Hi everyone! Thanks to all of you who have reviewed the story so far, for better or for worse. I'm writing this to let you know that there may not be another installment for a while... if ever. Frankly, I'm annoyed with the appearance-detracting charm (Alan Rickman, could you ever find it in your heart to forgive me? You are the perfect Snape, and I should not have meddled. I'm sorry.) and I am just not at all looking forward to Harry & Ron finding out about Hermione & Severus. So... I'm sorry to those of you who were looking forward to more of this fic. It's been a labor of love, and of irresponsibility, since I've been writing it while I should in fact be writing a certain linguistics paper with a forthcoming publication deadline. If anyone wants to pick up the thread, be my guest. My e-mail and AIM screen name are on my profile.

Maybe I'll write another fic someday... this was a fun experiment. In the meantime, I've got a HG/SS poem partially written, so stay tuned. And if you like my writing, which of course I hope you do *g*, check out my website (also linked from my profile) or my FictionPress account, /~KarbonOkapi.

Bye for now! Bridget