Hello all,

I know in the back of my mind that posting an author's note as a chapter is probably not permitted here, but desperate times call for desperate measures. If someone reports me and takes my work or my account down for this, I'm fine with it.

Anyway, I just wanted to say that I started this story YEARS ago (in my senior year of high school almost 3 years ago) and only later posted it here. After reading Cassandra Claire's Draco Trilogy (actually, Dormiens and Sinister at first), I was dead set on writing a really good and BELIEVABLE Draco/Hermione fanfic. It was set in stone that I would be the one to battle all clichéd plots out there and the silly, desperately unnatural ways the two are forced together. Sadly, I don't remember how or when, I stumbled upon slash and I lost heart in the Draco/Hermione ship. I just couldn't see it happening in canon anymore. It's firmly etched in my mind (and I'm really happy with it) that Ron and Hermione are meant for each other.

I will stop my ramblings before I inadvertently start a shipwar. Please don't hurt me!

Hem. The gist of what I'm trying to say (ineffectively, mind you) is that I don't know if I should continue with this. It's not in me to force myself to write something I don't believe in. My writing is part of my life, and my life is part of my writing.

The thought of taking this particular fic down and tweaking it and turning it into my (current) ship of choice has seriously been considered. But half of me says it's cheating…myself and the readers. The other half says to heck with it. I dunno, really. I am one confused bugger.

Help.

Away laughing on a fast camel,

Kin'ni/CruxAustralis