At the heart of the battlefield, the fight only grew fiercer, and the two dragonkin fought harder with every passing second.
As they moved, the scales on their bodies scraped together with a grating, metallic screech. Worse than the sound was the heat that rolled off them in waves. Their blood was boiling, in the...
2025-12-10 13:28:46 +0000 UTC View PostAt Riddle Manor, Rookwood threw back his head and laughed when he saw Eleanor lying unconscious on the sofa.
"Success," he said, not bothering to hide his hunger.
Tom sat in the main seat. Jealousy burned in his chest, but the blood oath bound his hand. He could not strike at Rookwood.
Rookwood ...
2025-12-06 20:09:37 +0000 UTC View Post"Already getting ready for tomorrow’s lesson?" Ron asked, wandering over.
"Tomorrow’s lesson?" Dudley looked up at him, puzzled.
Ron pointed at the Tarot card in Dudley’s hand. "First period tomorrow is Divination."
Dudley blinked, then chuckled and shook his head. "I do not put much stock in divination. Even if i...
2025-12-06 20:09:31 +0000 UTC View Post“Young master Sean, these are Bella and Rodolphus’s hairs.”
Sean looked at the two strands Kreacher had brought him. One was long and slightly curled, the other shorter and coarser. Clearly, they belonged to Bellatrix and Rodolphus respectively.
It had been half a month since the Order of the Phoenix abandoned Number 12 Grimm...
2025-12-06 20:09:25 +0000 UTC View PostWith Ethan’s declaration, the last rose petal drifted down from the thorny stem.
At the same time—
A panicked shout: "No!"
Crack.
The second Black Egg shattered.
Boom.
The now‑familiar black mist surged into the sky, writhing with howling, twisted faces...
2025-12-06 20:09:20 +0000 UTC View PostJust as planned, Voldemort and his followers smashed through the Ministry’s defences and into its depths.
"Spread death. Buy me time," Voldemort said, heading straight for the Brain Room.
According to Rookwood, that was where the Department of Mysteries maintained its access to the Deep Realm.
Death Eaters pou...
2025-12-06 20:09:15 +0000 UTC View Post"Dudley, you... you are not seriously thinking about going to look for Sirius Black, are you?" Hermione asked, watching his expression.
"It is just an idea. I have already faced Grindelwald and Lord Voldemort in person. There is no reason for Black to be more frightening than either of them," Dudley said lightly.
He knew Black was an extre...
2025-12-06 20:09:08 +0000 UTC View PostHarry had never imagined that, just to catch him, Umbridge would personally lead a team of Aurors to Hogwarts.
He trusted his Invisibility Cloak. He did not trust himself.
He hurried towards the secret passage he had used to come in. Just as he was about to slip inside, Umbridge’s shrill, sickly‑sweet little‑gir...
2025-12-06 20:09:03 +0000 UTC View PostFleur stared blankly at Luna.
She could not understand how this girl remained so calm. She could not understand why Luna had stepped in to help her at all.
Her eyes flicked sideways toward the Hogwarts side of the lake.
Their families had all been rescued and were now facing off against the Durm...
2025-12-06 20:08:57 +0000 UTC View PostWhen Tom from the future was annihilated, the Tom of this era felt it at once.
"That woman has been destroyed. By whom?" he muttered.
He had only just seized Chaos’ power. He knew he was not yet a match for Dumbledore, who had been wielding a Deep Realm King for over fifty years. Caution tugged at him on one sid...
2025-12-06 20:08:22 +0000 UTC View Post"So that is what this is about."
"How can the Auror Office get away with this? I am telling my family exactly what they have done. My dad will go straight to the Minister and lodge a complaint."
"This is terrifying. Has the Ministry really become this lawless?"
Murmurs broke out all along the corridor. Scrimgeour’s face grew darker and darker...
2025-12-06 20:08:14 +0000 UTC View PostHistory has a strange kind of inertia, always nudging events back onto their original course, as though some self‑correcting mechanism were quietly at work.
At Hogwarts, Borel served as the Ministry’s voice, while the Slytherin Brotherhood’s reserve organisation acted as his hands and feet. They hunted for traces of the “illegal group” on beh...
2025-12-06 20:08:09 +0000 UTC View PostBarty Jr: ?!!
WTF?
Strange. Was he not supposed to be "the relative in need of rescue"?
Why was he inside the blast radius?
Only when the black mist swallowed him, only when the thick tentacle held him fast so he could not move and he felt the darkness forcing its way in through his ears, his nos...
2025-12-06 20:08:04 +0000 UTC View Post"James, what happened?"
Lily was no fool. She knew there had to be a serious reason for her husband to turn down Eleanor’s invitation.
"The prophecy about July. Do you remember it?" James asked, looking at her gravely.
"The one the Prophet mentioned a while back?" Lily said, thinking of the paper Ele...
2025-12-06 20:07:59 +0000 UTC View Post"Has he gone completely mad? He actually let Dementors search the Hogwarts Express!" Ron shouted furiously. "And he did not even bother to warn us first."
"It was Scrimgeour. He definitely did it on purpose," Harry said, face dark.
"So it was him," Ron muttered, finally putting the voice together with the man. The shout from outside had ...
2025-12-06 20:07:54 +0000 UTC View PostIn the stands, the students stared in shock at the colossal creature.
Even at this distance, its sheer presence pressed down on them.
The thing rising from the lake might as well have been a mountain. Its massive tentacles churned thousands of tons of water with casual sweeps, and a...
2025-12-06 20:07:09 +0000 UTC View PostAt the centre of the newly drawn life‑alchemy array sat a pot containing a completely withered plant. All around it, faint green flames rose continually from the runes, licking at the materials set within the circle. The fire burned them down and drew out their essences, which, under the effect of Life Alchemy, fused together and condensed into drops of pale gree...
2025-12-06 20:07:04 +0000 UTC View Post"Ah! Too much!"
Neville yelped, eyes wide, his face twisting in alarm.
Up in the stands, students muttered in confusion.
"What is he doing?"
"Merlin, the other teams are already halfway out!"
"Hurry up! Just use a Revealing Charm or a Freezing Charm—huh?!"
A cry tore throug...
2025-12-06 20:06:59 +0000 UTC View Post[Sothia?]
In the middle of the pasture, Evans frowned down at the pale blue sigil still blinking on his forearm.
A moment ago, the mark had flared and rearranged itself into a line of text that flickered briefly, then vanished. Since then there had been no further response.
The content of that brief message lef...
2025-12-06 20:06:55 +0000 UTC View Post[Name: "Reverse-Hatching Egg"]
[Tier: Tier Three, Blue Rare]
[Description: Like an insect sealed in amber, death gestating within a living body forms the Reverse-Hatching Egg.]
[Effect: When the shell is broken, ...
2025-12-06 20:06:50 +0000 UTC View PostThe shore of the Black Lake seethed with people.
For a place rumoured to harbour a giant squid, the usually placid water had never seen such bustle.
A skin of frost glazed the dark surface, and the knife‑cold wind sent ripple after ripple racing across it.
Madame Maxime was mo...
2025-12-06 20:06:18 +0000 UTC View Post“Strange.”
Standing at the lakeside, Sosia tilted her head in curiosity, staring at the clear water in front of her.
She could feel it: the water in the lake was refusing to communicate with her. It rejected every attempt she made to reach out, every request she sent into its dept...
2025-12-06 20:06:14 +0000 UTC View Post"Professor Moody" was drenched in sweat.
Barty Crouch Junior had never imagined that Mr Lamp would turn out to be Ethan in disguise.
Forget raising his wand. He had nearly ended up in the far worse position of having to explain why his wand was pointed the wrong way.
He felt like a stray dog minding its...
2025-12-06 20:06:09 +0000 UTC View Post“Mm...”
Rubbing a head that still felt a little woozy, Evans straightened up, quickly checked the state of his body, then consciously triggered the fairy’s danger sense. Only after confirming he had not been attacked did he look around, puzzled.
Barely half a minute earlier, he had just come up with a possible expla...
2025-12-06 20:06:04 +0000 UTC View Post"Wow."
Harry tugged at the lapels of his black tailcoat, feeling ridiculous, and stared around the transformed Great Hall in open amazement.
Everywhere glittered gold and silver. It was as if ten thousand candles had been lit at once, their light reflected in glass and silverware until everything shone.
Garlands...
2025-12-06 20:05:59 +0000 UTC View Post“No.”
Boromir’s refusal was harsh and cold, but his head was anything but calm; it shook back and forth like a rattle-drum.
Leaving aside whether this was the right time or place, there was that armour of his, radiating heat. One careless hug and you were bound to come away with a few burns.
Even so, the interruption worked...
2025-12-06 03:15:20 +0000 UTC View PostWano Country, inside the Shogun’s castle.
The iron scent of blood still lingered in the room.
Umit stood frozen where he was, watching the Donquixote officers fall one after another, cut down as cleanly as a field of wheat under the scythe.
He held his breath without thinking, not daring even to swallow ...
2025-12-06 03:15:15 +0000 UTC View PostAt the end of the Third Age, year 3018, on a bright noon, the Council of Rivendell was called to order.
Elrond, Lord of Rivendell, presided. The chief attendees were: Levi, Supreme Leader of the Free Cities, Lord of the North, and legend; Gandalf the Grey; Frodo the Ring-bearer; Bilbo, who had found the Ring; Glorfindel, a Noldorin Elf who lo...
2025-12-06 03:15:08 +0000 UTC View Post“In the worst case, we fight another War of the Last Alliance.”
In the little council of three, Levi laid out his final, fallback plan.
“At this point, none of the powers that fought that war could muster even a third of their old strength,” Elrond said at once, shaking his head.
Then he caught the look on Levi’s ...
2025-12-06 03:13:51 +0000 UTC View PostWano Country, inside the Shogun’s castle.
“Tch. The Marines sure move fast,” Kai said.
He set down the latest issue of the World Economy News, voice tinged with pity. “Doffy, your Warlord title has already been revoked.”
“That was inevitable,” Robin answered lightly from his side. “The Marin...
2025-12-06 03:13:46 +0000 UTC View Post