I have no idea any more what comment I wrote the first time...(if I remember crrectly there had been so many comments ahead of mine, that almost nothing was left to say - *yeah, this time I am first!*).
Reading it again, not to get to know the story, but for the pure joy of it, I am amazed again about all the different "colours" you weave together: there are bits which are just absolutely funny (the dishwater, Hagrid arriving, my favourite as a scientist: "Professor Grubbly-Plank took some notes in the interest of science. How often was it that one could verify a hypothesis that necessitated the friendly collaboration of a Giant (or a Half-Giant)?"), then there are parts that bring tears to my eyes (when Amelia's death is announced, after Albus' death....), the part with the patroni is amazingly both things together *gg*, and then how you handle the emotions after the battle, the insert in italics: that is a stroke of genius!