FOREWORD

At last, Book 2 of The Cetra Heritage Saga!

Damn, what a journey it has been, huh? Two stories, and I'm amazed, as always, by the following I have. As I come to publish this (but not as I come to write this, so I'm leaving the stats blank until I do publish them), I have had 35.7K views, 147 favourites, 160 follows, and 79 reviews on Harry Potter and the Cetra Heritage, and 2.6K views, 35 favourites, 37 follows, and 14 reviews on Birthday. Thank you again for your patronage.

Like Harry Potter and the Cetra Heritage, this story will be published in episodes of five chapters apiece. How many episodes this story will go for, I am yet to determine. Unlike Harry Potter and the Cetra Heritage, the previews and review-answering segments will be at the end of each episode's final chapter, instead of having posted chapters to themselves. I'm actually considering not having the previews for the moment. Unlike Harry Potter and the Cetra Heritage, this is a somewhat less action-filled story, and that does less for trailers.

The story for Harry Gainsborough and the Philosopher's Stone will be, naturally, largely familiar. Most things will remain similar to the novel, though there will be changes from the get-go, for various reasons, and characters taken in different directions. This time, the emphasis is on the Harry Potter characters, rather than the Final Fantasy VII characters.

Also, please keep in mind that my updates will in all likelihood be a lot slower than with the first two stories. I nearly burned my brain out doing Harry Potter and the Cetra Heritage, so please be patient when waiting for new episodes. You can tell, though, by how long it took for me to post the first episode.

I'm not going to answer the reviews I got for the last two. But thanks for them all the same. I'm glad you enjoyed the first couple of stories in The Cetra Heritage Saga.

Okay. Now it's disclaimer time.

Anyway, now for the disclaimers. Firstly, there will be little to no bashing of the Harry Potter characters. Yes, their faults will be scrutinised, but this will be more reconstruction than deconstruction.

Secondly, there will be annotations up the wazoo. You have been warned.

Finally, the following is a fan-based work. Final Fantasy VII and Harry Potter are the properties of their respective owners. Please support the official release. You don't want Sephiroth to turn you into a shish-kebab with his Masamune, do you? I mean, dying at the hands of a silver-haired effeminate mother's boy…