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Hello, thank you for your ask :)

I’ve never been bothered by RoA getting read a lot more than my other stuff. Once I post a fic, I sort of stop interacting with it. I don’t check my stats or anything. I write a fic and then stick it on AO3 like a kid putting their artwork proudly on the fridge: “There you go! Yeah, that looks good.” Then I wander off to my next project.

Don’t feel bad if you only like one of my fics or haven’t bothered reading the rest — you should enjoy my fanfic without worrying about things like that :)

That song was actually released after RoA was written 😅 It definitely fits the vibes though! There’s lots of songs that do, but I tried to remain faithful to the ask and only include what I actually listened to at the time of writing.

“James thinks of how he used to explore this land all the time with Teddy. They’d climb trees, and walk along ridges, and wade through the creeks and streams. The last thing Teddy saw was that rainforest in Wales. Maybe, just before he died, he was remembering being eleven years old and whistling as he followed the thread of a stream, five-year-old James on his shoulders. Maybe, as his lungs filled with water, he was dreaming of home.”

Astra Inclinant actually started off as a one-shot from Scorpius’s point of view, but as I wrote more of the story, I realised I had to restructure it. To keep some of the mystery and tension (and control the pacing), I had to keep at least one perspective hidden. It became a question of which perspective to remove.

I had to keep one of the parents’ perspectives so I could show what was going on at home, and I had to keep one of the boys’ perspective so I could show what was going on at Hogwarts. Of the parents, I chose to keep Harry’s perspective. Harry wears his heart on his sleeve, and withholding his perspective wouldn’t really keep readers guessing about his thoughts or emotions.

Of the boys, I chose to keep James as he has the most contact with other characters — not just Harry, Draco, and Scorpius, but also Rose, Teddy, and the extended Weasley family. So I kept his perspective in order to show little glimpses into the lives of all the others.

This left Draco and Scorpius. Either perspective could have been removed, but ultimately I chose to keep Draco since there were long periods of time where he was alone at the manor (with Scorpius at Hogwarts and Harry only visiting infrequently) and I wanted to keep moving the plot forward during those times.

So it was a conscious and tactical decision to remove Scorpius’s perspective, and it was purely about optimising pace and narrative tension.