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Hi everyone!
          
          It has been so long - I know! I’m sure I’ve probably lost many readers due to my inactivity. I just wanted to come on and let anyone who does still happen to care know that I haven’t lost hope when it comes to this story. I want to return to it someday and upload new material. But to do that I want to first make what I do have better. So I’ve been doing a ton of editing - going through every single part and reworking it and improving it! 
          
          Along those lines, if you see any recent “uploads” from me, unfortunately it isn’t new content. It’s just me creating new parts where I felt it was necessary to break the plot up and make things flow better. Additionally, some parts may look wonky. As I said, I’m editing, but still want to leave it up for new readers. Eventually it will all be seamless though. Just wanted to address these things to eliminate any confusion!
          
          Hope I can get back on here soon. Harry Potter will always have a special place in my heart, and I feel I still have ideas for this story I want to execute. It’s just been hard to do it. 
          
          <3 Natalie

Hi everyone!
          
          Wow it’s been forever since I’ve been on here. I hope you’re all doing well! Just wanted to let you know I’m adding a part to the story, but ***it is NOT a new update***! 
          
          As some of you may remember me saying a long time ago, I’m editing the story and improving what I do have uploaded because I feel like my older chapters need a lot of work. Once I make it through everything I have, I hope to be feeling confident and refreshed enough that I will be able continue the story where I left off. I do really miss writing it, but I’ve just been so busy and honestly unmotivated.
          
          Just wanted to come on here and say in a few minutes time I will be technically adding a new part, but the writing itself is not new. You’ve read it before. I just felt like a certain chapter was too long so I am going to break it into two! There will now be an additional chapter in between current chapters 17 and 18. So, if you get a notification that I’ve uploaded, unfortunately it isn’t a new part. Just wanted to eliminate any potential confusion! 
          
          Thanks, and all the love! 
          
          Natalie x

HELLO FRIENDS!!!
          
          Long time no talk. I apologize deeply for my inactivity — I know I haven’t updated in a very long time.
          
          My life recently has been incredibly busy and, because of that, if I’m honest, I’ve sort of struggled with finding the motivation to write this story. However, it still means a lot to me and I’m immensely proud of it and it’s not something that I want to give up on entirely. 
          
          So, for the last few months, with the idea of being lenient with myself regarding my writer’s block but still making sure I remain connected to the story and dedicated to eventually furthering it, I’ve spent a lot of my inactivity editing it and cleaning it up. My writing has grown since I first started this book and I wanted to improve the parts that were written kind of poorly so long ago because they were bothering me. I’ve even completely rewritten the prologue chapter “00” because I thought it could be done much better (if you want to go back and read that). 
          
          I can’t say for sure how much longer it’ll be before I update with a new chapter, but know that I am slowly working towards it. I am just trying to get over a major hump of writer’s block and feel confident in the quality of the entire work first :-)
          
          I hope to check back in with you guys soon with an announcement that I have a new chapter up. Thank you to all who have stuck around and will continue to stick around, and to those of you who are new and reading through the story for the first time. Every one of you have brought me an incredible amount of joy and I appreciate you so much. Thank you for close to 50k reads! 
          
          <3
          
          - Natalie
          
          

Hi friends :-) I just wanted to check in with you all! 
          
          I’m in the process of writing the next chapter — it’s taken me a little longer to complete it than I would have hoped just because it’s nearing finals season for me and I’ve been incredibly busy. But I plan to get it out sometime in the near future, I promise!
          
          In the meantime I hope everyone is doing well and if you’re in the same boat as me in your studies and are approaching any exams, I’m wishing you the best of luck! 
          
          As always, sending all the love!! <3
          
          - Natalie

I woke up to 40k reads… WOW. Thank you guys so much! It means the world. 
          
          I honestly never expected for this story to get any kind of traction at all but I’m so glad it’s seemed to have found you guys who really enjoy it. That’s absolutely crazy to me! 
          
          Love you all!!
          
          - Natalie <3

I’m BAAACCCKKK! New update out TONIGHT!! 
          
          I missed you all SO MUCH!
          
          With the days growing warmer and brighter (and after I decided to drop one of my hard classes for the semester lol), I feel like I am slowly getting back into a happier headspace. I feel more ideas for writing coming to me and am taking this to be a good sign that I can start being consistent with updating this story again. I can’t make promises, of course, because there is still a lot on my place currently, but all in all at least mentally I feel loads better than I have for awhile which I think is definitely a positive, promising thing. Woo!!
          
          Once again, thank you for your constant support throughout the last few months. I see I’m now close to 40k reads which is INCREDIBLE and just absolutely warms my heart. Thank you, thank you, thank you!
          
          Sending you all tons of love and best wishes wherever you are in the world. Stay safe <3
          
          - Natalie 

Hey Natalie I'm just wondering how long you think the book with be, when will it end, eg the end of school or will it continue also I love reading this book and I hope to get a new chapter soon ❤

Hey I can’t find the new chapter idk if u deleted it or something cause I’ve refreshed the page like 4 times

Hi loves <3 I first want to say a very Happy New Year to you all! I hope this coming year brings you tons of joy and happiness. 
          
          Also, I want to apologize for how inactive I’ve been on here. I know I kept making promises to you guys multiple times that new chapters would be out shortly and then I’d end up falling through. It’s because the last few months of my life have been pretty hard and filled with lots of unexpected changes, and so it has been difficult to devote time to things other than all of that — specifically this story. I’d finally sit down to write a chapter and something else would come up and I’d have to handle that, or I’d be too mentally drained and just couldn’t get anything actually good written down. 
          
          So I’m terribly sorry. But I haven’t given up on writing this story. I PROMISE! I am still very much in love with it and all of you guys, and I won’t ever just give up completely. 
          
          I’m just not exactly sure when I can get the next update out, if I’m honest. Things are still kind of complicated in my life, but I’m hoping they’ll simmer down shortly and I can get something to you soon. 
          
          If not I understand, but I hope you’ll continue to stick around and read more of my writing when I finally get new chapters out. Thank you all for your patience and graciousness.
          
          Sending all my love <3
          
          Natalie

Hey guys! I’m so terribly sorry for still not posting the new update. I promise, however, it will be out soon (hopefully in the next couple of days). I’m so sorry for making you all wait as long as I have. Life hasn’t been the easiest recently, and I hope you can understand. 
          
          Sending all my love <3
          
          - Natalie