Welcome to the Author's notes (Chapters 1 and 2) of Harry Potter and the Deal with the Gods.

I thought about adding notes at the beginning and end of the chapters. AN is probably not check for grammar, you have been warned.

But I also wanted to keep a more accurate word count.

Of course excluding chapter one.

First I would like to thank:

Bellpom, Outofthisworldgal, and Guest for their reviews!

As some who are following the story may notice it's been quite some time between chapters.

That is a cross between laziness and perfectionism. Boggles the mind that those two work so well together. I want to do it really well, and have a lot planned. But I don't want to do it poorly. So I go back and tweak things, again and again. That and spending countless hours (literally) working over the main plot points and making sure they synergize well into a cohesive story.

When I first started writing this, I wanted to post it all as a single chapter. But that (if I stick to the plan) would be one large page of words. As unlikely as it seems.

One of things that was pointed out by someone I had read it was Hadrian seems to cognitive for his age.

Certain things like this may be (are in this particular case) plot points usually yet to be discovered. While this doesn't mean he will be a mind reading reincarnation of Rowena and Salazar combined it does have a reason and will be explained later. That is a gimme.

That said as one would guess I am hardly gifted when it comes to putting my thoughts down to text so I welcome any questions or comments.

Do note if something is meant a bread crumb trail I'll be sure to let you know. Otherwise I see it as a way to fact check the story's plot and basically typos that I most likely missed.

Thank you for your interest and I hope to keep writing this one to it's conclusion.

Thank you much for your interest and as always

Best of luck

~Assume..errr wait no

~McDowell.

Part II

12-08-2018

Thanks again Bellapom! And you as well Calebros!

So for the age of the characters. This is one of the first bread crumbs (for lack of a better term) for later plot development.

'So only Lily was there when they were born? If not, then how did they miss one being a boy and the other a girl?'

That is exactly the right question! Hadrian (obviously) was there, but would have no memory, nor would his sister. Lily/James, their chosen Godparents, Hospital staff and possibly others were there and for some (as of yet) inexplicable reason none of them noticed/remember who Lily Potter gave birth to first. Was this some sort of Mass Addle charm? Was there only one baby and someone needed to hide another child? Was time frozen for all but Lily Potter by the sheer awesomeness of giving birth to Merlin and Morgana reincarnated (No, just no). Maybe memory charms was used? All Hadrian has learned is Dumbledore telling what happened, without a shred of proof. He might just be wrong...

What Hadrian now 'knows' as fact is that his mother and father don't know which was born first (even if they raised him to look after his sister as an elder brother should) and Dumbledore may or may not know the correct answer. However he also 'knows' that Dumbledore wasn't at Godric's Hollow during the attack and put the pieces of that puzzle together wrong, reaching the incorrect conclusion.

As for the scene breaks thanks so much for pointing that out! I had used a *_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_**_*_*_*_*_* across the page but for some reason it didn't take when I uploaded. I've switched to ~Scene Break~ for now till I figure out how to upload more smoothly.

As for choppy shorter chapters, busted. I'm currently using the outline expansion method. Unfortunately that shows far too clearly. It's a toss between forcing myself to publish, and tinkering with perspective and detail. I'm still working on a happy medium and hope to have a fuller style as the story picks up.

Thanks again for your review!