Before Lightning Struck

Everything you recognize in my story, the spells and places the characters and timeline; the canon by which I write was created by JK Rowling. For me, the story needs finishing or rather a beginning. My vision of JKR's characters is my own as is my vision of the time period in which they lived; the late 1970's and a blink of the 1980's. I needed to tell their story; the story before Harry. This is the story of James and Lily, Sirius and Marlene, Remus and Dorcas, Peter and Mary, Frank and Alice, Monte and Euphemia Potter, Voldemort and his Death Eaters, Regulus and Severus, Bellatrix and Lucius and of course, all our beloved Professors at Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry. I am a stickler for canon compliance and have done my utmost to stick to the canon JKR provided. I have intentionally created no original characters save some delightful house elves; JKR provided me with more than enough to be going on with.

Thank you, JKR for creating your magical world! This story is dedicated to you. You inspired more people than any writer in history to pick up a quill and put it to parchment. You inspired me!!! With Enormous Gratitude.