The disclaimer part is still the same as in Chapter 1
Chapter 5
On May the 2nd, 1990, Harry was happily surprised when a letter arrived addressed to him, Harry Potter. Usually he didn't receive mail, aside from the letters that had to do with moving. But they weren't moving anytime soon. So he wondered what the letter could be about, but dared not to open it when the Dursleys could see. It was regular paper and it was correctly postmarked so it probably wasn't from the wizarding world, not that he had much time to study it before hiding it in his backpack.
He opened it during recess but didn't read past the first paragraph. It was from the wizarding world! Was he accepted into Hogwarts a year early because he had skipped a grade? Afraid that anyone would sneak close enough to read things they should not know he put the letter away again. He would have to wait until he as alone in his room. So he went through the rest of the day: school, library, chores, dinner, chores, until he finally settled on his bed, out of sight, to read it.
Dear mister Potter,
As you might or might notknow, you are a wizard.
A wizard or witchis someone born with the innate talent to influence things by means of magic,other than the normal waysopen to all people.
Many signals can be noticed in children, odd happenings when they are highly emotional, somenoticed while others are not.Think along the lines of telekinesis, seeing auras,an accuratesense of foretelling and empathy.
Witches and wizards have their own communities all over the world,with different communities opting between livingsecluded in some countries orcompletely mingled with NMP's, non magical persons, in others. The more secluded usually means also thatthey are different from NMP's, with differentculture,traditions,meansof communicating, postal services, government, transportationand much more.
As you have been registered by our instruments as being magically adept and therefore a wizard, youare offered a place at Thule, the International Magical Academy, where you willlearn about magic andwillbetaught how to use your magical gifts as well as the school subjects covered at NM secondary schools.
To train you in the use of magic you either attend a magical schoolorbehome schooledby certified adults. Because you are raised in the mundane world by NMP'syou probably will have some trouble finding good tutors and we recommend you to attend a magical school.
There are many different schools around the world, usually one school in every country, with some exceptions for smaller or bigger countries. You are a British citizen and therefore might receive a Hogwarts letter on your 11th birthday; you might not, though, due to your moving to various countries in the last years.
Thule is a magical academy for children like you; with parents, magical or NMP, never staying long in one country for whichever reason. Those children with NMP parents often didn't get any letters before the start of the Academy in 1950, but are nowadays offered schooling with us.
The children living on one of the Atlantis isles also attend the Academy; they however follow another, magical only, program unless you, or they, specifically choose to switch programs.
Due to differences in admission between Hogwarts and Thule you are send our acceptance letter this year that you are about to finish your elementary education, while the Hogwarts letter should arrive on your 11th birthday, if youreceive it. It isyou and your guardians' choice which school to attend.
To give you the information to base your choice on we have included a leaflet on the school, the more informative booklet on what the school offers, a listing offirst year's books and other equipment, a summary on the Atlantis isles and a form we ask you to return to us before the first of July, no matter which school you choose to attend.
You may return this form trough the regular mail, twice addressed. The inner envelope should read: Admission Affairs,Thule International Magical Academy, Atlantis. The outer one can be addressed to the post office acting as transfer between the worlds in Spain: Oficina de correos, 713, Av de Menéndez Pelayo– 73, 28014 Madrid.
Since you have skipped a grade you won't receive any Hogwarts information soon, therefore I have made a comparison between the curricula taught at both schools. If you are interested in attending Hogwarts you might write them yourself to see if you are scheduled to receive an admission letter.
(Deputy Headmistress, Hogwarts School of witchcraft and wizardry, Great Britain)
To all children raised in the mundane world we offer a three week summer programme from the 10thto 31stof August, thethree weeks prior to the start of term on September 1st. This program aims on introducing you to common use of magic, common magical beasts, magical culture and etiquette. Last we teach the basics of Latin and its pronunciation. Many of the spells used in Occidental magic are in Latin and it has been noticed that children with previous education in this area have great advantages when studying magic. Of course it is also an introduction to the school and some of your classmates. This programme is optional and can be signed up for on the answering form.
With kind regards,
Ana-Maria Lopez,
Admission Affairs
He was accepted early! He could start learning magic, get away from the Dursleys and be part of that great magical world! Not that he had known about the International Magical Academy, Thule. He had seen the name once or so, but didn't know how it was different. It was not covered in 'An appraisal of magical education in Europe'and only mentioned in 'The international community of Atlantis'.But his parents would want him to go to Hogwarts, at least his father would.
With a glance towards his little travel clock he settled to read the additional information, starting with the comparison between the two. Surprising him with the reduced curriculum at Hogwarts; the Hogwarts curriculum had apparently decreased a lot in the past fifty years. Controlled by the conservative blood purist section the only changes had been the removal of real archaic practices, like the broom crafting and ritual magic. Or the courses the muggle lovers had managed to remove since purebloods would learn that from their parents, or thought it too plebeian anyway, like fencing, crafting and Latin. While no new classes had been added.. A quick look at the publication date of his education appraisal did explain the discrepancy though; his book was published seventy years ago and he made a note to check all publication dates of all the books.
The booklet on Thule was next, they taught more and it seemed to be the better school with the added bonus of leaving a year early.
Well informative the booklet was, a bit vague sometimes though.
'to keep it understandable, just believeme when I say that: time can be magically recorded and replayed many times. Since you have already lived this time you won't age. These recordings of time will be used to double the week,so that you might complete a non magical education at the same time as your magical one.
Thule island will be isolated from the outside world during this time, since the recording is only activated on the island. The rest of the world isn't there for the recording occurs between seconds, and those people that didn't enter the recording won't be walking around during the repeated week.
If you arestill interested in the theoryandarithmantic formulas you are either a scholar in heart and soul or far too nosy for your own good, but the information is available at the Academy.'
And some other interesting or notable parts were: Electives.
The timeslot 15.30-17.00 is for electives. You have fivesuch slots in a week, magic and international students both, international students just double them, completing two years of the electives in one years, which is why they are not mixed with the students from the magical only track.
Each year you can choose your electives from the list, some are for older students only, but most can be done anytime. You take an elective for a minimum of 1 year (some exceptions) and a maximum of 6 or 8 years (3 and 4 respectively for international students). Each year you can decide to quit and replace it with something else or nothing if you want to use the time for something else.
One elective each year is mandatory, more is advised. The most common amount is three slots, which can be two or three electives.
The school.
The academy is situated on its own isle, with a ferry connection to Atlantis at the beginning and end of term. Thule islandis approximately a four squarekilometres with in the centre of the isle the buildings that make up the school, with greenhouses,Quiddichfield, football/soccer field, tennis courts and other sports facilities, recreation areas, beaches and grounds spread around.
After finishing the booklet it was quite clear to him that he would not be attending Hogwarts. His mum had already proclaimed an interest in other schools and had regretted never finishing muggle secondary school, so she would have loved Thule. And while his dad had seemed a bit fixed on Hogwarts, he had talked about pranks and friends even more so he would not mind him going to Thule, would he? Here Harry doubted a bit, but Thule offered so much more than Hogwarts, surely his dad would be proud of him if he went there?
So Thule it was, and he would definitely not change his programme to the magical only one. Hell no, why would he? He'd loved to learn and the academy offered a mundane and magical education at the same time in a workable timetable and his mother wanted him to do both.
Sure his year would seem to be twice as long, but weekends and holidays you spent at school also doubled. And it mend that he had to spend less time at the Dursleys, at least in his eyes, since he was allowed to stay all but the summer holidays at school, they even offered some extra study programmes in the official Easter holiday weeks, leaving the doubled time for you to enjoy as a holiday.
Same with the time for electives, you could finish a lot of electives this way! If he would plan them out in advance, picking electives that he would need to practice on after finishing the courses, first and ones that were completely theoretical later he would be quite accomplished after graduation.
The leaflet was just that, a leaflet. Some pretty moving pictures, and very short list of facts about the school. Something nice to show to a relative in the know. And the summary on the Atlantis isles was a far cry from the amount of information given on his book,'The international community of Atlantis.'
It really was the mythical Atlantis but it had been destroyed in the early nine hundreds and not rebuild until after WWII and Grindewald, when they wanted a location that was completely independent from any existing power, magical and muggle, to serve as the seat for the world's government.
The leaflet on the summer programme was interesting, nice pictures, an example day schedule and advantages listed.
Now it was time to fill out the IMA admission form, Name, current address, nationality, place of birth, previous schools, you know, the whole official mess. After that came more interesting things; the program you wished to follow (the magic-only option needed specification), if you wanted Runes, Arithmancy or both (he choose both, since they had been his mothers favourites), what languages do you speak (English fluent, Welsh proficient, Dutch proficient, Italian proficient, French fluent, Spanish proficient), what 2nd language do you wish to study; French, Spanish, Latin, Chinese, Japanese, Russian, Greek or Arabic. Here he doubted a bit, finally settling on Latin since that seemed to be the main 'magical' language and he didn't know that much of it yet.
Then he had to choose his electives for the year. Here Harry got out his notebook, some piece of old paper and the correct page in the booklet and puzzled with the electives he wanted, not only those of this year but for all of his years at school. He ended up with a schedule filling the full 5 slots each year, leaving out some 3rd and 4th years of less important ones, but at least getting the basics, he expected, of all he wanted. He would finally be able to learn how to play an instrument!
Yes, on the form he acceded to a guide on his shopping trip to Atlantis. Yes, he would attend the summer program. While he had seen some magic in use in Diagon Alley, Rue Magique and Paseo de los Jardines, it wasn't daily exposure, nor had he seen any of the sports and fantastic beast he had read about. He had only a theoretical understanding of the magical world. And of course he wouldn't want to miss a chance to be away from the Dursleys longer.
Eventually all he needed was a signature from his parents/guardians: the Dursleys. He would never get that! What could he do now?
He decided to staple onto the form an explaining note, stating that while his parents had both been magical, he had been raised by his NMP aunt and uncle, who hated magic, had forbidden everything that could be remotely connected to magic and would not allow him to go, while his parents' letters and trust fund said something completely different. He himself would love to attend, if they could help him.
In the end, his note had been Honest and simple and, according the rules of the wizarding society that he was aware of, they would help. With that done, he folded all the papers and stuffed them in the provided envelopes. He would send them tomorrow on his way to the library.
It was to be expected that the Dursleys didn't react pleased when a witch showed up at their house. Not that they could tell before she had introduced herself, mind you. She was a petite woman, probably of Indian decent and dressed in a well-tailored business suit, nothing magical to it. She showed up the Saturday following Harry's application, before Harry had finished his chores and made it out of the house.
"Good morning Mrs. Dursley, Mr. Potter." She greeted them at the door "I'm professor Tevari, teacher of transfiguration and magical law at Thule, the International Magical Academy."
The word magical did the trick, as soon as she said that Petunia started screeching, "Magic, magical academy is it now? He will not be going! How dare you boy, you wrote them didn't you, I'll get you!" Professor Tevari had entered the house in the meantime, shutting the door behind her and silenced aunt Petunia once she stopped to gather new insults.
"I had heard that there were some problems with Mr. Potter's attendance and I can believe that. Usually the problems are of a different nature, at this stage." She spoke in a soft voice, not that anything more was necessary in the quiet house.
"I'm sorry to inform you that you can't deny Mr. Potter his right to magical education though, all you might do is enrol him at Hogwarts if you prefer." At the mentioning of Hogwarts Petunia went ashen, shaking her head vehemently. "But since you actually seem to think that is worse you'll have to allow Harry to come to the academy, or we will see you in court, magical court that is." Professor Tevari concluded, still in the same soft tone.
She waved with her wand, releasing the silencing spell, "Do you have any other objections Mrs Dursley? No? Then you should sign this form. Your nephew has already filled in everything else" and produced his admission form which aunt Petunia signed without any further protest. "Well, I'll take my leave now. You will receive a letter soon with a date somewhere in the holidays for your shopping trip Mr. Potter, you have nothing planned yet?"
Here Harry supplied his first and only addition to the conversation; "No Ma'm, any date is fine." The Dursleys would be visiting Britain again and had planned on leaving Harry alone at home. Locked in with an enormous amount of chores and not enough food probably, but he could go around that. And it did give him privacy and time to visit the magical world.
"You'll hear from us then, do make sure you have access to ample funds. Goodbye Mr. Potter, Mrs. Dursley" and with a simple nod from her head she walked out of the house.
Although the visit did ensure Harry's escape into the magical world, it did not make the last months any better. He had to endure a screeching of his aunt, yelling and attempts to hit him by uncle Vernon, Dudley who tried to be nasty and lots of chores. And as soon as possible, once the holiday had started, they locked him up.
But they hadn't been able to prevent Harry receiving instructions for his shopping trip, which was planned on Tuesday the 10th of July. It had arrived by mail and Harry had been commanded to get it, giving him ample opportunity to take his letter and hide it in his clothes. Nor had they caught him when he had managed another visit to the Paseo de los Jardines and got some more books.
He had also written to the Gringrotts branch in Diagon Alley, asking if he could get the key to trust fund for school expenses his parents had mentioned since he would be starting his education at Thule, the International Magical Academy. He kind of needed it since the other one was nearly empty by now. The reply stated that it would be available at the Atlantis branch if he could confirm his identity. He would receive his ledger with the information on all Potter vaults as well, and if he wanted to claim the Potter lordship. Apparently the requirements had been admission into a magical school and not his age while the things mentioned in the will wouldn't be released until he was eleven or of age. But Harry remembered his father's advice a year ago; "wait until your 17th birthday to claim it", so he would. First he wanted to know more about the wizarding world, about being a wizard.
On the 6th of July Harry was released again, allowed to leave his room for more than the daily trip to the bathroom. He did have to pack Dudley's stuff and finish an enormous list of chores to make up for his 'bumming inside his room', though. The Dursleys would depart for their 'well deserved vacation' on the 9th, the day before his shopping trip and they had told him not to return again.
Actually, when they departed Vernon told him that if he wasn't there on the 30th, when the Dursley's would return they would just wash their hands of him. He should then find a bridge to sleep under and beg on the streets, do whatever he liked but they wouldn't have him returning to them soaked in freakiness. Vernon would not have him darken his doorstep again if Harry would accede to go to that freak school of his.
If he was off, then their last act would be telling the Spanish international school that Harry would be attending boarding school in England, just like Dudley would next year.
On the 10th, Professor Tevari showed up again, not too surprised when Harry was the only one to greet her.. She was impressed with his knowledge of the wizarding world that he expressed in his questions, though: she actually had expected him to know nothing more that the letter had told him.
They entered Paseo de los Jardines, walked through an arch into a small patch of green where Harry hadn't been before. By each of the four walls were the same circles, four of them: two small ones etched side by side on the floor encompassed by a large one and a fourth, smaller one drawn on the wall. Mrs. Tevari first explained while she placed a foot on each of the smaller circles etched on the floor.
"This is the portal to Atlantis, at least the one closest to your home. You place your feet on the two smaller ones on the floor, touch the circle on the wall and say; "Atlantis" and they will bring you to a bigger portal grove, the one in Atlantis. To return her you say; "Paseo de los Jardines". The bigger grove in Atlantis is more flexible though, you can use it to go to many places around the world: all of the equivalences of Paseo de los Jardines like Diagon Alley in Britain, as long as you know its name. Easy isn't it, go ahead and try it. I'll follow right behind you so do remember to step away immediately."
Harry had no reason to doubt her; he could feel she believed that it would be okay, so he confidently approached the circles and stated his wish to go to Atlantis. The way of travel was completely new to Harry, the world started spinning very fast, and the floor disappeared before suddenly reappearing while the spinning stopped. He managed to stay on his feet, barely, stepping forward to stop himself from falling. This incidentally gave Mrs. Tevari the space necessary to land gracefully behind him while he found his balance. She took him out of the grove immediately, which was full with departing and arriving witches and wizards.
"You don't actually move so if you stand still you won't fall over," she advised before starting on the shopping aspects of the trip. "Well let's get shopping, do you need to visit a bank first?" she asked and at Harry's nod started walking straight ahead through a street with what seemed to be all kinds of clothing stores.
"Then banks are located in the middle of Atlantis town; we're now in the East quarter, the shopping district. The south is for the governmental buildings like the international confederation of warlocks, international court of justice and embassies. The West is the living quarter and the North is al kinds of public buildings, sport facilities, hospital, community housing. Some smaller living communities can be found all over the island. But I think you've read a bit about that already."
By then they had almost arrived at Gringotts, again an impressive marble building, the open doors flanked by goblins. They got in queue before one of the Goblins at the desks, waiting for their turn.
"Good morning sir, I'm Harry Potter and would like to pick up the key to my trust fund and withdraw money from it." Harry stated, wondering what he had to do to prove his identity. But the goblin simply waved another goblin closer and told him something in quick gobbledygook.
"You can follow Ironfist here, he will help you gain access." The first goblin said before waving the next in line towards him.
Getting the key and ledger turned out to be very simple; the identification just required a drop of blood on both items. He filled his moneybag with a big sum of galleons and could always use his key to pay otherwise, which might be smart to do that anyway with big expenses. And with a polite greeting they left again.
Harry dug out his list of equipment and books for the coming year to be able to strike out all he bought while Mrs. Tevari led them to Particia's Wizardwear.
"While the list only states the school-robes and a dress robe, you might want to consider buying a whole set of robes as well." Commented his companion. "They don't sell mundane clothing, though, but we can buy those later if you want to."
Inside the shop there were lots of robes in sight, with arrows floating around, pointing to the different sections. Harry decided that now he had money he would indeed buy himself some new, good clothes, finally. It was not like the Dursley's would see his robes, so he got himself measured for his school robes and browsed some others.
Casual wear were nice coloured robes in some different styles, taking some to try on later. Traditional robes were darker colours, many of them nearing black and they had the option to add a family emblem on the breast or back. They all had full length sleeves, unlike the casual robes were you also had short sleeves and sleeveless robes. The dress robes were colourful again, none of them the same style or fabric, from high necked to very revealing in the lady's section, NMP to traditional wizard wear. And the plain, brown or black, heavy fabric work robes in a corner.
By the time his school robes had been altered to fit him, spelled and ready to take home he had picked out enough robes to satisfy himself. He would finish his school shopping and his other robes would be altered and he would pick them up the next day.
They continued on a shoe store a couple of doors down the road. He got himself a pair of dragonhide boots, dress shoes and dancing shoes. He never owned more than one pair of shoes before, and Dudley's cast offs at that. He left the shop on one pair of his new shoes, dumping the old ones, to big and with holes in it, in the nearest container.
Since the whole street had different kinds of clothing stores their next stop was to buy trousers and button downs for under the robes if he wanted to, and sport clothing. Here as well he left with more clothes he had ever owned; different colours button downs and sweaters, black trousers but in different fabrics. Sport trousers, and shirts. But they were finally finished in this street, on to the next.
A trunk was next, since it would make carrying it all a lot easier. He bought a school trunk with two compartments, one for all of his new clothing, the second for equipment and his shrunken book trunk. Plus a bottomless, feather light bag to carry his books in at school. Followed by cauldrons, scales, glass and crystal vials, a knife set, pen, paper quill and parchment. Apparently many wizarding communities had seen that NMP pens are a lot easier to write with, but since many written spells and drawn ritualistic seals did require special writing implements, wizards still had to learn how to use a quill.
They then continued to the apothecary's lane, which had all kinds of specialised ethnical shops. According to Mrs. Tevari, he could find everything he needed this year in the common apothecary but next year he would need some specialised ingredients for the ritual class he took, as well as some for the potions he would make in the later years. Harry bought two sets of standard ingredients and the supplementary one since he hoped to be able to make some on his own.
And like the clothes and apothecary's lane Atlantis did not have just one bookshop, it had a lane. One side had all kinds of specialised bookstores, differed languages and some on subjects while the other was domineered by one enormous one. Harry found Heaven there. He found the books listed easily, they were all sorted out per year on the different shelves in the Thule section, and the electives on another shelf. After that, he just browsed picking up all kinds of books to add to his collection. Apparently the bookstore here also had visitors from other countries since it had some sets of books for other schools as well and Harry Happily picked up extra books on the subjects he had never studied before. Mrs. Tevari suggested him the supplementary list when she recognised his love for books and learning, adding another two or three books extra for each subject.
After that, all he needed was a wand. Wands it seemed were all custom made here so Harry was blindfolded and had to pick some materials after he had been measured. He ended up with a dual core wand; holly with phoenix feather and Thestral hair, which would be ready in three days.
They had diner together, talked a bit and after that Mrs. Tevari showed him an inn were he could stay the month before the summer programme, although she seemed quite reluctant to leave him alone in the city and spoke to the innkeeper before leaving.
He spent the next two days reading his muggle subjects books, where he didn't need a wand. The third day he went on a second shopping trip, picking up his wand, buying things like underwear and socks since he had totally forgotten about them before. He also got himself some folders and binders to organise his class notes in, and some more books, reference books especially. The school might have them but it never hurts to have your own copies.
After that he returned to reading, trying to read all of his new books, beginning with the actual class work books and continuing with the supplemental ones. And since he now had his wand he started his magical subjects as well. Practicing spells mentioned in the books of the wanded subjects since he could.
One of the loopholes in the underage restriction was the time between buying your first wand after being accepted into a magical school and starting at that magical school, other points were emancipated minors, wandless magic and heavily warded places. And of course potions, which didn't take any active, wanded magic so any witch or wizard could always practice it, some squibs even could.
And Harry really liked potions, he noticed. He had learned 'The properties of potion ingredients' and 'Brewing techniques explained' by heart a while ago so he understood why he had to stir clockwise, slow, fast or swirl. What kind of preparation enhances the qualities of the ingredients and what are you looking for. Sure, he still had lots to learn and had many questions to ask but he had quite a firm basis, equal to at least the third year level and that because he had no experience al all, only theory.
Not that he knew that himself, the Dursleys did leave some results of their neglect and hate; he had never been praised at home. At school yes and he tried to make his parents proud, but they weren't there to say that they were. He still believed that he had to do better.
He actually had stared to think about some pranks, since his father talked a lot about pranking. His own kind of pranks, but pranks none the less. Harry loved to manipulate people into thinking things which were not correct. He didn't need them to find out, he actually liked it better when they never did since then he could keep laughing behind their backs. Surviving skills at the Dursleys, but if you don't have to it can be fun.
On his birthday he didn't study though, then he read the letters from his parents, wandered a bit through Atlantis, buying some less necessary items and read the book 'Politics for dummies' which his father had sent.
He received a Beauxbatons letter that day as well, but after reading it he decided that he liked Thule better, and he had already accepted. So he wrote a note politely declining the offer and dropped it of at the post office.
The Beauxbatons letter did put a big question on Harry's mind, though: "How does Thule really stand in education against the world at large?" He went to find out: rather than visit another bookstore, he went to one of the governmental libraries and found the latest edition of a book called "The Best Educational Institutions of the World". He wasn't disappointed: he found a dozen chapters, the first ten dedicated each to a particular school from around the world, an eleventh one drawing comparisons and contrasts, and a distressingly short last chapter dealing with Hogwarts, referring to it as "the tarnished jewel" and describing how it had fallen in the last twenty-five years from the third place to out-of-rank.
He did learn a lot about Thule from a global point of view, though, and couldn't feel more cheerful: while this American Salem Academy excelled at technomancy, French Beauxbatons excelled at all-around charms and enchantments and this Mexican Calmecac seemed to be the place to go for ritualistic and shamanic mastery, Thule seemed by far the best source for a well rounded education.
He had a nice conversation with some people in the common room of the inn, where someone asked him why he wore glasses, and such old ones at that. Referring to the places they were taped together. Apparently the healers could correct his vision in a couple of days. And since Harry had never liked his glasses he visited the hospital the next morning and was settled in a bed, with a book charmed to read aloud next to him while his eyes were covered, for the treatment before the noon meal. He had his first experiences with wizarding candy in those three days he spent there: someone had decided that he deserved something nice the second afternoon, giving him a chocolate frog and the next day a cauldron cake, which he really appreciated. He got to speak with the medi-witches as well, the nurses of the magical hospital, who came by often if they had time.
After those three days he could see better than he had ever could with his glasses and he got finally rid of those ugly, annoying things. Now all he had to do was do something about the annoying mop of hair that would not do what he wanted. Then he would actually look nice for a change. But he didn't really know how to do that so he returned to studying his new schoolbooks. He had finished the actual course books, so he got started on the supplementary ones in the last days leading up to the muggleborn introduction period.
He studied the Potter accounts ledger in those days as well, he definitely was relieved that he had not taken the Potter lordship yet and had planned to take the business management elective. Because right now it was just very much money, chaos, different kinds of investments, vaults and property. He had even played with the thought of visiting the goblins at Gringotts to see if they would explain, but decided that he would do that next year or so. Now he wanted to read as many of the supplementary books before the muggle introduction camp began.
A/N I know, ages since I updated my story. I can honestly say that since then I have written lots, but I also crashed my computer and lost almost everything again. This chapter has been mostly done for a while though and if I had finished editing I could have updated ages before.
I am going to try and update with the next chapter in the not too distant future. But it probably will be a month or so. And I might finally have found out how to edit already published chapters. Because it is kind of necessary and I did not completely ignore your comments and reviews (which I definitely appreciate).