Writer of the Aether

Like Fire and Moonlight - Chapter 8: Night Conversations

Harry stared at his reflection in the bathroom mirror, water droplets slowly sliding down his still-wet hair as he tried, for the hundredth time, to understand exactly what had happened in Hogsmead...

Like Fire and Moonlight - Chapter 7: The Pumpkins of Hogsmeade

Harry didn’t know exactly why, but Halloween always brought him a nagging feeling, as if something bad were about to happen. Maybe it was the gloomy atmosphere that took over Hogwarts during that...

Like Fire and Moonlight - Chapter 6: Peace Between Enemies

Gryffindor’s victory over Hufflepuff brought Harry a sense of relief he hadn’t felt in a long time. The deafening roar of the crowd still echoed in his ears as he landed hard on the pitch, his ...

Like Fire and Moonlight - Chapter 2: The Worst Possible Partner

The trio reached the Prefects' Compartment just as the train rounded a tighter curve, the sound of metal wheels screeching against the tracks filling the air. Despite Hermione’s complaints, Harry...

Like Fire and Moonlight - Chapter 5: Broomsticks

Harry woke to the faint light of dawn filtering through the red curtains around his bed, the muffled sounds of his dormmates shifting in their beds and the hurried footsteps echoing from the corrid...

Like Fire and Moonlight - Chapter 1: The Best Last Year

The car swayed slightly as it passed over a rough patch in the road, and Harry adjusted his backpack beside him, feeling the cold leather against his leg. He glanced out the window, watching the fa...

Like Fire and Moonlight - Chapter 4: Small Surprises

The days at Hogwarts began to pass in a frantic rhythm, the mornings growing colder and the leaves on the trees around the castle turning shades of orange and red as October pushed on. Harry barely...

Like Fire and Moonlight - Chapter 3: Ghosts of Exes Past

Harry woke up the next morning before anyone else in the dormitory, Ron’s soft snores still echoing around the circular room of the Gryffindor Tower. He sat up slowly, rubbing his eyes with the b...

To Be Seen - Chapter 14: What She Doesn't Say

The Defense Against the Dark Arts classroom felt colder that morning, the high, narrow windows cut into the thick stone walls letting in thin, slanting shafts of grey light that stretched long acro...

To Be Seen - Chapter 13: Two Shadows, One Fire

The Great Hall was already full when Harry entered, the long tables lined with students hunched over their breakfasts, their faces pale in the slanted morning light, their voices low, their laughte...

To Be Seen - Chapter 12: Weight and Balance

The practice room felt colder than before. Harry’s breath curled in front of him as he stepped inside, the air sharp and metallic, the stone walls still damp from the frost that clung to the cast...

To Be Seen - Chapter 11: Plans Made in Panic

The courtyard was empty except for the drifting mist from the stone fountains and the faint scrape of shoes against wet flagstones. It was nearly dusk, that brief hour when the light started to fol...

To Be Seen - Chapter 10: Smoke Behind the Forest

The castle had already gone dark by the time Harry left the library. The corridors echoed differently at night, like the stone had a memory of its own and liked to repeat it once the students went ...

To Be Seen - Chapter 09: The Study Room with Two Desks

They didn’t trap him — not exactly. It wasn’t an ambush, not with wands or corners or shouting. Just a slow narrowing of space, a tightening of voices and glances that made it clear Harry had...

To Be Seen - Chapter 08: With Friends Like These

The Gryffindor common room had changed overnight. It hadn’t been redecorated, nothing had physically shifted, and yet Harry could feel the shape of the space pressing differently around him. The ...

To Be Seen - Chapter 07: The Boy Who Lied

October thirty-first dawned grey and chill, the sky ashen and flat over the towers of the castle, as if the world itself were waiting for something to happen but refusing to tip its hand. The groun...

To Be Seen - Chapter 06: They Came Through the Fog

The sun had already sunk behind the mountains by the time the students were called to the front steps. What little light remained was diffused through a layer of mist that had settled low over the ...

Shadows in St. Mungo's: The Secrets of Avalon - Prologue: The Wrong Man Dies

The lift was old — not ancient like the spiral lifts in the Department of Mysteries, but dated in a different, less charming way. The walls were panelled in dull stone, scratched over the years b...

Like Fire and Moonlight - Chapter 10: Fault Lines

The stairs that wound up through the Astronomy Wing were narrower than they looked — old stone polished smooth at the edges by centuries of boots and wandering scholars, spiraling tightly without...

Like Fire and Moonlight - Chapter 09: Lines of Sight

The courtyard behind Greenhouse Three was quieter than most corners of the castle grounds — shielded by frost-tipped hedgerows and low stone walls, it sat like a forgotten annex between the glass...

Like Fire and Moonlight - Chapter 08: A Broken Line

The wind that rolled down from the Highlands wasn’t as sharp as it had been earlier in the season, but it was colder than it looked — the kind of damp, needling chill that settled beneath cloak...

Like Fire and Moonlight - Chapter 07: Echoes and Edges

The wind off the pitch was sharp enough to sting, the kind that cut through robes and left sweat cooling too fast against skin, but Harry welcomed it. He needed the cold. Needed the silence of the ...

Like Fire and Moonlight - Chapter 06: The Retreat

The Great Hall was half-full, the way it always was on mornings that hung between rain and fog — the kind of gray that hadn’t committed to being storm or mist, just a low, humming weight over t...

To Be Seen - Chapter 05: Smoke Before the Storm

By the last week of October, Hogwarts had grown louder in a way that wasn’t entirely natural. The usual rhythm of school life — lectures, mischief, whispered detentions, last-minute essays — ...

To Be Seen - Chapter 04: Lessons They Don't Forget

The first full week of classes at Hogwarts arrived with a weight Harry couldn’t quite explain—less like a return to normalcy and more like a dream he kept waking into, only to find it still goi...

To Be Seen - Chapter 03: The Castle That Whispers

The Great Hall glowed with a kind of remembered grandeur, its high ceiling storm-streaked and flickering with distant lightning as though the castle itself were trying to echo the strange mood that...

To Be Seen - Chapter 02: A House Made of Smoke

The Burrow did not believe in silence, not even at dawn. By the time Harry stepped carefully out of bed and rubbed the fog of another sleepless night from his eyes, the house was already alive with...

To Be Seen - Chapter 01: The World Pretends to Go On

The kitchen at the Burrow was too full of life for how dead Harry felt inside.

Sunlight poured through crooked windows and spilled like butter over the cluttered table, where half-finished to...

Like Fire and Moonlight - Chapter 05: The Spark

The courtyard had been transfigured into a makeshift outdoor stage, though calling it a stage was generous. A long raised platform stretched between two elms, uneven and held together with what Har...

Like Fire and Moonlight - Chapter 04: Ground Rules

The library at night was not the sanctuary most students imagined it to be. It breathed differently in the after-hours, its grand windows blackened by the absence of moonlight, its torches gutterin...