It does need to be finished, but the author has unfortunately not updated in the month or so that I've been checking...which means, not since September, going by the date on the story. But there's still hope! Or at least, we can still have hope! With luck, we will even get an update this year :)
...very soon this year, I hope, seeing as there's rather a lot of this year left to go...

~DF

I agree about the Killing Curse--it seems rather violent for a Healer, not to mention against the law and, assuming Healers have anything like the Hippocratic Oath, I'm pretty sure it would go against that, too. Tara could still perhaps have been saved...or maybe an exorcism could have been found to get rid of Ebony?

As I said before, in my opinion it's a very well-done story, which could, with a little editing, be absolutely amazing in every way.