The late Sir Arthur Conan Doyle has claim to Sherlock Holmes, John Watson, Irene Adler, Moriarty, and Mrs. Hudson.
Ms. Anne Perry owns William Monk, Hester Latterly, Oliver Rathbone, and John Evan. If you haven't read her Monk mystery series, go and do it now. It begins with "The Face of a Stranger" and is up to "Funeral in Blue" as of October, 2001.
Harold Lowe, Herbert Lightoller, Joseph Boxhall, and Thomas Andrews were owned by themselves. They were, respectively, the Fifth, Second, and Fourth Officers and the Chief Architect of the RMS Titanic, and fine men indeed. Hopefully they, and their wives, will forgive me for giving them cameos in some small tribute!
The character of Floria Tosca, from whence Tosca the gyrfalcon comes from, is the property of the late composer Puccini.
A/N: As usual, profound gratitude to my beta and friend, Karen (Eve's owner), who's gamely agreed to go a second round of this fic with me. Go read her excellent fic "The Shepherd" at this address.
http://www.fanfiction.net/read.php?storyid=608227
As to Chapter One, I don't intend for this to be a Potter/Holmes crossover fic. That was somewhat to set things up and bring us somewhat to the present--as you see from Chapter Two, I'm resuming the SS/HG storyline. However, I have not ruled out the possibility of writing either the Holmes/Adler romance in crossover or writing Hermione's year at Baker Street at a later time. To judge from feedback in reviews and e-mail, it looks like some of you are interested in those too. We'll see, but let's finish "On the Wing" first and get Severus and Hermione together, eh?
My thanks to the gals at the Snapefic Liberation Front for their reviews and encouragement! We'd be glad to have you, so if you'd like to join our merry band, check us out at
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Snapefic_LibFront/
That's all for now…these A/N's and Disclaimers will be updated as the story progresses. Sit back and hopefully enjoy the ride, and it's great to see you're enjoying the tale already!