Minerva is awakened in the middle of the night to news that’s almost apocalyptical. This is an account of the subsequent twenty-four hours.
I love missing-moment stories, and this is a beauty.
Minerva's pain at the Potters' deaths is so palpable and real, and the moment-to-moment structure reinforces it so well. The relationships are nicely sketched--Minerva and Albus, Minerva and Elphinstone, Arabella and the (painfully) missing Marlene, and the Arabella/Marlene backstory is really compelling.
I particularly love the portrait of Petunia here. The observed bleakness of the Dursleys' marriage and her life made me shiver.
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