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Time was running out. Dumbledore knew he would have to face his childhood friend, his nemesis soon, but he needed information from the inside to ensure the final battle was success.
Katrina Bagshot thought she was applying for a secretarial position at the British Ministry of Magic. Instead she finds herself pulled into an intriguing web of espionage where loyalty if a matter of life and death and everyone is an enemy.
January 2023 Story of the Month.
2023 Runner-Up Best Dark
2023 Runner-Up Best Character
Thank you to Oregonian for her hours of editing and for nominating this fic for Story of the Month as well as for the Golden Ink She has been amazingly supportive on this journey.
As Albus Dumbledore made final preparations for his next great adventure, there were certains things that could not remain unsaid.
In the haze of summer and the fever of dreams, Albus Dumbledore learns his Number One lesson: love doesn't always conquer everything.
When Albus Dumbledore refuses to come quietly and escapes the Ministry's clutches in a flash of light, he goes to the only place they won't look for him: the tallest tower of Nurmengard.
Written for hotel california’s most overused line challenge!
The sun rises and it smiles cold.
(It is the last day of summer.)
astronomical twilight (def.): the last stage of dusk before night
- palm-against-palm and wood between, elm and silver lime and Veela hair and dragon heartstring and there is no difference, nothing at all between us -
Banner by hullo @ TDA | 2009 fic
What beauty there was in your confidence. What purity in your certainty. What clarity in your purpose.
All of it, always, contained within every freckle of your face.
When one door shuts - oh, but there is always another possibility, always another future; another hundred, another thousand, and it is maddening to know fragments of them all but never enough, never enough to be more than a sickly, sweaty, sleepless mess.
I blink, and -
(Gellert Grindelwald is expelled.)
Impossible banner by grumpy cat @HPFT
Jimmy Teague has it all, a loving wife, a newborn son and friends.
And he's only just left Hogwarts. Not bad going.
But his father's life's work may trip him up.
Enter Gellert Grindelwald.
Jimmy's gonna need a pot of ale after this.
For nott theodore's Shaking up Shakespeare challenge
It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.
In 1924, Albus buys a dreamcatcher in San Francisco and is reminded that melancholy, for him, is a mistake.
Albus Dumbledore faces Gellert Grindelwald at Nurmengard. The last time he would speak to his only equal, the love of his life.
Wings arc from your body as you begin to soar, rising and curving towards the sun as it filters down towards you through the ink-blue sky.
Water fills your lungs in a steady drip, drip, drip, and you are drowning instead.
|| FROGS 2017 Winner: Best Description ||
Gellert Grindelwald gets a lot more than he bargained for when he visits Great Aunt Bathilda.
Written for Crimson Quill's New Beginnings Challenge
Gellerd Grindelwald, the second darkest wizard of all time. How did he learn of the Deathly Hallows? How did he rise to power? How was Albus Dumbledore able to defeat him? And why, at the end of his life, did he try to protect the one who had locked him away?
A second later, the fire released him into light. In front of him, a village, and standing before it with wand raised, laughing as it burned, a man. The sky was streaked with orange and purple, the last remnants of day. The man turned slowly, and piercing blue eyes met for the first time since that night in Godric's Hollow. So many years had passed, but each recognised the other in an instant.
Could you write a Gellert Grindelwald Broadway Songifc, you ask?
Well, of course I can!
An awful price for sometimes nice… what was Gellert Grindelwald really made of?
For Moonylupin's Broadway Song Challenge. (from 2010: my first fanfic)
credit aurevoir @ tdas
We are all prisoners in some form, some physically but others mentally bound by our own sanity, anger, guilt and regret.
3rd Place: Best Friends/Family at FROGs '18
Winner: Best Minor Character at POGs '18.
'You and I, Albus, we would have turned the world to ashes and risen together, phoenixes, standing high above the ruins, ready to take our rightful places and rule.'
For MuggleMaybe's The Literary Quotes Challenge
"It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends,” Albus Dumbledore once said. He, more than anyone, knew the truth of that.
Quote from page 221 of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by JK Rowling.
That summer was your fairytale, Albus, your flight from reality.
This is your story.
Yours, and sometimes his.
For Laura
Beautiful Banner by badlandr @ TDA
His lips tingled with the phantom of Gellert's kisses.
In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost.
- Dante Alighieri
Incredible banner by mockingjay @TDA
Albus Dumbledore and Gellert Grindelwald fight two very different duels.
Written for the Game On Volume II Collab at HPFF
Ominous banner by Enigma @ TDA!
She had only wanted to help her beloved Aberforth. She didn’t know that her attempt at helping was dooming her brothers to years of guilt, heartbreak, and that it would damage their relationship for the better part of a century.
Banner: abhorsen. @ TDA
History is written by the victors, to their specifications. Not all of history fits within them.
These are those parts which do not.
For Elisabeth.
Stunning banner by asami sato @TDA
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