Aw!  Did you call me excellent and annoying in the same review?  At least you said the excellent one first to soften me up!  LOL! :)

I have potentially a lot to get into the next chapter, so it may be one of my longest yet.  Which is excellent for you because you get a long chapter, but is annoying for you because it might take me a little longer to post.  Anyway, I'll get to it now I know you're waiting on it!!!

Thanks for the review!

Oh, he's aware Harry was neglected. He just doesn't recognize that it's important. To him, neglect just doesn't rank very high on the list of things to whine and complain about, especially once you're out of that situation. Harry has a completely different understanding of what is and isn't worthy of getting upset about. He cares a lot more about being unloved and unwanted than he does about being starved or hit. So, when he tries to explain, he picks the exact things Snape calls "whining" instead of things that would actually set off some alarms for Snape. He also has an unfortunate way of blurting things out in a flippant or sarcastic sort of way, which makes Snape dismiss his words because he focuses on the  "disrespectful" tone Harry uses toward him. It all leads to a big miscommunication going on between them, with Harry trying to articulate how unloved and unwanted he felt at the Dursleys (because that's the thing that was the worst about living with them, in his mind), and Snape thinking, "There he goes again, whining about not getting the latest and greatest toys for his birthday and complaining about the gifts he did get... ungrateful brat!" Then Snape makes some sneering comment and Harry just shuts down.

Yes, that's what I was going for with Lupin. Mean, but not intellectually impaired (because that would be pretty useless).

Thanks for reviewing!