Dastardly Schemes and Drastic Measures

Endnotes and Acknowledgements

By Hayseed

I didn’t expect to wind up with another sort-of novel. As I look over the end result, though, I see that it’s very much a three-part novel, taking our Severus and Hermione from friendship to the altar (more or less ...). It was just a fun little thing to write, written in response to all of those matchmaking fics that were floating around a little while ago. I happened to fall in love with the characters, though, so I continued writing.

It was also my first experience with a slash pairing, however mild and secondary. While I’m not averse to reading slash, it just never found its way into my writing before. But the Harry and Draco I’ve got here have eased themselves into a nice, comfortable relationship (although I get the idea that they have some hellacious fights sometimes), with just enough ‘sparkle’ to infuriate the thoroughly unromantic Severus and Hermione.

Usually there’s something I’m trying to convey in my writing -- some theme (sometimes lofty ... Dark Gods ... sometimes not ... UMFC ...) or some literary game (Ordinary People, for instance) -- but this one is pure, fluffy fun. Just a cute little story with no particular strings attached. It’s been an absolute blast to write.

I said in the notes for Switzerland that this story was for my official fangirl, and it still is. SillyRiddles, thanks for broaching the FF.net chasm and reading my work -- this one’s for you. And, of course, thanks to everyone who’s read and/or reviewed these stories.

-hayseed

Footnotes:

 I have to share ... the pot roast thing is based on a true story! Yes, that’s right. One of my old high school buddies said something absolutely infuriating to his mother one day and she was apparently so incensed that she threw the first thing that came to hand at his head -- the pot roast she’d been preparing for supper. My friend, unlike Severus, managed to duck. So if you read the pot roast gag and thought “that’s far too silly -- nothing like that could ever happen in the real world,” I tell you now that it can and it did.