Hi everyone, your friendly neighbourhood Mistress here :D

I want to wish my beautiful site a very Happy First Birthday! I can scarcely believe that a year ago this site was only the fan fiction archive and a very base skin it was too. The manipped banner was by me and pitiful in comparison to the beautiful site we have today.

 A Lot of hard work went into making the site how it is now, a lot of my badgering people for help, giving gifts in exchange for services :D, begging authors in reviews to come and post here when there was barely a 100 members and roughly ten stories. It was a testament to their faith in me that the site has flourished, they put their trust in my (at the time) little no name site and helped it grow!

Now we span, four fiction archives, four myspace, one live journal, one facebook, one gallery a main news site, a forum and over fifteen dedicated staffers :D 

 And how can I go past our wonderful authors. Each and every one of you has made my little idea of a Hermione centric site what it is today,  from being loyal to our archive, to pimping it on their personal journals and to their friends and other writers.

To of course our wonderful readers, where would we be without you? Nowhere that's where :D thank you to those who have been loyal to us from the very beginning, who send me beautiful emails saying how much they love the site and that they don't go anywhere else now (that warms my heart)

To the wonderful Arthicule, MoonJamesKitten and Shay whom without we wouldn't have such beautiful skins and banners and to JACCI the skin queen, again without her I would hate to think what we would look like right now :D

 And my wonderful support team, starting off with Curse Weaver (who helped me weed through names from Bewitched Bookworm to Enchanting the bookworm, eventually helping me land on Granger Enchanted) and of course she ran the original forums too :D 

To Meia(another original author) thank you for all your support with the original forums and helping me out when I needed support and a shoulder to whine on :P you are a peach!

DJStroake one of our original authors on the site and also someone who has supported my from day one, starting off in The Dark Mark forums and ending up here :D ALso to Trins who has helped out immensely over the year thanks love! oh lol and of course for running the original Elysium before I accidentally deleted it :D

Wickedswanz! Who is my muse and my right hand witch, without her I doubt any of my stories would have come out half as good lol (modest huh?) She has been my sounding board for new ideas within the site, from colour changes to categories, I highly doubt the site would run so well without her input.

Sirsevchick (my lovely beta) and AnaSella Emm (my validations witch) you two ladies have made my life a whole lot easier, especially when I ran off and left you with the validations and rejections lol (thanks girls) also to Sirsevchick, you make me look good with your constant corrections and constructive criticism and your friendship I love you baby doll! lol

 To Punkindoodle, Redneckmama and Lumiere you three ladies I adore for taking over the sister sites when my time was spread so thin I had started to pull my hair out, strand by strand...lol thanks girls for doing such a wonderful job!!!

 Valady and Ellaselenelupin, you two girls are so special to me, doing daily updates of all four sites on our main website and the live journal what darlings you are! *big smooches to both of you*

LadyLynn of course I have to thank you for running the four myspace pages we currently have and for listening to me whine when no one else was online lol you're the best!

Again to AnaSella Emm for running our successful facebook account you're a peach! :D

Svelte Rose you darling for constantly surprising me with wonderful challenge banners :D *licks for you*

Now for some personal thanks...Sandy, Berta, Nicole, Lori. I talk to you ladies every day (one of you by phone lol) and I adore all of you. Mainly because you are my support network, you make me feel comfortable with my decisions and always back me up, never afraid to be honest and tell me when I'm being an arse and that means a lot to me.  To my husband for supporting my HP addiction and my original writing even if he thinks I'm slightly weird (but tells me he loves me all the more for it) and to my dear friend Brett who runs our forums, you make me laugh and brighten my day...and keep the forums beautiful.

If I have forgotten someone please do not take it personally, I do appreciate each and every person who has contributed to this site, whether it be a simple review, a banner for one of our authors or submitting a story. Each and every member of our archive is valued and loved and trust me when I say I wouldn't have any of you any other way (well maybe a few of you lol)

 Lastly to all of those who joined in our first week of operation...YoungChica, mmverm, Scifichick774, VB23, Ophelia Immortal, shalimar1981 (I know I know not everyone is listed but I'd be here forever) thank you for joining when we were so pitiful :D 

My love to each and every one of you, the domain is registered for another two years so have no fear of us going anywhere!

Plus we have an original writing forum opening just after christmas!!!

Love to everyone,