The Black Bat in a Pleated Skirt [Harry Potter]

[Many thanks to Tian Lanlan for the cover art for Skirt-Bat! Sending you a big smooch!]

On a stormy, snowy night in 1926, Merope gave birth with the last of her strength and spoke her final words: "I'll name him Tom... after his father..."

Nurse: "Uh... but you had a girl!"

Merope: "???"

"So Grandma held on for another fifteen minutes, until the nurse looked through a dictionary and found a girl's name close enough to Tom. Only then did she pass away." Isamay Slytherin said gently to the quiet, dark-haired girl before her. "I'm Isamay. May I have the honor of learning your name, miss?"

Snape, wearing a pleated skirt, said, "No. Get lost."

Reader's guide:

1. Gender-swapped Voldemort, plus a reborn Professor who was raised as a girl from childhood.

2. A parallel world to Call My Dad to Beat You Up After School. This was written because fellow fans kept clamoring to see a silly romance.

3. Includes gender-swapping, a woman transmigrating into a man's body, and a woman in a man's body falling in love with a man. If any of that bothers you, don't come in and make yourself miserable.

4. One-on-one romance. I can't even say whether it's BG or BL, but at heart it's a happy story about a little ball of sunshine and a silly Professor.

5. Hope you enjoy!