A Note Before Beginning:

The story starts on Chapter 2! So click "Next," if you please.

Chapters 1 and 2 as they were originally conceived are much happier as one multipart chapter, so I have changed it accordingly. This story starts rather slowly, and I still haven't figured out how to remedy that to my satisfaction. So if you read the first bit and were unimpressed, consider giving the joined two-parter a new go. My reviewers tell me it comes more into its own. :) I hope you'll like it yet.

Anyway, it's been a six year hiatus, but the DMHG plotbunnies are finally back! You might have known me as "trieste," but the old penname felt like a ball and chain... There's more writing under these new auspices.

I'll try to keep this to a regular update schedule: a chapter a month at the least.

Ship spoilers: DMHG, RWPP, HPGW, NLLL, BZLL, NLHA.

Legal Disclaimer: All characters and recognizable elements from the Harry Potter series, in this and all following chapters, is owned by JK Rowling. To whom we give thanks.