Hello!

First off, I'd like to apologize for leaving you guys in the dark. I know it's been like two years since I last updated this story (March 4th, 2018 from what is telling me), and many of you might have assumed you'd get no more after the first year of no updates. I'd like to explain why this happened and what I shall be doing going forward.

First off: what happened. I was unsatisfied with how the story was coming out, I felt that the Harry in this story wasn't really the Harry we all know, and I wanted to go back and rework what I had written to fix that. I was making some decent progress, despite school work piling up… But then I fell ill, and I was unable to continue working on this. On top of that, because of a problem with my insurance, I wasn't able to be seen by a doctor until the following year, and I didn't receive a diagnosis until at least March 2019. By the time I started to get my illness under control, Breath of the Wild 2 had been announced, and thus I decided to put this fic on hold until that's released and I've been able to play it. That decision still holds today, as it is my intention to also incorporate the sequel into the story of this fic.

I've also decided to change how I update my fics: instead of releasing them chapter-by-chapter, I've decided to work on them in chunks. That is: I'll now be working on an arc-by-arc basis (or season-by-season basis, if you prefer), and when an arc is complete, I'll then rapidly release the arc over the course of a few months. I've not yet decided how quickly to release them, but I've been thinking anywhere from one chapter for every three days, to one chapter for every day.

The good thing about this approach is that I can still work at my own pace, while still having the ability to go back and fix things, instead of retconning things in later. You'd also not get left with an incomplete story (or at least, an incomplete arc) like I've done the last two times.

Which leads us to now: Since I won't be working on HPatBotW, I've decided to work on something else in the meantime, and have been slowly working on another fic. I won't say much about it at this time, but all I'll say is that it's an idea that's been rattling in my brain for a while, and I already like the writing of this fic much more than HPatBotW. It's also another cross-over fic with Harry Potter in it. Don't worry, this doesn't mean I'm abandoning HPatBotW, I'll get back to it at some point, it just means that my writing has actually improved since then. In line with my new update policy, I'll only start releasing chapters for it once I've completed the first arc. So far I've been thinking of making the first arc at least 75 chapters, which will obviously take a while, though I'm not entirely sure on that number and I may cut down on the amount of chapters as I get more into the fic and decide to expedite certain parts of it that don't really add to the story.

One last thing while I have your attention: I've decided to make a Discord Server. I'm still setting things up (at least as of writing this on July 7th, 2020), but I feel like this can be a better avenue of receiving information from me than author's notes, as it doesn't break you from the story itself. Also, it's a good motivating force for me to have a more direct link to readers, and I'd really like to hear everyone's thoughts once I start releasing chapters again. I'll put the invite code below this paragraph, join if you'd like:

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With that, I'll leave you guys for now to actually work on the fic.

Until next time!

Davkilla101