I was looking for a way to start this with the same excitement I normally have, but I can't seem to find it. So for now I will take a more somber and serious tone. I have some things to address with this story and the succession of stories in my Harry Potter series. Although people seem to leave Gilderoy Lockhart and the Forgettable Flower alone.

I want to address something that has come up quite a bit with Prisoner of Circumstance and it really bothers me on a visceral level. The fact that I have written a connection, not even a romantic one, between two characters, who are fictional I might add, despite the age difference of 14 years. Yes, I know, I wrote Dahlia as a child and Sirius as a young man, however there was no romantic intent between those two when she was a child nor any "grooming". The fact that I have been called out for writing pedophilia is absolutely disgusting to me as this was not my intent and yet even after defending my work and my friends defending my work it still happens.

So I am addressing this one final time. Yes there was a connection between Sirius and Dahlia when she was a child, there was one with Remus and Snape as well. However this connection was not in a romantic light. Sirius loved the girl as a protector/guardian not a partner and the same for Snape. She loved Sirius as a protector, someone to keep her safe in the chaotic mess the wizarding world was in during that time. Then he went to Azkaban. They were separated and Dahlia got to grow up and develop feelings for other people. I haven't gone right out and said it but she and Oliver Wood were a couple. There's a lot that you all don't see because I haven't written it down, but in my head she has 10 years of school and life that happened without Sirius' influence, she thought him to be guilty until the beginning of Prisoner. She then realizes that her feelings go beyond friend and protector during the story. Because feelings for someone you were once close to never change – sarcasm I know but honestly this whole pedophile narrative makes me extremely salty.

I get attacked for three chapters deemed creepy or pedophilia or child grooming. I am a mother and that makes my stomach turn. Think about the words you use before you say them, you have no idea what it does to someone when you think you are leaving a review. I have agonized over months about every review I have received that calls me out as writing pedophilia or something creepy. I have responded to some and honestly in ways I shouldn't have. However I am so damn tired of trying to make people understand what I meant behind it. I have even contemplated giving up writing and taking these stories down, it's affected me that much. I am in a hole of depression because of the last review from lem0ndr0ps calling me abhorrent and taboo and not something they agreed with, in a public review and I cannot delete instead of being courteous and sending me a message. I replied and to be honest I should have waited but I can't take it back, I know heed my own lesson.

The last thing I will say on this, if anyone else reviews talking about the creepy and calling Sirius a pedophile in essence calling me one I will block you and report your review. It is the point of view of the reviewer that twists what is written and I am so exhausted and distressed trying my best to stay civil and defend one of my favorite stories I've written. I have stopped writing Harry Potter because of all this and I honestly don't know if I will continue or even keep this series up. I am done with all the awful things I'm getting called in my reviews, people saying I'm triggering them and whatnot. I am angry and sad and drained having to address it all, so I'm done. I hope that some of you take this to heart, I'm not looking for an apology or really any response just think before your mind twists something into what it's not. Last thought on the subject, I'm done addressing it.