I can just imagine that during a drive in the press like the one Snape and Harry are subjected to it is difficult for anyone to stay objective. Unfortunately, even the ones supposed to be on your side will be influenced and a little biased, I think. The reactions of Mrs Steadfast, Mme Pomfrey and of Prof McGonagall illustrate just that.

Thanks for reviewing and for your observation about unfinished things. My answer is that I do have a plan, mostly. I have ”planted” several things that will be ”picked up” and explained later on in the story. I worry a bit, though, that the story is too slow and that you have to wait too long to get some answers and that the readers will get frustrated, or wonder, like you, if it will not lead anywhere… Maybe it is this thing with posting once a weak - maybe you would get another impression if you were to read the chapters in more rapid succession… Or maybe it is simply my inexperience as a writer - this is after all my first fanfiction story :-)  

The Acromantula paper will be brought up again in exactly three chapters from now. The incompetent healer will make a reappearance later on in the story, but in her case, like you said, my point is more to show that there are, also in real life, people around, even authorities, even professionals, who are incompetent and who make bad decisions and that you simply have to deal with, in some way or other. 

Thank you for appreciating the portrayal of the characters. I try not to make them too unidimensional. And I prefer, in this story, both Snape and Harry to be resourceful rather than helpless and broken, without acquiring that impersonal status of Super power wizards, however.