Thank you for reading Morgaine's Story. For me Morgaine will always be the OC no other can live up to, and eventhough I've been writing original fiction for seven years now, I am yet to write a love as true and forgiving as the love between Morgaine and Severus.If you're interested to know how Morgaine will fare after Severus demise, I recommend reading Always By Your Side. You're in for a surprise or two if you do.

Neither am I. XD I'm afraid I messed up the mathematics several times during this story. I one of the next chapters, Dumbledore says that she's 'just seventeen summers'. That would mean she turns 17 in October and is 16 in this chapter. But as I said: I'm quite convinced I made a mistake or two somewhere and can't guarantee that I've corrected them all. 

He surprised everyone, including the author of the story. 

During some days and nights, magic is stronger than during others.  

With the words of River Song: spoilers. :-)

Ooooooh! You've started reading my very first fic, my first true love, the OC that still haunts me. I very much hope you'll enjoy the story. (Bare in mind, it was my first. I hope my writing has improved since.)

It's not really goodbye...

You big softie, you. :-)

Lol. I am not! Honestly I like to think of myself as the most unromantic girl (or woman, whatever) on earth... I'm always busy making comical interpretations of romantic scenarios! Now when someone brings out the reluctant romantic in me, THAT'S something. Which you did!

I think a medal is in order ;-)

Ah, sure! ;)

More tissues, more chocolate. I have to admit, I still go back to this story when I need a good cry.

I've already joined the Back-To-This-Story-When-I-Need-A-Good-Cry club. We are sure to meet there! :)

I'll bring the choccie. 

Yum! Thanks. I'll bring some roshogolla. Or maybe shrikhand, in honour of the Patil twins! :)

Sounds exciting. 

Tastes even better!

What is it?

Both are Indian desserts. Roshogolla is a spongy, syrupy ball made of chhana (fresh unripened curd cheese) from Bengal (my home state).. And shrikhand is a yoghurt with saffron, cardamom, pistachios, etc, popular in Maharashtra (the Patils' home state... Patil is a Maharashtrian surname!) I can assure you that both are very tasty and my personal favourites... Even if a bit high-cal!

You had me at high-cal. :-)

Haha! But then, chocolates are high-cal too! ;)

*hands over tissue and chocolate* There there ...

Honestly, I like to think of myself as a fiercely independent woman with no time for nonsense like romance! You suddenly jerked me out of my reverie!

Imagine thinking exactly that and suddenly realising that you're WRITING romance!

That's EXACTLY what happened to me. I was listening to an ultra-romantic track, Aayat, from a Hindi movie, when the plot of the crazy romance (?!) which I'm now writing came to my mind. Hell, my colleagues will have a heart attack if they ever read this and learn that I was the one writing it!

However, I still maintain that I am basically quite unromantic in real life.. At 24, I'm gloriously single and have hardly ever been in the mood to mingle! Romance, provided it is intense enough, does move me though, which I have reluctantly come to realise.

Poor everyone involved. I never wrote it down, but I thought a lot about how Remus must feel in this story. Morgaine is very dear to him, and he knows how rough Severus can be. He wants Morgaien to be happy, but he can see the risks she's taking. What kind of advice is a friend to give in a situation like that? (Wonder how much chocolate they ate!)

Now may I look forward to a oneshot on the Remus POV? :)

If I only had the time...

Ah, you will, some day! RL can be ruthless, I know that so well!

I still remember my beta-readers comment: "Did she just? Oh sh*t she did!" :-)

Haha!

Oh, the memories. This was the first fic I wrote, and Severus/Morgaine is still my favourite SS/OC. They still haunt my dreams. 

And now they will haunt my dreams too!

Love re-reading this story with you. :-)

I'm glad Lupin was there for her. But the again, he always was.

As this was my first fic, I was sooooo afraid I'd make canon-mistakes. Nice to see that all my hard work is appreciated now :-)

I struggled so much with this chapter. Glad I got help from Memory and Trickie with it.

Naw, that was a very nice thing to say. Thank you!! And thank you for reading this story again. Means a lot!!

I sometimes wonder why I have been so cruel to my two most favourite characters ...

I had forgotten all about this chapter :O

I read OotP in a book club. There were two groups, those who mourned Black's death and were terribly upset and then those who hoped he'd go to hell. I was totally blasée. I think they didn't like me there :P

Hahaha! I'd have proudly stood in front of you and taken all of the tomatoes being thrown at us;-) I won't even start to rant about SB - yes, him being the born provacateur against Sev, but also, why... oh forget it - getting all riled up and need to prepare for Monday morning; Bella did him in--moving on(I know, I'm terrible...aways grumpy Sunday evenings with the work week ahead - excuses, excuses - hehe!)

I feel you pain!

Thank you, once more, for re-reading this story. It's a pleasure to be on this journey with you.

Those two are both so afriad of admitting their love for each other. Neither wants to get hurt or hurt the other. They're wasting so much time...

And when I wrote this, I didn't even know that I was going to write a sequel. The muse works in mysterious ways some times.

Thank you very much! This is my first story and my "baby". I am very glad you're enjoying it and hope you'll like the rest as well./M