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Notes:

1. "A family that Bought Their Own Furniture".
   Tory Minister and diarist Alan Clarke’s description of Michael Heseltine as ‘the kind of man who bought his own furniture’.
2. "For Life, as it were" is the last phrase in Henry James' Washington Square.
3. "First catch Your cloud" follows Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management:

   First, catch your hare.

4. Technical points about cloud-linings and sewing:  it is tear-able (by the thistle) only when in flux – ie magnetised by the lightning.  Once ‘free’, it is eternally strong.  Severus does not thread the needle at leisure before trapping the sunbeams because it would make the needle even hotter than the thread and burn his fingers right off.
5. "He would be with them on their wedding night " echoes Mary Shelley's Frankenstein - the Creature’s threat to Doctor F.
6. "When he saved the life of James' son Harry..."  I'm assuming that Snape's Countercurse during the Quidditch match was critical in restraining Quirrel's attempt to kill Harry, buying Hermione enough time to stop the curse completely.

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