For those of you hoping to see an update to this story I wish to apologize. Having received a rather enlightening review recently I have finally summed up the motivation to take down this story and begin a major re-write.
For some time now I have been unhappy with how it was (and wasn't) moving and the story was suffering because of this. Plot inconsistencies were everywhere, canon issues were common and the fic was suffering hugely from being a fifth year story converted into a sixth year one with minimal reworking.
The main contributing factors to the story's issues I think were as follows:
Having been written over an unbelievably long FOUR YEARS (with a two year gap of no writing in the middle) the story's overall plot has changed a lot in my head and I lost track of a lot of things
Changing to a sixth year fic seemed easy but looking back through the story now I realize I stuffed it up majorly
I was lazy when I wrote sections of this and didn't bother to do the most basic of checks
The characters in the story had evolved into something I didn't like anymore
In short this story failed to (in my opinion) properly represent me as a writer. While it was all my work and I thought some of it was good, I know I am capable of constructing a much better story.
So my hat goes off the that ballsy reviewer who sent me a small book of issues. I thank you (genuinely) for giving me the motivation to attempt this re-write. I hope the finished product will be of a higher standard.
Thank you to everyone who read the old version. As a side note it would loosely be possible to just pick the story up from the next new chapter (chapter 22) and still understand what was going on. The story will get to the same point, it will just take a new path getting their. As I'm sure I mentioned in the new chapter 1 I will attempt to note the major changes at the end of each chapter for convenience sake.
Thanks again everyone and you do have my apologies if you wanted to know what happens next.
Regards
Tom