#ahow

seriously no pressure, but i was wondering if you’d made any progress with the next chapter of AHOW, and if you have, whether you could give us any throwaway lines/ snippets of dialogue to tide us over until the next update?

thank u for all u do and i hope November is treating you very well

thank you, I hope you're doing well too! 🥰

yes I have! I'm going to post the next chapter before Christmas, a nice angsty holiday gift for us all 🎄🎁

some lines from ch16 for you:

Harry scrunched his fingers inside his jacket pockets. He tried to smile and smother the sound of Lupin’s voice in his head telling him that he was dying.

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Harry stared, uncomprehending.

“Dumbledore told me I might find you here,” Lupin explained, stepping into the room. His eyes fixed on Harry. His face betrayed little, though his throat bobbed. The skin around his eyes grew tight. Lupin cleared his throat. “Hello, Harry. Neville,” he added, nodding.

“Hi, Professor!” Neville said, gardening spade forgotten beside him. There was an instant happiness and ease about him that Harry – he found with a pang – didn’t quite share.

“It’s good to see you again,” Lupin said, shaking Neville’s hand.

Harry offered his own belatedly, shock filling his head with white noise.

“You too,” Neville enthused. To his credit, only a hint of regret bled into his expression as he looked between Harry and Lupin. “I’ll, er – be getting on, then. Thanks for helping me, Harry.”

“Sure, Neville,” said Harry, though he wasn’t convinced he had helped that much at all.

There was a heavy moment of silence after Neville had gone.

“You look as though you’ve seen a ghost,” Lupin told Harry. “I was under the impression Dumbledore had told you I was coming.”

Right. The memory barely brushed the surface of Harry’s mind.

“I forgot,” said Harry stupidly.

“That’s alright,” Lupin assured him. He paused. “What do you say we sit?”

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