It seemed Scrimgeour really did come to the Golden Arches (McDonald's) often, because he ordered and paid with remarkable ease. He had intended to look after Sean and help him order, but when he saw Sean place his order even more smoothly than he did, Scrimgeour finally realized something.
“I remember your parents are Muggles, yes? So you...
2025-11-12 17:51:18 +0000 UTC View PostAt Luna’s words, Ethan thought, “Did not expect it to draw in a water demon.”
Neville bobbed his head like a pecking chick, face gone white. “Y-yes. Maybe we should go back tonight and find a professor…”
“What a delightful surprise,” Ethan said.
Neville: ...
2025-11-12 17:50:53 +0000 UTC View PostOn the withered grass within the frame, a very young-looking Merlin in a pointed hat patiently explained himself.
"You know me. I have always been cautious. How could I possibly tell a mere memory inside a portrait where I live?"
"And even if he told me back then, it has been a very long time. He would have moved. No one lives in the same pl...
2025-11-12 17:50:19 +0000 UTC View Post“You mean that in the not even one full day I was away to contact Newt, the Thames area suffered a devastating attack—so much so that the entire wizarding world is, for all practical purposes, exposed within London’s boundaries, and if not for using a Muggle-Repelling Charm to confine them inside London, the Statute o...
2025-11-12 17:49:45 +0000 UTC View Post"Yes. You are free now, Dobby."
A smile appeared on Lucius’s face, but when he spoke, the voice that came out was not Lucius’s. It was Dudley’s.
"What... what is going on?" Harry asked in shock.
"Polyjuice Potion," Hermione blurted, instantly grasping the key.
She had given Dudley a large Phial earlier, but she had not expecte...
2025-11-12 17:49:05 +0000 UTC View Post"Right, take this," Harry said, pulling out the Felix Felicis and handing it to the two of them. "If it comes to a fight, each of you drink a little."
Hermione reached for the vial, but Ron took it and tried to shove it back into Harry’s hand. "You take it. Who knows what you’ll run into? ...
2025-11-12 17:49:00 +0000 UTC View PostSean stared at the Daily Prophet in his hands. He truly had not expected the very thing he discussed with Dumbledore yesterday to appear in print today.
Illegal Entry into the Ministry!
Sturgis Podmore, age thirty-eight, resident of …, is scheduled to stand trial before the Wizengamot, charged with illegally entering the Ministry of Magic o...
“Neville Longbottom?”
The Gryffindor who nearly gets boiled as potion stock in Professor Snape’s class?
Students traded puzzled looks.
Neville only does decently in Herbology. How could he possibly be the key to a world-changing potion?
They pressed Ethan again, but he on...
2025-11-12 17:48:52 +0000 UTC View PostGurgle, gurgle.
In one corner of the Slytherin common room, Marcus held his wand steady, carefully controlling the flame beneath the small pot hovering midair.
He had no idea whether that professor truly thought nothing of him or not, but he was determined to show sincerity.
This cup of coffee had taken him half the evening. From planting th...
2025-11-12 17:48:47 +0000 UTC View Post“Andersen.”
It was a pen name Sterling had never shared with anyone in Avalon. They had no reason to know it, and he had only been using it for the past two years.
Yet in that memory, he looked even younger than when he first entered Avalon with consciousness.
A face he might have worn during the six years he could not rememb...
2025-11-12 17:48:41 +0000 UTC View PostAt Hogwarts, nonverbal magic is formally taught in sixth year.
Defense Against the Dark Arts, Charms, and Transfiguration all expect students to learn it, and most adult witches and wizards in Britain can manage it to some degree. Still, because sixth- and seventh-year courses are electives, some never take all three, so proficiency...
2025-11-12 15:21:39 +0000 UTC View PostMoonlight bathed the Forbidden Forest.
Aurelius drifted down on a pale yellow bank of cloud. The jade bowl resting on it settled gently on Leonardo’s workbench.
“Master, will this do?”
At his words, Leonardo glanced at the dowl. On the surface of the silver‑white blood, blue round specks had risen, all uncannily uniform ...
2025-11-12 15:21:36 +0000 UTC View PostHow did he know?
Rika’s gaze locked hard onto Roy.
The boy fished in silence without turning back, yet he could clearly feel just how shocked the stare boring into his back was.
Kurta tribe. Scarlet Eyes, one of the Seven Most Beautiful Colors. Kurapika. Kakin’s Fourth Prince Tserriednich. Images ...
2025-11-12 15:21:32 +0000 UTC View PostOutside, the sky was black as ink.
In a spacious, beautiful circular room, all manner of silver instruments stood ticking and whirring, and beside them a soot-darkened kettle still burbled on the boil.
Portraits of former headmasters and headmistresses lined the walls. They usually dozed in their frames, but tonight the lady at the center, with long curls of...
2025-11-12 15:21:28 +0000 UTC View PostInside the Forbidden Forest.
Aurelius appeared without a sound, and beside him stood a tall, silver-haired, silver-bearded old man in deep-purple pajamas and a matching nightcap.
In the next heartbeat, a burst of scarlet flame blossomed in midair.
Out of it swept a splendid crimson bird.
It circled once a...
2025-11-12 15:21:18 +0000 UTC View Post“It is over.”
Pariston’s body lay still on the deck, breath gone.
His two bodyguards, Clark and Goh, bobbed back to the surface on the push of a wave. Faint shapes of sharks, drawn by blood, began to circle.
Kite stood on the mast and had watched it all. His gaze fixed on th...
2025-11-12 15:21:14 +0000 UTC View Post"I am sorry, Mr Filch."
Shawn said it quietly and with sincerity.
He did not despise or resent Mr Filch the way many students did.
For the caretaker, Shawn felt his behavior was understandable.
Just as he did not think Professor Snape should be blamed for this mess. If fault lay anywhere, it was with his own progress being too slow; otherwi...
2025-11-12 15:21:09 +0000 UTC View PostThunder cracked out of a clear sky.
A roar far greater than the elephant’s trumpeting blasted through every heart, a wave of sound fierce enough to make souls tremble.
It skimmed the seabirds, and they dropped from the sky. It tore through the sea wind as it passed. The sound wasn’t loud, but it tugged at peo...
2025-11-12 15:20:32 +0000 UTC View PostHearing Newt’s words, Leonardo could not help the weight that settled in his chest.
He knew it too well: magical pathways were fiendishly intricate, and not something every witch or wizard studied.
He had picked up bits and pieces lately. The Weasley family grimoire, for instance, taught familiarity with one’s own ...
2025-11-12 15:20:29 +0000 UTC View PostHogwarts’ school rules fill pages of history, but the most important one is nowhere to be found—namely, all of the above are null and void until you are caught.
Corridor.
Mrs Norris sprang up a step. Her body was lean and sharp, her dark grey fur catching the moonlight in a faint sheen.
In the air, Shawn could hear his own heartbe...
2025-11-12 15:20:25 +0000 UTC View PostIn a little cottage in Dorset.
“Newt, are you finished?”
Hearing his wife call, Newt answered at once, “All done, darling. I will be right in bed.”
He flicked his wand and dried the water from his clothes. It was the Kelpie courting season, and he needed to keep a close eye on things so a few Kelpies did not turn t...
2025-11-12 15:20:20 +0000 UTC View PostOn the deck beneath a blinding blue sky, Kite stood with a long blade at his hip. He had already leapt up the mast and leaned against the sail, watching the clash unfold below.
Both Roy and Pariston set his instincts screaming.
Especially Roy.
Kite pressed the brim of h...
Hermione had a wonderful birthday. That much was beyond doubt.
When her family’s faces appeared before her, she was so overwhelmed she nearly cried.
Shawn and Justin took the hint and slipped out, leaving her in the room with her family. Shawn read in the corridor while Justin, unable to help himself, chattered excitedly.
After a while, they he...
2025-11-12 15:20:10 +0000 UTC View PostIt did not take long for a colossal Marine armada of more than twenty warships to approach the nameless island like a moving mountain range of iron.
Aside from five ships built specifically to detain giants, the rest were vessels from Sakazuki’s expeditionary force.
They had sat idle during the previous battle. Now they were...
2025-11-12 08:40:01 +0000 UTC View PostAs “Quirrell’s” fingertips touched the gold‑red drop of blood, a burning tore through his soul, as if his whole being had been plunged into boiling water.
Voldemort did not care. He could bear this pain. The twists of repeated Dark Transfigurations, the agony of shredding his soul to forge Horcruxes, all bit deeper than this sear ...
2025-11-11 20:14:19 +0000 UTC View Post"Mudblood... what does that mean?"
In the corridor, three young wizards’ shadows flickered and vanished in the torchlight. Beyond the glass, the sky wore a veil of pale indigo mist, and whenever sunset burned, the birds outside grew loud.
"No idea," Justin answered honestly.
Hermione gave him a helpless look. "I was not asking you. Shawn, do...
2025-11-11 20:14:16 +0000 UTC View PostIt was him!
The sudden upheaval shattered all noise.
Clark’s severed arm spun through the air, caught by the wind, then plunged into the sea and vanished beneath the waves.
Blood sprayed. Pariston and Goh froze as the slash grazed their shoulders, split the bulwark, and carved a straight gouge acro...
2025-11-11 20:14:13 +0000 UTC View PostGotoh slashed the knife aside in one clean motion, then snapped off a Nen round with his free hand, blasting a hooded guy off his feet and plucking the man’s number tag to pocket it.
The young butler did his job with ruthless efficiency—this was the third he had handled.
With the tip of his ...
2025-11-11 20:14:00 +0000 UTC View PostIn the dungeon,
Professor Snape’s grim gaze shifted, inch by inch, toward a corner Shawn could not see.
The truth was so simple, and so very... cutting.
No plot. No greed. Only the clumsy efforts of a thin, small wizard, doing everything he could to study.
Proving it would be simple. So simple that Snape stood in silence for a...
2025-11-11 20:13:58 +0000 UTC View PostWithin the ring of red‑gold fire.
Seeing the savage, blood‑slick gash torn across Asterion’s neck, Seleneia loosed a keening cry of grief.
A wrenching pain speared her belly again, far worse than the first.
She dropped to her knees despite herself, eyes swimming, fixed on Asterion as he slumped, strengthless.
From the wou...
2025-11-11 20:13:55 +0000 UTC View Post