I'm simply ecstatic over this gift -- three of my very favorite pairings presented with such depth and grace and wonderful prose. I'll be leaving a more extensive, fitting comment later, but for now, I just had to say how much I loved this first reading. Each section is so powerful: Rolanda had me reaching for tissues, Moody is breathtakingly painful (rather like the verbal equivalent of the way he bruises Minerva's fingers), and Snape. . .well, I'll be grinning and sniffling like a mad, grinning, sniffling thing for hours. Thank you, dear Mystery Author!