-bows and praises- we're not worthy!

beautiful story, loved it so much. ended up spending the whole night reading it, heh. not usually one for angst fics, but I do love your writing- and Courtney too!

Police officers beating and turning fire-hoses on civil rights protesters right here in the good old USA might be another example of things we might not want to admit to our kids. Or, children who are called 'special' today, were often locked in basements and attics 50 years ago.

If you really want to own up, might want to point to a few examples in your own back yard. Yes, Nazi's were evil; but they weren't the only evil the world has seen.

Wow, this story is really great! I love how you worked through David's pscyhe, and how he slowly confronted things like prejudice, his own fears of betrayal again, and courtney. Usually, I dislike OCs, but you've made many characters which are adorable to enlightening. Some tended towards being 'perfect', but all in all the relationships worked well. One thing I liked was how Harry never fully forgives some of his old friends, which is one of the things in Azkaban fics he nearly always does. More realistic, if less of a fairytale ending, but enjoyable definitely. Great writing!

A thought provoking concept. I like that you gave Harry the strength to never forgive Sirius for doing to Harry as was done to himself.

Nicely paced but there were one or two plot points that perhaps didn't fit such as Kathryn's death. That said, you made your point on the necessecity of that but it still felt a little off. I would have liked to see Courtney pick holes in her fathers position the same way she did the the official history rather than have a radical change prompted by a tragedy.

You need to try harder to convince everyone why neither Sirius or Remus insisted on veritaserum. The justification looks weak.

in regards to ur thing about WW2 its true (kinda) i am the granchild of 2 holocaust survivors and its true than in some schools in germany they ignore a space of about 5 years in their history (the holocaust) kinda of like the 'The Tiananmen Square Confrontation' Conspiracy except MUCH bigger!

wow. that first chapter was amazing

Great story. You had some really quotable lines in there. I must admit that I didn't care much for Courtney, I guess I don't read fanfiction for the Original Characters, really. For what it's worth, Courtney was interesting to read. I think you could have made her thoughts a bit more like those of an eleven year-old, but on the whole, your idea for her was a good one.

I think sometimes we don't realize that things are actually good, and brush over them as average because they weren't bad. Considering most Original Characters are terrible, and yours was actually fun to read and made sense in context with the whole Harry Potter universe, I'd say Courtney was a success.

I'm sad that Kathryn died. It seemed sort of unnecessary. But this a Dramatic fiction, and it wouldn't be interesting if everything worked out to a happy ending. Harry adopting Dudley's child makes up for it, though.

Anyways, good fic! Well written, interesting, and the actual angst sections were believable and didn't make me want break something (like almost every other angst scene in fanfiction). You understand writing and how to make a good story. Good work.

My previous review pointing out an "inconsistency" was wrong, I apologize. Albus' knowledge of David's identity jumped out at me as non sequitur, but I probably wasn't reading carefully.

There's an inconsistency in this chapter. After having dinner with Courtney, Albus thinks in his mind something like "Harry and Kathryn, you've done a good job with raising Courtney..."

In one of your postscripts, you said you were thinking of writing a scene where Albus knows who Harry really is, and I think this is a leftover thought from that.

That was sort of jarring, but good story. I wonder what Harry is going to do...

Good story.

Thank you its a beautiful story.

I loved completely your story, really, it brought me tears and it was just very emotional when Harry mets again with dobby and knows that he was the only one that believed him, it was simply beautifuf. thank you so much for publishing this story, if you could hear me now, you´ll hear the sound of clapping.

I absolutely loved this story, I was hooked from the first chapter and I have read the whole thing in one afternoon, the house still needs to be cleaned by the way LOL. It was a fabulous story and even though you wrote it many years ago, I am glad that you did.

Harry’s betrayal was so heartbreaking to read, especially from his own point of view, I will admit that it made me cry. Harry’s sham of a trial was worst than Sirius’s lack of trial, to have everyone you know and love just turn their back on you is just too awful to comprehend.

The way you reiterated the message that the truth should never be covered up no matter how painful was very well done. I have never been to the Washington Holocaust exhibition, but I have been to the one in London’s imperial war museum and I feel the same, it is something everyone should see and know about, the moment that our society forgets the horrors of our past, they will begin to happen again.

Courtney comes off as much older than 11 especially her presentation but I suppose it is hard to convey eleven year olds innocence when dealing with sure horrific truths.

I will admit that I did get a bit confused with whom all the Weasley children belonged too, but that is not the important part of the story. I really enjoyed your older Ron, Hermione and Sirius they were still canon, when they spoke of Harry and how sorry they were, I really felt their pain.

Harry/David’s emotional farewell to his wife was so beautifully written, his pain was so real, as was his love, it made me cry. How David told Michael was also beautiful.

Amelia’s story was also incredible tragic, the way her life was following the same path as Harry’s, until someone finally welcomed her into a family. The Dursley’s really are some of the foulest people to walk this earth.

I loved the way that Harry came back to the Wizarding world to change it and make it something good again. Discovering that Ron was the only person at the trial who was on Harry’s side was a heartbreaking twist to the story, especially the fact he was willing to risk his own freedom to break Harry out of Azkaban, until Sirius made him believe what they all believed. I am glad that in the epilogue Ron and Harry had became friends again, and I do not blame Harry for never forgiving Sirius, his betrayal was the worst of all.

The staff of Merlin reminded me of the Elder wand, obviously you wrote this first so JK much have copied you, but it is way too much power for one person, imagine that kind of power in someone who is not as noble as Harry. I really enjoyed the epilogue for this reason alone and because you tied everything up.

One final comment; I did feel sorry for poor Severus having to attend the trial on his birthday how inconsiderate of Percy. Just another reason to hate Percy, I think I always will.

Wow bit of a long review, but it was a long story.

I cried at the end of chapter 18. Congratulations, I really cried, not just tears.
Harry/David's family wasn't bad at all, and I liked Kathryn. And normally I don't like any oc, even worse with female oc's.
I have one thing that doesn't fit. In chapter 10, Harry writes bakc to Courtney that he was also sorted into Gryffindor, but in the original letter she never said she was a Gryffindor. Just something I noticed.
All in all, I think this story is one of the best 'harry to azkaban' fics I've read.