Hello, old friends. I'm not sure most of you are even going to remember this story, but I know how it goes with never taking the time to trim out your follows list, and it's quite alright if you don't remember it (in some ways, I wish I didn't either.)

* Likely, if you do remember at all, you remember this profile under its older names (West of the Boulevard, or, more likely, Seriously Sirius Marauder.)

Unfortunately, this is not an altogether happy message. I have made the decision to abandon and eventually delete this story, and, because I toiled with this decision for a long time due to my own displeasure with having stories I loved deleted randomly with no warning, I am going to be keeping all the abandoned stories up for 6 months from now (10/5/17) to make sure everyone gets a fair and legitimate chance to request a PDF copy of any of these stories that may have sentimental value to you. Please just PM me as soon as you can with your request, which story in particular you want, and your e-mail address.

There is, however, a silver lining. I am currently delving back into the HP world, and there will be quite a few new stories coming down the pike. Please check my newly updated (and way too long) profile for more info on that if you're at all interested in this development.

For a good few of you, you will likely get a handful of these e-mail notifications because you're on alert to my entire profile (some of you for entirely different fandoms), and, because of this, I'm only putting these notes once a week by fandom. I'm not trying to barrage all my best fan's e-mail boxes with a crazy hail-storm of alerts under my name.

I will be putting this note in a handful of old HP stories tonight, and next week I will be doing the same for my abandoned Gilmore stories, followed by abandoned Vampire Diaries stories the week after.

Thank you so much for all the love, support and appreciation you've all given me over the years. You guys were my start, this fandom was my start back when I was the world's shittiest teenage writer and without your words of encouragement, I'm not sure I'd still be writing here, let alone writing as a profession or working on my own novel some ten odd years later.

I appreciate it more than you can imagine. 3

Always sincerely,

Christina

- (who has gone by many a name over the course of her online existence.)