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ACT4CH12 - Nexus

Light was everywhere.

Red, yellow and white beams swirled, dancing around each other, clashing in the stormy sky, covering everything. As far as Harry could turn his head to see, the entire heavens was in turmoil. Fire would rain from the sky here and there amidst flashes of mu...

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ACT4CH11 - Contagion

“Of course it is,” said Daphne, stomping her way forward, pretending like the stone floors of Hogwarts were quaking at her annoyed footsteps. “I swear, this stupid school. Why does every hideous crazy thing just have to happen here? And Morgana forbid it has something to d...

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Unexplained delay

I am shifting to a new place, so lots of issues to take care of. The updates will be postponed by 2 more days for that. You will still get the monthly six chapters before the month is over.

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ACT4CH10 - Horcrux

As Harry Potter was just about to leave his room to head for Dumbledore’s office, he was surprised to find Daphne Greengrass waiting patiently for him just outside.

“Good evening,” she said cheerfully. “ I had a few questions about your last class, Professor. I thought of catching y...

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ACT4CH9 - Aftermath

The moment Harry Potter came to his senses, he instantly regretted it.

He couldn’t breathe. His heart was burning. His brain was pulsing. His very veins were searing him from the inside out. The mere functions of sight, smell or even thinking, were ignored to deal with the primar...

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ACT4CH8 - Hope

The world is grayscale. He looks at it, and doesn’t know what enrages him the most.

The fury is so intense that he can barely think through it, like being trapped in a dream. A nightmare. A haze of rage so thick that it is a surprise he hasn’t destroyed the world itself. View Post

ACT4CH7 - Endgame Part 2

Harry Potter knew that Hermione Granger was trying to kill him. She wasn’t even pretending to do otherwise anymore. After Harry had ‘killed’ five of the nine professor facsimiles she had ‘imagined’ into existence, the girl hadn’t regenerated them at all. No doubt keeping track of all ...

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ACT4CH6 - Endgame Part 1

That is not Hermione.

It was the only thought that managed to lodge into Harry’s mind before he had to hastily raise a full-body Protego, just to survive the onslaught of spells that slammed at him with the force of a freight train. His shield buckled, but held. The hair on the b...

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ACT4CH5 - The Perils Of Genius

It was a silver tiara, beautifully carved with an azure gem in its centre, pulsing with magic. It sat upon the chipped bust of an ugly, old warlock, blending perfectly into the surroundings. Yet to Hermione’s eyes, the polished crest of Ravenclaw, etched upon the tiara stood out more than anyth...

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ACT4CH4 - Among The Deathless

The Room was getting destroyed.

The entire place shook as if it was the epicentre of the greatest of earthquakes. Explosions fired off so rapidly that it was easier to consider the chain of them to be one massive phenomena, than try to recognize each one as an individual event. Nothing coul...

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ACT4CH3 - The Dogs Of War

The wall of junk before Albus Dumbledore was ripped up and flung aside from the path as a bolt of pure crushing force blasted forth from faux-Grindelwald’s wand. At a closer look, the Dark Lord wielded an exact facsimile of the Elder Wand, but unlike Dumbledore’s legendary weapon, faux-Grinde...

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ACT4CH2 - The Prison Without Locks

They were standing next to the statue of Barnabas the Barmy.

Harry took a deep breath. After confirming with Dumbledore about some of the do’s and don’ts related to the Lament, and an impromptu lesson on traditions from his accursed, ghostly ancestor, Harry had performed a Vow, with Dum...

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ACT4CH1 - The Bloody Baron

The return to Hogwarts was just as expected, listening to the song and dance of what ‘supposedly happened’, gossiping about what they thought was the ‘accepted’ version of the truth.

Neither Draco nor Chang had returned to Hogwarts. The events at the wedding had led to a cascade of ...

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INTERLUDE - The Master Of Death

Somewhere in Trier, Germany.

The house had a gothic feel. Greyish gargoyles stood at the corners of the roof, with black iron gates glowering at the front, and statuary lined the walk to the front door. Long grassovergrew his ward, giving the impression of it being less tha...

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ACT3CH32 - House Of Cards

December 6, 1995.

From the Front page of The Flying Post…

HOUSE OF MALFOY SHAMED AT ROSIER-SANTOS WEDDING!

MALFOY-PARKINSON BETROTHAL DISSOLVED! QUINTUS PARKINSON FILES FOR INFIDELITY CLA...

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ACT3CH31 - The Fall Of The House Of Malfoy

What a difference being in a different country could make! Had this been Britain, Fudge would probably be midway painting this as yet another glory-seeking attempt on Harry’s part coupled with some kind of insane conspiracy against removing his biggest supporter, the Malfoys, out of the equatio...

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ACT3CH30 - Blood In The Water

Everything was going according to plan.

It had all been such a brilliant idea. Draco had trusted Chang to get Potter to sign his wealth away, but there was always something that could go wrong in the end. When he had seen Potter bring Greengrass into the mess, Draco inwardly knew that the s...

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ACT3CH29 - Sucker Punch

“Bob-what?” asked a flustered Cornelius Fudge. “Is that supposed to be a joke, Mr. Potter?”

He did look like Harry had kicked him in the stones. Fudge didn’t debate well and his buttons were almost as easy to push as Draco Malfoy’s. His red-faced, open-mouthed expression told Ha...

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ACT3CH28 - How I Met Your Mother

“Oh, yes! It’s fantastic to meet with you too, Madam Tinkerbell,” gushed Harry, his voice overflowing with saccharine as he shook hands with eighty-seventh person in a row. Not that he was keeping count or anything.

“Uh, it’s actually Winterfell, my dear,” said the posh-looking ...

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ACT3CH27 - Opening Salvo

“Interesting,” said Albus Dumbledore. “The patterns are absolutely interesting. In all my years of dealing with my fair share of experience with magic, this is a conundrum I had to come across.”

Harry and the Headmaster were standing in the middle of the war-struck Defence classroom...

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ACT3CH26 - Diabolica

Back in Ananta Shesha’s Lair, Harry had read a book about Emotive Magic and its effect on standard spellcasting. It was there that he had found out that apart from the standard ‘Duo’, ‘Maxima’ or the rarer and exceedingly dangerous ‘Horribilis’ suffixes, there was a fourth suffix, o...

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ACT3CH25 - Finale

It was time for the duelling finals, between Daphne and Sue Li. Li was obviously the crowd’s favourite, with her experience as a professional Under-17 duelist representing Britain two times in a row already. If anyone at Hogwarts was supposed to be skilled at silent casting, the clear bet would...

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ACT3CH24 - Cruel Intentions

If there was one thing Cho understood about Draco Malfoy, it was his immense inferiority complex. That was just about the most prominent fact about his character, followed by his impossible desire for opulence. Not the wealth part, of course. Becoming wealthy was something everyone should aspire ...

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ACT3CH23 - Perfection And Stagnation

“Thank you for accepting our invitation and indulging our curiosity.”

Harry shook Theodore Nott’s hand. Just as Daphne had intimated, she had arranged a meeting with a group of interested people whose politics matched with Daphne’s own interests. It was a Sunday afternoon, and despi...

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ACT3CH22- Destiny And Doom

A pair of bright, yellow eyes opened in the darkness.

Only to blink, and this time, they had turned emerald green.

It took him a while for the memories to come back, but Harry soon realised that he was perched on one of the stone pillars in the dark and empty corridor. How had he come...

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ACT3CH21 - Duels And Detention

Hermione Granger had thought she had seen the worst when Umbridge had redecorated the Defence classroom to fit her needs. That confidence shattered the moment she entered the woman’s office. Lacy covers and cloth draped all over the walls, with several vases of dried flowers, each one residing ...

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ACT3CH20 - Lord Voldemort's Request

“Kitkat.”

The gargoyle immediately began to spin around as it moved up, revealing the staircase behind it. Harry stepped forward and allowed the revolving stairs to take him upward. And this time, he didn’t even bother touching the door knob, and just waited there.

“Come in, H...

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Just a little heads-up!

Patreon is apparently headed towards making it an absolutely hellish experience for Creators. All the text formatting just vanishes after posting. It's like they are going out of their way to make things worse.

For that reason, we're adding PDF and EPUB copies of every chapter from now on.&...

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ACT3CH19 - Golden Rule

HARRY POTTER APPOINTED AS THE NEW DEFENCE AGAINST THE DARK ARTS PROFESSOR! NEED, WHIM OR CONSPIRACY?

BY RITA SKEETER

Special Correspondent to the Evening Prophet (November 23, 1995)

Some people in our world need no ...

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ACT3CH18 - Inspection

“I wonder what revelations await us now, Daphne,” said Tracey as she sat beside her in Transfiguration class.

“Revelations?” asked Daphne, raising an eyebrow at her friend.

“You don’t think Malfoy’s gonna let it stay that way, will you?”

Daphne shrugged. “He in...

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