Hello everybody! I promise I won't make incredibly long author notes later, it's nearly all here!

    Everything from the Harry Potter books belong to J. K. Rowling, the numerous publishers of her books, including Bloomsbury, Raincoast… and perhaps to Warner for the film. Well, Obviously not to me, I had to mention it, apparently it's in the law.

     (Eyes rolling)

    So first I'd like to make clear a quite important "detail". Yes, in this story, Great Albus Dumbledore is less than 10 years older than Strict Minerva McGonagall. And they're at school during the 2nd World War. It's not because I want my story to work, but just because I can't help seeing them that way. And actually, yes, I know what J.K. says about it in numerous interviews. Wizard's age and all that… But my characters are the age they would be if wizards aged just like Muggles like us do! That's how I thought they did, when I read the books. And I can't change it now… Oh, all right, perhaps I could but… Be kind and don't persecute me? Anyway I've got two things to object to criticism:
    - What Rowling says but doesn't write is not a serious matter, because Harry Potter is a assemblage of books, written books, and not the thought(s) of the author about her work. No, no, no, that's not an awful excuse, actually a quite fundamental literary principle! I swear! ^_- And nowhere in the books is said anything about those characters' ages, except that Dumbledore is old (silver hair and beard, etc) and Minerva, err... well we just know she's an adult, as a matter of fact!
    - Whatever may come out later in books 5 to 7, I can't keep changing my story to make it fit in with everything!!! My plot is anyway a pure fantasy, I can't even seriously pretend that's the way things 'happened' and argue about it, and won't be able to do so until J.K. decides she wants my work to be published and to belong to her set of books!!! And strangely enough, I'm in the opinion THAT might not happen! ^_^ SO I just imagine! And so, no matter what I'd like, it's always possible that future books contradict my version of events!
    OK, I must admit all that is generality about all fanfics, especially the ones related to non-yet-ended series!! But I needed to warn, just to avoid flaming reviews about it!

    What is more special to my fic, though, is just that I pray you to let reviews –I beg you on bended knee ?-, not only to praise or flame, but also if you spot grammar and spelling errors and nicely want to let me know. I won't get hurt, promised! I'm not writing in my primary language, so mistakes are unavoidable, I fear! Please, forgive me and help me to improve my story and my English, I don't want what I've written to hang around with three mistakes per sentence, that wouldn't be nice! Actually!

    Finally, please, if you want to flame, just explain why you criticize something, don't let me simple "I don't like chap 5" or something along the same line… That's very mean, because then I try to fathom why, and then I try again, and again… And believe me, there's very, very few chances I'll become a Seer and guess what you mean! Sniff, it would be so useful, though, to be a Seer sometimes!

    Oh, Yes, a last thing: if you let anonymous reviews which require an answer, I'll write it in the Reviews-Page, so just go there and check it, ok?

    So thanks for reading, and.... ENJOY!!!

PS : Did I mention how much I preferred reviewers to hidden readers who don't want the author to know they've read and/or express what they think? Thanks to all of you who reviewed, are reviewing or will review my work!