The year is 1997, and an order has gone out from the Ministry of Magic that all students between the ages of eleven and seventeen who were formerly taught at home must now present themselves for attendance at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. 

Howard Sutton, the seventeen-year-old son of sheep crofters on the Isle of Skye, who formerly received his magical education at home, arrives at Hogwarts at the beginning of what will be the calamitous school year of 1997-1998.  The Sorting Hat says, "It's not a matter of which House you need, but of which House needs you."  What can a crofter do for Hogwarts?

Featured Story, Spring 2022 Bulletin

Finalist in the Golden Ink Awards, 2022, for Long-Form Story

Story of the Month, August 2023

First Place, Golden Ink Awards 2024 for Best Friendship (Howard Sutton & Joel Hussong)

Second Place, Golden Ink Awards 2024 for Best Long Form Story

Sic semper tyrannis

It is the morning of 26th December 1968 and the scandal breaks like a storm: Minister Nobby Leach has been poisoned. The suspect, Abraxas Malfoy, sits in a holding cell, red-handed and innocent. Auror Alice Longbottom is leading the investigation - not into the poisoning, but into a string of strange crimes: people vanishing, candlesticks stolen, and rumours that the dead are coming back. The Department of Mysteries is reluctant to help: James Selwyn left the office three weeks ago under a cloud of suspicion, and since then the Death Chamber has been locked, its contents sealed away. 

Eyes are watching everything, everywhere, spying on protests and squishing riots, but talk is growing in the shadows: turning from unrest to rebellion to revolution.

Lord Voldemort is ready. 

the sequel to Imperium

|| Inkys 2023 Winner: Best Villain ||

Antebellum (adj.): occuring or existing before a war. 

August 1945 - October 1949

The world is in flux; history is not yet past and the future is not yet here. 

Tom Riddle is patient. 

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