I realize it's almost been a full year since I've updated any of my fanfics, and it's time I provided some kind of explanation here as to what's going on. First of all, I wanted to say thank you - thank you to the reviewers and readers who still send in encouraging comments each day, even now. It means a lot to me to know that people are still out there, reading, even if I don't update anymore.

RL has been busy, with university and whatnot, and frankly, my muse has died. It's been so long since I've updated that everytime I try to continue my fics, I can't help but notice how different my writing is now, and how I can't seem to connect the chapters anymore. It's painful, knowing that my stories are dead, but I can't bring myself to update with trashy chapters just for the sake of continuing these fics. So for now, I'm going on a long hiatus. I'll probably be back someday, when life has calmed down a little, and at that point, I may decide to rewrite and repost these fics. I hope that day comes soon in the future.

I still write one-shot fics in the Harry Potter fandom, but those are posted at my livejournal and private to pretty much everyone that I don't personally know. Thank you so much to my readers, and betas and translators, for all the encouragements they've given me in my fanfic-career.

With love -

Firestar

June 1st, 2006

Interpreter/Translators:
-Valerie - (Translating CFU into French)
-Agranta - (Translating CFU into German)found at:
http://www.fanfiction.net/read.php?storyid=1893523