This fanfic is made up of 15 chapters, each chapter having an average word count of 1456, the longest having 2491 words and the shortest having 682 words.

I must warn you that I'm American and I don't know enough about British culture to be completely accurate in my writing. Whenever possible I use Internet resources to gather information, but I'm sure there are mistakes that I could not avoid making under the circumstances. If you see any, please let me know so that I can correct them.

SUMMARY:

The time frame of this fanfic is the summer after Year 4. It starts precisely where Book 4 left off.

It's Snape-centered and contains the following characters: Severus Snape, Harry Potter, Albus Dumbledore, Remus Lupin, Sirius Black.

Loosely based on Severitus' challenge. Does not contain every element of the challenge.

NOTES:

In Chapter 9 the potion used is completely made up by me (although I hereby give full permission for anyone else to use it). The name is simply two Latin words, the meaning of which should be pretty obvious.

In Chapter 15 I had to use some iffy deduction to conclude that Quirell had only taught at Hogwarts for one year - the year Harry first came to Hogwarts. This could be wrong, but I couldn't find any conclusive evidence either way. If you know something about this - let me know!

A couple of people noted that there's a small gap between Chapter 14 and Chapter 15. There probably will be another chapter in between them eventually, one that will actually have the conversation that took place. However, it's been driving me insane and I can't get it the way I want it, so I'll keep working on it for now and post it when I'm reasonably sure that I have the charactarization right.

CONTENT / RATING:

As far as warnings about the content of this story... There isn't any gratuitous violence or explicit sexual scenes (as a matter of fact there is no mention of sex at all). There are several (minor) character deaths, without any gore, basically nothing that should upset people! There's nothing in this piece that wouldn't be found in Goblet of Fire.

This story contains only characters already established in the books, and none that are my own invention.

Could be rated PG but personally I say PG-13.