Hi Dede ;) Cool. Glad to know you as a real person! My LJ name is the gaelic derivative of my name Elizabeth, and the belle is because my friends used to call me Tinkerbelle, and I love belle as a story figure. But the book is very good, and interestingly enough, I have two sets of matron goddesses and two patron gods. They are: Bhrighid, and Ereshkigal, then Hermes and Seth, and to a lesser extent Dionysos and Shiva. Both sides call me, and its where I'm most balanced at. I got this image from the first line of your story; I thought it was Hermione, but creeping along the ground, not Nagini. It was late at night, in a very palatial manor, in the summer time, with a bunch of potted plants, and a balcony. Only a really good storyteller can invoke images at the start of a story, so thank you for that!