Alastor 'Mad-Eye' Moody
for crimson quill's murder one-shot challenge
Retired Auror Alastor Moody discovers the body of a known criminal outside the Knockturn Alley office where he runs a private investigation business. Although he calls in the Aurors, he can't keep from looking into the case himself. He follows the few leads he can find, but finds only dead ends. Finally, he tries rattling a cage, then staking the crime scene.
Rating and Advisories (required): Mature Audiences (Violence)
Content Warnings (optional): None
Genre: Action/Adventure
Tropes: None
Completed ·
Published: 31 May 2024 ·
Updated: 31 May 2024 ·
Words: 4373 ·
Chapters: 1 ·
Reviews: 1 ·
Likes: 0 ·
Reads: 7
Series: None

There’s more to the story of Voldemort’s fall than anyone’s ever shared. The tale of a spy and a liar and the men that loved her.
2022 Golden Ink Award Winner - Best Angst
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Characters: Alastor 'Mad-Eye' Moody, Albus Dumbledore, Antonin Dolohov, Avery Jr., Bellatrix Black Lestrange, Evan Rosier, Fenrir Greyback, Harry Potter, James Potter I, Kreacher, Lily Evans Potter, Lucius Malfoy, Marlene McKinnon, Narcissa Black Malfoy, Original Female Character, Peter Pettigrew, Regulus Black, Remus Lupin, Rodolphus Lestrange, Severus Snape, Sirius Black, Sybill Trelawney, Voldemort/Tom Marvolo Riddle, Wilkes
Pairings: Regulus Black/OC (HP), Remus Lupin/OC (HP)
Representation: None
Story Type: Novel (50,000+ words)
FFT Groups:
Rating and Advisories (required): Mature Audiences (Sexual Content, Slurs, Suicide, Violence)
Content Warnings (optional): Cheating, Discrimination, Dying/Grieving, War
Genre: Angst, Dark, Drama, Romance
Tropes: Found Family, Secret Relationships, Star-Crossed Romance, Tragic Evil
Completed ·
Published: 13 Feb 2021 ·
Updated: 18 Apr 2022 ·
Words: 49995 ·
Chapters: 20 ·
Reviews: 102 ·
Likes: 51 ·
Reads: 1011
Alex Watson was kind, independent and thrustworthy Gryffindor, she was in the same year as the Marauders. But she was not like other girls, she perfectly knew how handsome was Sirius Black, but she chose to resist his charms and help other girls when their hearts were broken by infamous heartbreaker Sirius Black.
Little did she knew that Sirius suddenly was interested in her, just because he had heard some wild rumours about her from other boys, for example, how mysterious she is, how she treats them and how wild she is in bed. Alex's charisma made her special in Sirius's eyes.
Is love possible between a heartbreaker and a girl who tries to live peaceful life and not get hurt?
Characters: Alastor 'Mad-Eye' Moody, Albus Dumbledore, James Potter I, Lily Evans Potter, Minerva McGonagall, Original Female Character, Original Male Character, Peter Pettigrew, Remus Lupin, Sirius Black
Pairings: Sirius Black/OC (HP)
Representation: None
Story Type: Novel (50,000+ words)
FFT Groups:
Rating and Advisories (required): Mature Audiences (Consent Issues, Domestic Abuse, Sexual Content, Slurs, Substance Abuse, Violence)
Content Warnings (optional): Addiction, Breakups, Bullying, Discrimination, Dying/Grieving, Infertility, Panic Attacks
Genre: Action/Adventure, Angst, Drama, Romance
Tropes: Dysfunctional Family, Friends to Lovers, Love Hurts, Lycanthropy
Completed ·
Published: 21 Jun 2021 ·
Updated: 15 Mar 2022 ·
Words: 140284 ·
Chapters: 34 ·
Reviews: 4 ·
Likes: 0 ·
Reads: 212
Series: None
As Albus Dumbledore made final preparations for his next great adventure, there were certains things that could not remain unsaid.
Rating and Advisories (required): Teen Audiences (None)
Content Warnings (optional): War
Genre: Angst, General, Hurt/Comfort
Tropes: None
Completed ·
Published: 17 Aug 2021 ·
Updated: 17 Aug 2021 ·
Words: 6084 ·
Chapters: 1 ·
Reviews: 6 ·
Likes: 3 ·
Reads: 1073
Series: None
Written for the House Cup shipwreck beach challenge
Alastor Moody and Kingsley Shacklebolt have solved some very strange cases together, but one day Fred and George Weasley approach them with a case that tops them all...
Rating and Advisories (required): All Audiences (None)
Content Warnings (optional): None
Genre: Crime/Mystery
Tropes: None
Completed ·
Published: 29 Jun 2020 ·
Updated: 12 Feb 2021 ·
Words: 1501 ·
Chapters: 1 ·
Reviews: 7 ·
Likes: 3 ·
Reads: 948
Series: None
An extract from Sturgis Podmore's The Order of the Phoenix, Twenty Years On: Remembering Fallen Friends, attempting to put to rest once and for all that particular rumour about Alastor Moody, how he lost his eye, and that fateful trip to Norway.
Completed ·
Published: 26 Aug 2020 ·
Updated: 27 Aug 2020 ·
Words: 1215 ·
Chapters: 1 ·
Reviews: 3 ·
Likes: 2 ·
Reads: 946
Series: None

Ambrosius Yaxley: aspiring Death Eater and lover of all things illicit. Edward Bulstrode: aspiring Auror and lover of books and knowledge.
They make an unlikely pair, the two of them. When their relationship fails, they go their separate ways, thinking it is the end. But when their paths cross in the First Wizarding War, on opposite sides of the conflict, they find themselves torn as duty meets desire.
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Characters: Alastor 'Mad-Eye' Moody, Albus Dumbledore, Andromeda Black Tonks, Antonin Dolohov, Augustus Rookwood, Avery Sr., Bellatrix Black Lestrange, Original Male Character, Rabastan Lestrange, Rodolphus Lestrange, Severus Snape, Voldemort/Tom Marvolo Riddle
Pairings: OC/OC
Representation: Gay
Story Type: Novella (under 50,000 words)
FFT Groups:
Incomplete ·
Published: 31 Mar 2018 ·
Updated: 11 Jul 2020 ·
Words: 3186 ·
Chapters: 2 ·
Reviews: 5 ·
Likes: 3 ·
Reads: 47
Series: None
Harry had no idea of any sort of magical world. Sure there had been weird things that happened in his life, but he had always chalked it up to coincidence. This time, however, there was no dispute.
Characters: Alastor 'Mad-Eye' Moody, Albus Dumbledore, Arthur Weasley, Bellatrix Black Lestrange, Dobby, Draco Malfoy, Dudley Dursley, Fred Weasley I, George Weasley, Harry Potter, Hermione Granger, Horace Slughorn, James Potter I, Kreacher, Lily Evans Potter, Luna Lovegood, Petunia Evans Dursley, Remus Lupin, Ron Weasley, Vernon Dursley
Pairings: Arthur Weasley/Molly Prewett (HP), Draco Malfoy/Harry Potter (HP), Hermione Granger/Ron Weasley (HP), James Potter I/Lily Evans (Harry Potter), Remus Lupin/Sirius Black (HP), Unlisted Pairing
Representation: Gay, LGBTQIA+
Story Type: Challenge Entry, Novellette (under 25,000 words)
FFT Groups:
Completed ·
Published: 24 Dec 2019 ·
Updated: 27 Dec 2019 ·
Words: 15376 ·
Chapters: 4 ·
Reviews: 4 ·
Likes: 0 ·
Reads: 40
Series: None
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Fifth year’s barely over, but the future is all everyone wants to talk about. Regulus is determined to outshine his brother. Walden’s planning a marriage that’ll never happen. Tibs wants to be a politician. Becoming the next Bellatrix Lestrange is my goal, and the only one that seems achievable. Yet with the Death Eaters falling like flies, the future looks bleaker than ever.
In five years’ time, we’re all going to be dead.
Characters: Alastor 'Mad-Eye' Moody, Avery Jr., Bartemius Crouch Jr., Bellatrix Black Lestrange, Evan Rosier, Gibbon, Igor Karkaroff, James Potter I, Kreacher, Lucius Malfoy, Mulciber, Narcissa Black Malfoy, Original Female Character, Original Male Character, Regulus Black, Severus Snape, Sirius Black, Voldemort/Tom Marvolo Riddle, Walden Macnair, Wilkes
Pairings: Bartemius Crouch Jr./Regulus Black (HP), Lucius Malfoy/Narcissa Black (HP), OC/OC, Sirius Black/OC (HP), Unlisted Pairing
Representation: Bisexual/Biromantic, Demisexual, Gay, LGBTQIA+
Story Type: Novel (50,000+ words)
FFT Groups:
Rating and Advisories (required): Mature Audiences (Slurs, Slavery, Violence)
Content Warnings (optional): Bullying, Discrimination, Dying/Grieving, Internalized Oppression, War
Genre: Angst, Dark, Hurt/Comfort
Tropes: Fate/Prophecy, Law/Politics, Love/Hate Relationships, Origin Story, Slow Build/Slow Burn, Star-Crossed Romance
Incomplete ·
Published: 03 Jan 2017 ·
Updated: 21 Oct 2019 ·
Words: 22656 ·
Chapters: 3 ·
Reviews: 28 ·
Likes: 11 ·
Reads: 433
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Where saving Fred is a success...
Juniper Black knew the world was not on her shoulders for that was Harry Potter's responsibility but for a girl who's world danced around her siblings, a promise she unwittingly vows makes it feel like the world is on her shoulders. She'd do anything to keep that promise even if it means giving up herself.
She's a dead girl and she knows it.
Still, during her journey, until that day comes she makes it her duty to turn the lives of the people she deems worthy of second chances -despite their unwillingness to be saved.
Incomplete ·
Published: 29 Aug 2017 ·
Updated: 02 Apr 2019 ·
Words: 12572 ·
Chapters: 7 ·
Reviews: 1 ·
Likes: 0 ·
Reads: 309
Peter Pettigrew was found dead in an alleyway in 1981 underneath a Dark Mark. A month later, the war ended, and the investigation into his death was lost in the avalanche of work necessary to rebuild after Voldemort.
Fourteen years later, Remus Lupin receives a letter questioning whether Peter really died a hero after all.
Rating and Advisories (required): Mature Audiences (None)
Content Warnings (optional): Dying/Grieving, War
Genre: Angst, AU
Tropes: None
Completed ·
Published: 23 Nov 2018 ·
Updated: 22 Dec 2018 ·
Words: 7463 ·
Chapters: 3 ·
Reviews: 7 ·
Likes: 4 ·
Reads: 93

Winter of 1979 brings with it a time of war.
Diagon Alley is almost always deserted, propaganda fills the media, and Voldemort's on the rise with sneaky attacks in prominent places.
Will a covert operation by the Aurors be able to tip the scales in their favour?
Join James Potter and Sirius Black in Operation Basilisk to find out.
Third Place in StarFeather's Auror's Tale Challenge Season 4
[Rated M for Violence and Derogatory Language]
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Characters: Alastor 'Mad-Eye' Moody, Albus Dumbledore, Amelia Bones, Avery Sr., Evan Rosier, Goyle Sr., James Potter I, Lucius Malfoy, Mulciber, Sirius Black, Voldemort/Tom Marvolo Riddle
Pairings: James Potter I/Lily Evans (Harry Potter)
Representation: None
Story Type: Challenge Entry
FFT Groups:
Incomplete ·
Published: 13 Jul 2018 ·
Updated: 21 Jul 2018 ·
Words: 3030 ·
Chapters: 1 ·
Reviews: 3 ·
Likes: 1 ·
Reads: 64
Series: None

She wasn't sure that she could love anyone.
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Completed ·
Published: 05 Jun 2018 ·
Updated: 09 Jun 2018 ·
Words: 2922 ·
Chapters: 1 ·
Reviews: 1 ·
Likes: 1 ·
Reads: 1134
Series: None
Strange events from the past affects the present in the life of Alexis Kanno; she knows little of the power running in her veins and even less of its potential.
Characters: Alastor 'Mad-Eye' Moody, Albus Dumbledore, Bellatrix Black Lestrange, Draco Malfoy, Ginny Weasley, Gregory Goyle, Harry Potter, Hermione Granger, Luna Lovegood, Magical Creature, Original Female Character, Ron Weasley
Pairings: None
Representation: Anxiety
Story Type: Novel (50,000+ words)
FFT Groups:
Incomplete ·
Published: 22 Apr 2018 ·
Updated: 25 May 2018 ·
Words: 12610 ·
Chapters: 3 ·
Reviews: 0 ·
Likes: 0 ·
Reads: 86
Series: None
Rating and Advisories (required): Mature Audiences (Slurs)
Content Warnings (optional): Dying/Grieving
Genre: Angst
Tropes: None
Completed ·
Published: 05 Apr 2018 ·
Updated: 18 Apr 2018 ·
Words: 1333 ·
Chapters: 1 ·
Reviews: 0 ·
Likes: 0 ·
Reads: 23
Series: None
The year is 1952, and Europe is a tense and dangerous place. In a shadowy world of spies, betrayal, and shifting alliances, powerful wizards from East and West battle for domination, while a rising dark lord may outwit them all.
Completed ·
Published: 28 Mar 2018 ·
Updated: 28 Mar 2018 ·
Words: 34297 ·
Chapters: 15 ·
Reviews: 2 ·
Likes: 5 ·
Reads: 34210
Series: None
It is 1976.
Aurora Jane Meadows, buccaneering curse-breaking witch, returns home from the South China sea after hearing news of the death of her brother.
Finding her country under a cloud of fear, gripped in the chaos of an emerging dark wizard known only as "You-Know-Who", she takes on the Ministry to discover the truth.
Incomplete ·
Published: 03 May 2017 ·
Updated: 06 May 2017 ·
Words: 26349 ·
Chapters: 5 ·
Reviews: 2 ·
Likes: 0 ·
Reads: 148
Series: None
To live in a time of war is to accept – however unwillingly – that you will know loss.
Elphias Doge writes a series of letters to the friends he has left behind.
Characters: Alastor 'Mad-Eye' Moody, Albus Dumbledore, Amelia Bones, Amos Diggory, Cedric Diggory, Charity Burbage, Elphias Doge, Emmeline Vance, Fabian Prewett, Gideon Prewett, Harry Potter, James Potter I, Lily Evans Potter, Minerva McGonagall, Molly Weasley I, Peter Pettigrew, Remus Lupin, Sirius Black
Pairings: None
Representation: Black, Depression, Gay, Lesbian, PTSD
Story Type: Story Collection
FFT Groups:
Incomplete ·
Published: 12 Apr 2017 ·
Updated: 13 Apr 2017 ·
Words: 2154 ·
Chapters: 1 ·
Reviews: 4 ·
Likes: 2 ·
Reads: 57
Series: None

Nymphadora Tonks has a new assignment.
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Rating and Advisories (required): Mature Audiences (None)
Content Warnings (optional): None
Genre: Action/Adventure, Romance
Tropes: None
Completed ·
Published: 02 Jan 2017 ·
Updated: 04 Jan 2017 ·
Words: 894 ·
Chapters: 1 ·
Reviews: 2 ·
Likes: 1 ·
Reads: 17
Series: None