FOREWORD

After the runaway success of Haemophilia, my Harry Potter/Hellsing work based with permission on a story idea by sakurademonalchemist (It's in the Blood, the first three chapters of which can be seen in her sample chapters compilation Short Story Drabbles), I had an idea. Someone in a review had posited shipping Harry Potter with Schrödinger, the endearing catboy character from Hellsing. While I am not into slashfics, and couldn't write one if my life depended on it, the same cannot be said about genderflipped characters. And given that I had written a Schrödinger who was a good guy for Haemophilia, I wanted to do something similar. Another reader sent me a similar idea by PM, despite my explicitly-stated ban on being sent story ideas, though I had already started the first draft of this work. This is a later draft of this story.

I am far from the first writer to do a good Schrödinger. In fact, my portrayal of Schrödinger in Haemophilia actually owed something to another of sakurademonalchemist's works, A Deal Made in Good Faith, primarily a crossover between Harry Potter and Supernatural, but with elements of Ghost Rider, Hellsing, and The Avengers thrown in. And while I was writing Haemophilia, the parallels between Harry's life and Schrödinger's struck me. Yes, there are parallels, especially if you take the bashing views of why Dumbledore left Harry with the Dursleys. Both Harry and Schrödinger were raised by people you would NOT want to be guardians of any child, and were shaped into weapons against a seemingly immortal foe by old men.

For this reason, this will be, at the very least, one of the few fics where I bash Dumbledore, or rather, turn him into a villain. I didn't do so for Haemophilia, but for this one, I intend to. Fair warning. Oh, and the female Harry will be not human, like the Harry of Haemophilia/It's in the Blood. But not a vampire.

Incidentally, this is, along with Verdant Magic and Yin and Yang, the first graduate of The Cauldron, where the first three chapters got a good response. Enjoy.

Anyway, time for the usual disclaimers. Firstly, there will be spoilers for Harry Potter and Hellsing.

Secondly, there will be annotations. Complaints will not be tolerated.

Thirdly, this is an M-rated work, which is far from surprising, given that Hellsing is involved. Violence and horror is a given, and there will be language and disturbing themes.

Finally, the following is a fan-written work. Harry Potter and Hellsing are the property of their respective owners. Please support the official release. Otherwise, Alexander Anderson will turn you into a silver bayonet pincushion…