Chapter 238: Meeting His Match
11 August 1994, Quidditch Trillenium Stadium, England
Harry woke up just after dawn. It was out of habit more than anything, due to his years of practicing his Occlumency early in the morning. He got up and took a walk around the campsit...
2024-03-19 14:12:12 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 237: Courtly Retroflection
10 August 1994, Quidditch Trillenium Stadium, England
Fleur followed her father to her tent, feeling confused, lost, but also anxious. She had no idea how her father was going to react after she’d tell him about their conversat...
2024-03-17 12:06:16 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 236: Of Blooming Flowers
10 August 1994, Quidditch Trillenium Stadium, England
Fleur Delacour didn’t want to be there. She didn’t particularly like Quidditch. The sport just lacked grace. She preferred Broom Racing. Now, that was a fascinating sport, that ...
2024-03-16 12:51:18 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 235: Vengeful Ruby
10 August 1994, Cokeworth, Britain
Severus Snape found himself in a sorry state indeed. He couldn’t help but chuckle as he took a large gulp of Firewhiskey. Dumbledore had royally fucked him with his last stunt, and he had lost practically...
2024-03-14 12:39:21 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 234: The Clever Owl
10 August 1994, Quidditch Trillenium Stadium, England
She must have noticed him staring because she turned and stiffened when she recognized his face. She snuck away from Neville, who was admiring a small Quidditch match happening in th...
2024-03-12 09:22:47 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 233: Cultural Exchange
10 August 1994, Black Manor
Having decided on who to summon, he took out the stone from the wand and turned it three times, thinking of Lily Potter. Yet, he was only met with a silent room. Harry’s eyes grew wider, and his skin gre...
2024-03-10 13:54:14 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 232: The Stony Path
23 July 1994, Black Manor
Harry woke up feeling far better than he did for months. It was borderline miraculous to not feel the constant pain with every breath. With a grin, he summoned his glasses wandlessly, and relished the lack of strai...
2024-03-09 12:10:28 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 231: Remnants of Gaunt
21 July 1994, Little Hangleton
Harry knew he was being a little impulsive, but he had done his best considering the circumstances. Truth be told, he was more than a little desperate; his magic kept burning with extended use, something th...
2024-03-07 13:51:51 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 230: The Wise Girl
16 July 1994, Longbottom Manor
Neville lay flat on his back, breathing hard as though he had been running. He had awoken from a vivid dream with his hands pressed over his forehead, precisely near his infamous scar. He sat up, one hands stil...
2024-03-05 13:31:06 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 229: The Old Guard
30 June 1994, London, England
Arcturus Black sat in a small café in London, while waiting for his ward to arrive from school. Though only in his mid-seventies, the Black Patriarch looked much older than a wizard of his years should. It was ...
2024-03-03 13:14:53 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 228: The Serpent’s Maw
30 June 1994, Hogwarts, Scotland
The world was absent of colours. Everything was just shades of grey, and even as Harry looked at his own hands, they weren't any different. He felt a profound silence enveloping him, a quietude that see...
2024-03-02 14:34:42 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 227: Black and White
30 June 1994, Paris, France
It was night. The city of Paris, with its sprawling boulevards and grandiose monuments, lay cloaked in a serene silence, broken only by the soft murmur of the Seine as it meandered through the city's heart. The ...
2024-02-29 14:26:40 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 226: Wisdom Incarnate
15 June 1994, Longbottom Manor
“So, tell me, how have you been, Neville?”
The woman standing in front of Neville was a kindly young woman that had a warm smile on her face, “Seriously, that’s what you’re starting with? How...
2024-02-27 13:27:52 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 225: Gold Rush
31 May 1994, Hogwarts, Scotland
It had been almost a month since the third task and Harry couldn’t quite believe that Dumbledore was really gone. He fully expected the old man to just come back one day with some kind of ridiculous excuse that ...
2024-02-25 13:12:42 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 224: The Long Howl
20 May 1994, Republic of Ireland
Remus Lupin watched a small village near a green valley, admiring the way the children were playing without a single care in the word. The adults were sitting comfortably next to each other, either working or...
2024-02-24 15:03:25 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 223: A Rose’s Thorns
15 May 1994, Nott Manor, Liverpool
Cassius Nott loved his life. Oh, sure, it wasn’t perfect, but recently, everything was going surprisingly well for him. He was not blind to the advantages he had over most of the wizarding world. Afte...
2024-02-22 15:08:14 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 222: Darker Hearts
5 May 1994, Hogwarts, Scotland
Harry woke up in pain, as he had the previous couple of days. He raised his trembling hands to the table next to his bed and quickly gulped the potion on it. Slowly, he felt his body cool down and stifle the bu...
2024-02-20 13:53:43 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 221: Vast Sorrows
3 May 1994, Hogwarts, Scotland
In Neville’s perfectly unbiased opinion, the past couple of days sucked immeasurably. The task had started so well. He had proved to everyone just how skilled and how honourable he was. Until he was betrayed b...
2024-02-18 13:22:51 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 220: Greener Pastures
3 May 1994, Hogwarts, Scotland
The first thing Harry noticed was the smell. It was a peculiar mix of antiseptic, dried herbs, and something faintly sweet, which he couldn't quite place. His head felt as though it was stuffed with cotton w...
2024-02-17 13:44:10 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 219: The Slow Knife
2 May 1994, Ministry of Magic, London
Amelia Bones wanted to go home, lay down on her bed and fall asleep. She was so tempted to do just that and let someone else deal with this mess. Unfortunately, she didn’t know anyone competent enough...
2024-02-15 13:47:59 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 218: Of Darkness and Death
1 May 1994, Unknown Place
The shot made a hole in Sirius Black chest and Harry watched as the light left the eyes of the man who could have once been his godfather, “Goodbye, Sirius Black.”
Well, that was a thing. ...
2024-02-13 13:52:01 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 217: Short Fuse
1 May 1994, Hogwarts, Scotland
“The first seal was broken; the world serpent is dead. Ragnarök is coming. We need to be ready, Albus. Or everything we have, everything we are, will be gone, forever.”
Dumbledore couldn’t he...
2024-02-11 13:51:03 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 216: Contraction
1 May 1994, Unknown Place
Harry felt like shit. His body was sore, he had the worst headache in his life, and he his magic circuits were burning like crazy. He hoped that it worked. He had exactly one shot at getting out of the hellish garden ...
2024-02-10 13:12:02 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 215: One Bad Day
1 May 1994, Unknown Place
With a clink, his chains fell, and Neville looked at his free hands with glee and relished the astonished expression on his cellmate’s face, “So, what next?”
Sirius Black suppressed the urge to ca...
2024-02-08 13:02:07 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 214: Historical Recurrence
1 May 1994, Hogwarts, Scotland
“Hello, Albus. Did you miss me?”
The headmaster paled as he turned and saw the recognizable face of the man who he had doomed to a fate worse than death, the man who secured his a...
2024-02-06 14:34:03 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 213: Infernal Garden
1 May 1994, Unknown Place
“I will come after you, and I will never ever stop!” It was getting harder to resist, but Harry still held on, “That is my promise to you, Albus Dumbledore.”
And just like that, the arti...
2024-02-04 13:42:53 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 212: A War of Words
1 May 1994, Unknown Place
Before he could say anything, Warrington sent him flying back towards the trophy. The moment he touched him, Neville felt a jerk somewhere behind his navel and the maze disappeared from his sight.
Ne...
2024-02-03 12:17:32 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 211: Turbulent Times
1 May 1994, Hogwarts, Scotland
Victory was near. He could almost taste it. It was all coming together brilliantly. Even he hadn’t expected things to just align themselves so perfectly when he devised the tournament months previously. He ...
2024-02-01 14:08:18 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 210: Tentative Allies
1 May 1994, Hogwarts, Scotland
Neville looked around and saw the entire room fracture as if it was glass, leaving a stone chamber in its stead. He turned and tried to look at his rescuer, only to freeze when recognizing him, “Warrin...
2024-01-30 15:35:02 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 209: Nevermore
1 May 1994, Hogwarts, Scotland
“I wonder, have you always been in Dumbledore’s thumb, or are your loyalties that fickle? What is it, Wormtail?”
For the first time in the encounter, the impostor’s formerly smug face turned ...
2024-01-28 14:28:14 +0000 UTC View Post