"Oh, Lockhart." Cassian shook his head, almost impressed. "Why?"
The man standing before him, if he could still be called that, smiled faintly, as if pleased to be recognised. His posture was...
2025-09-26 17:37:51 +0000 UTC View PostFor the next few weeks, the castle stayed still. Too still. Cassian had grown used to the rooster illusions crooning every hour, faint, scratchy caws that echoed through the halls like a haunted fa...
2025-09-26 11:39:53 +0000 UTC View PostLucius struck again, a week later. This time, he managed to have Dumbledore sacked. He was insufferably smug about it, gliding through the castle as though the victory had cost him nothing. But eve...
2025-09-25 22:16:48 +0000 UTC View PostAfter breakfast, Cassian walked into the classroom with a half-eaten apple in one hand and the other already drawing his wand.
He flicked the wand, and the centre of the room darkened. Wind p...
2025-09-25 17:18:27 +0000 UTC View Post"I'm learning more of Yrsa's runes."
He caught something in her tone and stepped closer, tugging her gently into his chest. Her body settled against his without resistance, but her shoulders ...
2025-09-24 20:22:22 +0000 UTC View PostHalfway to his own room, Casian frowned, stopping.
He turned, changed course, climbed to the fifth floor and down an unused corridor most students forgot existed.
There, at the base of ...
2025-09-24 16:32:45 +0000 UTC View PostStanding in the middle of the first Duelling Club meeting after Christmas, Cassian let his eyes sweep the room. Students in uneven lines, some fidgeting, some pretending not to. Glasses were actual...
2025-09-23 21:26:25 +0000 UTC View PostSince Dumbledore refused to station the last of the roosters inside the castle Cassian gave up on asking nicely.
"I’m not putting the safety of children in the hands of politics," he snappe...
2025-09-23 16:48:42 +0000 UTC View PostBathsheda caught his sleeve. "Cassian," she said quietly, "this is Minister Cornelius Fudge."
The woman puffed herself up, clearly pleased with the introduction but when Bathsheda didn't cont...
2025-09-22 21:17:16 +0000 UTC View PostMiranda closed the book with a soft thud. "The charm's wrong, then?"
Cassian turned slightly, eyeing the diagram again. "The anchor's off-centre. As the book says, some of the old scholars us...
2025-09-22 18:12:39 +0000 UTC View PostDumbledore's hands folded together on the desk, but he didn't speak.
"Tom Riddle," Cassian pressed. "That name came out of the diary before it vanished. Was he Voldemort? Is that who opened t...
2025-09-21 18:40:03 +0000 UTC View PostThat night, once Bathsheda finally gave up pacing and drifted off to sleep, Cassian stayed put at the desk. A half-finished mug of tea sat by his elbow, cooling fast. His pen scratching over parchm...
2025-09-21 16:20:09 +0000 UTC View PostThe snake froze mid-lunge. Its head lowered, and its body slackened until it lay on the floor like a coiled rope.
The hall went silent. You could've heard a pin drop.
Cassian lowered hi...
2025-09-20 18:13:17 +0000 UTC View Post"I watched James Potter take down a Slytherin half-blood with a charm no student should've known. And I watched the professors lie about it."
Flitwick stirred, but didn't speak. His silence w...
2025-09-20 08:59:56 +0000 UTC View Post"Sir... what about Mrs Norris? Could this spell have done that to her?"
"No," he said after pausing. "This spell isn't strong enough for that sort of work. What happened to the cat... that is...
2025-09-19 19:02:15 +0000 UTC View PostHi! Just a quick reminder I love you all and really thankful for the support!
Now that I've made a wild confession, before we get to the new chapter, a quick note about Bathsheda's first gues...
2025-09-19 10:28:37 +0000 UTC View PostBathsheda's eyes flicked to him. "Then what is it? A horcrux?"
Cassian frowned faintly. "A what?"
She waved a hand. "Dark magic. Splitting a soul, locking it in an object. Just a theory...
2025-09-18 20:50:27 +0000 UTC View Post"That name mean anything to you, Headmaster?"
Dumbledore tilted his head. For a moment, the only sound in the room was Fawkes shifting on his perch. He then said, "Please, continue."
Ca...
2025-09-18 17:18:00 +0000 UTC View Post"What do you think you are doing?" Snape asked coldly, already drawing his wand.
Bathsheda stepped forward before Cassian could even open his mouth. "If you wave that wand, I will make you re...
2025-09-17 16:56:34 +0000 UTC View PostOn a casual and normal day, Bathsheda woke Cassian with an elbow jab to his ribs. He let out a groan, tugging her back under the blankets.
"What the hell?" His voice was thick with sleep. He ...
2025-09-17 09:49:56 +0000 UTC View PostThe first Quidditch match of the season kicked off under a sky that couldn't decide between drizzle and downpour. Cassian leaned back in the stands, coat collar turned up, breath fogging faintly in...
2025-09-16 18:24:57 +0000 UTC View PostCassian stepped into the classroom and scrawled a single word across the board, Avis. The chalk squeaked before snapping. He gave it a look, then turned to the students with a wide grin.
"Tod...
2025-09-16 08:30:34 +0000 UTC View PostFred grinned wide. "You actually know a werewolf, sir?"
"Course I do. He is very polite. Used to be a scholar before he got bitten. Knows more about lunar cycles than half the Astronomy profe...
2025-09-15 17:01:54 +0000 UTC View PostCassian and Bathsheda made it something of a sport to bully the diary whenever the chance arose. "Daisy" managed to coax the name of its creator out of it, some chap calling himself Tom Marvolo Rid...
2025-09-14 20:31:39 +0000 UTC View PostNeville's gran turned up the next morning like a general storming enemy territory. Her handbag swing weaponized, and the clip of her heels on the stone floor announced she wasn't the sort to wait f...
2025-09-14 17:30:04 +0000 UTC View Post'Let's be clear, you are not special. You are not clever. You are not even dangerous. You are a relic of someone else's failed plan, and now you are stuck here, begging me to care.'
The respo...
2025-09-13 21:58:39 +0000 UTC View PostBathsheda’s fingers brushed the desk. “Do you want me to try?”
“Not yet.” He wrote once more, 'You say you can help me. How?'
The response came quickly this time, as though ea...
2025-09-13 17:09:58 +0000 UTC View PostMarius Vale turned the envelope over twice.
It was thick cream parchment. The wax was indigo, stamped with a phoenix that looked like it might rise right off the flap if he stared too long. N...
2025-09-12 19:57:05 +0000 UTC View PostThree weeks into the new term, Bathsheda ambushed him with what might’ve been her most dangerous idea yet.
“Absolutely not.” Cassian’s head whipped side to side so fast it stirred the...
2025-09-12 19:00:27 +0000 UTC View PostCassian stretched out his hand, palm open. “Right. Your wand, Mr Weasley.”
Ron jerked upright in his seat, clutching the battered stick as if Cassian had just asked for his right arm. “...
2025-09-12 17:04:16 +0000 UTC View Post