Took so long to respond. Laziness. But I'm back in the funky writing groove, so I thought reading the reviews might help. Anyway. Thanks for your review, I'm really glad you like my writing style. Thank for your honesty. To be truthful, a lot of people seem to have preferred Fairytale - whether because of how it's written or whatever. It's interesting to hear the other side of that. As for the quotes, well, picking each quote for the beginning and end of a chapter is how I start writing - they're my base, even though sometimes the end quote may change if the chapter veers wildly off from where it was going originally.

The Occlumency lessons did happen as they did in the books - they're really where we swing far away from canon. It just seemed pointless writing each year, given that my brain really didn't want, I was dying to get to some actual plot and it really wasn't hugely important. If I ever revise this, I might go back and add in a couple of chapters there.