New Year's Eve - 2002

Happy New Year Everyone!

It's time for the final chapter in my last story of the year - New Year's Eve.

It's year three at university and Hermione has decided she's not going to the party of year. Instead, she's going to stay at home and read a good book. But will her friends allow her to get away with that?

And is Ron going to ruin yet another New Year's Eve for our heroine?

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I hope you've enjoyed the story. It's just meant to be a bit of fun.

Have a very happy new year and I'll see you soon.

Dx

New Year's Eve - 2001

Happy Saturday!

I can't believe we're so close to the end of the year - all that preparing for the festive season and suddenly it's almost over and time to go back to work! (insert incredibly unhappy face here).

My virus or whatever it was is just about gone and I'm left with the normal snotty nose/sinus blockages and a cough that's more annoying than anything. Let's hope that's also gone by the time I go back to work. I'll already be miserable enough without adding that the mix.

Anyway, back to the story and it's New Year's Eve 2001, and Hermione is trying to get over her disappointment from the previous year (not very successfully).

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I hope you enjoy. If so, a comment, review or kudos is much appreciated.

Someone left a comment on yesterday's chapter taking exception to Hermione being left alone while Draco went off (and probably slept) with the blonde. I think what they were trying to say was that the roles should have been reversed - i.e. that Hermione should have gone off with someone and Draco should have been left standing around unhappy.

The reason it didn't happen that way round was, I would have thought, fairly obvious. The whole point of the story (for me, at least) is the frustration Hermione feels when she's thwarted by Ron (who, let's face it has form for this sort of thing - remember the Yule Ball when he completely ruined her evening?) and that wouldn't happen if you reversed the dynamic. 

There isn't anyone to grab and kiss Draco in the same way that Ron can grab Hermione - knowing Ron of old, you almost expect it to happen anyway - and therefore, even if Pansy Parkinson (for instance) came along and grabbed Draco away from Hermione, I don't think it would have the same impact.

If the criticism was that Hermione was left alone while Draco was off shagging around (i.e. he can be a slut and she can't), that can easily be answered by the fact that she wasn't interested in anyone else other than Draco, and it was her choice to go home alone. Hermione would have had plenty of opportunities to pull at the party if she had wanted them (several people tried to kiss her during the chapter), but she didn't want it. Other than that there is absolutely no reason why Hermione couldn't have done exactly as she pleased (which is what she did). 

Anyway, hopefully, that answers why I wrote it the way round I did. I have no objection to Hermione being sexual or even a sexual predator, I have written her that way in other stories, just not this one. 

See you tomorrow for the final chapter of New Year's Eve. 

Dx

New Story - New Year's Eve - 2000

Good evening all,

As I posted yesterday, today sees the start of my last story of the year and my final festive offering. 

It's called New Year's Eve and follows the Golden Trio and their friends and enemies over the course of three New Year's Eve's during their time at University, which includes entrance to the party of the year.

I have made another story icon - I basically did some digi-scrapping of a picture I found online. As ever, it gives a flavour of what the story is about. I think it's rather lovely. What do you think?

The first chapter is set in the year 2000, during their first year at university.

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This story is just a little bit of fluff to hopefully entertain, but I would be grateful, as always, for any reviews, comments and kudos.

I hope you enjoy!

Until tomorrow.

Dx

The Recluse - Chapter Eight

Hurrah!

I finally managed to get a chapter posted at a decent early time of the day. It's a shame it took until the last chapter of the story to manage it, but better late than never, eh?

It's chapter eight and Hermione is about to finally discover the secrets Draco has been trying to keep hidden. Just why was it so important that no one went into his mother's rooms?

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I really hope you've enjoyed this festive fairy tale and appreciate it in the spirit it was given - sometimes we all need fairy tales in our lives and Christmastime is no exception.

I'm back tomorrow with the first chapter of a three-part New Year's Eve story (for which I've done another cover picture that I'm really excited about) and then I'll probably be taking a little break as I've been posting for most of the year and I need to get some new stories sorted.

I hope you had a wonderful Christmas* (*insert holiday of choice here) and have a happy, safe and healthy New Year.

Dx  

The Recluse - Chapter Seven

So, FF.Net had come back this morning so I managed to upload yesterday's chapter and now we're onto chapter seven.

It's the aftermath of the Battle of Malfoy Manor and Hermione is about to give Draco a life lesson.

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Join me tomorrow for the final chapter of The Recluse.

See ya!

Dx

The Recluse - Chapter Six

Well good evening everyone.

My run of good luck continues as it would appear that the FFNet website isn't accepting any uploads this evening, so despite me attempting to post nice and early for once, I still haven't succeeded. As Chapter 6 takes place on Boxing Day I really wanted to post the chapter today, so I have posted the AO3 one and will add the FFNet as soon it lets me.

So, as I said it's Boxing Day at Malfoy Manor and everything is nice and quiet . . . too quiet, maybe?

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The one good thing about still feeling crappy is that I haven't felt the need to have to do things and go places so instead, I've spent the day writing. This means I've almost finished one of my stories that I've been trying to get done for ages. Hurrah for a day of writing!

See you tomorrow, when FFNet may or may not be back (who knows). Hopefully, we will get the whole story posted eventually.

Dx

The Recluse - Chapter Five

Merry whatever greeting doesn't offend you!

I am still battling against the lurgy so this post is a bit later than I intended, as I've spent most of the day in bed. I really hope this goes soon, it's making me really bloody miserable.

Anyway, on to chapter five and Hermione is heading back to Malfoy Manor, even though she knows she shouldn't. But will Draco be pleased to see her? 

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I'm hoping to be fighting fit tomorrow (although probably still achy from all the coughing) so hopefully, the next chapter will go up well before midnight.

I hope you have all had/are having wonderful days whatever you're up to.

Dx

The Recluse - Chapter Four

It's another quick one as I still feel really rough and need to go to bed. I'm hoping I improve by the morning or Christmas Day is going to be really miserable.

Hermione has returned to work but Sylvia has several nasty surprises up her sleeve. Is there anything she can do to stop her, or has her boss finally managed to outsmart her?

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See you tomorrow. 

Dx

The Recluse - Chapter Three

Good evening all,

This is really a short one tonight as Father Christmas has sent me an early and totally unwanted present and I feel like I'm about to die, with a hacking cough, sore throat and the shivers and I need to go to bed in hopes of sleeping it off.

It's time for the third chapter of The Recluse, and Hermione has finally arrived at Malfoy Manor to undertake the itemising of the estate's treasures. But will Draco help or hinder her in the process, and is she able to keep her own inquisitiveness in check?

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Hopefully, I'll be well enough tomorrow to post chapter four, even if it's the only thing I do.

Take care everyone and I'll see you tomorrow.

Dx

The Recluse - Chapter Two

Can you see the snowflakes falling on my page? I'm quite excited about them and amazed that they work.

It's time for chapter two of The Recluse and Hermione is heading to Malfoy Manor in an attempt to contact Draco about the money he owes on his father's behalf. 

He's not going to be easy to track down, even if he is ensconced on the Malfoy estate. But is he actually there? And if he is, is he going to be willing to talk to Hermione?

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I hope you're enjoying the story so far.

See you tomorrow for chapter three.

Dx

The Recluse - Chapter One

Hi everyone,

With Christmas almost here it's time for me to post chapter one of the first of two festive stories I've written for this year. Now, you all know that I'm an absolute sucker for a Christmas love story, especially between Draco and Hermione.

The first story is called The Recluse. 

It will be posted daily over the next week - hence moving the story along in time with the date (i.e. the Christmas Day chapter will be posted on Christmas Day). 

I created an image for the story, which gives hints as to what it's about. I'm not usually very good at these things but I think I've done a fairly good job with this one.

The synopsis is as follows:

The second wizarding war has been over for more than a decade. Hermione, now working for the Ministry of Magic, is given an assignment that she doesn’t particularly want and is fairly sure she can’t complete, but pride and the need to show her unreasonable boss once and for all how good she is sends her to the last place on earth she wants to go — Malfoy Manor. 


This has been written and is posted as a present and a thank you to all the people who have read my stories over the last year.

I was hoping to post on Lumos as well as FFNet and AO3 to get it out to as many places as possible, but I've got a headache tonight and can't cope with sorting out the formatting etc. As there is usually a delay of a few days before it gets approved for posting it would be running late anyway, so I'll add in the links for Lumos once the whole story appears in the listings.

The story is a general romance and contains no lemons. It does contain some swearing, though, so I've rated it as T to be on the safe side.

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I hope you enjoy the story, and as ever would appreciate kudos, comments and feedback. 

See you tomorrow.

Dx

Family - Part Four - Chapter Three

Hi everyone,

It's finally time for the last part of Family, that I seem to have been posting for forever - although that's not a bad thing. It's nice to have a story that people can really get their teeth into.

Anyone who knows me knows that I love a happy ending, however bad the beginning might be, and this story is no exception.

It's Hattie's first day at Hogwarts and the gang are meeting on Platform 9 3/4, a bittersweet occasion as it's the final time for some of them. 

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I really hope you've enjoyed the story and would love to hear your comments on it. 

I'm taking a break from posting for a couple of weeks to put up my decorations, get my shopping done and polish up a couple for Christmas presents for you all.

See you soon.

Dx

Family - Part Four - Chapter Two

Good morning everyone,

This is definitely going to be a quick one as I need to get to bed. I have to be up early tomorrow as I'm going away for the weekend (hence the reason for posting early) and I need more than a couple of hours sleep.

This week, Lucius has given Hermione plenty of time to come to terms with his release and now they're going on their first date. Let's hope it goes okay, eh?

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Next week is the final part of Family, after eighteen weeks and a timespan of twenty-eight years. Coincidentally, it is also the day I will be putting up my Harry Potter themed Christmas tree.

As always, reviews, comments, kudos etc. are always welcome.

See you next week.

Dx