After 25 long months, this project, this story is finally over. To all my reviewers, I'm very pleased that you have enjoyed this story, and I thank you for your kind words and support.
In the beginning, this story was all about how choices affect what happens in the future; how one little change can affect so much. In a story like Harry Potter, this is a major issue, since magic is the main fantasy part of the story. By making one change to an already established character, the entire story changed. Those of you who read HP7 will know the 'real' ending to the story. What I have written is as close to the main timeline with subtle, and sometimes more blatant, changes.
This was originally an exercise in how to fend off boredom in between University years. What it became was a project on a philosophical idea – do the choices we make, no matter how great or small, affect who we are as a person? Are we forever doomed to a single way of thinking; of behaving? Or are we able to influence our future by choosing a different path? Is our freedom of choice a myth, or do we have the ability to change the future by a choice we make now?
Ultimately, the simple fact is this, my friends. We need to work together, and not against each other, in order for our choices to matter in the grand scheme. The sooner each person makes the conscious choice for peace and harmony, only then do those choices make a difference.
I leave you with one final question readers: You had the choice to read this story. If you had the chance to go back and change your mind, would you do it? Would you make that choice?
I wouldn't.