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ACT2CH27 - Scandalous Betrothals Part 2

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 religiou...

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ACT2CH26 - Scandalous Betrothals Part 1

When 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...

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ACT2CH25 - Despair of the Damned

“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 bloodli...

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ACT2CH24 - Offer

“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....

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ACT2CH23 - Power

For 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...

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ACT2CH22 - Susan

“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 F...

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ACT2CH21 - Hope

Daphne 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...

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ACT2CH20 - Audition

According 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 ...

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ACT2CH19 - Secrets of the Chamber

It 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 ...

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ACT2CH18 - Parseltongue

Some 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 in...

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ACT2CH17 - Daphne's Little Adventure

When 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 f...

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ACT2CH16 - Daphne's Date

It 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 subseque...

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ACT2CH15 - Training

“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 no...

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ACT2CH14 - Counterattack

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, Um...

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ACT2CH13 - Ripples

It 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 w...

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ACT2CH12 - Transfiguration

No 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 Headmistre...

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ACT2CH11 - Friends

Walking 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 stu...

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ACT2CH10 - Babbling

Fleur 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 ...

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ACT2CH9 - The Shackles of Freedom

Cinnamon 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...

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STF:ACT2 INTERLUDE - FOR WANT OF A FRIEND

Dreams 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. S...

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STF:ACT2CH35 - INANNA

The 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 t...

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ACT2CH8 - Monster

Harry 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 bl...

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STF:ACT2CH34 - ECHOING AND AWAKENING

Everfrost!”

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 aroun...

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STF:ACT2CH33 - DESPERATION

Current 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 ...

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ACT2CH7 - Purpose

“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...

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STF:ACT2CH32 - ANOMALY

“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 ...

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STF:ACT2CH31 - MEMORIES OF ICE PART 4

Months 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 ...

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ACT2CH6 - The Headmaster and the Warlock

“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 Gryffin...

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STF:ACT2CH30 - MEMORIES OF ICE PART 3

The 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...

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STF:ACT2CH29 - MEMORIES OF ICE PART 2

“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 Cyf...

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