I found this fic both fascinating, i.e.I could not stop reading it, and difficult to read because of the subject matter. Thank the Great Goddess that it had a happy ending. Thinking about all those millions for whom the ending was anything but happy though ... too often there is very little humanity in humans and little kind in mankind.

Excellent! Beautifully written. Most of the story seemed to be historically accurate, nice job. I was so sad, but still, truly amazing.

I don't know what I could say that would do this story justice. It was sweet and beautiful. As I've said to a couple of authors, if I've said it in a review to you before I appologyze, I love stories in which wizards and muggles interact. I've read a few of your stories, and being a bit of a history buff, I've appreciated the that element of them. I also appreciate the inspiration in them. Your comments at the end were also lovely. Just one though. You said no one apparated in the story, but isn't that what Moody did when he was leaving them? Also just an FYI in case you've never read it, it's revealed in the Tales of Beatle the Bard that at least one of the unforgiveables became illegal in 1742, or at least, so I believe. Of course I understand that book hadn't been published when this story was written.

What a wonderful story. I love your take on Mr. Moody. Very touching. Evil is. But it is nice to remember that there are angels amoungst us.

loved it!

Dear Seldes:

Minor point. The story of the Maccabees doesn't appear in the Torah; in fact, nowadays, it doesn't even appear in the Jewish Bible. It's the subject of two of the books in the Greek Old Testament, which were eliminated en masse from the Jewish canon during the first century A.D. (39th century A.M.), ostensibly to preserve the purity of the Hebrew tradition, but really, I think, because the Christians were getting too much mileage out of the Book of Wisdom. "For if the just man be the son of God, He will help him, and deliver him from the hand of his enemies... Let us condemn him with a shameful death: for by his own saying he shall be respected..." I mean, really.

This was probably more than you ever wanted to know about the Books of Maccabees, but still, I hope it profits you.

Sincerely,

Qoheleth

Hullo!

That was very nice. I like all the research and educated guesses about spells, etc. Just a few things about Judism:

-in the beginning, the granddaughter asks if the angel had a halo. Jews don't think angels have halos; angels are supposed to look just like ordinary people.

-chances are that a Jewish family, especially at that time, wouldn't think Moody was an angel. They would think he was Elijah the Prophet, mainly because he ate with them (angels don't eat) and because there are many Jewish traditions of Elija coming to earth in this fashion.

Despite these small mistakes, though, it was a lovely story! It's nice to see young Moody, and I really enjoyed reading this.

Thank you!

-Morgie

Very well written. An excellent view of Mad Eye Moody.

Wow. This is amazing. One of the sweetest fics I've read, and I like the character that you used. Alastor isn't someone who you see popping up in fan fiction a lot. This is a beautifully written masterpiece, simply heartwarming.

I like it!

This story was truly beautiful. I loved the message and hope it brings. Thank you.

Wow. Brilliant.

You obviously got involved in the story; your characters are wonderfully written, and there was just this feeling in it that you weren't writing to write - you wanted a message.

I have a slight nitpick - I think Moody would know what was going on in Nazi Germany. Also, I'm not sure I think a man in danger of Hitler would have spoken against him.

Bless you.

Lovely. The only thing I'd say is that the story of Chanukah's not actually in the Torah-the Torah was all written down long before the rebellion of the Maccabees. But it's a lovely story that you've written.

This is an awesome story. It's so hard to write anything about the Jews in the 1930s and WWII without it coming off banal or disrespectful, but this fic does a good job of showing the situation and fitting it in with HP canon. Thanks so much for writing it.