The quickest way to get someone’s attention is to no longer want it.
It was a mantra that her Mum had taught her as a child. A mantra that had shaped her life, and one that she had religiously adhered to.
A mantra that had now failed her.
Ginny Weasley watched as Harr...
2023-05-14 15:57:37 +0000 UTC View PostWhen Harry came down to breakfast the next day, the Sunday Prophet had already been delivered, and more than half of the Great Hall had already read it, if not halfway in the process. He could tell that all conversations seemed to pause the second he walked into the hall. There was no doubt that ...
2023-05-07 19:39:44 +0000 UTC View Post“The nature of a malediction, on a conceptual level, is centred around two concepts, Flow and Bind. The concept of Flow ties in with the transference of the curse down a bloodline, though certain conditions might be added or removed to enhance the lethality or obscurity of the...
2023-05-07 19:38:00 +0000 UTC View Post“Seriously mate, that was just horrible,” claimed Ron, “Every single good thing I’ve ever claimed about Quidditch practice, I take that back. Angelina’s a monster. That’s what she is.”
Harry’s lips curved upwards, as he dug into his mug of orange juice. Had this been last ye...
2023-05-07 19:36:29 +0000 UTC View PostFor most witches and wizards, Sunday was a day of spending time with family. If you were a teenager and at Hogwarts, it was the day you lounged around in the Common room, playing chess or gobstones, or catching up on homework. If you were Hermione Granger, you were reading ahead, probably trying ...
2023-05-07 19:34:59 +0000 UTC View Post“Damn it!” cursed Harry as he nearly tripped against a piece of enchanted armour next to the staircase as he dashed towards the seventh floor. Missing McGonagall’s class was manageable, but Flitwick’s too? At this rate he’d be summoned to Dumbledore’s office before dinner.
And t...
2023-05-07 19:34:14 +0000 UTC View PostDaphne felt it in her guts and her soul as the shafts of burning white flame struck Harry.
She had known that her fiance was powerful. You didn’t get to cast a corporeal patronus capable of defending against a hundred dementors by collecting chocolate frog cards. The blood curse might hav...
2023-04-30 17:09:13 +0000 UTC View PostAccording to the Pureblood Directory, a rather obnoxious book authored by Cantankerus Nott in the late 1930’s, the Sacred Twenty-Eight was a listing of truly pureblood families with the aim of helping such families preserve the purity of their bloodlines. Any houses that had possible m...
2023-04-23 17:47:29 +0000 UTC View PostIt was pitch dark.
Correction. It was pitch dark, and oddly enough, they could see things perfectly.
It reminded him of the Peruvian Instant Darkness Powder Sirius had shown him during the summer. Apparently the Marauders used it a lot to get away with their pranks whenever any of the...
2023-04-16 15:40:42 +0000 UTC View PostSome things just weren’t meant to go together. Things like oil and water. Orange juice and toothpaste.
Harry Potter and Normalcy.
Harry ignored the glare Daphne was giving him, and instead looked around the Chamber. The last time he had been there, he had been too caught up with the...
2023-04-09 17:15:25 +0000 UTC View PostWhen Harry Potter had shared his memories of his time in the Chamber of Secrets, he had dropped right into the final chamber, with him walking to the giant statue, with Ginny Weasley’s unmoving form lying on the wet floor. That had led to his encounter with Tom Riddle, his survival against the ...
2023-04-02 19:39:44 +0000 UTC View PostIt was half-past seven, and Daphne was standing in front of Medea’s portrait on the third floor. She had yet to knock or utter the password, even though she was all by herself. After two subsequent date cancellations, she had developed a little insecurity about her relationship with Potter. Gra...
2023-03-26 12:43:38 +0000 UTC View Post“Pathetic, Potter!” sneered Snape. “If that’s all you can do, you might as well give up.”
He was back to Snape’s quarters, continuing with the training regimen. Snape had still not progressed to teaching him any spells, content to keep firing the projectile jinx over and over
The tension in the room could be cut with a knife.
Dolores Umbridge slowly rose from her chair and made slow, steady steps towards him. It didn’t matter if Ron was the one who voiced it, Umbridge would consider it his fault.
“I do not wish to criticise the way things have been run...
2023-03-12 05:29:16 +0000 UTC View PostIt was past supper, and the halls of Hogwarts were eerily silent save for the occasional prefect making their rounds.
Harry made his way through the corridors, treading towards the dungeons where Snape’s office was, just half a dozen yards away from the Slytherin common room’s entrance....
2023-03-05 12:07:27 +0000 UTC View PostNo one ever underestimated Minerva McGonagall. Not on purpose. Everyone knew what to expect of her, the Transfiguration Professor of Hogwarts, the Head of Gryffindor House and the Deputy Headmistress that managed the school administration as Albus Dumbledore’s right hand. She was also fair in d...
2023-02-26 06:07:23 +0000 UTC View PostWalking with Daphne Greengrass within the halls of Hogwarts was a queer experience. But he had been getting a lot of those recently, so he had stopped being surprised. Every time they crossed a student, they invited curious stares, seeing a Gryffindor and a Slytherin walk together. It made him wo...
2023-02-19 18:33:03 +0000 UTC View PostFleur had left him while it was still the early hours of the morning.
Walking to the Great Hall alone felt strange. For one, he was used to climbing out of the portrait hole, and coming down from Gryffindor tower. Instead, Harry found himself walking downstairs from the third floor, ready f...
2023-02-12 18:01:19 +0000 UTC View PostCinnamon Grove.
Standing before the twin doors, Percy Weasley hesitated. He wished to walk away from the manor without a second thought, but his body did not seem to obey his wishes. Every time the thought to walk away crossed his mind, his hidden Gryffindor roared a Weasle...
2023-02-05 12:30:15 +0000 UTC View PostDreams were ethereal things that spoke of your innermost feelings. They could be fears that haunted you in the dark, or desires buried so deep within that you yourself did not know what they are. Some dreamt of power, others of pleasure and then there were those who were micro-ambitious, constant...
2023-02-04 18:29:41 +0000 UTC View PostThe world screamed as Inanna cut it in half.
But then it would. Complaining sonofabitch, it was.
It was a scream heard in dreams, on the edge of the wind, and across the wastelands of this lava ridge. A near-silent scream of mercy unheeded, of regret turned into Forget. The crimson ra...
2023-01-31 14:08:51 +0000 UTC View PostHarry awoke to a massive, mind-numbing headache. Every time his heart beat, it sent a pulse of pain straight into his brain. Against his better judgement, he blearily opened his eyes, only to be blinded by the burning morning sunlight, filtering into the room from the rimmed window on the other s...
2023-01-29 04:20:06 +0000 UTC View PostEverfrost!”
The moment she uttered the word, something resonated with the world, a command that was imposed by the will of an impossible force upon the world around it. Wintry plumes that had formed around her exploded, covering the terrain with genuine sheets of...
2023-01-28 14:55:29 +0000 UTC View PostCurrent Energy Level
184,945,980 units
Lukas stared at the screen prompt in mounting horror. His reserves hadn’t just gone down, they had come close to depletion, within a second of connecting with the bruise. Seventy-three percent, and that was onl...
2023-01-24 14:11:16 +0000 UTC View Post“Are you well, Potter?”
Harry looked up at Minerva Mcgonagall’s worried expression and silently nodded. Just as Dumbledore had said, the Transfiguration Mistress had indeed been waiting for him right next to the gargoyle statue. His new quarters had been refashioned from the old unuse...
2023-01-22 15:59:35 +0000 UTC View Post“It’s only fair, Lukas,” said Tanya, “I’ve been completely upfront with you. With my past, my powers, my secrets, everything. There’s no one in this world that knows me more than you.I think I deserve to…” she paused, and turned her palms out invitingly, “I think it’s only fai...
2023-01-21 16:42:41 +0000 UTC View PostMonths ago, inside an anomaly, a shard of a Goddess did something unexpected.
As Lukas’s body lay frozen, stuck on the horizon between life and death, his mind lost in a haze of limbo, his soul obliterated by a memory of a world’s apocalypse, the Goddess relentlessly waited for his retu...
2023-01-21 16:24:58 +0000 UTC View Post“Goo-goo clusters!”
Harry stepped off the stone staircase past the gargoyle and stood directly in front of the Headmaster’s office. He had been approached by Nigel, a third-year Gryffindor, with a note from the man, inviting him to visit his premises before retiring to the dorms. Harr...
2023-01-15 07:06:42 +0000 UTC View PostThe cold woke her.
Tanya came to her senses, the pounding headache making the injuries on the rest of her body feel pale in comparison. Except for her wrists and shoulders, those hurt more. Her neck felt stiff, and it took her a second to realize that she was vertical, her hand...
2023-01-14 20:26:08 +0000 UTC View Post“Kidnapped….” Lukas trailed off.
“We were the greatest authority in the Eaborid Kingdom. Even the Shogun, Lord Straff, went out of his way to stay in our good books. Especially in Cyffnar, where we lived, we were the de-facto rulers. I was out on a monster-eradication mission in the...
2023-01-12 16:09:43 +0000 UTC View Post