Authors Note: For those of you who might have read my story "Starring Severus Snape" and my new one "Starring Severus Snape 2: Snape Through The Ages" you will have seen this story mentioned a couple of times. And Snape's reaction to it too- although admittedly everyone can imagine what our favourite Potions teacher would say to this.
"MY LIFE WITH SEVERUS SNAPE: A STORY OF LOVE, LUST AND FRIENDSHIP AGAINST ALL THE ODDS."
WRITTEN BY HARD-HITTING JOURNALIST RITA SKEETER.
WINNER OF "BREAKOUT WRITER OF THE YEAR 1985", TWICE WINNER OF "THE DAILY PROPHET'S STORY OF THE YEAR," "WITCH WEEKLIE'S READERS CHOICE" AND WINNER OF "EVERYWITCH'S FAVOURITE WRITER" THE LAST THREE YEARS IN A ROW.
Foreword:
From the editor of "Magical Weekly" (the magazine with all the latest gossip on famous witches and wizards worldwide) Maggie Trydon.
I am incredibly proud, and incredibly honoured, to have the privilege of writing the foreword to this sometimes funny, sometimes sweet, sometimes heart-breaking but always entertaining and truthful, novel. It is the first novel written by award-winning journalist Rita Skeeter and I can guarantee readers will get an insight into the enigma rarely given. As a journalist Rita is usually the one reporting the story about someone else but here she turns her hand to this autobiographical tale about her romance with Severus Snape, star of Muggle movie "William the Wizard" and respected Potions aficionado and Professor at "Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry."
My association with Rita Skeeter goes back many years to when I was working as a Features Writer on "The Daily Prophet". I was working on a story about the latest of the Ministry of Magic's trials of Death Eaters- the well known supporters of he-who-must-not-be-named- when I was introduced to a young woman. This young, fresh-faced, innocent, eager to please and eager to succeed, and incredibly talented young woman was none other than Rita Skeeter. She has come a very long way from that first day where she begged me to be allowed to write an exposé on the recently retired Minister for Magic. I'm ashamed to say I declined and instead asked her to do some research for me. Two years later, when I had moved on from the newspaper to a career in the "glossies" Rita Skeeter finally wrote that story. Her gritty story of the underbelly of the Ministry, as well as the shocking incidents the previous Minister had been involved in, won her the wizarding world's "Breakout Writer" award for that year.
Since then she has gone forward in leaps and bounds and even now I am constantly astonished by how many brilliant stories she writes and how she manages to get to the heart of the matter, write with such, often disarming, truth, and move our hearts and our minds.
While our careers have taken us in different directions and we write about totally different things I not only follow her career with pride I also keep in touch with her and see her on a regular basis. As well as being colleagues in a journalistic world mostly dominated by men we have remained friends as well as each other's staunch supporter over the years. I have been subjected to her confidences as her career took off, during the time of her relationship with Severus Snape, and even up until this day. In short I am proud to call Rita Skeeter a friend.
I hope you, the readers, enjoy this story as much as I did.
Sincerely,
Mags.
XO.