"Grin... Grindelwald?" Kingsley went rigid.
His dark face seemed to lose all remaining colour until it was impossible to make out his expression at all.
"You... are sure you did not mistake him?" one of the Aurors stammered.
The name Grindelwald had not been spoken aloud in many years. To hear it suddenly now, they all half‑believed ...
2025-12-04 18:14:14 +0000 UTC View Post"Severus, it seems serving under a Dark wizard does not agree with you," Dumbledore said lightly, taking in Snape’s bloodless face.
"The Dark Lord. He is coming. He is going to kill Lily," Snape said. Regret, dread, and fear churned together in his eyes.
“The prophecy…” Dumbledore understood at once. “But it d...
2025-12-04 18:14:10 +0000 UTC View Post"Not interested."
Dudley only paused for a heartbeat before answering bluntly.
Grindelwald clearly had not expected such a crisp refusal. For a moment, he fell silent.
"I can give you everything you desire. I could even share this world with you," he said at last.
He had laid out the greatest sincerity h...
2025-12-04 18:14:06 +0000 UTC View PostAt Riddle Manor, a young Severus Snape burst in, stumbling to his knees at Tom Riddle’s feet.
"Well, well. Our future Potions master, in such a state?" Tom said, flicking his robe out to hide the alchemical array behind him.
"Master, I heard a prophecy. From the heir of an ancient Seer family. It foretells that you will meet...
2025-12-04 18:14:01 +0000 UTC View PostAfter finishing his exchange of intelligence with his future self, Tom Riddle immediately issued an order: the Prewetts were to be eradicated at all costs.
Within hours, Dark wizards across Britain were on the move, ferreting out any hint of the ancient pure-blood family’s address.
As Voldemort’s old e...
2025-12-04 18:12:30 +0000 UTC View PostWhile Ethan and the others were talking with Dumbledore, Tom was in Germany and in a foul mood.
Her plans in the material world had taken a hit. Once again, she turned her gaze to the Deep Realm, but most of the Deep Realm Kings had already been crippled. Only one newly born, relatively intact being remained, ...
2025-12-04 18:12:26 +0000 UTC View Post"Well? Are you coming with me?" Ron asked, looking at Hermione.
"Ron…" Hermione sobbed, choking on the words. "N–no. I am staying. We promised we would help Harry. Have you forgotten…?"
"I see. You chose him," Ron said.
He slung his rucksack over his shoulder, yanked the flap aside, and w...
2025-12-04 18:12:20 +0000 UTC View PostThey picked up a few scraps of outside news from the group by the fire. Some witches and wizards, kept in the dark by the media, had begun to believe the Death Eaters’ version of events and to waver in their trust in Harry. Others, stubbornly contrary, still spoke up for him.
Harry told himself he did not care, but when h...
2025-12-04 18:12:11 +0000 UTC View PostDuring their wandering, the three of them began taking turns wearing the Horcrux, swapping it roughly every twelve hours. It felt like playing a twisted, slow-motion game of pass the parcel.
No one wanted to be holding it when the music stopped, because the forfeit was twelve straight hours of sharpened fear and gnawing anxiety.
W...
2025-12-04 18:12:03 +0000 UTC View PostWhile Harry’s godfather and Ethan were living their rough-and-ready vigilante life, things were far less rosy for Harry, Ron, and Hermione.
Engorgement Charms and doubling spells could just about stretch what they foraged in the wild into enough to live on, but they couldn’t do anything about th...
2025-12-04 18:11:36 +0000 UTC View Post"Ugh!" Ethan jerked upright and hit the ground hard.
He had just offended a certain dragon and been force-fed knowledge in the most literal sense. If not for the personal terminal embedded in him, helping to organise the flood of information, his brain would probably have been fried by now.
"So this i...
2025-12-04 18:11:21 +0000 UTC View Post"So, Ethan Beckett, let me ask you this. Do you want to help your roommate? Do you want to pull millions of your fellow witches and wizards out of the fire?" Grindelwald asked, eyes on Ethan.
Ethan’s parents tried to speak, but Grindelwald had already silenced them with a charm.
"Of course, if you agree, this decrepit old man can ca...
2025-12-04 18:11:14 +0000 UTC View PostIn Britain, in the city of Hull, a family stood packed and ready to leave. One young man lingered on the doorstep, staring back at his home for a long time.
As the situation in the European wizarding world worsened, the Becketts, a Muggle–wizard family combination now explicitly outlawed by the authorities, had no choice but to ...
2025-12-04 18:10:42 +0000 UTC View Post“What ‘promotion catalogues’? You’re not making any sense,” Oliver said, frowning.
"Looks like you are not much for history either," Aiden teased, his huge dragon eyes narrowing into a comical expression.
"Brits are hopeless at history," Edmund shot back.
"I happen to think mine is perfectly f...
2025-12-04 18:10:34 +0000 UTC View PostThe Great Hall had gone utterly silent.
Every student stared, stunned, at the river of stars flowing overhead like black silk studded with diamonds, drifting through the air as a cradle rocked by an unseen mother, radiating peace and quiet.
It was a completely different mood from Fleur’s ...
2025-12-03 19:08:11 +0000 UTC View PostThe Christmas holidays were not long, barely half a month.
When Sean returned to Hogwarts, he immediately saw the latest batch of decrees from the Ministry of Magic. Clearly, once Umbridge got herself named Acting Minister, she could not wait to start meddling wildly in Hogwarts affairs.
“This is banned, that is banne...
2025-12-03 19:08:07 +0000 UTC View PostFor the second task, there might not be a golden egg with mermaid song, but there could be an Obscurus egg instead!
Completely novel and unique. No one had ever seen such a thing.
"Merlin, I must be a genius," Ethan muttered excitedly, eyes blazing with a light that made people edge away.
"Giv...
2025-12-03 19:08:03 +0000 UTC View PostAfter the meeting, Sean and Dumbledore sat together in the study.
With no one else present—Sirius in particular nowhere in sight—Kreacher suddenly emerged from Merlin knew where, bearing a tray of tea and cakes. After he set them down and turned to leave, Sean stopped him.
“Kreacher, stay,” Sean said. “Pa...
2025-12-03 19:07:58 +0000 UTC View PostHogwarts, hospital wing.
Morning light filtered in.
Warm winter sunshine slipped through the grey clouds and fell across a pot of ivy on the windowsill, coaxing its leaves to unfurl.
"Mm… don’t come any closer… I don’t want octopus… Ethan…"<...
2025-12-03 19:07:54 +0000 UTC View Post"Good for the stomach."
Ethan’s voice, warm as spring sunshine, drifted between Krum and his schoolmates.
It lingered in the air.
It was as if someone had cast a wide-area Petrification. Everyone froze.
Then, all at once, every gaze swung to the stupefied ...
2025-12-03 19:07:47 +0000 UTC View PostIn the study, Sean had no interest in small talk with Sirius. He went straight to the point.
“Sirius, there is something you need to understand. The past is the past. The dead are gone. You cannot, and must not, dump all the unresolved feelings you have for an old friend onto that friend’s child. You certainly cannot t...
2025-12-03 19:07:29 +0000 UTC View Post"Whoa!"
The twins yelped, spinning a full three hundred and sixty degrees on their brooms as a spell shot past. They only just dodged it, and both of them felt a fierce sting across their backsides.
“Brilliant,” one twin wheezed. “Broom burn.”
They reached back, then thought better of it.
Down o...
2025-12-03 19:07:23 +0000 UTC View PostSean frowned down at the letter in his hand.
He had miscalculated.
In his memory, the breakout had happened sometime around the middle of January. With that assumption lodged in the back of his mind, and with everything else demanding his attention lately, he had let the matter slide. He had simply told himself he would go to Azka...
2025-12-03 19:07:17 +0000 UTC View Post"Charge!"
With twin cries of "Incarcerous!", thick ropes burst from the twins’ wands, snapped taut, and whipped through the black mist, looping again and again around the dragon’s neck.
"They’ve got some skill," Viktor Krum muttered, watching them.
If his face were not streaked wit...
2025-12-03 19:07:12 +0000 UTC View PostSeeing Elena’s reaction, Sean knew his guess had been right. Grandfather Gavin had already come to find her. On the one hand, he had told Sean to keep everything secret; on the other, he had gone straight to play the hero and tell his wife he was alive. That was exactly the sort of thing his grandfather would do.
Watching Elena cover her mouth and...
2025-12-03 19:07:07 +0000 UTC View Post"Cooperate?"
The word caught the Weasley twins flat-footed.
There were three rival schools in direct competition. Even if they stood on the same battlefield, the scores were tallied by team. Not tripping the others up would already be generous.
Cooperation was a foreign concept.
Yet when...
2025-12-03 19:07:03 +0000 UTC View PostLeaving Snape’s office, Sean frowned slightly.
Snape’s situation had always been one of the things that worried him most. As a double agent, the danger around him was obvious. And with Voldemort’s unstable mind, no one could predict when or for what reason he might suddenly decide to target Snape.
Now it seemed most likel...
2025-12-03 19:06:44 +0000 UTC View PostThe Ministry of Magic was in upheaval, and Hogwarts was the first to bear the brunt.
Early that morning, three new notices appeared on the noticeboard in the entrance hall outside the Great Hall.
Each notice announced one thing.
The first removed Albus Dumbledore from the post of Headmaster of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry and n...
2025-12-03 19:06:39 +0000 UTC View PostAt first, Amelia’s words sounded a little strange, but Sean quickly understood what she meant.
“So,” he said, “it seems you have already heard something about your future from other sources, and now you want to use that to test whether or not I can truly see what is to come. Is that right?”
Amelia gave a small nod. “I want to se...
2025-12-03 19:06:34 +0000 UTC View PostDumbledore’s gaze moved slowly over the Ministry officials and Aurors crowding the room, most of them staunch pure‑blood supremacists. His eyes rested for a heartbeat on Umbridge, who was clutching Fudge’s corpse, her face twisted into a display of grief while something far uglier—ambition and barely contained excitement—burned deep in her ey...
2025-12-03 19:06:29 +0000 UTC View Post