As with every other reviewer, the excellent rewriting of canon stood up on its own, and wonderfully so, for me. Not once did I have to stretch my imagination away from JKR's. It was all laid out neatly and believably, and I became thoroughly wrapped up in it within moments of the beginning.
But something else stood out when I read this fic, and that is the quality of your writing. You have a decided talent for description, imbuing the scantest phrase with entrancing imagery. Very well done for that and for achieving such an easy style and flow when this is, I believe, your first full length fic.