Chapter 355: Snake in the Grass
4 April 1995, Little Hangleton
Lord Voldemort sat in one of the few remaining safe houses he had left, a hidden bunker in Little Hangleton with a small emergency stash. He remembered feeling a bit silly at the thought of ever needing it. After all, he had never expected to be in this position. He had enough followers to host him in th...
2024-10-12 13:40:28 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 354: Angel’s Despair
2 April 1995, Ministry of Magic, London
The last few months in Eddie Carmichael’s life were nothing more than tortuous, even that was an understatement. It made him wonder how things could ever go so wrong. Just months prior, he was in Durmstrang, spectating the European Tournament alongside his school’s delegation.
He knew t...
2024-10-10 13:36:50 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 353: Plain Sight
2 April 1995, Ministry of Magic
Harry’s meeting with Arcturus was as fruitful as he had hoped. The man was quick to provide the general whereabouts of his great-granddaughter when Harry assured him that he had no intention of harming her. Apart from Voldemort’s brief interruption, everything had gone relatively smoothly. By the time Harr...
2024-10-08 13:32:00 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 352: The Nature of Duality
29 March 1995, Black Manor
Harry couldn’t help but curse his luck. No, there had to be more to it. Fate itself must have been against him for everything to turn out so badly. He probably should have come the day before, but he was busy spending some quality time with Daphne and making sure that Longbottom wouldn’t tell anyone o...
2024-10-06 13:32:14 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 351: The Black Sanction
29 March 1995, Black Manor
Arcturus Black sat in his office, drinking a very old bottle of Firewhiskey, and reminisced at the remains of his legacy. He couldn’t help but wonder why everything had to go to shit without so much of a head’s up. His entire legacy was now made up of Narcissa and her brat of a son, and Andromeda’s est...
2024-10-05 13:38:11 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 350: The Long Way Round
28 March 1995, Greengrass Manor
“Probably, but hopefully it won’t be in a very long time.”
Then a soft voice spoke up, “Umm, Daph, Harry, what was that about?” Oh, yeah, Astoria was there. He forgot about that. That was bound to be very awkward to explain.
Harry watched as Daphne gently let Asto...
2024-10-03 13:30:47 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 349: Red and Green
28 March 1995, Greengrass Manor
To say that Harry was tense would have been an understatement. The moment he heard her voice, everything just came back. He was back in Durmstrang, holding back a corrosive magical release that would have wiped out the entire school and its surrounding land, while Lily Evans declined to help, choosing her ow...
2024-10-01 13:30:51 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 348: The Emerald Pond
28 March 1995, Greengrass Manor
It took Daphne embarrassingly long to realize that she wasn’t dreaming. It was a pretty recurrent one, where she imagined that Harry was still there, that he would just appear from thin air, twirl her around, and kiss her. It was too good to be true, but she always felt mournful when she woke up and fac...
2024-09-29 13:33:27 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 347: Fated Reunion
28 March 1995, Hogwarts
Harry Potter disappeared from Hogwarts feeling conflicted. For some reason, the entire country had gone to shit in the few months he wasn’t around. Voldemort returning wasn’t something he expected, but he had prepared himself for it. The option was always there, especially as the Horcrux in Neville’s scar was ...
2024-09-28 13:30:28 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 346: The Hero’s Bane
28 March 1995, Hogwarts
The last few months of Neville Longbottom’s life had been pretty horrible. Ever since Voldemort came back, everything changed. It wasn’t that he hadn’t thought about it before—he just never really accepted it. Ever since that fateful day in his first year when he learned that his parents’ murderer was ...
2024-09-26 13:30:33 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 345: Finding Home
28 March 1995, Durmstrang
In a blink of an eye, he found himself in a familiar series of mountains, surrounded by snow. He was in Durmstrang. He could feel it, the sense of belonging, the familiarity of the world. He was back home.
Harry lied there in the snow for what felt like hours, just relishing how it soothed his burnin...
2024-09-24 13:31:37 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 344: The Land Between
Unknown place, Unknown Time
With a final surge, Harry was pulled through the shimmering rift, vanishing into the swirling storm of colours beyond, leaving behind a prison devoid of dementors, the chained corpse of a Dark Lord impaled in the heart with a black spear, and corpses all over the maximum-security wing.
It was i...
2024-09-22 13:31:16 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 343: An Interesting Life
5 May 1997, Hogwarts (Earth 2)
Harry watched as the sun set before his eyes. He was at the exact place he and Sirius hung out the morning after Voldemort died. He liked so sit there and remember that for as much as life could suck sometimes, it could have easily been worse. If Harry hadn’t trusted a boy he had just met, then Voldem...
2024-09-21 13:33:24 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 342: The Morning That Follows
1 November 1995, Hogwarts (Earth 2)
He didn’t have time to process the magnitude of Harrold’s message—not fully. Save Dumbledore or not. The more logical choice was to save the man, and yet something niggled in his head. Of course, that was when Dumbledore sent a Patronus to everyone to gather for an order meeting. 2024-09-19 13:31:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Chapter 341: A New Dawn
1 November 1995, Hogwarts (Earth 2)
Sirius Black paced in his dog form, right next to Harry’s bed. To say that the previous day was nerve-wracking would be an understatement and a half. Seeing his godson being hit by that familiar sickly green light was horrifying, even if it was under controlled conditions. It was weaker than Voldemort’s...
2024-09-17 13:31:47 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 340: No Place Like Home
31 October 1995, Azkaban (Earth 2)
Suddenly, the killing curse started to fizzle slightly, its energy slowly being sapped out and swallowed by a dark sphere of some sort. The moment the killing curse was swallowed up, Voldemort felt a burning pain all over his body and everything went black.
He watched as the Dark Lord ...
2024-09-15 13:38:24 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 339: The Deadly Foe
31 October 1995, Azkaban (Earth 2)
“Oh, Tom. I’m disappointed. Don’t you recognize me?”
The man removed his hood and revealed a familiar face with a very familiar scar, “Potter!”
“In the flesh. Now, Lord Voldemort, what did you say about beating Death again?”
Lord Voldemort woul...
2024-09-14 13:31:38 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 338: Cornering a Snake
31 October 1995, Azkaban (Earth 2)
Lord Voldemort had no idea why he was feeling nervous. He hid it, of course, from his followers. It wouldn’t do for them to doubt their mission. However, there was something wrong. He could feel it in his bones. He would never admit it, but Lucius’ confession to the Diary’s destruction, just aft...
2024-09-12 13:30:33 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 337: Conflicting Doubles
29 October 1995, London (Earth 2)
In front of him was an almost exact version of himself staring back at him impatiently. However, what drew Harry the most was the distinct lack of scar on the boy’s forehead. He couldn’t help but exclaim, “What the fuck?”
Harrold seemed annoyed for a fraction of a second before...
2024-09-10 13:31:26 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 336: The Last Round
29 October 1995, Hogwarts (Earth 2)
In Harry Potter’s humble opinion, things had changed too much in just a few weeks. Umbridge was arrested for robbing Gringotts of all things, Grindelwald had apparently escaped Nurmengard, and Albus Dumbledore hadn’t been in the Great Hall ever since his fated enemy’s escape. Most people thought t...
2024-09-08 13:43:01 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 335: Of Favours Owed
25 October 1995, Wiltshire (Earth 2)
The manor loomed ahead, an opulent testament to wealth and power, its gleaming white walls bathed in the golden light of the afternoon sun. The sprawling estate stretched before him like a small French palace, with perfectly manicured gardens and ornate wrought-iron gates that framed the grand entranc...
2024-09-07 13:31:04 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 334: Disturbing the Pond
23rd October 1995, Hogwarts (Earth 2)
The world was going to shit. At least that was what Severus Snape was thinking as he brewed a bubbling potion in his office. It was a variation of the Wiggenweld potion that should be far more potent and heal very major wounds, even limiting certain magical effects from spreading, like a jinx or ...
2024-09-05 13:45:57 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 333: The Dangers of Grief
23rd October 1995, Grimmauld Place (Earth 2)
Gellert Grindelwald was dead.
Albus Dumbledore knew that the moment it happened. He could feel the oaths between them being nullified, the foolish promises that they made in their youth that they never broke. In a small dark corner of his mind, Albus relished his new freedom. He had...
2024-09-03 14:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 332: The Falling Darkness
21st October 1995, Nurmengard (Earth 2)
A thunderstorm raged outside Nurmengard, the sound of rain hammering against the ancient stone walls, muffled but relentless. Occasional flashes of lightning illuminated the darkened sky, casting brief, jagged shadows through the narrow, barred windows of the fortress.
The low rumble of ...
2024-09-01 13:55:17 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 331: The Opening Move
20th October 1995, Hogwarts (Earth 2)
The room was dimly lit, the flickering candlelight casting long shadows that danced eerily across the walls. Harry found himself standing in the centre of a grand, yet cold, drawing room. The air was thick with a sense of power and malevolence, making every breath feel heavy and deliberate. He loved...
2024-08-31 13:59:44 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 330: The Soaring Raven
18th October 1995, London (Earth 2)
Sirius Black stood, flabbergasted, as he watched the alternate version of his godson suddenly burst into a flock of black birds – ravens his mind supplied – which all flew around him for a good minute, before turning back to the strange yet familiar face that met him.
Harrold Smith – he p...
2024-08-29 14:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 329: Dark Words
5th October 1995, Hogwarts (Earth 2)
Albus Dumbledore had many faults, he would be the first one to admit that, but one of the things he disliked the most was when his plans were interrupted. Lately, he had spent most of his time trying to figure out what Voldemort had planned next and how to counter it effectively.
Truth be told, Lord ...
2024-08-27 14:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 328: Dark Wings
5th October 1995, Hogwarts (Earth 2)
If someone had said to Severus Snape that he would end up having to follow a student around in the castle, he would have either assumed they were drunk, or he would have called them a dunderhead before giving them a week’s worth of detention. Unfortunately for him, he was ordered by Albus Dumbledore to f...
2024-08-25 13:53:54 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 327: The Defiance Consortium
1st October 1995, Hogwarts (Earth 2)
The announcement of Dolores Umbridge’s appointment as High Inquisitor of Hogwarts had come out of nowhere. Hermione Granger had assumed, after reading Percy’s letter, that whatever he was alluding to would have been subtle, that she would have had to go through the newspaper very carefully...
2024-08-24 13:46:55 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 326: Illuminating the Path
30th September 1995, Hogwarts (Earth 2)
Albus Dumbledore paced around in his office, feeling unsettled. He felt the familiar weight of his long, silver beard as it swayed with each step, a comforting presence even as his thoughts churned. His eyes swept over the room, taking in the odd assortment of objects and books that had becom...
2024-08-22 13:47:11 +0000 UTC View Post