Twenty Four Hours - Chapter Twelve

Good evening everyone,

I can't believe I finally go on holiday in three days time - I honestly can't wait to get away from everything and just enjoy the sun, the swimming pool and loads and loads of lovely free cocktails 🍸 (hic!) 

But before I go running off to pack my case (no, of course I haven't started yet), it's time for the twelfth and final chapter of Twenty Four Hours.

Severus has secretly arranged for he and Hermione to have the day off work. But will they actually get the day off Severus was hoping for, or will Hermione's need to control every situation kick in and cause a big fight between them? 

AFF.Org - Twelve

AO3 - Twelve

Thank you for sticking with this story until the end. I hope you've enjoyed it, and if you've just found it, thank you for giving it a try. 

Any comments, kudos and reviews are always appreciated, especially if they say nice things, as it gives me a warm glow to know that people are enjoying my work. Valid and constructive criticism is also welcomed as I appreciate the chance to grow and improve. However, rude comments and flames are always deleted and reported as they do no one any favours and ruin what is supposed to be a bit of fun. 

So I'm off 😎 - see you when I get back. Hopefully, the break will leave me refreshed and inspired and ready to complete some of those stories I've currently got hanging around doing nothing.

Until next time.

Dx

🛫⛱🍸🌞😎  

Twenty Four Hours - Chapter Eleven

Happy Monday!

I know, I seem particularly happy, especially as it's Monday but it means there is only one more before I jet off for my wonderful week of sun and relaxation in beautiful Malta.

This also means that next week is the final part of Twenty Four Hours. Oh no, what will you do without it?

I'd like to say I've been busy writing and got a new story ready for posting on my return from holiday but I'd be mainly lying. While I have been doing a bit of writing and have quite a few stories part-finished, sadly I'm not close to getting any of them to my beta, the wonderful Mamacita, for editing. There may be a couple of one-shots coming up, but I'm not yet sure when my next full story will be ready for posting. Obviously, you'll hear about it here first.

So onto the penultimate chapter, and it's tissues at the ready as we've been invited to a wedding. Fingers crossed it all goes well. Ah, doesn't the bride look lovely, and those bridesmaids dresses . . . . 

AFF.Org - Eleven

AO3 - Eleven

As ever a comment, kudos or review is always welcome. 

And so, I head off into the night, blissfully counting down the days until next Monday and the final part of the story.

Oh yes, and finally,

Happy Gryffindor week! 

(According to Bloomsbury, anyway).

Dx

Twenty Four Hours - Chapter Ten

Evening all,

Here we are again, the end of a long weekend, another week closer to my holiday, and another chapter of Twenty Four Hours posted.

The end of the project has finally come, but what is Hermione going to do next? She still has choices to make, but will she get it right?

AFF.Org - Ten

AO3 - Ten

Thank you for sticking with the story. I hope you're enjoying it. If so, kudos, comments and reviews are always welcome.

I'll see you next week when we reach the penultimate chapter.

Dx 

Twenty Four Hours - Chapter Nine

Happy Monday everyone.

I haven't got much to say as I'm feeling knackered and need to go to bed. So without further ado, let's move on to chapter nine of Twenty Four Hours.

Hermione's still trying to explain herself, poor love, and she's not making too many friends

AFF.Org - Nine

AO3 - Nine

As ever a comment, review or even just kudos is really appreciated, especially if you're enjoying the story. And feel to check out my old stories in the links in the sidebar. There might be something else you enjoy - or want to revisit if you're a regular reader.

See you next week.

Dx

Twenty Four Hours - Chapter Six

Good evening everyone,

Once again I've made the deadline (go me!). It's Monday, so it's time for another chapter of Twenty Four Hours.

Hermione is going through a tough time and she's got some important decisions to make, but what is she going to choose? And will the decisions she makes be the right ones? 

Read on to find out . . . .

AFF.Org - Six

AO3 - Six

As always, I'm making a plea for comments, reviews and kudos. Thank you especially to Sameer, who left me a comment last week. I'm glad you're enjoying the story and I hope you continue to find it interesting.

Enjoy the chapter, and also enjoy anything else you read this week. I've just finished Maureen Johnson's Truly Devious which I would heartily recommend.

See you next week.

Dx

Twenty Four Hours - Chapter Five

Success!

I have managed to post a chapter before midnight on the day it's due. 

So here we are again for the latest chapter of Twenty Four Hours.

Hermione has to give Severus an answer, but will it be the one he wants? And there's discord within the team - will the virus cure ever get finished? 

AFF.Org - Five

AO3 - Five

If you're enjoying Twenty Four Hours please let me know. Comments, reviews and kudos are always welcomed.

So it's back off to writing land for me as I'm drowning in unfinished stories. 

Enjoy World Book Night (well done you for choosing my story/blog), have a great week and I'll see you next Monday for the next chapter.

Dx

Twenty Four Hours - Chapter Four

Oops, I'm getting later and later.

The truth is that I actually posted the chapter very early this morning (so technically still just about Monday), but as it was way past my bedtime and only a few hours before I was due to get up again for work I didn't have time to post the links here.

So, without further ado, here is the latest chapter of Twenty Four Hours.

Severus has given Hermione a deadline to make a decision, but Ron has news of his own which could change everything. What is she going to do?

AFF.Org - Four

AO3 - Four

Enjoy, and I'll see you next week.

Dx

Twenty Four Hours - Chapter Three

Good evening everyone.

I think I've finally accepted that this story is going to be posted on a Monday. It's time for chapter 3 of Twenty Four Hours.

Severus is now working with Hermione's team but is he causing more problems than he's solving? Hermione certainly seems to think so, and she's already got more than enough problems already.

AFFOrg - Three

AO3 - Three

I hope you're enjoying the story so far. If so, kudos, comments and reviews are always welcome.

Thank you for continuing to read.

See you next week.

Dx

Twenty Four Hours - Chapter Two

Happy Easter!

I know it's all over now, and the eggs have already probably been eaten (mine have, anyway), but I hope you've had a good weekend full of fun and chocolate, or whatever floats your boat.

Because of the long weekend, I'm late posting again, although perfectly timed to fit in with last week. The good news is that I've managed to get some writing done. Better still, it didn't snow despite the warnings that it was going to so I'm a happy bunny (sorry!)

A change of circumstance means Hermione has no choice but to accept Severus' terms. She's about to find out how long twenty-four hours is.

Two - AFFOrg

Two - AO3    

Have a great (short) week.

Dx

New Story - Twenty Four Hours

Good evening everyone.

I'm posting a couple of days later than I anticipated as real life got in the way of my posting schedule. Anyway, I've finally managed it and tonight I present the Prologue and first chapter of Twenty Four Hours (also known as '... the flowering of Severus Snape' by my wonderful beta, Mamacita).

Hermione and her team have spent two long and unsuccessful years working on finding a potion to cure a mysterious epidemic that has been spreading throughout the wizarding world, collaborating with everyone who might possibly be able to help. Now only one person remains to ask, the one most likely to be able to solve the problem but also the least likely to want to help. The question is, is Hermione willing to pay the price to get the help she so badly needs?

Although there isn't much, there is some bad language and a couple of relatively graphic sex scenes so I think it's a bit too lemony for FFNet and I am therefore posting it on AFF.Org which means it's over-18s only, I'm afraid.

Prologue - AFF.Org

Prologue - AO3

I hope you enjoy the story and as always would appreciate comments, reviews and kudos. 

I'll see you next weekend when I shall be surrounded by chocolate (I hope).

Dx 

Swimming (One Shot)

Helloooo!

I am back from my lovely and relaxing (mainly) holiday, feeling fully refreshed and raring to go. Obviously, this is only likely to last a couple of days until I get back into the swing of working (and the horrible early mornings and long travel times) by which time I'll have completely forgotten I even had a holiday and I'll be dying for another one (which, as luck would have it, will be Leakycon at the end of August - so not long to wait.)

Anyway, I went off on holiday with the best of intentions and several stories that I wanted to get finished, or at least move on significantly. Sadly, I have to report that I failed miserably in that task.

I did, however, write a couple of short stories, based on holidays. The first is a non-HP story (I know, shock, horror!) and was written for a competition I saw online, which had to include a beach somewhere in it. Unfortunately, I failed as it was also supposed to be no more than 1,000 words long and I couldn't get it below 1,200 however hard I tried, and the story I really wanted to write was nearer 2,000. I may give it to my fabulous beta, Mamacita, and see if she can suggest where I can lose 200 words (that's going to be a mega challenge, I can tell you).

The second story is HP-related (hurrah!) and is a saucy bit of fluff called Swimming, featuring Hermione and Severus, with a supporting cast of Malfoys and the Granger parents, all sharing a nice little holiday (not together, obviously) in a small, partially wizarding seaside village in Crete. 

It's rated 'M' as there's a bit of nudity, but it's not too scandalous.

Check it out and if you like it please leave a review or some kudos as it would make me happy.

Swimming - AO3

Swimming - FanFiction.Net

As a boring bit of trivia, I can tell you that the photo I used on FanFiction.Net is actually a photo of the sea I was writing about in the story, and yes, that is two people swimming.

Until next time.

Dx

Polyjuice (the Epilogue again)

Evening everyone,

As you know I've been slowly adding all my stories published elsewhere to my AO3 account so they're all in the same place for easy reading.

As I've almost finished, I have finally managed to get round to putting up Polyjuice, which was one of the first stories I ever posted to AFF.Org back in 2008. 

The epilogue of the story is a series of newspaper articles which I am currently unable to post in the format I'd like (probably because I'm an idiot that can't work out how to post pictures on AO3) so over there the articles are just in the usual text version. However, below I've posted them in the way I actually visualised them. They have been updated from the original version that appeared in my old blog to use the 'real' Daily Prophet logo as designed by Mina Lima in the Harry Potter films.

Dx

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Legend of the Wolf - Chapter Seven

Morning everyone,

I've been busy editing and didn't notice the time, which is why I'm posting this chapter at stupid o'clock in the morning. For this reason, my blog post is going to be short and sweet as I'd like to get to bed by 3 a.m.

This week, Fenrir tells Severus what has happened to him and Hermione and asks for his help to put things right. But will the Potions Master turned Headmaster be able to assist or are the werewolf and his mate doomed?

AFF.Org - Chapter 7

AO3 - Chapter 7

I hope you're enjoying the story so far. If you are a comment, kudos or a review would be greatly appreciated.

I'll see you next week when I might be slightly more organised (although probably not, knowing me).

Dx

Legend of the Wolf - Chapter Two

Evening all,

Due to a friend's illness, I've had an unexpectedly quiet evening at home and so I decided to post the second chapter of Legend of the Wolf early.

Hermione has survived the encounter with Fenrir Greyback but can Professor Snape save both her and her werewolf lover from the enchantment they are under?

AFF.Org

AO3

As ever, I hope you're enjoying the story. If you are, a review or some kudos would be gratefully received.

Until next week,

Dx

Legend of the Wolf - Chapter One

Morning all.

I've finally got round to posting after a long evening of watching Eurovision. It's a bit late (early in the morning) again, but I was far too busy chatting on social media while the song contest was on to concentrate on doing anything else. 

As I promised before I went to Spain, today I'm starting a new story. 

It's rather an unusual pairing that I've never written about before and I’m not entirely sure where the plot came from as it started life as a standard Lucius/Hermione tale. Somewhere along the way the twist popped into my brain and refused to go away and completely changed the entire story. 

The story is called Legend of the Wolf.

Hermione, who was abducted by Lucius Malfoy, has managed to escape and made her way back to Hogwarts to seek the help of a certain snarky Potions Master. But what help does she need Severus Snape to provide, and who does the mysterious voice in the shadows belong to? 

It is set in the seventh year of the trio's time at Hogwarts, but I’ve had a bit of a shift around of timescales so it’s only nominally canon. It's also got some bad language and a few lemons from the outset and in later chapters, there will be major character deaths too, so it's being hosted on AFF.Org and thus, is for over eighteens only. As always, it's also on AO3 as that has become the major repository for all my stories.  

AFF.Org - Chapter 1

AO3 - Chapter 1

As I said previously, this is a new pairing so I will be interested to hear what you think of the story. Reviews are gratefully received or you can comment on here. I request that you be polite and constructive in any criticism as rude comments and trolls will be removed. Kudos is also always appreciated.   

I really hope you enjoy the story.

Until next week,

Dx

The Wager - Part Three

Morning all,

This is an extremely quick post as I am running late and need to get to bed to try to grab a couple of hours sleep before I head off to the airport on my holiday in Spain.

I've just posted the last part of The Wager - and Hermione has finally given up on her bet to have sex with the Potions Master. So what now?

AFF.org

AO3

As ever, I would really appreciate a review if you liked the story. It's always good to know when people are reading and enjoying.

I'll see you in a couple of weeks time when I've got an interesting new story containing a pairing I've never done before. 

Hasta la vista!

Dx

The Wager - Part Two

Evening all,

I've just about recovered from my chocolate overdose and am almost ready to go on holiday - just one Bank Holiday between now and then. 

Draco has managed to convince Hermione to go to his father's party, but is she about to get more than she bargained for?

AFF.Org

A03

See you next week for the final part of The Wager. If you're enjoying the story I would appreciate a comment or kudos.

Dx

Turning Back the Clock - Chapter Seven

Okay, so first, I want to apologise for the late posting. Unfortunately, I wasn't too well towards the end of this week and posting on Friday night was out of the question. I had intended to get it posted during Saturday evening (it's now Sunday morning my time and way past my bedtime) but a brain fog which was a hangover from the illness made me completely forget the log-in for this account and sent me spinning back in time to the old one - which I abandoned when I completely forgot the log-in several years ago (yes, I have a terrible memory). 

I have just spent several hours screaming at my monitor every time I logged in to discover that I was still on the old blog, and completed (but fortunately didn't send) a hugely snotty feedback report about how crap Google is, and why was it stopping me from accessing my blog, when it finally dawned on me that I was using completely the wrong e-mail address - the peril of having too many, folks!

Now, I'm happily logged in and have posted the final chapter of the story.

We know Hermione didn't do as she was instructed to do by Professor Dumbledore, so what did she do instead? Read on to find out.

AO3 - Chapter 7

FFNet - Chapter 7

I really hope you enjoyed the story and would love to receive a comment or some kudos.

Since my old computer died I haven't done any writing at all. Partly this has been due to work commitments and illness and partly due to setting up my new computer which seems to be taking forever. Hopefully, I'll get going again as soon as I work out how to get rid of the random picture of a beach that appears whenever I start my computer and replace it with the Slytherin crest. Then I'll feel that my computer is really my computer at last. We're nearly there with the Slytherin Common Room from Pottermore as my desktop.

For those of you unlucky enough not to have been sorted into the finest House at Hogwarts, it's possible you might not have seen the room, so here it is in all its glory.

Anyway, it's even more past my bedtime now so I'm off. 

Until next time (not entirely sure when that will be yet), take care and enjoy reading. If you come across any good HP fanfic don't forget to let me know in the comments. I'm always on the lookout for new stuff.

Dx

Turning Back the Clock - Chapter Six

Wooohooooo!!!!

I have a PC again and life is so much more interesting. There's nothing worse than trying to do things on an iPad when you're used to having multiple tabs open at once. It also means that with any luck I won't cock up the posting, as I did on AO3 last week - Oops. Thankfully, one of my readers pointed out my error so I could put it right, but my sincere apologies to anyone who was confused by my mistake.

This week I booked to go to Leakycon in Dublin at the end of August. It will be good to spend some time with other Potterheads for the start of the school term - definitely better than attempting to get anywhere near to Kings Cross. I really hope British Rail have got a plan for 1 September, because just one of the many Facebook events taking place there at 11 am that day has 24,000 people who have indicated they are going to attend!

If I was British Rail and J K Rowling, I would arrange for the real Hogwarts Express to be on the platform and would sell tickets in advance for a place on the train, the money from which could go to Lumos. It would be a fantastic opportunity to raise huge amounts of money for Jo's charity. Whatever they do I think they are going to be inundated!

Anyway, on to the story. Poor Hermione. She has been told what she's got to do by Professor Dumbledore but she's still not eager to lose her relationship with Severus.

 AO3 - Chapter 6

FFNet - Chapter 6

Okay, that's me out of here until next week and the final part of this story.

Have a good week.

Dx

Turning Back the Clock - Chapter Five

Morning all,

A very short one today as my poor old PC died yesterday and I'm having to navigate posting with an iPad, which is taking so much longer than usual.

Time for Hermione to reveal the truth to the Headmaster. Will he be able to help her?

FFNet - Five

AO3 - Five

See you next week.

Dx