You were, Gil, darling. You were.

Oh, my heart.

I feel like I should be directing my comments to Rita, with how real she feels here, and thus I need to fangirl you twice as hard, Mystery Author.

What a wonderful story: clever, witty, and wicked... and then an all-too-plausible punch in the gut.

I'm not sure I could list everything I love about this story. The little nods to canon, the appearances from other HP characters, the perfect turns of phrase, the ambiguity, the twists. This is simply a marvel, nothing less, and I know I'm going to be coming back to it often.