Hello gentle Fanfiction readers.
Just a quick Prologue, to tell you a bit about this story and it's formatting and development.
I started writing Delayed Devotion as a procrastination story between writing a new chapter for a friend's story, actually several stories, and I kind of got carried away. It has been my project for a good long while now and has gone through rigorous edits, drafts and redrafts, til I finally reached the point where, if I don't post something soon it will never get posted. This story will just stretch on like some endless mass of parchment, much like one of Hermione's essays.
I had been reading many Draco/Harry stories, and a lot of the ones with 'original' quirks and plot twists were beginning to form a pattern in my mind. However, the ideals behind the plot twist was good, just not always the delivery. I know this is the story genre that nearly every Harry/Draco fan writes, but I really wanted to try my hand at it.
I think in my slanting of the genre, I have produced a good piece. Now bear in mind that when I wrote it, it was just one long manuscript, stretching forever onwards past the word limit. My friends told me it would be more palatable for the reader in chapters, and I'll be the first to admit that I hadn't written this story with chapters in mind. So the chapters are set out as follows;
- I have split it into chapters when a location changes
- I have split it into chapters when an amount of time passes
- I have split it into chapters when a point of view switches
It was named Delayed Devotion because I had no name and so decided to set my iPod on shuffle and give it a song title. The first song that popped up was 'Delayed Devotion' by Duffy and I thought it seemed appropriate.
This fic has final intentions of becoming a Draco/Harry fic, with emphasis on the / but I must warn all eager lusty readers that it does not come in until late in the story as I want to develop setting more. So it is set in Hogwarts, in school time, although the actual year is not specified so as to give me leverage. The characters all are in line with the books excepting minor additions for factions not specified in the novels.
Reviews would be much appreciated at each step of the way, and if you find it valuable of your time, then please recommend it to your friends and other readers, as I do love feedback.
So now I will bid my farewells and allow you to enjoy the story.
With love
Felice xx