Author's Note:

No, this is not an update. I'm so sorry to disappoint anyone who was thinking that I updated the next chapter only one day after I posted the last one.

I just feel that I need to address something to make things 100% clear to all of you. I just got this review:

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"Guest: You know, I almost didn't read this story. The summary is silly and makes the characters all sound superficial. "Oh no, he turned me down, but I'm hot now!" But, the chapter count kept climbing, so I figured there might be more to the story. It turns out there was. I found a reasonably written story about Harry and Ginny.

Now, there wasn't much else to the story, but that's okay. Nice, fluffy stories about Harry and Ginny together with nothing huge and evil looming over them are dwindling, so it was nice to have another one. And, yeah, puff is good.

Then you added in James and Lily. Honestly, it was a bit silly. As there is nothing deeper to the plot, it comes off as a self-gratifying plot point. You wanted to see Harry with his parents, so you put them it. "Yay! Have a present!" But, it wasn't too bad.

But then there was this chapter. It almost completely undid the goodwill the rest of the chapters engendered. How, in any way, is forcing two people who don't want to to kiss, funny? Now, there are people, families, friends who kiss as a show of familial affection. But there are just as many people who don't - they weren't raised that way. To them, kissing is something to be shared only with loved ones in an intimate gesture.

So, where in this story is it shown that Harry understands that kisses are used that way? Where does he partake of kissing close friends in friendship? This is clearly beyond uncomfortable for him, you even wrote it that way. Forcing him to take part in an act of intimacy with someone he doesn't want to is not a prank, it is nothing short of sexual assault. And everyone else, including Ginny, who is supposed to love and understand him, just laughs."

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So, to address this, I have a few things that I want to make clear.

The first is that if you had just been patient for just one more chapter, you would have read that my next chapter is going to be primarily about consent. I'm sorry if this spoils the next chapter for everyone, but it's the truth. I've had this entire story planned from start to finish more than a year ago. When I was on a hiatus, planning, I took that time to ask myself what I wanted to say with this story and what was important to me. The issue of sexual assault was one of those things, as it is something that I have been through. Mind you, I wasn't involved in any sort of extreme case. But I've had men touch my chest without asking. I even had a girl, who I thought was my friend, proposition me by grabbing my bum and kissing me when she knew that I wasn't interested in girls like that.

This is a very important topic for me.

I was going to use the next chapter as a learning moment. The reason why I chose to have everyone laugh is that you first have to understand the context of the time this is taking place. This is taking place in the 1990s... There was no #MeToo movement. There was no real talk about sexual assault going on at this time.

From my standpoint, while writing it, Harry hates being put in the spotlight. So to be put on display while everyone was laughing at the situation he was in was just a recipe for Harry to be uncomfortable no matter what the actual situation was.

I'm sorry if you didn't read it that way. And I will try better in the future.

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The next thing that I want to address is the summary of this story. Believe it or not, this is not the first review that I have gotten about the summary. But the truth is, that I purposefully wrote the summary to be the way that it is.

I wanted to entice people by letting them think they were going to read a guilty-pleasure fic that was about as shallow as they come...

You may ask why I would want this. And the truth? I wanted to pleasantly surprise people with the amount of depth this story has the potential to have. I mean, have you ever read a book that you thought was just going to allow you to pass the time through boredom but then it ends up being AMAZING and one of your favorite books?

I wanted to give this feeling to people. That was my main goal when I first started writing this story.

I wanted to show everyone that not everything is what it seems by face value. And if you look closely, you can see traces of that lesson within the story itself.

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And I also wanted to say that I never really saw this story as a "Fluff" fic, as you described... It's fine if you guys do see it this way. But I've just seen this story as intermingled with "The Half-Blood Prince" cannon. I have made mentions of Slughorn, Horcruxes, Draco, and Dumbledore's cursed hand.

But the reason why I didn't go into extreme detail for those story-lines is that I didn't want to just reiterate the same story-line that all of you already know, anyway.

So let me know if you DO want me to delve in deeper to the main plot points of cannon. I thought that just mentioning them was enough but I could be wrong.

Also, this is my confirmation that I will be writing this story all the way through the Horcrux Hunt, Malfoy Manor, the Battle of Hogwarts, and even past that.

So, the action is bound to pick up in 10 chapters, or so.

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Overall, I was in a bit of a rush when I wrote the last chapter, as I haven't really been feeling the writing-vibe, lately. My only hope is that it doesn't show too much in the end result. And it's not just with this fanfic. I've been writing my own book series, and that has come to a standstill as well.

But anyway, it really does seem that I should have slowed down and re-evaluated the last chapter before posting. So, again, I'm sorry if the last chapter offended anyone. And I'm sorry if you're offended just by the mere fact that this isn't a real chapter.

I just wanted to say my peace.

Looking forward to seeing you guys in the next chapter. I promise that I'll post soon, as I've had a request in the reviews that I post at least by December 24th as a Christmas present to all of you.*

*P.S. It's so funny that the story-line happens to take place around Christmas time at the same time it is in real life. I promise you that I didn't plan it this way!*