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From the author's notes: I started writing this story in part because I'd bogged down on a book I was working on (now debogged), and that means my top priority was to have fun writing again. It might have helped in other ways, too. Release of this fanfic correlates with increased traffic on LW: http://siteanalytics.compete.com/lesswrong.com Apparently if you want to get more people to visit your site, write Harry Pot…
Wow . From 20k to 100k visitors? That's pretty impressive, although I didn't notice any major uptick in # of comments or new posts.
Hopefully that means people are taking time to read through the important sequences before commenting much.