Wow. This is really powerful. It blew me away.

Oh my Gosh this is so sad. I feel like I want to cry, which is weird because I never feel like that when I read stories.

A somber fic, but good nonetheless. I've read very few Andromeda fics (very few), but I can honestly say that I believe this to be a well written perspective of her and her longing for her lost love. Nicely done.

~Koky

I know this story's a bit old at this point, but I had to leave a comment anyway.

It takes some doing, to meld fictional characters to an ancient rite that means so much to those who've sat through it in real life. It takes actual talent to make it seem genuine. I say this as someone who has sat through more than a few Catholic (assuming here, given your use of Latin...) funerals.

Well done,
Jim

That was heart wrenching. Best way to put it, really.

amazingly beautiful.

Excellent fic! I love how you gave him a familiar muggle funeral, solemn and sad. It was wonderful and perfect. I'm going to save it as a favorite; please write more!

Amen.

Ooh I really loved this story, you're a great author! Wish I could give you some constructive critique, but I can't find anything bad in this story right now :P

=[ tear. This was really good I loved it

You know, I just said I wasn't going to read anymore of your Ted & 'Meda stories while I was at work. I oblivously lied! And it was a sad story too and I knew it was going to be before I opened it up, darn it! As usual I loved it anyway.

See ya next story!

~Terra of Slytherin

Aww! That was so sad! Out of the people left mourning in the last book I'd say Andromedea got the worst of it. Husband dead and son-in-law and daughter dead(killed by her own sister too).

That was beautiful and sad.

Oh my god I'm crying...

It's great! Really, really, really great!

I love it, even if it's sad...

Good technique, interspersing the Latin. I appreciate the grief fic.

I'm one of thosse people that always intends to review but then can't think of anything to say to really sum it up. I read A Keen Observer, and it's one of my favorite stories on I was so excited when I saw Ted and Andy in Deathly Hallows, and I was so crushed when we heard Ted died--bet JKR didn't think there'd be such a big group of of people upset!--but even after that, I didn't review, because I couldn't think of anything to say.

I read this, and I still don't know what I'm saying, but I'm basically saying that it's so terribly true.

I started crying from the very first line, really gushing tears, and it's just so terribly true. I recently lost my gradfather, and all my nana seems to be able to do is just--exist. She doesn't have any joy, r happiness in life, and she just keeps saying things like 'he was my whole world, now my whole world is gone.' I saw her one morning and she just started to cry because he wasn't there when she woke up. That whole paragraph...

I miss you. I’ve missed you for weeks. I expect to turn and see you. I almost, barely, hear your voice before I remember you’re not there. I expect a brush of your hand in passing, little details I didn’t realize were so important until they were gone. I can’t sleep, I’m too used to another heartbeat. But when I do sleep, there are always a few moments when I first wake up that I don’t remember you left. The moment when I realize it never seems to get any easier.

It's so beautiful and so sad and so true. And I thought I ought to tell you this, even if I never review anything else in my life.