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Part 2 of What's Past is Prologue
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What's Past is Prologue

Chapter 10: Author's Note

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Ok, everyone, I really am very sorry for this. I always used to hate it when authors did author's notes instead of putting in actual chapters, and I still hate it when they go on hiatus. But here it is: like many stories not properly planned out in advance, this one has run out of steam and until I know for sure what happened in the past, it looks as though it will remain that way. So, sorry about all that.

On a rather cheerier note, I do intend to write a prequel addressing all of this, which may lead to overhauls or adjustments of What's Past while I'm busy working out just what went on a thousand years ago for our leads. So if you have somehow become attached to my versions of these characters, want to find out about their adventures in their own time or just want to harangue me for abandoning this story, please leave feedback. I really am very sorry for this, but it would be unfair to the story and to you, my audience, to continue to write this story to anything but the best of my abilities, and I do not feel that I am presently capable of that. Sorry again, and thank you all for your feedback and your appreciation.

Notes:

As a Ricardian it has always been of great interest to me how historical documents are altered to support this ideology or that, and so that was one of the greater influences on this particular work.
I am using Pottermore for information, yes, but I have chosen to read it as the remembered history of the wizarding world, rather than taking it as pure fact. Canon purists must pardon me on this point, as I know it can be irritating, but I do hope to tell a good story with the elements I have chosen to use.
The story will likely begin fairly gen, but elements of slash and het will appear later.
I have not attempted to write the main body of the characters' time in the past, but flashbacks will appear. If I get any details of tenth-century life wrong, please correct me, as I am using A Song of Ice and Fire as a reference for medieval life, which is probably a few centuries late for the period in which I am writing. On the other hand, wizards do appear to have had stone castles long before Muggles in the area did, so I am also working on the assumption that wizards were initially technologically superior to Muggles, and have only fallen behind since the Statute of Secrecy, which may be the origin of many wizards' rather condescending attitudes towards Muggles.
'Ferch' is Welsh for 'daughter of', and the traditional patronymic for girls. The implications of it being the mother's name used are obvious and, so far as Helga knows, accurate.
Aethelinda is an Anglo-Saxon name meaning 'noble serpent'. Gareth was the name of a knight of the Round Table, the son of Lot and Morgause and nephew of Arthur.
Constructive criticism welcomed and thanks to my wonderful beta Jackie.

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