1. Foreword
I read more than a year ago a fic named 'It was You', published by ecrpotter on the Yahoo group harry_herm. I still think it is one of the best fics I have read and it started me to think about how this story might continue. I started to write down my ideas and this is the result.
I acknowledge the inspiration from ecrpotter and the original authors and also that the rights of Harry Potter etc belong to others. The usual disclaimers of fanfics apply.
I believe that good fanfics try to maintain the features of the original characters and their environment. It might be fun to apply the idea of a magical world to other characters in other situations, but why then not invent some other names for people and places? The Harry and Hermione I have learnt to know are otherwise normal teenagers brought up close to London and I still think Hogwarts lies somewhere among the hills of Scotland. I'm very much older than Harry and Hermione, and my mother tongue is different to theirs, but I've tried to use my knowledge of the country, its culture and of English literature to let my tale be true to my ideals. Others will tell me if I succeeded.
This is a thoroughly NC-17 fic. According to statistics a saw recently, 1/3 of the European 15‑years have had their sexual debut, with minor differences between countries. The scenario of 'It was You' is thus not unlikely although we will not read this development in book 6.
There is a planned sequel to this fic, 'Filling the Black Hole'. It will cover a greater time span than this story. The present story, 'The Black Hole', is a day by day account of the holydays following the Christmas Eve of 'It was You'. You will learn what the power Voldemort did not know was, and that Harry and Hermione share a rare quality.
We start with a somewhat disoriented Harry still half asleep struggling to understand a completely new situation. Happy reading!
/ Torsten