort.  Although, I tend to think there is more to it because of what JKR said.  One of the questions she thought people should be asking and don't, is - why didn't Dumbledore kill Voldemort at the MoM?  Since the 'kill or be killed' prophecy was revealed in the same book, I have to wonder if there isn't more to it, and this was my attempt to answer that.

Thanks again Melinda!  It's still sort of unbelievable to me that you've been reading and reveiwing regularly.  (Sorry, control over my inner fan-girl slipped for a moment.)