The Last Sanguimagus is now on LJ!

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I have just finished editing the last entry on lastbloodwitch, the new home for the Last Sanguimagus, my SS/OFC work-in-progress. A great big thank you to all who read, all who review, and all who offered advice about structuring the archive.

I have also finished uploading the revised, updated version of tLS to every archive it is currently hosted at (save one, but only two people seem to be reading it there, so it's a bit lower on my list of priorities).

The Last Sanguimagus Chapter Index - Chapter One

Why did this take so long? Because I went through each and every chapter, using the original beta read that odddollsstories did for me, the new Britpicking from lfire1, and my own new thoughts about writing. I had to make four files from each chapter, one for each kind of archive.

What was changed? Well, truthfully, not a lot. The revision is really just a glossy coat of paint.

I fixed a few canon errors. For example, I had Dean Thomas in one chapter, and then, for no apparent reason, switched his name erroneously to Lee Jordan in the next. I also thought that Katie Bell's last year at Hogwarts was Harry's fifth, so I had to change that.

I cleaned up the wording. I excised several redundant words, and checked every single phrase such as "was humming" to see if "hummed" was a better fit. I also fixed a few typos that I always seem to make; I almost always type "suspicious" when I mean to type "suspicions," for example. Also, I sometimes write "she her" because I change my mind about the way a sentence is moving, and I don't notice that I didn't delete "she."

I changed all of the dream sequences to the present tense, for consistency's sake.

I incorporated a few things from book six. Snape is now a halfblood, and there is a reference to Inferi and also to Horcruxes.

I also took a long and careful look at Hermione, Poppy, and Minerva, and toned down some of their reactions to Sarah. Several readers mentioned some displeasure at some of the interaction, and I agree with it, especially Poppy and Minerva. Hermione does an abrupt switch in the story, but I did not change it, because I feel it's in line with her character. I did tone down a few of the conversations, but only by a little.

Should I reread it? I doubt it's necessary. Nothing has been changed substantially.

Are you going to revise and revise and revise and never update again? Nope, this is it. I have already spent waaaay too much time writing this story. I did this revision for one major reason: I want to end the story within another twenty or thirty chapters. When that happens, I might get another few readers, those who have been waiting for it to be finished before reading it. So I wanted it to be relatively clean and sparkly when they found it. Plus, I really didn't want to start revising after it I finished; I would have lost interest, I think. I want to start some new things after it's done. So this is it, the last major revision.

New chapter soon? Oh yeah. Within the next few days, I think.