Teka Lynn and Morgan D. have been good online friends since July 2000 and have been working together beta-reading each other's fanfics for almost as long. In January 2001 they started writing together for the first time, producing a Yu Yu Hakusho fanfic titled Divided Soul, still in progress.

In 2002 Morgan made the stupid mistake of reading the first four books of J.K. Rowling's "Harry Potter" series. Of course she got hooked, almost obsessively so. And of course she had to drag Teka into it as well.

Although Morgan didn't feel too comfortable writing fanfiction for a non-finished story, the premise was too cool to resist. Inspired by the letters exchanged between Sirius Black and Remus Lupin in Iniga's fanfic Interim, she wrote a letter from Sirius to Harry Potter, dated as if written during Harry's summer holidays after his fourth year at Hogwarts, and sent it to Teka.

Teka loved the idea of the persona letters, and couldn't wait for the first one. She was ecstatic with "Sirius's" letter, although apprehensive about writing back as Harry. Fortunately, Harry was surprisingly easy to "channel" and she enjoyed the experience a great deal. (She hopes readers will like the exchanges as well.)

Soon Morgan and Teka were writing several letters, incarnating different characters at different points of Rowling's timeline, seeing how closely they could stay in character and also suggesting answers for questions they both have about the books. And having a lot of fun, which is the main reason why these two enjoy working together.

So welcome to Hogwarts Letters, a place where you can freely and shamelessly pry into the HP characters' private correspondence.

A final note: this project was initiated while J.K. Rowling was still writing the fifth book of the HP series, "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix". Therefore, some of our earlier letters contradict details presented in that book. Since we have received requests not to delete those letters, and since we are in fact still interested in writing more replies to them, our solution was to separate the letters in Canonical Threads, which try to be faithful to characters and events as described in the books published so far, and Non-Canonical Threads, which introduce aspects that were contradicted by the text of the fifth book.