Year Seven:: Brink of a Nightmare
NRSV (New Revised Standard Version!)
Because I need time to contemplate where I’m going, how I'm getting there, and at what pace I'm pushing the plot, I’m going to be going back and editing the old chapters. Needless to say, in a story that has stretched to nearly 240 pages, there are edits that simply need to be made, and they need to be made BEFORE I get into the grist of the final chapters. Don't worry. As Martha Stewart would say, it's a good thing.

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"Once upon a time, they say, there was a girl ... there was a boy ... there was a person who was in trouble. And this is what she did ... and what he did ... and how they learned to survive it. This is what they did ... and why one failed ... and why another triumphed in the end. And I know that it's true, because I danced at their wedding and drank their very best wine."
-- Terri Windling, "Ashes, Blood, and the Slipper of Glass."

Chapter One | The Creaky Stair
Posted March 1, 2006

This chapter really hasn't changed much from the original. The major changes don't start until Chapter Three.
Chapter Two | The Sorriest and Most Decrepit House of Potter
Posted March 6, 2006
*Chapter Three | Bedlam at the Burrow
Posted March 18, 2006
*Chapter Four | Something Borrowed
Posted March 21, 2006.

Fred and George are in their element. Ginny's plan goes belly-up.
 
*Chapter Five | Here and There
Posted March 24, 2006.
I'm really turning out chapters this week, aren't I? This should be a good one, though admittedly, H/Hr shippers will derive more enjoyment from it than H/G ones.
*Chapter Six | Onboard the Hogwarts Express
Posted March 27, 2006
 
*Chapter Seven | Mixed Messages
Posted April 5, 2006
*Chapter Eight | Dumbledore's Men
Posted April 17, 2006
HAPPY EASTER!
Chapter Nine | Unraveling R.A.B.
Posted May 9, 2006
These two chapters didn't change much at all! I would have posted them both much sooner but I couldn't get FTP commander (my website uploader) to work!
*Chapter Ten | Seen and Overheard
Posted May 9, 2006
 
Chapter Eleven | A Good, Old-Fashioned Affair
 
*Chapter Twelve | Brinksmanship
Chapter Thirteen | Ancient Strife
 
Chapter Fourteen | Waxing and Waning  
*Chapter Fifteen | Mars is Bright Tonight/Sinister Samhain
*Chapter Sixteen | Repercussions
The chapter I somehow forgot to include in the original. Doof.
Chapter Seventeen | Up in Smoke
*Chapter Eighteen | The Minister's Folly
Totally different than the original chapter, An Exercise in Totalitarianism.
Chapter Nineteen | The Lessons of Pandora
zOMGz. I love this chapter and the way it's shaping up!
*Chapter Twenty | Interlude and Requiem
Totally different than the original chapter, also titled Interlude and Requiem.
*Chapter Twenty-One | Danger Granger
Totally different than the original chapter, From the Cusp of Death. Title taken from a Mugglenet editoral of the same name, but only read it if you want to spoil the gist of the chapter for yourself ;)
*Chapter Twenty-Two | Everything Changes
Major adjustments needed to be made. Think along the lines of first kisses...
Chapter Twenty-Three | The Fortress on the Rocks
Chapter Twenty-Four | This Dangerous Pilgrimage
*Chapter Twenty-Five | In the Forest of the Dead
That's right, no more Egypt. That chapter took a lot of work, but ultimately, it didn't do what I needed it to do, so they'll be off to ________ instead ;)
Chapter Twenty-Six | Valentines and Other Notes
End edits here.
Chapter Twenty-Seven | Signed, the Half-Blood Prince
Chapter Twenty-Eight | Classified Information
  Chapter Twenty-Nine | Pawn Shopped  
Chapter Thirty | Remembrances and the Forgetful One
Chapter Thirty-One| The Hanged Man
Chapter Thirty-Two | An Untoward Ally
Chapter Thirty-Three | Walpurgis Night
Chapter Thirty-Four | A Last Illusion
Chapter Thirty-Five | Trespass Against
 
 
  Epilogue | The Prophet and The Quibbler
 
Sarah's Darling Graveyard
You know the saying, when it comes to writing, you have to "kill your darlings." Well, once it's all done, I'll post some of the scenes that were downright painful for me to cut.

*Chapters with significant modifications (and chapters that are totally new) will be marked with an asterisk*

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