I always feel extremely strange when I'm writing these things, having never really been all that good at talking about myself.  In any case, here are the basics: I'm a 30-year-old Canadian who started reading the Harry Potter books about ten years ago just to see what all the fuss was about.  I wrote my first fanfic about a year later, and I've been semi-active in the fandom ever since.  I am very musical; I play the bagpipes, I've played the violin since I was about nine years old and I sing with two choirs (a community choir I've been singing with for thirteen years and a church choir I've been singing with since late 2008).   Writing is also one of my many obsessions, and (much to my relief) the monstrous case of writer's block which grabbed me for a couple of years seems to be gradually letting go.  Even so, should I submit any chaptered fics here, it's reasonable to assume that the updates will be pretty far apart even if they're actually finished before I start posting.  It's not intentional; I'm just extremely perfectionistic and, at times, a little forgetful.