Chapter 22:
Ridiculously Short Interlude
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Blaise fingered his biscuit and took a sip of the offered tea warily. Call him crazy, but he couldn't very well focus on a bloody tea party when the girl he fancied had just accused him of being gay not a moment ago. His eyes narrowed as he slammed the unfortunate pastry upon the table.
"Well now, considering we've gotten that issue cleared up, I'll be going now." His mock-jovial voice broke off and he stared for a few seconds at the half-finished tea in his hand.
"Thanks for the tea," he muttered and sped out of the kitchen in a whirl.
If he had stayed but a moment longer, he would have witnessed Hermione slamming her head in to the table…multiple times, before muttering to herself about idiotic fifth year boys and their bloody lies.
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Alright, immensely short chapter here…though I hope you had already grumbled that to yourself before moving on to click the review button and complain. Because, you people just adore leaving reviews, do you not? Yes, that was sarcastic. Though I do apologize to the few (fabulous) people who leave reviews, I love you so much! Um…not to make you uncomfortable with my confession or anything.
There IS a point to this author's note! Do NOT ignore it…please.
Ahem, I need your advice on where the story is going from here. Now, I do understand those of you who don't want to dish out their opinions, on the grounds that they like everything to be a surprise. So, if you're one of them go ahead and ignore the rest of the note (unless you're interested in being a beta-reader, in which case you would scroll down the page for that info.) Because of these people, I am going to make the poll confidential by sending it to the email accounts of those interested, so as to not ruin the surprise.
If you are interested, please leave a review saying so and supplying me with your email address. I'm going to set the deadline for August 15th, 2005 because, well, it just sounds like a good date.
Anyway, after you place the review (remember, anytime between today, the 8th, and next Monday, the 15th) I'll send you an email to the account you listed in your review, with all of the possibilities for the upcoming plot. If you can come up with any other ideas please email them to me! After deliberating on the list of options, send you're choices/ideas to my email and I'll get back to you, whether to thank you profusely for participating or to question you on your choices/ideas.
Thank you!
Now, about being a Beta-reader…
I've gone back through my story, and realized that it would be a whole lot better if I had someone or a few people, going through it and pointing out mistakes or giving suggestions for the betterment of the chapter. So, I'm requesting that some of you wonderful readers volunteer for this assignment.
Being the awful person that I am, I'll need some example of writing, whether it be a quick sample off the top of your head, or a story off of your profile. Ideally, I'd love someone or some people, who can get back to me right away on the chapters so I can post them, but…hey. No one's perfect.
Thank you so much for reading this horrendously long Author's Note, even though I'm sure most of you fell asleep at your computers…Now, do you see why I need a Beta-reader?
Thanks again! I love you guys!