AUTHOR'S NOTE:
Er... hi. This isn't an update, sorry. I know it's been a looooooong time since my last update, and I have nothing to say except I'm sorry. I've already said this in my A/N for the last chapter, but the reason why I haven't updated for so long was because I sort of took a break from the HP fandom sometime after the seventh book came out (*gasp* BLASPHEMY, I know). I guess I had a crisis at the time, since, well, it was all over, and the only thing that was left to do was to wait for the remaining films to be released. Also, I started working on 'As If You Never Said Goodbye' (AIYNSG for brevity) when I was in college, and as you may know, the higher your year is in college, the busier you are. Combine the sudden lack of interest with the lack of time due to schoolwork, and you get the lack of updates. So I really am sorry.
I am quite pleasantly surprised, though, because I still get e-mail notifications about reviews, story alerts and other such stuff from you guys. And looking at the traffic stats, there are still people who read this. Thank you, from the bottom of my heart. You have no idea how much it means to me that even though I don't update, people still give me reviews encouraging me to update. Also, I've reached 100 reviews for AIYNSG! How crazy is that? I never really thought I would reach that much reviews when I started writing that fic. To be completely honest, I started writing AIYNSG just because I thought it was a pretty nice idea and I was itching to write it. As much as I wanted a lot of people to read my work and like it, it wasn't really a priority - I just wanted to write this idea that I had in my head. So to receive this much attention is just amazing. Thank you guys, really.
And so, to celebrate my 100th review and my return to the HP fandom, I have decided to continue writing AIYNSG, and re-write some parts of the past chapters as well. The re-writing thing will mostly be correcting grammatical errors, because I re-read the entire thing and I saw a LOT of mistakes. It made me cringe and want to cry at the same time. It was embarrassing that I allowed you guys to read it in that state. You have to understand, I didn't have a beta when I wrote those chapters, and I had this habit of not reading what I'd written. I just write, and then I save, and I don't look at it anymore. But now I know that that's wrong, so I promise never to make that mistake again. Or I'll just get myself a beta to make my life easier.
Anyway, seeing as I hadn't updated AIYNSG in five years, you'll have to give me some time to re-think about my original plan for the fic. I know how I want it to end, but I've already forgotten the details as to how I imagined the characters will get there. And I also have to change up some of the plans already. Also, I may redo or change some parts completely. It depends on how I re-plan things, but we'll see.
So, deadlines. Since I decided to subject myself to more torture and take up a post-grad course, I still wouldn't be able to update as often as we all want to, but I will try. I still have to re-read everything and think of how the story will proceed again, so that will take some time. Luckily, my summer break's coming up in a few weeks, so I'll have some time to get things done. I'll make this my personal project. Just let me go through my final exams and then I'll start working on the past chapters.
Again, thank you guys so much. It's good to be back.
Ciao.