Well, here's my little profile so far. I'm not a very exciting person... more of a homebody (If you couldn't tell by the almost epic length of Flight of the Thestrals!) I live in the States. Yes, I am female! Um... dunno what else to say. If you have suggestions, you can pop them at the end of a review or email me. I'll put little blurbs of what I'm up to here periodically in the same fashion as they do on the intro page of this site. Seems to be working for them.

Click on the Forum link for more information on Flight and PreFlight!

PLEASE NOTE: If you want to contact me, please either do so through FanFiction or if you choose to email me, make sure to include your name here so I know who I'm talking to and can respond through FanFiction if my email isn't working properly.

This is a link to my Deviant Art page. I only have a few sketches of my own, but I also have a link to the pic of Forester that I comissioned, so check it out: http://gd-7.deviantart.com/

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9/7/09 11:11pm

Chapter 51 of PreFlight is up at long last. Hopefully there will be a lot less lag time between this and the next chapter, but I make no guarantees and for Pete's sake don't bug me about it! Enjoy.

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3/26/09 or 3/27/09 - it's midnight. I'll let you figure it out!

Chapter 6 of Any Light in the Darkness is up. I'll be putting a post in my forum as well.

12/16/08 10:34pm

Chapter 50 of PreFlight is up.

11/4/08 1:17am

Chapter 5 of the new story is up

9/29/08 6:50 pm.

Well, my son was sick last night, so I couldn't take him to school today (though he seemed just fine today, which makes me feel real great about missing work!) and thus I finally finished chapter 3 of the new story. It's longer than intended. It was going fine lengthwise until a storm rolled in, and then it took longer because I had to rewrite the later parts. Sometimes these things just happen. Anyway, please go read and review!

9/19/08 12:08 am

Chapter 2 of the new story is up. Please be sure to tell me what you think!

9/15/08 12:00am

My work with PreFlight is getting so complicated it's bogging me down a bit creatively to work out since everything I do has to take everything else that has happened in PreFlight and will happen in Flight into account. I had to take a little creative break and let my muse romp free for a bit to try to clear out the creative frustration. Thus, you will find a short story of sorts has been added. I just happened to run across a website on which people post challenges while I was searching for something to answer a HP question (spelling issue I think) since the bloody HP lexicon is down right now. I could rant on that and the ridiculous lawsuit that caused it, but I'll refrain. Usually I have nothing but good things to say about J.K., but stopping that reference manual from being published pissed me off. I want a bloody copy!! Anyway, back to the point, I just glanced down the first page of this site when google spat it out, and I saw a challenge that interested me. It's not terribly long, and not nearly as convoluted as I usually get, but it's angsty :) I know some of you like that in a story. Not to mention slashy (and I KNOW most of you guys like that!) I'm only planning four or five short chapters right now. Maybe I'll come back and revisit it later after PreFlight and Flight are done (or sooner if I get too frustrated again) But that's it for now. Since the chapters are short (roughly a bit less than half the length of my usual) there will be several of them in somewhat quick secession. I have actually already mostly written the first three, I just need to proof read them and such, then I have one, perhaps two chapters left until I've exhausted what I currently have in my mind to write on that story line. At this point, I don't think I'm even going to bother naming the chapters. Too much work coming up with unique names :) Yes, I should get back to PreFlight after that. I just needed a breather. It's getting REAL complex in the Flight universe!

8/18-08 12:30am

49 is up

6/4/08 1 am

48 is up

2/26/08 12:40am

47 is up.

1/27/08 4 am

46 is up. I'm going to sleep before my son wakes up ;)

12/25/07 8:15am

Merry Christmas! I put up a chapter just for you guys. I actually put it up about 1:30 this morning, but my connection was lagging so horribly it kept timing out, even on regular pages, so I'm just getting around to updating this. I'm moving in about two weeks, so you may have to be patient for the next chapter. Everybody cross their fingers and hope for a smooth transition into the new place! Anyhow... Happy holidays and all that! Gotta go wake the kid and haul him off to open presents. Here's hoping he doesn't get anything too irritating :) See you next year!

12/2/07 11:36pm

Chapter 44 is up.

10/17/07 5:20pm

Chapter 43 is up.

8/17/07 12:15am

Chapter 42 is up.

7/8/07 4am

Chapter 41 is up

6/4/07 2am

Chapter 40 is up. My alarm goes off in four and a half hours, so good night. Erm... morning.

5/1/07 1am

chapter 39 is up.

4/10/07 12:20 am

Chapter 38 is up

3/19/07 1:40 am

Chapter 37 is up.

2/14/07 12:15AM

Chapter 35 has been fixed up a touch and reposted, and Chapter 36 is up.

1/29/07 1:26 am

Chapter 35 is up. Goin to sleep now before I end up droolin on the keyboard...

12/31/06 2:20am

Chapter 34 is up. Check it out, review, all that. Going to sleep now (YAWN).

12/4/06 1:20am

Chapter 33 is up.

11/20/06 2:05am

Chapter 32 is up. Bed time.

10/18/06

Opps. I put chapter 31 up last night, but forgot to update this. Oh, and I made a correction to it about two hours after I put it up... so if you read it right away it might have a slightly different bit in it. I hated changing it, cause it was something I wanted in there, but it was pointed out that it wasn't canon and I checked and... well I'm not going to go blatantly against canon like that. Oh well. I'm really tired and rambling. Night.

10/8/06 3:50am

Chapter 30 is up. Oh... and one of those weird, really late night thoughts occurred to me while I was working on this. Hogwarts is supposed to be so well protected because it's unplottable and impossible to find and everything, right? But it's just outside Hogsmeade, which is one of the most famous towns in Wizarding Europe cause it's an all-magical town! They get tourists and the like there obviously, so Hogsmeade IS plottable... so just go to Hogsmeade, look around and walk on over to Hogwarts. Either that or just follow the train like Ron and Harry did and go from there. How is that hard to find? Well, my brain's obviously toast by this point, so I'll go to bed now.

9/26/06 10:15pm

For anyone who is interested, my conceptual drawings of Spider Demons, Draco's gargoyle statue perch and Pax have been added to Elka's fan art collection. Check them out and tell me what you think. The URL is at the top of my profile in case you've misplaced it.

9/19/06 1am

Chapter 29 is up. I also have the request that I mentioned (if you read the A/N at the end of the chapter). Recently I realized that there is no way around it. I will eventually have to give Goyle Sr. and Crabbe Sr. first names. I don't really like doing that for characters that aren't mine, but I don't really appear to have a choice since, to my knowledge, the great J.K. has never named them. I have at least a preliminary idea for Goyle, but I'm open to ideas. They don't have to start with the same first letter or anything, but they have to be names that are decently 'strong' enough for Death Eaters. No, I don't mean Conan and Hercules or anything, but just not like Wesley (no offense to anyone with that name, but it would work for a Death Eater about as well as it would for 'The Dread Pirate Wesley' ; ). Also keep in mind that these are white British guys so it will have to be rather 'white bread' names. Tell me some of your favorite first names that aren't too standard and aren't already being used by any other character (no matter the spelling, cause I don't want to deal with another Krum-Crumb type thing cause that's irritating!). Heck, I guess if you want to throw in some non-traditional names (with pronunciation key if necessary) or some favorite female first names for consideration for other characters later on that would be fine too. Maybe even Death Eater and/or Auror last names if the mood strikes you since I'll be needing more of those soon I suspect. I reserve the right to use them on whomever I want though! :) Good guy, bad guy, human or otherwise. Heck, if nothing else I imagine there will be one or two little babies being born that require names sooner or later... ;P Keep in mind that I do have quite a number of good names that I've already gathered (just not any I feel properly fit these two guys), but if it's one I haven't thought of before and I pick it I'll mention you in the Author's notes the first time I use it (though I might not be able to if ten people submit the same name or something! I don't want the A/N to look like a list of credits. FanFiction might take that as one of the 'not allowed' kinds of notes). Just send your suggestions to me in an email or private message. Just remember to put Flight or FanFiction in the subject line and include your handle if you email me. Um... I'd prefer not to get copied online baby name books though. I could leaf through those on my own if I wanted. I just want ones you individually picked because you think they would be good and well suited to this 'universe'.

9/4/06 12:55pm

Well, chapter 28 is up. Go. Read. Review. Visit the fan art site listed above and see the pic of Forester. :)

8/30/06 7:46pm

The final draft of the picture of Forester is finally done! Head over to the Flight fan art site and check it out. As I said in my comment there, anyone who might be interested in buying a print of it from Deviant Art tell me. I'd like to be able to tell her if there's interest before she goes through the bother of making it available for sale. She just started college, and I'd love to help her get a little money to help her out if possible. If I can come up with some more money of my own, I might even try to commission another piece. She said she's going to be dedicating a lot more time to commission pieces now that she's finally made it there.

8/23/06 1:30am

Chapter 27 is up.

8/14/06 12:01am

Chapter 26 is up.

8/6/06 4:30pm

Please go read my latest entry in my forum in the PreFlight category. There should be a link above that will take you there. It was so long it got bumped to the top of page five so it should be simple to locate. I think it is important for you all to read it.

11:41pm 7/25/06

There's chapter 25, Liberatis part 2 (probably the most awaited chapter). Go. Read. Review. Hope you enjoy it. Did I mention to Review?

11:20pm 7/13/06

Well there’s half at any rate. Chapter 24. I wanted to wait until I didn’t have to leave you dangling, but there was a full chapter’s worth done already at any rate. I reserve the right to alter it if need be for the second half. Like I said in the A/N at the end, just don’t whine about the bit of a cliffy end to the chapter. Keep in mind that that is, in actuality, the MIDDLE of the chapter. I put the first half up before I planned for your benefit, not mine, so I would be just fine with taking it back down until the entire ‘chapter’ is finished. Sorry if I sound a bit bitchy, but I’m just really overwrought right now.

7:25pm 7/13/06

No, I’m not dead. I’ll be the first to admit I’m not doing real great right now, but still. I’ve been chatting some in my forum when people bother to talk to me there. I would elucidate further, but I’m a bit emotionally impaired right now from stress overload. Feel free to chat with me in my forum. Just don’t urge me to update. That wouldn’t be wise right now. Why don’t we get summers off anymore? I need a very long vacation. Not that I’m ever going to get one. Being an ‘adult’ SUCKS!

8:14am 6/17/06

Actually, I put up chapter 23 around 2am, but I was too tired to remember to update this. Well, after a long, restful couple of hours of sleep ((snorts) ya right. Well, couple hours of laying in bed at any rate) I finally remembered. Well, now I need to get rid of this headache and get moving, but I thought I'd stop in and tack up a blurb. Not sure anyone reads it, but if nothing else it's interesting for me to look back and see when I put out each chapter. I'm babbling. Bye. Go read and have fun.

12:21am 6/12/06

Chapter 22 is up. I also refreshed 20&21 with some minor changes (spelling, etc.). Going to bed now.

1:12am 6/8/06

Chapter 21 is up. I didn't do as much editing as perhaps I should have. Oh well. So sue me. As for the title... 'scents' was the only common theme I could find in it... then again, I'm real tired. Night.

10:14pm 6/6/06

For those of you wondering what is taking so long for me to update... Patience people! I'm trying to choreograph a very critical point in the story. It's like a hingepin. A whole lot of hit is gonna happen on the 19th! Suffice it so say, at the moment it looks like it may take three (or maybe even FOUR) chapters for that one day.

Not to mention that I also had several HORRIBLY stressful events in my life recently, and I'm trying to recover here. Gimme a break.

AND WHAT IS WITH ALL THE (#ing POPUPS?

5/15/06 12:50 am

20 is up. Hopefully now you all won't be breathing down my neck quite so much for some HG/SS action. Oh, who am I kidding? I doubt you guys willEVER give THAT up ;P

5/6/06 5 freakin am

19 up.

4/17/06 12:54 am

Added a scene to chapter 17 and chapter 18 is up. Have at. Review. Discuss in my forum. Whatever you'd like. I'm going to sleep now. Night. (or morning rather. Oh well.)

3/31/06 12:16am

Chapter 17 is up. Review:)

3/24/06 6:50pm

Added 2 more notes.

3/24/06 7:30am

Updated with a couple of notes for chapter 16 below.Well, the second is a rather general note, but anyway... :)

3/23/06

Chapter 16 is up. Very tired.

3/14/06

Chapter 15 of PreFlight is up. I also am putting up some more Author's notes for chapters 13-15. Check below if you've read Flight.

3/7/06

I would have posted chapter 14 a day earlier, but there was that bloody problem with the site. Still, though I was upset about it at the time (since I stayed up to complete it, not knowing I wouldn't be able to post) the chapter gained several pages today and I whole heartedly believe it is much better for it. Enjoy. Review. And don't forget to go out and buy or rent HP4 tonight! Ok, yes it was majorly crammed together for time and as you well know I had a few problem with it, but come on! Of course I'm gonna buy a copy of the DVD! Hopefully they'll have some of the stuff they chopped out on it! But... um... read my chapter first ;P

2/28/06 1:21 am

Shockingly enough, Chapter 13 is up. Wow. Only like a week. Well, there ya go. Now go, read and REVIEW. I'm so subtle... ;P

2/20/06 2am

Chapter 12 of PreFlight up. I'm goin to bed. Night.

1/30/06 11:20pm

Added a note below for chapter 11

1/29/06 2am

Well, this was a very hard won chapter, I can tell you! Had serious motivational problems. It REALLY didn't help when I had a stretch of about thirteen bloody days in a row without a single review for Preflight! It gets depressing. My muse just up and wandered off for a while. I had half the chapter written since a couple of days after posting the last chapter, but then the reviews petered out and so did my motivation. I didn't even touch it again until a couple of days ago. I did a bit of writing on other stuff, but nothing for here. Well, I started toying with the back story of Forester from the 'flashback' through his stay with Silver, but I didn't even get much more than a chapter done on that either. If I ever do stick that on here it will be after PreFlight and Flight are both done I think. I REALLY don't want three stories going simultaneously! Well, anyway... So there's chapter 11. I'm going to bed now.

1/4/06 10:15pm

Added a rather long-winded authors note on chapter 10 below for those of you who have read Flight.

1/4/06 2am

Chapter 10 up. Tired. Sleep now.

12/28/05 1:50am

Just put up chapter 9 of PreFlight and refreshed chapters 1-8 with corrections. Do tell me if I screwed something up when doing that cause it was long and tedious and I'm real tired so it's more than possible.

12/17/05 1:15am

Ok, well I deleted some whining from the other day. To paraphrase, I just found out I didn't win the Best Original Story in the Draco/Ginny awards thing and suffice it to say I'm just a tad depressed. Oh well. What's new of late eh? Well, as my motivation level is like nil at the moment I decided to try out this forum thing on a lark. Hopefully it can replace the excessive amount of explanation type info I've stuck at the bottom of my profile. Anyway, try it out, but just keep in mind I have absolutely no freakin clue what I'm doing with it. Let's hope they update the FAQ with some info on it soon.

12/4/05 1pm

Took a shower after I posted that last note and yet still I was up before 9am. I really don't sleep. It's the weekend and I didn't even have the boy to blame it on. Course it woulda helped tons if I had adequate pain meds, but oh well. To the point! I have added a couple notes of explanation at the bottom of my profile for chapter 8.

12/4/05 5am

Ok, so chapter 8 of PreFlight is up. Life is crap. Shoot me now, please. I would say 'curse me' to keep in character with the HP story, but looking at my life I think someone already has! My one and only means of transportation just died in a major way, and I have no hope of resurrecting it or getting another. The transmission went completely out. For those of you (like me before this happened) who don't know what that means, I'll translate: I would have to give the mechanic more than the bloody car is worth to fix it! They want 1400! Oh please! Like a single mother with a job where the hourly pay doesn't even hit double digits could possibly afford that! And now my rent's going up an extra 45 a month and I had to take money out of my IRA this year to pay for the last repairs the car needed, so I might not even get a tax refund which is the only thing that keeps me financially afloat through the year and I haven't even bought any Christmas presents because I don't have any bloody money to! I need to find me a Draco or a Blaise so I wouldn't have to worry about all this financial crap all the time! Until that happens (ya sure. I can't even find a regular guy! Who am I kidding?) I'm probably going to be really really REALLY freakin stressed, so don't give me reason to yell at you and don't take offense if I do :) I'll quit whining now, though believe me I have much more I could whine about, but then why waste your time? Then again, perhaps I'm making you feel better about your own life ;P

11/22/05 7:30am

Added a note about chapter 7 for those of you who have read Flight.

11/21/05 2am

Chapter 7 of PreFlight is up. bedybye time... ZZZZzzzzzzzzzz...

11/19 9:51pm

Today my son, having had time to properly mull over his thoughts and reactions, had this to say about the 4th movie: "It was amazing. But completely messed up." LOL. And he sounded so serious and thoughtful when he said it. It was absolutely adorable! He has such a way with words! You know, thinking about it, that really does sum it up. Just felt I had to share that with you all.

11/18/05 11pm

Just saw the movie. OMFG! Ok, it's a given that the fourth book is the one my son and I know best of all... we have it on audio tape and have both heard it beginning to end at least fifteen times (seriously!) and even my son can quote large bits of it, though he's just seven (ok, nearly 8, but still!)... and I know there was far too much in the book to make fit in a regular length movie... I was glad to see it was 2 ½ hours long at least, but (SHREAKS). Just searching for words that come to mind... the most prominent would be Butchered and Slaughtered. There is so very much that was absolutely necessary for upcoming books that they just cut out! I won't go into it since I'm sure many of you haven't seen the film yet, but suffice it to say that my son and I ranted, talking over eachother half the time, barely pausing to draw breath (and not repeating ourselves at all, it was pure, methodical ranting!) for a solid hour before I finally had to cut him off and send him off to bed because we have to get up early in the morning for a parade. Before you ask, of course I'm going to buy it when it comes out on DVD. DUH! I just pray they put out an extended version that has at least SOME of the stuff that hit the editing room floor (That must have been quite a mess!). It's just so excruciatingly frustrating! It's like a bloody slide show! Or someone fast-forwarding through a movie, only pausing to show you tiny glimpses before darting back along their way. Many things were nothing like what they were in the book... Where things happened seemed to be wrong more often than right, quite a number of characters were outright missing (I was looking forward to seeing Bill, Charlie and Narcissa damn it! If they were there I didn't see them, but then at that frantic pace I may have missed them!), chronological pacing was completely out the window (It gave the feel of all occurring in perhaps a couple of weeks at most!), some things seemed to happen slightly out of order, on several occasions the characters mentioned stuff that happened or was said in the book, but never made the movie (but somehow they psychically knew!) and they even added in a bit that was never in the book, and I couldn't help but sit there and think if they had time to shlump this in there, why didn't they just not hack out some of the canon material? And what the bloody Hell was with the twins? They weren't identical! I know they messed with that a bit in previous films, like putting them in jackets with different patterns on the lining and the like, but in this one they had different haircuts! They are supposed to be so identical not even their own bloody mother(another absentee! But I knew that from an article before. The actress had other commitments. At least they didn't try to replace her!) can tell them apart. And what was with Padma being a Gryffindor too? She's a Ravenclaw! And what were Fred and George doing in a class with Ron and Harry? And with Snape as a teacher, though it wasn't Potions! I suspect it was supposed to be tests, but Harry didn't take end of year exams because of the tournament and they should have been at separate desks and separated by year still! And not that it wasn't entertaining, but what was with all the smacking in that scene? And I'm really not liking this new guy's portrayal of Dumbledore. He's abrupt, a bit frantic seeming at times, uses a gruff voice, and my son says he's mean ;P From the mouths of babes. Dumbledore is supposed to be soft spoken, sedate and unwavering in his genial disposition... that makes it much more effective, startling and frightening if he should ever show anger. (pant pant pant) Ok, I'm gonna stop ranting now, otherwise I may discover the size limit to the profiles! I could go on for hours. Honestly! Now go on out and watch the movie like good little Harry Potter fanatics. :) Even if it's diced up to the point of being painful at times, it's still a Harry Potter movie, and you still get to see your favorite characters brought to life (though I would have liked to see much more of them!). An hey, if you like Daniel Radcliff, they didn't cut the prefect's bathroom scene! Though I certainly don't recall Moaning Myrtle being nearly that fresh! ;)

11/16/05 2:35am

Chapter 6 of PreFlight is up. Yes,I will eventually get around to the 'main focus' of that story. Patience is a virtue people. The significance and necessity of the Theo/Litty relationship will become evident eventually. And once again, don't stress me. I've got more than enough stress right now. Real Life SUX.

11/2/05

As of now, I'm putting some of my author's notes that I can't post in the chapters here. If you have not read Flight yet, DON'T READ THESE! If it were notes I could let you read without spoiling Flight I would have put them in the regular chapters. I put them near the bottom so hopefully they will be off-screen for those who shouldn't be reading them. Just go down and look for a big divider.

11/1/05 1:30 am

5 is up. Very tired. Very frustrated. It would have been up at least two hours ago if my computer didn't decide to screw up! (mutters darkly). Please stop asking about Flight. Yes, I'm gonna put more up. No, I don't know when. Asking repeatedly will not change that. Once I feel I've put what I want in PreFlight I will. As it is, PreFlight is subtly changing the end of Flight, and I'm liking the changes, so I'm not gonna spit something out now just for giggles, because I feel with patience it will be better.

10/16/05 4am

Well, chapter 4 of PreFlight is up. Man I gotta cut out this so late it's early bedtime stuff! Hmm... you think anybody who hasn't read Flight is gonna be figuring anything out about Blaise from this chapter? ;

IF YOU HAVEN'T READ FLIGHT YET, DO NOT READ PAST THIS POINT!

SPOILERS!

YOU'VE BEEN WARNED!

Big enough divider? ;P Ok, so here's the deal. It's been driving me nuts not being able to answer all of your questions for fear of ruining surprises in Flight for those who haven't read it yet. I finally decided that I have to do something because it's obvious that some of you aren't following the reasoning behind some of the stuff and this writing back to individuals is getting tiresome, especially when it's similar questions, so I'm going to put some explanations here. I will get out some general stuff and then break it up roughly by chapter so you can go down and see if there are any new explanations for the current chapter and I don't have to wait til the next chapter to answer you! For those of you that I have written explanations to already about some of this stuff, you may see some familiar stuff :)

Some general refresher facts:

- Yes, Harry and Hermione will eventually be dating to keep in accordance with Flight. Snape mentioned that they 'parted ways' when Harry started paying her attention. (I'm putting it nicely ;P )

- Well yes, as I believe everyone will have guessed by now, Pax is romping around quite freely. He was with Harry all summer, every since the Department of Mysteries.

- Flight starts up around the beginning of December.

- Lyskaelyn - Sorry, but I don't think bunny-like nose rubbing is going to be happening any time soon. I don't have any cutsey couples. Sorry.

In the beginning.... (chapters 1&2) :)

As I said, Pax was with Harry since the battle with Voldemort (Voldy got chased off, but he was able to leave Pax behind) when he went to the Department of Mysteries (before summer even began), so right now he's going between being possessed and just dealing with the residual effects of prolonged possession. Pax's emotions tend to stay with him for a bit, even after Pax has left him (like his brilliant demeanor after they had gotten thoroughly laid). As you could probably tell, it was in Harry when he first boarded the train, thus Crookshanks' instant hissy fit. It figured out it wouldn't be a good idea to hang around the cat/kneazle, so it immediately jumped off to Goyle and flitted along its merry way from there, but Harry remained bitchy for a good couple hours, though by the time they got to Hogsmeade he had started shrugging off the effects) Once at Hogwarts it got out much more, but kept coming back to Harry periodically, as he was still its favorite host. A good tip-off is that Harry wouldn't be nearly as good in bed if there wasn't a reason for it. So far as Harry knew, he was a virgin up until he and Hermione had their little 'discussion' in the Common Room at night right after Fudge's tests. Of course I never said he'd never shagged anyone but Hermione while in Harry's body. She's just the only one that Harry knows about. We can assume he didn't shag Pansy or Ron (who was a confirmed virgin at the start of Flight) and he said he hadn't shagged Blaise in Harry's body. Basically anyone who later winds up at Zabini Manor he probably didn't shag cause otherwise they would have mentioned it, wouldn't they? Just saying, if he's shagging, it's Pax. If Crookshanks is freaking out, it's Pax. Basically if he's doing anything 'evil twin'ish, it's probably Pax. Of course Pax said he spread himself around quite liberally when he first got there, so you might recognize him in others as well. It's like a literary version of where's Waldo ;P Basically it could be in just about anyone at any time except for Draco, because I already said it had never tried to enter him. Then again, he's screwed up enough on his own right now.

Chapters 3 & 4 (sorry, but I can't remember exactly which questions go to which chapters, so these first ones are getting lumped together a bit)

In chapter 3 someone asked what Ginny was doing out in a quilt at night... what is she usually doing up at night and specifically while usually huddled in a quilt? She did say she'd been watching quite a while.

I wanted Ginny in the room for the little 'girl's get-together planning session' very purposely. She's not that naive. She had a good idea about Draco's reputation long before they got together. At this point she isn't quite 'smitten', but she's getting the idea that maybe there's something worth looking into. You have to admit that for a teen girl, finding out a guy is amazing in the sack would definitely be a plus (well, I don't think you really have to be a teen for that to be a big plus... ;P)... but that was mostly about her hearing about him being a conscientious lover and that he wasn't nearly as prejudice as they thought (the bit about him shagging muggleborns). I think that would ease one of her biggest problems with him because she and her family hate prejudice.

Aquarius21 Why is Harry like a woman with PMS? - First off, the question made me giggle so I had to put it on here ;) In my opinion Harry has always been a bit moody, even in canon. Look at the snit he got in when Ron got made at him in GOF! All that time refusing to talk to him even though he wanted to. Stubborn and moody. Pax is just accentuating that. Pax was probably getting about to the border of homicidal from boredom, irritation and exasperation with the Muggles, so those emotions would have built up in Harry and stayed with him for a while after he left. Then of course after he got laid he was in a brilliant mood because... well he got laid:) Reason enough for me! Harry was usually happy when returning to Hogwarts, so he accepted this emotion much more readily than the anger and so it stayed with him much longer.

Chapter 5 (and the main reason for these notes!)

da loca chica wrote "Since I am a fan of both your PreFlight and Flight of the Thestrals, I just had this question. Is Harry really supposed to act the way he is acting in PreFlight? Isn't he supposed to be "normal" in Flight?"

This was why I was almost afraid to post this chapter without the means to explain the motivations behind it. I imagine that's why I have gotten few reviews on the chapter thus far. I kind of expected that people would be a bit stunned and "Holy crap, what's she doing?". No, Harry isn't going to be making a habit of such incidents. Let me explain.

Well, I don't know that Harry was 'normal' in the beginning of flight, but he'd learned some restraint by that point. Harry's current odd behavior amongst most of the people can be explained away (in their minds) as being caused by what happened to Sirius or his summer stuck with the Muggles. Harry is only acting truly odd around Litty. Litty he feels he can control, so he can be more himself with reasonable confidence that she won't tell. The little incident in the dark room was a 'lesson'. He was training her so to speak, intimidating her. It was necessary if he wanted a steady playmate. She won't be likely to break the 'rules' again. He isn't in Harry all the time and if she goes up and starts talking to him when he's himself it is bound to raise a lot of questions and risk exposing his presence. She nearly blew the whole thing going up to Harry in the Library when he didn't have Pax in him, so Pax HAD to do something to assure that such a dangerous situation didn't happen again. Also keep in mind that school just started and Pax is still rather wound up from the summer. He will mellow with time once he's gotten used to what is expected. Pax hasn't really been around modern school aged kids, so getting used to them will take time.

As far as the touching, which several people have wondered about, his kind don't have social taboos like humans do. Touching is the only way he knows to express affection and he knows Ron and Hermione are 'his' friends and so thinks nothing of the occasional touch. Even when he isn't there his influence will have started filtering into Harry's behavior. By the time Flight takes up, Harry has many of Pax's mannerisms even when Pax isn't there. Hiding in dark corners when upset being the most noticeable one.

Elka78 - "I still don't understand how Harry's words and actions are "Harry's" or not, when he pays attention to Hermione. I mean, holding the skirt down. Erm, where did that come from? (I know where it came from, but from Harry's POV?)"

Harry likes Hermione (in fact he said he liked liked her in Flight when she was saying it was all probably just Pax), and whether Pax is in him or not, he's started taking on some of his characteristics, as I've said. No, Pax wasn't in him in the way to Herbology (I doubt Pax would have much interest in sitting around chatting with Neville), but the influence of having Pax in his mind for so long is such that he's started 'forgetting' certain things that Pax finds foreign, like the strict social taboos about touching. Pax wasn't in him during the afternoon outing with Ron and later Hermione either. Harry at least vaguely remembers most of the things he does while Pax is controlling him, but he usually isn't that sure why he does some of the things he does, but Pax suppresses anything that would be a red flag to Harry and changes what he feels he must to make Harry complacent.

Another thing I feel I must address is Litty's behavior in regards to Theo. Imagine if you will that you are a twelve year old Gryffindor girl and you are suddenly told that you have been bought and paid for and will be marrying this thin, 'weedy looking' Slytherin boy who you hardly even know and is a bit of an outcast, even amongst the Slytherins. I would think it would cause quite a bit of animosity between the two. She is trapped with no recourse and no one but the boy himself to rebel against. Many of the things she does are to hurt him, whether she realizes it or not. Her 'loose' ways are in part because of that, and in part because she is trying to live her whole life before her 'sentence' begins because she feels when he marries her, her life will be over and she will be forced to be at his beck and call and have to act the wife, endure the unwanted molestation of, and eventually bear the children of this boy she doesn't even like. Even if she sometimes feels the urge to start to like him she rebels against it, her stubborn pride making her keep up a firm front of open hostility. To like him would be like admitting that their parents were right not the trust her to make her own decision and to force her intoan arrangedmarriage.

Chapter 7

Ok, I guess the introduction of the character wasn't quite as readily apparent as I thought it was ;) Well, half of you got it, but quite a number were all like huh? It was Tiger (are the other half of ya smacking your foreheads and saying 'oh duh!' about now? ;P). I always figured him to be no more that perhaps two months old in Flight, which made his birth during the beginning of term. The young of horses and deer and such are up and prancing within a couple of hours, so I didn't think that was too young. I also never felt he had a mother. He was a bit wilder and more brazen than the other colts, and the only one who ever reeled him in was the Stallion when he'd gone too far. Then again, he was too carefree to have lost his mother that recently, but if he never knew her in the first place I didn't think it would leave an emotional scar. I also felt there was a deeper bond between him and Draco. The thestrals would have been able to remove the jacket to free the foal (I mean obviously, since they have huge talons and teeth made for tearing!) but Draco's scent would be on it still and Tiger would imprint on it. No, I don't think Tiger thinks Draco is his mum! But I do think he thinks they're related ;)

As for some of the other introductions some of you suggested, Pax has already been introduced in Chapter 1. As for Darien, well you may be starting to see glimmers of him, yes, but I think hint of him have been coloring Draco's personality subtly from the beginning as well. You may see more in the chapter merely because I haven't let the chapters dwell on Draco as much before as not to give too much away before Flight. To the one who suggested Goyle's girlfriend ; no. We see Goyle with a number of girls in Flight, but you haven't seen a steady one you could consider a 'girlfriend' so far. As for Blaise's patronus... I think a unicorn has been firmly in my mind for quite a while. You can see a hint of it in the hidden lock for his 'meditation room'. I have always felt that, though he may be worlds from pure in body, he has an undeniable purity of soul. It may be damaged and scared, but it is unwavering and true. To me, he will always be a unicorn.

Chapter 8

Well, to keep in chronological order I'll address Harry's little 'stash' first. Well, for one it is something completely OOC for Harry, but perfectly in character for Pax. As I've said in Flight, they thrive on human pleasures as well as their pain. He had a whole wretchedly boring summer to kill, and he had to have some kind of pet project to keep him occupied! I mean how long do you think he could mess with the Dursleys before getting insanely bored? And I imagine Lucius would have bound him to prevent his leaving the house and wandering about before Harry left for Hogwarts in case they came and took him unexpectedly. I mean Harry's mental anguish was entertaining, true, but he'd need some variety! And since Harry obviously wasn't going to be 'getting any' there (I refuse to even contemplate that! (retches)) he had to come up with some other way to give the body a bit of pleasure solo. And no, I don't think he would have been satisfied with a good wank ;P

As to why I am showing so much of Harry, I think I need to show some of the emotional progression of Pax. We shouldn't be seeing as much of him for a while, but his appearance in this chapter was to show the kind of mending of the tentative, purely sexual relationship between him and Litty, and of course to show that he isn't limiting himself. The chapter before he defended what he saw as his, but I wouldn't want you to see his relationship with Litty as monogamous on his part, because that's not something he has any need or desire for yet. Along with some of Lucius' nastier personality flaws, he also got his proprietary nature. It's something he keeps, but with less intensity once he's switched to Draco (because Draco can be proprietary as well!).

Oh, and big note here: I do not know what Marijuana really smells like, tastes like when you smoke it, or effects the brain (other than getting you 'high', but as I've never been that way I'm going by what I've heard) so I'm fully aware that I'm probably dead wrong on the description. I just picked something he had a real chance of getting ahold of and lets just assume its current attributes are completely magically altered. To be honest, I've never even been drunk so I'm going by what I've heard of that as well when I write about it. I know, you're all in shock now. Oh well :)

So, onto my theory on Draco's levity (for those of you who felt his attitude was OOC). I felt that he would have been really relieved and happy that Snape was ok, obviously... but he isn't the best at showing emotions (or admitting they exist, even to himself). Some people I know who have that problem sometimes use friendly sarcasm and playing around as a way of showing affection without admitting it when the feelings are so strong that they can't help but express them in some way.

As for Snape not acting in pain enough... well first and foremost, we all know how well he hides his pain. He walked around with a badly injured leg from where Fluffy had bit him without saying a peep for quite a while just so no one would know he was hurt and ask questions. He is unlikely to allow any outward signs of pain or discomfort that he could manage to mask. Also, I imagine the residual poison and whatever Pomfrey gave him to counter it would have left him a bit off and out of sorts. The pain he felt in the last part was from the Dark Lord's call. It hurts in the best of times, so I felt that it would cause quite a shock to him when his system was so weakened. He did show open pain at that point, but it was from the mark and at least that part of the pain would have quickly faded. The pain was usually just the initial burning of the summons to my knowledge. His rather surly attitude towards her would have been a combination of embarrassment that she'd seen his pain and impatience since he knew he had to get to Voldemort as soon as possible. Admittedly I was in a not inconsiderable amount of pain myself, (though unfortunately without the benefits of Pomfrey's vast stores of pain relieving potions!) and quite out of sorts as a result while writing the last two sections of the chapter... I hoped that if it had effected it, it would have made it more realistic actually... but seeing as I didn't figure you all wanted to wait a couple of days or so until I got over said pain so I could proofread it with a 'clear head' I decided to chance it. I doubt I'm gonna change it, but if I change my mind when I 'come around' I'll just stick up the changes when I post the next chapter. I'll tell you if I changed anything significant. I've already caught a little spelling-type error or two while re-reading, so if I find many more I might repost just for that.

Oh, and as for Snape's reaction to Hermione's kiss. Well, it would have been rude to just shove her away for one. For another, he wasn't his strongest, and it would have been easier to move her away after the intensity of her kiss had settled... and hey, come on. He's a guy! In the way far back of his mind I'm sure there was a little bit of amusement and enjoying the fact that this reasonable attractive, very intelligent girl was all but forcing herself on him... and with a completely reasonable excuse like the Damiana he could hardly be held accountable! Besides, I don't see him as the type to shove her away an knowingly hurt her emotionally. He handled it as gently and untraumatizingly as possible.

Chapter 9 - I don't really feel too much needs explaining in this chapter. No, Lavender and Dean don't remember Harry's part in 'getting them together' at all. What the drugs and/or alcohol didn't remove from their minds Pax would have. Yes, he accompanied Dean and Lavender for their little 'play date', but returned to Harry after. The little threesome the next morning wasn't directly his doing. That's why he was so amused when he saw them.

Chapter 10 - Yes, Lavender's a bit of a wretched bint, but as several of you guessed correctly for my Where's Waldo question, she's not this wicked on her own. Harry was completely Pax-free for the entire chapter. I also doubt Lavender would have picked up on how well Snape suited Hermione on her own. As a non-Slytherin Hogwarts student, she has probably never even once took a moment to realize that Snape has a hampton! She would also have been a bit more mortified when she was stripped. Sure she was embarrassed, but she didn't run off like she did after the tryouts incident, she stayed around to cause mischief. Pax is also very vindictive. He would have taken Hermione ratting on 'him' personally, thus the overly cruel response. You must remember that, right now, Lucius is his strongest influence. Harry is starting to get to him, but it won't be too noticeable yet, and he's spending plenty of time away from him right now.

Ok, here's a bit of my reasoning about why he acts so different towards Hermione when he's Lavender as opposed to Harry. As Harry, he's growing fond of the novelty of having friends. He feels a bit of Harry's affection for Ron and Hermione, and enjoys basking in their affection in return. When he's in Lavender, on the other hand, he picks up her little vindictive streak and her selfish motivations and feeds on them, amplifying them since aspects of them resonate with Lucius' influence on some level. Lavender feels no affection for Hermione, and he wouldn't have to worry about losing the affection of Hermione's friendship because he isn't Harry when he's hurting her. If anything, she's more likely to stick closer to Harry and possibly even seek comfort with him, which would make their bond even closer.

The 'special brew' that Goyle had... well it's something akin to wizard brewed moonshine, spelled to go down easy. She was well past the point of drunk when she let him set her on the table (then again, I can't imagine the floor or the counter would have been any more dignified...). Doubt she would have even thought about doing that otherwise. That would also be why she passed out very shortly after :) And several more times after that.

For the one who asked, no Pax hasn't gotten anywhere near Cornfoot! As you could probably tell from his father, Steven needs little to no help in the sick, twisted, sadistic category. Pax's orders are to corrupt the Gryffindors. Any time he is in anyone of a different House, unless being in them is somehow directly contributing to corrupting a Gryffindor or covering his tracks, he is just there for entertainment and is unlikely to make them doing anything other than perhaps shag. He doesn't particularly want to do his 'job', so he's unlikely to put in 'overtime' on his own.

In fact, though I didn't really expect anyone to pick up on it, he was in Blaise in that last bit. He would have fled Lavender the minute retribution was at hand, and most likely have sought out a little 'fun' to celebrate getting away with such wickedness. As he mentioned later, Blaise was one of his favorites, though he rarely if ever actually did more than 'go along for the ride'. The only real indicator I gave was the amplified powers of the Room of Requirement (the rest was mostly in my head really. It was clear to me, but reading over it, I can see how it wouldn't be apparent to those without Ligilimency talents...). Yes, I believe the RoR could do many of those things on its own, but he would know exactly who to go after for protection and such. He didn't defend Blaise directly, but not just because he was supposed to stay hidden. In my mind, the minute it became apparent what Steven intended to do, it would have been like one of his masters coming after him once again. Many times in Flight I gave little indicators of how deeply his trauma ran. The way he instinctively jerked away acted as if he expected to be hit if touched unexpectedly (like in the shower) and how he shamelessly begged Draco to help him in Hogsmeade and retreated deep into Harry when he realized no help would come, not reemerging until he'd been taken somewhere he felt safe, and even then it took quite a while. When Steven attacked Blaise, he would have hidden away as deeply as he could, too terrified to even think to fight back, reaching out desperately with his mind for someone to save him.

As for the 'dream', I hoped I gave enough hints right from the off to clue you in. I made Draco first because that should have made it a dead giveaway as it was noted in Flight that he hadn't gotten laid since before the summer holiday. The way I made the descriptions vague was also an indicator. I used ambiguous terms like 'being invaded' instead of describing actual physical sensations. In dreams things like this could seem very real at the time, even to a virgin, but she wouldn't know what it really felt like to have sex, so probably couldn't even imagine it with any real detail. There was also the way people seemed to be appearing out of nowhere, and especially with Snape, since he seemed to draw near so swiftly without any apparent effort or transition between here and there. There was also the lack of removing clothes and such. It was getting increasingly dreamlike towards the end. Oh, and by the way, I don't think I ever said that Goyle didn't know about Snape and Hermione. Blaise, on the other hand, was too smashed to even recognize her. As for the use of the term Mudblood... well she's a bit of a prude, so that's about as close to 'dirty talk' as she'd probably imagine at this point ;P And as for the description of him as sinister... I don't know about you, but I found the description rather enticing... I think that even though she seems so prim and proper, deep down it might entice her as well... dark and sinister like a vampire... I'm rather fond of vampires... Snape reminds me of one sometimes... that swirling black cape, pale skin and dark, penetrating eyes... hmmm... I wonder... you think he'd bite me if I asked real nice? ;

Chapter 11 - It was asked why the boys would have reacted so strongly to what Lavender did. Well, for one thing, they know that Hermione is emotionally unsteady still at that point, which would make them even more angry that Lavender had done something so openly hateful and mean spirited to her. Also keep in mind... what they did to Lavender, while most certainly unpleasant for her, was in no way life threatening or even lasting damage. If it were anything that couldn't be reversed the others wouldn't have backed them and just thought it amusing. Now, as for more individual reasons... Ron: Well first and foremost, he's a hot tempered one and we all know that. He tends to go off without thinking, especially if someone is insulting or otherwise hurting one of his friends or family members. He seems to start to mellow a bit in Flight, yes... but that's a couple months away. Harry: well Harry is currently having frequent contact with Pax, who's CURRENT biggest influence is Lucius. Hate to tell you this, but other than a few little deeply buried quirks, he wasn't particularly 'nice' at this point, especially in instances that would have provoked the strongest reaction in Lucius (feeling angry, possessive, vengeful, etc.) as those would bring Lucius' influence to the fore (and we all know an evil, sadistic bastard he is!). He can be nice (as he is MOST of the time with Litty) but he can also be quite wicked (as we've seen). Even if Harry doesn't have Pax in him at that very moment he is having residual effects from prolonged exposure and since he has no clue it's happening he never realizes how it is affecting him, so never even tries to stop it. A nicer example is the touching. Demons don't have the same social taboos as humans. Physical contact is pretty much the only way they know to express any kind of affection, and he knows Harry is close friends with Ron and Hermione and therefore feels some affection for them himself when in Harry. Even when we know for sure he hasn't got Pax in him he sometimes demonstrates habits and mannerisms that we know to be Pax's. Look in Flight after he returns to the Tower after the tests and ends up crawling into a dark corner. Ok, admittedly I didn't have Pax anywhere near me as a child, but I still tended to hide in dark corners occasionally when I was really upset, but in this case Pax later admits that was because of him. So, in this case, Pax's influence might have made him a bit more possessive and therefore protective of Hermione since she is a close friend, and he may have been a bit more vindictive in retaliation. The slowly ingraining changes are so subtle that Harry doesn't even notice or think them odd. Others may notice, but no one has actually said anything to him or asked him about it outright yet.

Chapter 13 - interpretation #2 was based on info gathered from a bunch of online dream interpretation dictionaries, though I made my own extrapolations based on related parts of the dream in places. The other interpretations are mostly from psychology, things I've heard Merlin knows where over the years, and my brain in general.

Chapter 14 - Just to make this clear, Pax has nothing to do with the dream journal. Pax doesn't like the dream journal. He made Litty swear to get rid of it. He wouldn't have done that if he could use it to control her better. Just a hint... this is not a controllable object. Dumbledore wouldn't have been fond of a tool.

Chapter 15 - Obviously, the curse Impurus Odium, being very old magic was actually taught to Darien by his own Grandfather over a century in the past. Darien's grandfather outlived Darien and had probably taught him the spell at around school age. Since Draco and Darien were both furious over the attack on Blaise, it isn't surprising that one of Darien's spells might have slipped into Draco's mind and been used. Draco of course didn't remember it very well later on because Darien would have calmed and of course been weaker anyway once it was daytime. On the Pax front... in case this wasn't abundantly clear... Pax may have been working on corrupting the Gryffindors in general, but had nothing directly to do with what Cormac and his buddies did to Blaise. As stated later, he's rather fond of Blaise. He was in Harry when they found Colin hiding in the photo lab. Hearing how they'd terrorized and threatened the much smaller boy and ganged up to beat another nearly to death reminded him vividly of how the Death Eaters had treated him while he was in human hosts. He began associating those boys with the Death Eaters (whom he hates passionately), and feeling the desire to keep them from hurting Colin again. That along with the fact that it was Blaise that they had hurt really pissed him off. And of course his orders wouldn't allow for an open war between the Houses. He was supposed to work subtly so the staff and Ministry wouldn't start to suspect something. He decided to simply oust them, thus restoring 'order'. He slipped into Colin when the time came, to make sure the boy was protected... but once he stood in their presence, Draco's curse of course came into effect. He hadn't planned to do anything directly to the boys, but the curse incensed him. He kept enough presence of mind to lure them off out of sight first, but then he... well... magically wailed on them, but in a way that could possibly be passed off as a natural occurrence. Draco recognized what was happening because Darien was presumably told about such magical outbursts and the warning signs that it was about to occur since demons can (obviously) inspire those under the right circumstances in a magical host. No, he doesn't have a clue about Pax yet. The outburst could have been natural in origin with the same precursors. He warned Draco and Draco knew to seek shelter, but didn't know exactly why or how he knew.

Chapter 16 - When Harry mentioned the EMP, Hermione looked at him oddly as well because, well he's not usually the one who come up with that kind of stuff. She is. That and the fact that she probably didn't think he'd know about that kind of thing.

For those of you who didn't guess by the dates that Dumbledore had the journal 'checked out', the two hardest times in his life coincided with the deaths of Darien (Which is when Diana came to the school for the first time), and then the death of Sylvia. Yes, I did sit there and work out the year for that. I have the exact dates worked out for that entry in Hogwarts, A History about Darien as well, but I'm not sure I've updated it on FanFiction yet. I think I'm going to go through and do some 'spring cleaning' on Flight after I finish PreFlight before I continue on with it. Might help me ease back into it better as well. I'm going to have to read it anyway (to remember everything!) and I've made so many corrections to my own copy I really should fix up the online one as well. Not to mention I'll probably make some small corrections to work bits of PreFlight into it. I hope it doesn't send any update emails just when you replace chapters (don't think it does...?). I hate teasing people like that.

As for Snape's behavior... no, he wasn't really being 'friendly'. He is perhaps less harsh with Kevin since he knows how wretchedly Kevin is being used by Steven... not to mention that he currently has reason to get Kevin's guard down a bit towards him (more on that later). Other than that, he was a bit... well, excited. I imagine that since his whole life is basically dedicated to the gathering of information and passing it on to others (well if he feels they deserve to know anyway ;P) acquiring so many new and fascinating creatures that are normally unattainable would be a bit like Christmas for him. Allow him a momentary break in his evil, aloof, sinister professor facade! And well he did start being a bit more 'business like' and aloof after he got over his initial wave of enthusiasm.

Litty... well, to put it simply, she was jealous. After seeing Theo kiss Shandra, and then Shandra hanging on him and the fact that Theo wanted to talk alone with Shandra instead of her... well she was starting to get the impression he was starting to like Shandra more. She's never had to deal with competition. Theo has always been thoughtlessly devoted to her and has never shown so much as a passing interest in any other girl. There's security in that. When he no longer seemed completely enamored of her it threw her... Of course she won't even admit anything other than dislike towards Theo, so she's not likely to admit she's jealous even to herself. She was feeling a bit hurt, and tried to hurt him back. She probably thought the shock would just be a bit of retaliation and a way to get his attention squarely back on her... back to the way it's always been. That didn't exactly work out as planned ;)

BTW, in case it wasn't clear... McGonagall and Dumbledore were returning from taking the three ex-Gryffindors to St. Mungo's. That's why McGonagall was the one telling Pomfrey how they were doing. The damage to them was a bit too extensive for Pomfrey. She's like a school nurse, not a full-fledged doctor.