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Like Fire and Moonlight - Chapter 03: Terms of Engagement

Harry didn’t knock. He never knocked on McGonagall’s office door. Something about knocking implied you were uncertain you belonged there, and Harry Potter — whether by blood, charm, or sheer ...

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Like Fire and Moonlight - Chapter 02: The Announcement

There was a science to seating in the Great Hall, a social ritual layered beneath the clatter of plates and the glow of floating candles — and Daphne Greengrass had mastered it by fourth year. Yo...

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Like Fire and Moonlight - Chapter 01: The Return to Hogwarts

It was barely past nine when Harry Potter stepped out of the Ministry car, a shine still on his dragonhide boots and a practiced grin already climbing into place. The morning was crisp in the kind ...

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Shadows in St. Mungo's: The Mind Burns Last - Thank You

Hey friends,

Thank you — truly — for being here.

The Mind Burns Last was a strange, heavy, personal story to write. It came from a place of burnout and reflection, and I honestly wa...

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Shadows in St. Mungo's: The Mind Burns Last - Epilogue: Anchoring Error

The memo moved through the Ministry like a virus engineered for invisibility — no fanfare, no discussion, just a silent chain of acknowledgement in ink and wax and signature. No one read it in fu...

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Shadows in St. Mungo's: The Mind Burns Last - Chapter 10: The Man Who Wasn’t

It began with the diagram — a marginal illustration barely visible beneath layers of handwritten notes in a worn Healer’s reference book Daphne hadn’t opened since her first rotation in cogni...

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Shadows in St. Mungo's: The Mind Burns Last - Chapter 09: All The Forgotten Things

The page was waiting for him when he came back from the market. A single sheet of standard-issue Ministry parchment, folded once and placed neatly on the desk beside the worn quill he hadn’t used...

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Shadows in St. Mungo's: The Mind Burns Last - Chapter 08: Project: Aletheia

The Department of Mysteries did not sleep — not because it was haunted or hostile, but because its function didn’t allow for the passage of time in any recognizable form. Even in disuse, its co...

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Shadows in St. Mungo's: The Mind Burns Last - Chapter 07: What She Forgot

It was the quiet that tipped him off first. Not the kind that settled naturally — the hush of a flat caught in the slow rhythm of two people avoiding one another’s thoughts — but the too-prec...

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Shadows in St. Mungo's: The Mind Burns Last - Chapter 06: The Broken Hall

There were keys in the Ministry that weren’t assigned so much as inherited — not officially, not through the usual chains of authorization, but in the way certain spells passed down through par...

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Shadows in St. Mungo's: The Mind Burns Last - Chapter 05: Sleep With Both Eyes Open

The first thing Harry noticed was the light. It was too warm. Golden, almost amber, slanting through the thin slit between the curtains like early autumn sun. But it shouldn’t have been autumn. I...

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Shadows in St. Mungo's: The Mind Burns Last - Chapter 04: A Man Named Mulciber

The Archive Index was located two floors below the Department of Magical Law Enforcement, in a narrow corridor that always smelled faintly of old paper, red ink, and ink-erasure solvent. The air wa...

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Shadows in St. Mungo's: The Mind Burns Last - Chapter 03: The Man Who Doesn’t Wake

They arrived together but said nothing to suggest they had come together. No greetings exchanged, no introductions offered at the reception desk — just two names, one badge, and a brief forged me...

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May 2025 – Project Updates & Release Schedule

Hello everyone,

A new month begins, and with it, a fresh wave of stories, rewrites, and plans I’m thrilled to share with you. Thank you for continuing to support my writing — your presenc...

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A Path Beyond Survival: Chapter 26 - New Ground

The castle felt louder than it should’ve been.

Not in any obvious way. The portraits weren’t shouting, the staircases weren’t misbehaving, and the halls weren’t suddenly full of shout...

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Shadows in St. Mungo's: The Mind Burns Last - Chapter 02: The Other Greengrass

The message hadn’t come through official channels. No owl, no interdepartmental memo. Just a folded slip of parchment that appeared on Harry’s desk in the late afternoon, resting on top of the ...

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Shadows in St. Mungo's: The Mind Burns Last - Chapter 01: Cold Bodies, Hot Coffee

The coffee was cold, again, but Harry drank it anyway. It wasn’t about the taste — he hadn’t noticed the taste in years. It was about heat, or the idea of heat, or the way the ritual grounded...

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Shadows in St. Mungo's: The Mind Burns Last - Prologue: Eyes Like Ash

She didn’t remember turning off Charing Cross Road. One moment she was walking home, wand gripped inside her sleeve, keys in her other pocket, boots echoing steadily against the rain-slick concre...

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A New Beginning for Shadows in St. Mungo’s

Hi everyone,

I’m excited to share that I’ve officially begun releasing the completely rewritten version of the Shadows in St. Mungo’s trilogy — which includes The Mind Bu...

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A Path Beyond Survival: Chapter 25 - The Weight You Choose

The castle was still asleep when Harry stirred, buried under too many blankets, his body aching in ways that didn’t feel entirely physical. The room was hushed, the quiet kind that wrapped around...

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A Path Beyond Survival: Chapter 24 - What Breaks, What Heals

The first thing he noticed was the light.

It wasn’t harsh, but it wasn’t gentle either — a dull, flickering glow that seeped through his closed eyelids, painting everything in a low, ac...

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Starlit Promises: Chapter 2 - The Silent Slytherin

The greenhouse smelled like rain-soaked moss and something faintly metallic — the sharp, green tang of life growing too fast, too wild. Humid air clung to Harry’s skin as he stepped inside, the...

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A Path Beyond Survival: Chapter 23 - What Brings Us Down

The locker room buzzed with barely-contained energy — not chaos, exactly, but the kind of focused restlessness that existed in the thin space between anticipation and execution. Every movement ca...

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Starlit Promises: Chapter 1 - A House Divided

The train hissed to a halt like a tired beast finally allowed to rest, steam curling along the platform as if exhaling from the long journey.

Harry didn’t move at first.

He sat in the...

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A Path Beyond Survival: Chapter 22 - The First Patient

The hospital wing was bathed in soft light, the kind that didn’t come from the torches or the sun alone, but from the steady hum of healing spells layered over time. Wide windows let in the last ...

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A Path Beyond Survival: Chapter 21 - Places That Don't Hurt

The corridor leading to the hospital wing smelled of fresh eucalyptus, mixed with the subtle touch of old potions — a clean, calm scent that Harry was beginning to associate with a very specific ...

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Shadows in St. Mungo's II - The Secret of Avalon: Chapter 06

The first sound that reached Harry, still wrapped in a haze of semi-consciousness, was the rain. A persistent, patient, rhythmic drumming — like invisible fingers tapping on the window of a world...

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Shadows in St. Mungo's II - The Secret of Avalon: Chapter 05

The room on the second floor of 12 Grimmauld Place still slept in the shadows of dawn when Daphne awoke, as if returning from a long and inhospitable dive. She gasped as though air had become a sca...

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Shadows in St. Mungo's II - The Secret of Avalon: Chapter 04

The alley behind St. Mungus Hospital was one of those forgotten gaps in the fabric of the world, as if time itself, passing through there, had chosen to look the other way. There were no signs, no ...

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A Path Beyond Survival: Chapter 20 - Stolen Doors

The night smelled of old ink and fresh panic.

Harry sat in one of the armchairs in the makeshift common room — makeshift because... well, it wasn’t Gryffindor’s common room. It was an a...

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