madeleone

Special thanks go out to my beta-reader/brit-picker  talesofsnape, even when I dropped the last two chapters on her at the last possible minute she came through in a pinch. Thanks go also to Tales for the beautiful banner she created for my story. More thanks go to my alpha-reader/cheerleader morethansirius, who cheered me on and offered some terrific ideas that were incorporated into the fic. Their help was invaluable and I greatly appreciate both of them. Virtual *hugs* to both of them.

Now for the thank you's for my own gifts of art, About to Fall and Fairy Lantern (sketch). There is a little story behind this. Two years ago I offered to write fic as a birthday gift for my friend talesofsnape, she gave me the one word prompt 'fairy'. From this came my gift for her a ficlet titled The Fairy Lantern.

For the past two exchanges, for one of my art prompts I've asked for art of the scene where Severus releases the transformed fairy Hermione from the fairy lantern. Lo' and behold for this exchange I got my wish with not one but two lovely pieces of art. But that is not the best thing, now that the reveal is up I've found out that the artist was non other than the lovely Tales herself! While I adore her writing I had no idea what a wonderful artist she is. And she was most devious about the whole thing, after begging the mods to grant her that prompt, she figured I might be suspicious if she didn't write a fic, because I knew she had signed up and I often alpha read for her. So she wrote a fic To Catch a Thief as well for another recipient, pennfana. What a sneaky snake she is, I'm sure she must be Slytherin. :)  Thanks so very much dearie for the fantistic art and wonderful surprise.