Author's note:
I haven't added to this story since the summer. I got busy, I left for college, I forgot about it. But amazingly, some of my readers did not forget about it. I am shocked that my story has continued receiving reviews even into December, and it made me feel guilty for never finishing.
Well, now I am home for two weeks for Christmas break, and as I am stranded in suburbia without a driver's license [stupid failed road test], I see that the time has come to put this poor story to rest. Many thanks to those precious few readers who have stuck around—I hope you won't be too disappointed in me.
There should be two final story chapters coming in the next couple days. I can't renege on that, being that they are already written. So yes, I hope some of you have stuck around, I apologize greatly for my tardiness, and consider this a Christmas/Hanukkah/etcetera present from this writer to her readers.
Now a quick summary of what has transpired thus far, since you certainly don't remember and I doubt you'll bother rereading [though my chapters are quite short]:
Sirius is dead. He finds himself in an afterlife/purgatory/Eternal Waiting Room type place attended by a Stage Manager a la Thornton Wilder, where he is joining James, Lily, and all our other dead buddies in an eternal slumber. But James makes him realize that he has the choice to go back to Earth as a ghost, and against the better advice of the Stage Manager he does this. Sirius re-emerges from the veil as a ghost, but as soon as he leaves the Department of Mysteries, he loses his ghostly body and becomes a featureless disturbance in the air. He meets up with Nearly Headless Nick, who talks him through the ins-and-outs of ghosthood, and how the only places where he will be visible to mortals will be in the Department of Mysteries and at Hogwarts, where he may be able to finagle a position. The ghostly Sirius follows Lupin home to Grimmauld Place, and Moody's magical eye can sense his presence. Moody gives a one-sided lecture to the invisible Sirius on how he should move on with his death, and Sirius is placed in a philosophical quandry over whether it is preferable to be a ghost or be entirely dead and gone.
Got it? Good.
Happy Holidays!
Story to be uploaded shortly.
-Lizzzie-