pyjamapants

 Okey-dokey, I've been working on this post for quite a bit because after work so thoroughly gnawed on brain all summer, I was pretty worried that I'd leave off one of the many, many people who helped bring my exchange story to fruition.

First off, thank you, thank you, thank you to dozmuffinxc for your gift of A Little Off the Top, which captured the playfulness of my prompt 'Hermione Gives Severus a Haircut' perfectly. It's a fun piece of artwork, guaranteed to bring a smile to your face and a scowl to nervous Headmasters. 

I wrote The Lost Chamber for nejna  from her prompt, "Rose and Hugo pulled a prank with almost disastrous consequences for Hogwarts points system. Headmaster Snape calls widow Hermione for a little chat. What was the real reason behind children's prank?" Thank you, nejna  for giving me such a great prompt!

Thanks to voxangelus  and jackiejlh  for alpha reading and helping me keep my head screwed on straight during a particularly hard to write chapter.

Big thanks to sc010f  for her pinch hit Latin translating after my non-fandom pal bailed.

Huge thanks to juniperus  both for being a brilliant beta of the runes in the story and for inadvertantly nudging rune-shaped plot bunnies my direction.

And my eternal, undying thanks to annietalbot and dreamy_dragon73  for holding my hand and betaing from beginning to the very, nearly overdue end. I'm not sure there's a big enough thank you for you ladies.

I'm planning to begin posting to archives late this week once I get caught up on some other things.

And last, but certainly not least, thanks to the exchange mods for all your patience (*winces*) and hard work pulling everything together.