Could you remove chapter 37 and 38? That way it is easier for people to gauge how long the chapter really is. Maybe you could add the comment about author alert at the end of chapter 36 or at the beginning of chapter 1. :-)

Had a blast reading your story, thanks!

Just wanted to say that your chapter is great, Snape is awesome and that I hope your life has improved since you started feeling the need to scratch your wrists. Also, I am glad that it sounds like you sought out help for yourself, that's great. You are right it does make a difference. Never been into cutting myself, but I do understand the "abused children" mentality a lot better than I had like. Then again living through tough circumstances, dealing with the mental scars and still doing your very best to live as happy as possible, makes one one heck of a strong person. You sound like you are doing your best too, so you must be a very strong person as well. :-)

Great chapter!

Real great chapter. I really like your Snape and his stance on Slytherins and Harry. :-)

Also, considering you weren't abused yourself, you did a remarkable good job. Through the chapters it made the impression as if you got less and less awkward of writing scenes about it and indeed decided to make it a major point of the story. Your dedication to handling it accuratly is appreciated! Thanks for being so considerate.

I think it was very fluffy. The conversation between Severus and Harry I mean :-)

This chapter is so cool Your portrayal of Slytherin is a pleasure to read and warming to the heart!

I'm sorry but I can't continue with reading this story. It has too much extra stuff in it that doesn't go with the original plot. You started well with how abused children act and then turned Harry into a whiny mini version of Dudley. I was an abused child and I didn't act like you have been portraying the rude and obnoxious Harry. I'm sorry but you should have started winding down the story after the adoption was done. You are also getting lost in the timeline. You mentioned Christmas a few times in recent chapters and the holiday has long passed.

That was beautiful. Well written.

Way to go Dumbledore. This was an amazing chapter to read. I absolutely loved the way you wrote it.

This is my favorite chapter so far.

I know that pole is probably looong closed but I am going to answer anyway:
I usually hate retelling from a different viewpoint, but you do that very well: In your writing, you focus a lot on personal thoughts and feelings, and, most importantly, interpretations of other characters. Since they are completely different from another viewpoint, your writing is acceptable.
However I did get confused with the timeline a bit

Damn. I made such a huge effort to look up the percentiles in growth charts afterwards, and nag about it afterwards.

But I also thought that being as large as an average 8 year old, 28kg is not actually that few. It would be the 60th percentile for an 8 year old!

Snape found out v quickly about the abuse!

probably the worst fic i have ever read

You don't have to explain your choice for the houses, Rowling didn't either. She just equated Slytherin with bad and left it at that. Slytherin is supposed to be that house of the cunning and ambitious. Yet the height of Dracos's cunning is "when my father hears this", while the ambition of Crabbe and Goyle is to speak two sentences in a row. Even Voldemort is not really cunning. Yes, he had the almost defeated the ministry, but that was because most of the influential people supported either him directly or at least his supposed goals. Even Dumbledore did much to support him, whether intentionally or because of his delusions.
Harry is supposed to be cunning enough for Slytherin (not that means anything if Draco, Crabbe and Goyle are there). Yet it seems after his sorting, all of his cunning is suddenly gone. This is supported by Dumbledore's comment in second year, when he says it's the choices that define us, referring to Harry's choice of house. While on the surface the statement is true, it is important what we choose to do, it is really disappointing that he refers to the choice of a house in school and not about important choices. Except if all cunning is magically removed from all not sorted into Slytherin. But it's not like it's magically added to those sorted into Slytherin.

The only person to display cunning is Dumbledore, the supposed Gryffindor. He plans at least 15 years ahead to convince Harry that he should get himself killed.

On a side note, Harry is really as arrogant and stupid as Snape likes to claim. In the first book, when he suspects that Snape wants the stone, he decides that he, an eleven year old boy, will stop Snape. That Ron is equally stupid should not be a surprise, but Hermione? How would they stop an adult from getting the stone? Not to mention, he might not want witnesses, so he might just kill them. The only reason Harry survives is that he has the author on his side. So through Voldemort's stupidity combined with the deus ex machina, Harry survives and Quirrell dies. But the main reason is that the books were planned as a series of seven, and it would be boring to have the main character die in the first book, from his own bad choices.
In the second book it was equally stupid, just jumping into the pipe to the chamber, miles below the castle, should have killed him.