The Final Author's Note

It's Ok. Breathe.

Good.

Now I know this is kind of scary but let me explain:

First of all don't give up hope on me just yet. I know I probably scared half of you to death out there but now I know that I have your attention. You see, while I am in fact discontinuing this story I am not discontinuing TSTW. That's right. Feeling better?

Let me explain further. For all of you who have been with me since the beginning...or the last couple of months at least...then you know I have been having a bit of trouble with a certain court scene, Well, as of New Year's Early Morning that no longer is a concern (woo hoo).

Now I have probably confused the lot of you.

How can she have gotten past the Writer's Block but now she's abandoning ship?

Well you see, I realized that my problem wasn't only the court scene...I have been having problems for a long while. See, I have a great deal of this story written out already, chapters here and there. I also have an even greater amount planned out in my mind. Now this is where my problem lies. NOTHING FITS!

The further I go the more screwed up I get! My time line is all over the place! Currently I have Damien completely known to be Damien by the entire wizarding world before he gets to Hogwarts and has to be Draco...I have Bethanie/Hermione kind of punkish with a devil may care attitude and then suddenly she becomes the 'old' Hermione again...Harry just kind of disappears into the fold...Fred is like, non-existent...Alex, oh don't get me started on her, graduated at 11, kidnapped at 12, married at 13, mother at 12, dead at 15, dead at 18, orphaned at 12, in Azkaban for 2 weeks, in Azkaban for 4 1/2 weeks, somehow mysteriously taken by the ministry under Voldemorts nose and no one in the ministry notices...Remus seems to know nothing of Damien's summer at the Burrow even though Remus spent the entire summer there with Damien and they have an entire conversation about it like they don't know the other already knows!...Alicia seems to just be there and doesn't seem to be much of a mother...Also the whole lot of them seem to always be in this HUGE group together and they are always running around in this HUGE group and NO.ONE.NOTICES!

Anyway the point I am trying to make here is that I am going to completely rewrite this story. A lot of things will be the same but also a lot of things are going to have changed.

I have already started to work on a time line and family trees and outlines and everything else I can think of to keep my story straight.

I am going to keep this one up but with a different title so that if someone wants to read the 'other' version to see what changes were made they can.

I am not quite sure when the new one will be up but hopefully it will be relatively soon. So keep an eye out for it or if you want just set for an author's alert on me or let me know if you want a PM or email when I do post it. I can't guarantee that i'll remember to post a link at the end of this dud or not.

I want to thank all of you who stuck with me on this and hopefully those of you who will continue to stick with me.

I especially want to thank those of you who provided your ideas to help me get through the last dilemma.

So like I said, Keep a eye out for TSTW:Revised

The Real Hagrid 13

(Meghan)