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Rating PG to NC-17, though most of it would be a PG to PG13 rating. There will be sex scenes, just as they come up naturally and there will be some het smut as well, because I only see our pups as being gay. Very gay indeed, but they will take a few days to find out again...
A/N: Totally and utterly AU after OotP. I'm only using a few details given there to remain closer to canon, but clearly this is now a Denial story. Kind of a travelling story for you all... it's not really an on the road thing, more like an exile story! Happy, too, as the really bad stuff will only be implied in the background. Not that I forget that there's a wizarding war raging outside of that peaceful exile! I'm still taking Arabella Figg as a witch, even though we now all know she's a squib.
As the story takes place for the most part in the Emmental I'm adding some links for the sights to see:
Lueg - a fairly high point in the middle of the Emmental, yes, that's where the cheese comes from :) http:www.affolternimemmental.ch/tourismus/wandern_bestaunen_lueg.html Lützelflüh - known as the place where one of the main Swiss authors of the 19th century, Jeremias Gotthelf, lived. Some of his books have actually been translated into English, and they are one of the sources for historians to find out how the people in the Emmental lived in the 19th century. Once on the site, choose "Bilderbuch" for the photos. http:www.luetzelflueh.ch/
A typical farmhouse, this one not timbered, but built completely in wood. See the low roof at the sides, the front (usually to the south) and the many small windows. Sometimes, like in this case, there are narrow balconies on the front as well. Mostly there are balconies on one side as the landing of the staircase leading to the upper floor, which is always outside (well, now most of them are renovated that it's actually inside or there are several flats inside those farmhouses.)
http:www.lust-auf.ch/region/be/emmental/emmental.jpg And finally this is the more sophisticated and elaborate look of a farmhouse. Though this particular one wasn't really a farmhouse, it had been built in the lat 18th century on the site of another that had burned down. In those days it was considered exclusive if one had a stone house so to make this house appear like being constructed in stone it was painted all in grey. But it's still a wooden construction. Very typical the form of the roof and the classical two regular floors and the top floor under the roof. If you follow the house to the back you originally found the "Remise" the part where all the wagons, farming tools and things were stored, covered by a large lofty "Tenn", the actual hay barn over the middle and back tract of the house and finally, on the back you would find the stables. This is the type of house I describe in my story, though the house up on the hill would be smaller than this one. The multipurpose construction still is in place, there, too. It was important to be able to get to the stables in winter when they were covered in snow to feed the animals. Thus everything had to be in one building. The house on this photo has been dismembered at its original site and reconstructed at the site of the Ballenberg museum ( http:www.ballenberg.ch/english/explorer.htm ) where it contains two of the museum's shops these days and the residential part at the front has been reconstructed and furnished in the style of the late 18th, early 19th century.
http://www.kulturbeo.ch/Bilder/Museen/Hausballenberg.jpg Well, that's about it, if I should have gotten your interest, look for more; you find tons of stuff about the Emmental on the net, it's probably one of Switzerland's most beautiful areas (out of a bunch of beautiful areas, LOL) and I'd be pleased to get some feedback on how you liked this little educational excursion :)
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