Apologies for the long delay

[aspenlight]

Hello everyone,

First off, I am sorry it's been so long since I last posted a chapter. I haven't been able to even think about writing for quite a while now.

My sister died back in August, shortly after I had posted the last chapter, and it has really derailed me in a major way. She was quite young by today's life expectancy standards, and while

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[pantheraleo02]

I am so sorry you lost your sister. It's a world changing experience - a paradigm shift, as your Harry might say, but a short, sharp shock of one and then a years-long, slow adaptation to your new reality. I lost my younger sister unexpectedly in a quite traumatic way nearly eight years ago now, and I couldn't engage with my favourite hobbies - mainly reading - in the same way for a long time afterwards. It was a weird and unexpected part of the experience of grief for me, not one that I'd really heard about before, and it made me feel like I'd lost an additional part of who I was. It did gradually come back though - it's still not the same as before, but I was eventually able to pick up and reread childhood favourites, then adulthood favourites, and after a few years I could read new books again. That's actually how I got into Harry Potter fanfiction - Harry Potter is my ultimate childhood favourite series and my reading "comfort food" (though the deaths and losses took on a new, painful dimension to read after I'd experienced my own

[herebem0nsters]

I am so sorry for your devastating loss. That is awful. You are in my thoughts.

[shezan]

Dear Aspen, I only see this now and I am SO very sorry. I experienced two similar losses in recent years: one being AJ Hall, and the other a first cousin I'd been brought up with from infancy, very much like sisters; and I know the feeling of shocked emptiness which comes from realising that you thought there would be time; to say things and wonder and reminisce and discuss - and suddenly there's this gaping VOID. Very much feeling for you.