At the Ministry of Magic, Sirius led Harry inside. Guided by Harry’s dream, they headed straight for the Minister for Magic’s office. Both of them moved with extreme caution, but all the way there, they did not encounter a single person. Not until they reached the corridor outside the Minister’s office did Harry finally speak.
“Sirius, is the ...
2025-12-03 19:06:23 +0000 UTC View PostOh, this is going to be fun. Ethan could hardly wait to see how this batch of champions planned to deal with a dragon.
He bared his teeth in a wide grin.
"You… you’re insane!" one of the Durmstrang champions shouted.
He glared at Ethan, his rugged face turning a sickly shade of...
2025-12-03 19:03:19 +0000 UTC View Post"What… what is happening?!"
"Why did it suddenly go dark? Have I gone blind?"
"Look!"
Cedric shot to his feet, pointing at the pitch-black sky with a gasp. "Merlin… are those wings?!"
Everyone craned their necks.
The "curtain" of darkness above was slo...
2025-12-03 19:03:14 +0000 UTC View PostAt the very moment Sothia laid eyes on the Great Lake, the scene before Nicolas Flamel finally stopped shifting. The strange dizziness that had been churning in his mind ebbed away, leaving only a single rune hanging before his eyes, intricate beyond belief. It flickered for a few seconds, then slowly faded.
He stared at the spot whe...
2025-12-03 19:03:06 +0000 UTC View PostThe evening light was weak to begin with. What little the sinking sun provided was smothered by the heavy snow piled on the pine branches. Fortunately, the flame at the tip of the Chimaera’s tail meant they did not have to divide their attention to keep Lumos going as they walked.
For the moment, though, the party had come to a halt. The Chim...
2025-12-03 19:03:00 +0000 UTC View Post"You’ve seen a real devil?"
Once Evans and Snape had finished talking, Nicolas Flamel, who had been listening in, finally spoke up. "They actually still exist?"
The Flamel family records contained accounts of devils. One such being had helped the family establish the basic principles of alchemy. Thanks to that same creature, though...
2025-12-03 19:02:54 +0000 UTC View PostAt dusk, the blood‑red afterglow of the setting sun spilled over the treetops, casting a faintly eerie light across the deep, silent forest.
"This should be it."
Evans jumped down from the hippogriff’s back, checked the marks he had made on the map, and spoke softly.
Every mark came from magical creatures he knew that we...
2025-12-03 19:02:49 +0000 UTC View Post"So when you say ‘team‑building’, what you actually mean is dragging this many magical creatures into the depths of the Forbidden Forest?"
High over the Forest, on the back of a hippogriff, Snape’s mouth twitched as he took in the scene around him.
A flock of hippogriffs flew alongside his. The one nearest, slightly larger than ...
2025-12-03 19:02:43 +0000 UTC View PostEmerald flames roared up in the grate, and a man and a woman stepped out of the fire and looked around.
"So this is the Norwegian Ministry of Magic? It really is completely different from Britain. It feels like something that has been passed down unchanged from ancient times," Penelope murmured, taking in the vast, longship‑like hall that stretched out ...
2025-12-03 19:02:36 +0000 UTC View PostDumbledore was, in fact, very calm.
He even felt a faint urge to laugh.
If Ethan had wanted to compete, there was no need for such a roundabout scheme. He could have simply parked himself on the Head of Magical Games and Sports’ shoulders and rewritten the rules.
So this slip of ...
2025-12-03 19:02:15 +0000 UTC View PostOn the outskirts of Oslo in Norway, beneath an abandoned Muggle villa where no non‑magical eye could ever see, there stood a magnificent underground structure.
The building resembled a colossal longship anchored in a cavern deep below the earth. High overhead, the cave roof glittered with orb‑shaped lights like stars, each casting a brillia...
2025-12-03 19:02:10 +0000 UTC View PostChristmas was not a happy holiday for Severus Snape.
To be precise, ever since that incident in his fifth year, the one he regretted for the rest of his life, he had not had a single truly happy celebration.
He would never again receive that carefully prepared present. Never again hear that bright, gentle voice wishing him ...
2025-12-03 19:01:41 +0000 UTC View PostOnce again, Harry woke from sleep with a start.
He stared for a moment at the slightly unfamiliar room before remembering where he was. Because he and Ron had stayed too long at St Mungo’s visiting Mr Weasley, they had not gone back to school, but had come instead to Number 12, Grimmauld Place to spend the night, planning to return to ...
2025-12-03 19:01:37 +0000 UTC View PostOnce the Goblet of Fire chose you, the magic binding it meant you had to compete.
That was why, in the original story, even knowing it was a trap, they had still been forced to push Harry in.
Ethan mused to himself, "The Goblet of Fire feels a lot like a sacrificial altar. Ancestors carefully screen th...
2025-12-03 18:59:17 +0000 UTC View Post“You called me what? Master…?”
Sean’s voice was utterly flat. For some reason, though, Avery felt as if the sound of it overlapped with Voldemort’s own, even though, objectively, they did not sound alike at all.
He pressed his head even lower and said in a cringing mumble, “Yes. Yes, you… you are the master...
2025-12-03 18:59:14 +0000 UTC View PostAfter shaking Charlie’s hand, Harry turned over what he had just said and frowned slightly.
"Friend? Who are you talking about?"
He had assumed Charlie knew about him because Ron and the others had mentioned him.
“Your Professor Kahn,” Charlie said. “He says you have a real knack for both spellwork and magical creatures, and...
2025-12-03 18:58:11 +0000 UTC View Post“Legilimency.”
“Obliviate.”
The two spells worked in perfect tandem. By the time Sean had extracted the memories he wanted and slipped away again, the Death Eater watching the street outside the orphanage merely thought he had zoned out for a moment from fatigue. He never realised, and could never realise, that someone had ju...
2025-12-03 18:58:09 +0000 UTC View Post“Interesting.”
Kureha flexed the arm Law had completely severed from her body, opening and closing the hand, curling and straightening the fingers with ease, as if the limb had never left her shoulder at all.
Then, as if a switch had flipped, she asked Law to take her apart even further.
Under ever...
2025-12-01 01:11:34 +0000 UTC View PostA great tent had been raised on the Party Field, where the elders lounged on benches and drank beer, chatting about all the trifles of Hobbit life.
The younger Hobbits danced with infectious joy to the bright notes of country music, and children wove among the crowd, shrieking and giggling in their games.
Com...
2025-12-01 01:11:30 +0000 UTC View Post“No.”
Gandalf shook his head slowly.
“I was not taken to Mordor. Someone else was.”
Before he had even stepped through the door, he hurried through all that had happened.
“And you still could not stop it?” Levi ran a hand through his hair.
“What about Saruman? Did you see where they took him?”
Wiping ...
2025-12-01 01:11:25 +0000 UTC View Post“Captain!”
“Law!”
The instant Law hit the ground, four voices rang out at once, thick with shock and worry.
They belonged to the four remaining members of the Heart Pirates.
“Yare yare. Very loyal, are you. In that case… go take a nice, quiet nap together.”
Before they could reach him, Bepo and the o...
2025-12-01 01:11:19 +0000 UTC View PostAs tens of thousands of Men were slaughtered on the altar, the black mist and roaring flames above it boiled higher, fusing into a raging tide of darkness that seemed bent on devouring the world.
The Orcs who had driven the captives there shrank back in terror, none daring to come within arm’s reach of the stone.
They did not need to. Before the su...
2025-12-01 01:11:14 +0000 UTC View Post“Ringwraiths!”
Both of them spoke the name of the uninvited guests at once. Saruman’s brows drew tight, and he immediately thrust the staff he had just snatched from Gandalf back into his hands.
Gandalf grabbed it and forced himself upright.
Hiss—
One of the Nazgûl’s winged beasts screamed and dived at the tower.<...
2025-12-01 01:11:07 +0000 UTC View Post“Saruman!”
Gandalf’s voice shook with anger and sternness.
“Has ‘Saruman the Wise’ truly not understood? These Orcs are not natural living things at all. They are twisted creatures.”
“They have no souls. They are not Children of the One. Their very existence stands for evil. Even if they obey you now, it does not change what the...
2025-12-01 01:10:44 +0000 UTC View PostThe Patronus had no flesh of its own, so it could not tear the werewolf’s body. It struck instead at what lay within, slamming straight into the evil spirit that rode the beast.
Ripped from its host, the spirit tried to flee, but the Patronus harried it without pause. With every pass of shining hooves and teeth, it grew thinner and dimmer.
The...
2025-12-01 01:10:38 +0000 UTC View PostA little later.
Sam sat dutifully off to one side, while Frodo leaned close to Gandalf, whispering.
“Sam has always loved tales about Elves,” Frodo murmured. “He and Pippin and Merry have all sneaked a look at Uncle Bilbo’s books.”
“Forgive him, Gandalf. He did not mean any harm.”
Gandalf nodded. He did trust th...
2025-12-01 01:10:32 +0000 UTC View PostThough only a hundred Aurors set out, no one dared to underestimate them.
In Gandalf and Elrond’s eyes, that hundred was more dangerous than the thousand Elven warriors from Rivendell and Lothlórien combined.
Beyond the Aurors themselves, the Ministry, at Kael’s request, also provided Portkeys and laid down Floo connections...
2025-12-01 01:10:26 +0000 UTC View Post“Cooperate?”
Levi actually laughed at that.
“Your master must have cooked his brains in that tower of his. What did he send you for, to die?” he said.
The envoy did not so much as flinch at the open mockery. His manner stayed as mild as before, as if he had heard nothing at all. Bowing his head, he said,
“Please believe that I c...
2025-12-01 01:10:22 +0000 UTC View PostSauron had not foreseen how swiftly the Elves would grow wary. They forged the Three Rings in secret, beyond his sight, and never wore them openly before the One Ring was lost.
The Dwarves, hardened by their own nature, proved almost immune to the Rings’ intended sway. The seven Dwarf‑rings did little more than enrich their...
2025-12-01 01:10:18 +0000 UTC View PostFaced with the ranger’s question, Gollum hesitated, then ventured, “Then we… want meat?”
His voice was full of doubt and puzzlement.
Plainly, the ranger’s behaviour had caught him off guard. He could not make sense of it.
Soon enough, it no longer mattered.
A short while later, the ranger came back with...
2025-12-01 01:09:45 +0000 UTC View Post