Luck of Nines

71-technically: authorsnote

       Hello, it's me, TALA. 

      To start off with the obvious, I skipped a chapter, yeah.  The number of chapters is off by one because of a similar authors note chapter so I'm fixing it. 

    Will I regret this more and end up being even further confused?

     Oh yes, yes I will. But it's bugging me either way so I can hope. I say this every time I do just numbered chapters, "I'm never doing this again! It's so hard to double check earlier points or names or spellings or if something has happened yet!"  And then I do it again.

      Uh next, on a similar note, you may have noticed in chapter 69 that the canopy was described as a blue color and the same color as the Slytherin canopies. That may have confused you.

       I'm confident, although once again I wouldn't be able to tell you exactly when- damn these numbered chapters-, that I have described stuff as green before, but I don't remember if it's from a strictly Harry description point of view if that makes sense.

Uh, Harry's not supposed to be able to see the color green. I decided on it way back, but it slipped my mind sometimes? And I didn't always manage to catch myself.... Possibly. On the other hand I might have caught myself every time and am failing the "fake it till you make it" model by exposing my possible mistake.

        It's been like seventy chapters, I mess up sometimes, please, mercy, this I think is better than leaving you confused if you did notice something. (Honestly all you readers tend to be pretty nice about my spelling mistakes and stuff, I'm asking myself for that mercy before I start revisiting the idea of re-editing this whole thing for my unreliable perfectionist side)

      So anyway, this has been bugging me and you might wonder why? Well. I was wavering back and forth for the longest time while writing if I should end the story with his insane Azkaban moment with a hint of Theo and co breaking him out (that's right, that would be the ending. I... even I wonder sometimes if writing brings out the evil in me, this is those times). 

     Anyway, in that case the whole not seeing green bit wouldn't be too important, just make for a short joke in some extra chapters about why he's confused about house colors. Actually a lot of small and larges bits would come to nothing and just be characters who show up but don't contribute much in the story, just they were written in more reliably.

     Or option two was to continue it to where he's sort of not really involved in the politics of the adult world rather than those of Hogwarts given the whole escaping Azkaban and Voldemort thing.

     Clearly that is the option I took. 

      And unluckily, that's the option where my evil plan makes this detail becomes more important. Why? I think you can figure it out, I might have already said too much.

      So... redirect!

If you're thinking, "Wow that's a lot of fucking detail about the room he's in" yeah... I might have gotten carried away? But the aspects are kind of important if you think about the little details that went into it- so there's a reason for it. I mean think how Dumbeldore just threw Sirirus from Azkaban into a another dark poorly lit prison which he couldn't freely leave that was cramped and likely was still drowning him in negative memories.

Now Harry has a tailored room to recover in- that's not a spoiler right? Like I think you can figure out his negative thoughts are just thoughts and they put a lot of effort into giving him the best place possible to recuperate and aren't about to abandon him like dead weight like how Harry thinks they will and should. That's kinda my point here and I'm emphasizing all the points of the room to emphasize that attention to detail they put in.

He has a clear view of virtually every portion of the room while still able to give himself a little more secrecy should need be

Plenty of light and color will enter at all times

A round structure will allow sound to be stronger in some places than others

The bed being flat on the floor means nothing could be lurking underneath it but the canopy above was something they'd all seen him hide out on back in Hogwarts

Different size ledges means he can assume various forms without worrying about falling off etc. Even the middle one being in the middle allows him to be in a smaller or larger form and still get the preferred view, while the smaller placing him further from the door gives him more time to react to threats while the larger placing him closer assuming he'd be more comfortable in that form taking on threats.