Once he understood Hermione’s situation, Dudley waved a hand and let the sound barrier collapse.
While the two of them had been talking, Hagrid had already finished explaining hippogriff habits and how to approach them properly. Even so, everyone remained wary of the huge creatures. No one dared step forward and volunteer until Harry and Ron went...
2025-12-13 14:10:08 +0000 UTC View Post"Wow, did someone wring you dry? What happened to you?" Lada said bluntly.
"Ahem. Something like that. A very persistent little minx," the Director said, half joking.
"So, what are you really here for?" Arthursi asked.
She was not so easy to fob off. If he had come in person, he had a reason. 2025-12-13 14:10:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Gandalf gazed around at the scene before him, a faraway look in his eyes, as if he had stepped back into Valinor itself.
Frodo was even more overwhelmed, staring at everything in open amazement.
There was no visible light source, yet the entire room shone with a gentle radiance. It was bright but never harsh, and time itself...
2025-12-13 14:10:00 +0000 UTC View Post"So that is how it was."
In a corner of the pasture, a young man stood with a kneazle cradled in one arm and a suitcase dangling from the other. After listening to the old woman in front of him haltingly finish her story, a look of dawning understanding flickered through Evans's eyes.
If every person and creatur...
2025-12-13 14:09:33 +0000 UTC View Post"You…?!"
Mr Crouch’s hands clenched into fists.
The face that was usually so hard and expressionless flushed a furious red.
For a moment, the air in the office went rigid.
Ethan glanced at Minister Scrimgeour, who had taken such a hard line, and a touch o...
2025-12-13 14:09:28 +0000 UTC View PostThe Death Eaters had assumed that capturing Harry Potter and his friends would be child’s play.
When the fighting actually began, they discovered to their shock that all eight of these children, who by rights ought still to have been sitting in Hogwarts classrooms, possessed formidable strength.
Harry in particular fough...
2025-12-13 14:09:24 +0000 UTC View Post"I promise," Dudley said, nodding.
Seeing that, Hermione did not say anything more. She slowly reached up to her neck and took off a delicate pendant.
It was a tiny golden hourglass, beautiful and finely made.
Dudley had noticed it before and had sensed the magic lingering on it, but he had not thought much of it, assuming it was just a magical...
2025-12-13 14:09:18 +0000 UTC View Post"Stupefy!"
Voldemort burst into the room and slammed Lily to the floor with a single curse. His favourite had begged for this woman, after all. So long as he had room to spare, he was willing to grant Snape that much.
Tom’s mind had been eaten away by Dark magic, but before Chaos soaked h...
2025-12-13 14:09:08 +0000 UTC View PostWhen the torrent of mind-force finally faded and time began to move again, Tom blew apart the rubble in front of him with a burst of magic. Riddle Manor had been reduced to ruins in the battle. Only a single, lonely building was still standing.
"Tch."
Because of his own arrangements, Voldemort now had to wast...
2025-12-13 14:08:39 +0000 UTC View PostOne hand on her hip and the other lifting a great net woven from flowing water, the girl wore a look of unabashed pride as she glanced at the huge beast beside her, flames burning at the tip of its tail.
"You see? I told you I wouldn't let you go hungry, didn't I?"
"Oooh..."
The Chimera flicked a glance at the dozen-odd doves ...
2025-12-13 14:08:34 +0000 UTC View PostThe next day.
The Daily Prophet ran a bombshell.
— "Shocking! Our own reporter Rita Skeeter found in the Forbidden Forest at Hogwarts! Mind shattered, presumed attacked!"
The moving photograph showed Rita looking like a beggar.
Her blonde hair was a bird...
2025-12-13 14:08:28 +0000 UTC View PostHarry dropped down into the familiar alleyway.
In a few quick strides, he reached the telephone box tucked away inside it.
The last time he had come to the Ministry for his hearing, he had entered from here. He drew his wand and took out the Invisibility Cloak. By now he understood more about it, knew it was different from ordina...
2025-12-13 14:08:24 +0000 UTC View PostThe afternoon lesson was Care of Magical Creatures, Hagrid’s first class as a professor.
Dudley and the other three left the castle early and went to his wooden hut by the edge of the Forbidden Forest.
"Oh, I knew you lot would turn up ahead of time," Hagrid boomed when he saw them coming.
"Professor Hagrid, what are we ...
2025-12-13 14:08:20 +0000 UTC View PostFor now, at least, Saruman was safe.
In an earlier discussion, Elrond and Gandalf had reached that conclusion together.
The Ringwraiths had chosen to take him prisoner rather than kill him outright. That meant they had some use for him. Until that purpose was served, they would not truly threaten his life.
What other torm...
2025-12-10 13:31:09 +0000 UTC View PostKaido’s form changed in a shocking way.
Flame-like auspicious cloud markings surfaced between his brows, and the hair all over his body curled and streamed like flowing clouds.
Bands of pitch-black flame-clouds formed from nothing, coiling around his massive frame.
Every muscle swelled and bulged, radiating an e...
2025-12-10 13:30:45 +0000 UTC View PostMuttering under his breath, Slytherin, cloaked in silver‑green, let his head droop as though his mind had gone blank, and said nothing more.
Seeing that the figure opposite him seemed disinclined to speak again, Dumbledore raised his brows. He glanced at the notebook by his hand, where he had jotted down a few key phrases, then at t...
2025-12-10 13:30:40 +0000 UTC View PostMemories crashed back over Barty Jr.
The unexpected Black Egg, the curse that had ridden him like a parasite, the champions taking turns to beat him senseless.
And finally, a single huge word burned itself across his mind.
Failure.
Snap.
The so...
2025-12-10 13:30:35 +0000 UTC View Post"Professor Trelawney, how can Dudley avoid this bad omen?" Harry asked quickly once he recovered.
"Yes, is there some way to ward it off?" Hermione added.
Clearly, his friends were far more anxious about the omen than Dudley himself.
"There is no way," Professor Trelawney said, lips trembling. "I only foretell. I cannot solve what I see."
<... 2025-12-10 13:30:29 +0000 UTC View PostAt Hogwarts, in the Gryffindor common room.
Hermione was revising for her O.W.L.s, quill scratching steadily as she summarised key points from the book open in front of her. In the middle of a sentence, the watch on her wrist gave a faint vibration.
She set her quill down at once and glanced around the room. Apart from Ron and Nevi...
2025-12-10 13:30:23 +0000 UTC View PostAt the centre of the battlefield, Gideon forced his arm up again. His duel with Voldemort had left him covered in wounds, but his dragon blood only burned hotter. Battle-lust roared through him.
His magic surged, gathering faster and faster until it seemed to catch fire in the air itself. Th...
2025-12-10 13:30:15 +0000 UTC View PostOn the quiet borders of the Old Forest, the Withywindle flowed gently down from the streams of the Barrow-downs, passing by a little house ringed with flowers.
Around the house lay a broad, neatly kept lawn and garden. Beyond that, tall trees stood in a ring, trimmed so evenly that they looked like a living wall.
Here lived ...
2025-12-10 13:30:09 +0000 UTC View PostThe reforging of Narsil would take time, and so would the preparations of the Fellowship and all the other powers.
When the council broke up, no one set out at once. They stayed on a while in Rivendell, waiting until all was in readiness before the journey truly began.
As for those preparations, the first concern was the safety of the surr...
2025-12-10 13:29:40 +0000 UTC View Post“Frodo, try to take up the Ring. Be careful not to let it ensnare you,” said Gandalf.
Of all those in the room, only Tom and Bilbo could handle the Ring without falling under its spell.
Tom would never leave the Old Forest, so the task of carrying it could only fall to Frodo.
At Gandalf’s words, Frodo eyed the Ri...
2025-12-10 13:29:34 +0000 UTC View PostThe choice left many in the hall stunned, Frodo himself not least.
Gandalf froze for a heartbeat, pretended he had not heard Frodo’s first cry, and went on trying to calm the others.
No, lad. Turn around now. Go back. You can still be spared what lies ahead…
Even if, in truth, there was no escaping it.
<... 2025-12-10 13:29:29 +0000 UTC View PostAt the heart of the battlefield, the solid ground had reached its limit under the full force of their clashing Conqueror’s Haki.
Spiderweb cracks raced outward in all directions.
The shockwaves from their auras alone were strong enough to knock ordinary powerhouses unconscious.
“Wororororo!”
Kaido th...
2025-12-10 13:29:20 +0000 UTC View Post"The idea of dark magic first came from a secret organisation in ancient Egypt. Its leader was called Herpo. You should have heard that name before."
In the dim underground laboratory, Slytherin, cloaked in silver‑green, spoke in a low voice. Opposite him, Albus Dumbledore, white hair and beard gleaming in the murk, held a...
2025-12-10 13:29:14 +0000 UTC View Post“Yes, it was me, Professor.”
“So this is another Horcrux, is it not?”
“That is right, Professor. This one was kept in the Lestrange family vault at Gringotts. Hufflepuff’s cup.”
At the name of Hufflepuff’s cup, Dumbledore let out a slow breath.
“Slytherin’s locket, Ravenclaw’s diadem, Hufflepuff’s c...
2025-12-10 13:29:06 +0000 UTC View Post"Phew."
Ethan felt the candle burning in his skull flare a little brighter. The shadows in his mind thinned, his thoughts sharpened, and even his voice seemed to pick up a new, steady radiance.
"From now on, every word I say will carry more weight."
He could feel it clearly. He rubbed his throat,...
2025-12-10 13:29:00 +0000 UTC View PostSeeing that Hermione clearly did not want to explain, Dudley fell silent for a moment, then slowly climbed the steps into the classroom.
It was the least classroom‑like classroom he had ever seen.
There were no desks, no proper chairs, only a couple of dozen low round tables, each ringed with patterned cushions. The whole place looked like a cross be...
2025-12-10 13:28:56 +0000 UTC View PostSilent casting was not a branch of magic, but a highly advanced casting technique.
Hogwarts did not teach it until seventh year, and even then no one expected every student to master it. Some witches and wizards could manage it only with the simplest spells, like Cleaning Charms or Mending Ch...
2025-12-10 13:28:51 +0000 UTC View Post