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Feel free to skip the author note and table of contents below, especially if you're a new reader. Jump straight to Chapter 1: The Fortune Teller!
A/N regarding the revision: 69 reviews, 51 C2s, 108 favorites, 92 alerts and about 36K words! Thank you so much to everyone who has read and enjoyed One Wish and all the associated side stories! For those of you who were following One Wish from the beginning, I'm sure you're aware of how disjointed it had become. So in order to fix some of the problems with it, I've decided to revise the whole series. I'm going to be posting the newly edited older bits, with the new parts inserted in between, all in chronological order in a chaptered story format. (Instead of the piecemeal way it's posted currently.) Obviously some chapters will be very recognizable, but there's also a lot of new bits!
I've decided to split the series into two parts: the first will be the One Wish Prequel, and will cover the OWverse from the evening of July 29, 1980 to January 18, 1997 and the second will be One Wish, covering everything from January 18, 1997 onwards. So, to everyone who's been asking if One Wish is abandoned, the answer is definitely not! And I really hope all of you love the new version even more then the old one! :-D
So, as I'm sure some of you have noticed – I've yet again revised parts of this story. I realized after a recent read through that some of my plot bunnies from other story-lines were messing up the layout of this story. And girl!Harry's character was starting to drift a bit too much from where I wanted it to go. Speaking of girl!Harry, her name WAS Maria Jamie Potter but I didn't think Maria made sense as a first name for a British witch so I switched her first name to Rose since that seems to be a fairly generic flower based name – and therefore makes sense since her mother & aunt both have flower based names.
Now about updates - I'm in med school, so RL is psychotically busy and therefore updates will be random and probably slow/sporadic. But this story is NOT abandoned – Story Alert is your friend! (and Reviews are MY friend!)
-Desiqtie
Recently a reader PM'd me saying that they were a bit confused about the timeline, so I've added a Table of Contents with dates below, and I'll keep updating it as I add additional chapters.
One Wish: Beginnings
Table of Contents/Timeline of Events
Chapter 1: The Fortune Teller – July 29, 1980
Chapter 2: The Waiting Game – July 30-31, 1980
Chapter 3: Excerpts from The Daily Prophet Classifieds – August 1, 1980
Chapter 4: The Cranky Child – August 30, 1980
Chapter 5: Excerpts from The Hogwarts Register, covering Magical Births between March '79 & September '80 – September 15, 1980
Chapter 6: The Firsts, Part One – September 18-November 27, 1980
Chapter 7: The Firsts, Part Two – April 10-July 31,1981
Chapter 8: The Ones Who Hide – October 31, 1981–July 31, 1982
Chapter 9: The Attack – October 31, 1982
Chapter 10: The Morning After – November 1, 1982
Chapter 11: The Mandatory Therapy – April 1, 1983
Chapter 12: The First Interlude: Air – July 31, 1983
Chapter 13: The Potters and The Blacks – August 1, 1983
Chapter 14: The Birthday Cake – July 31, 1984
Chapter 15: The First Kiss – November 12, 1984
Chapter 16: The Innocent Child – June 9, 1985
Chapter 17: The Birds and The Bees – July 31, 1986
Chapter 18: The Mistress – December 19, 1987
Chapter 19: The Tattoo – August 15, 1988
Chapter 20: The Reader – July 30, 1989
Chapter 21: The Charms – July 30, 1989
Chapter 22: The Anchor - August 15, 1989
Chapter 23: The Piercing – April 23, 1990
And now, on to the story...