I logged into my "fanfiction email" a moment ago and was both shocked and touched to see how many reviews and alerts I receive on this story, even though I haven't updated in two years. I feel very lucky to have such a readership. I also feel awful for not updating in two years. Here is my thin attempt at an explanation.

I love this story. It has a lot of unique things going for it. But the negative things (which my perceptive reviewers point out and I completely agree with) overpower it for me. Upon rereading I have to laugh at my high school self (much like Old Harry, really) for coming up with all that teenaged torment.

So I want to finish this, but I can't add on to the pile of steaming high school angst. A couple of times I've sat down to write a new chapter and found that I couldn't, not with the previous plotlines to tie up that I'd prefer didn't exist. When I do finish this, it will mean rewriting lots and lots of it first.

I'll keep this version up of course, because clearly people still enjoy it, but when I have the time and the drive to redo this story I will, and I'll repost it as a new story. I'll let you know here when that happens and point you to it.

When will that happen? Honestly, I don't know. Probably when I want to throw all my original novel characters out of their ship's airlock and spend more time with good old HP. That could be next month, it could be in another two years. I can't promise anything.

Thanks again for all your reading and support. I don't think I'm overstating things to say that writing this story in high school and receiving your feedback made me a better writer today. That's why I love fanfiction and defend it whenever people say it's a waste of time—it makes better writers of us all.

-astropixie