A new school year at Hogwarts is starting for the Golden Quartet, and it doesn't look good.

As the Marauders try to pick up the pieces of a damaged friendship and Harry struggles to get used to a new family and a new identity, Neville has to deal with his resentment for a role in the wizarding world that wasn't supposed to be his and discovers that maybe there's a reason if he belongs in Slytherin.

Meanwhile something obscure is crawling, menacing the safety of the students inside the castle...

Second installment in the Jimmy Portman's AU

Betaed by Emma (facingthenorthwind), Abby (kuusi palaa) and Bianca (victoria_anne)

Inkys 2021 finalist for best cast-ensemble

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A collection of Drabbles, Flash Fiction, and One Shots for Fairest of the Rare's LoveFest 2022

Query: when is murder acceptable?

Life at number 12 Grimmauld Place is becoming tense and Sirius is eager to begin his first year at Hogwarts.

Meanwhile, he encounters a ragtag team of old pseudo-pirates, who get caught up in the consequences of their past exploits, and a book that should have stayed a myth.

Crookshanks loved hanging at Hogwarts but the summers in the Grangers’ Muggle neighborhood could be just as interesting.

"Again Gerry thought this candidate was a little too eager, perhaps a little too fire-happy. But Gerry could see that his heart was in the right place. After all, the instinct to slaughter muggles could only be applauded."

Second Place Winner in la_topolina's Fluff Challenge

A series of stories about the vampire, Leander Cross. Born in and created in the Fifteenth century. (A sort of history lesson, if you will)

Merlin reacts on instinct to save Camelot and Arthur from an ancient curse, in front of Uther Pendragon. And now suddenly destiny is unraveling and nothing will ever be the same again.

(Merlin and Arthur centered. Arthur/Gwen in later chapters. AU after season 1.)    

Aesop is credited for creating over a hundred fables, but in truth he wrote many more; however, these were filled with magical beings and beasts. Unfortunately, over the centuries these disappeared from muggle literature and history books. Now, through a unique partnership of a magical latent and a literature historian at potionpartner’s printing, some of these stories have been recovered and are now being read by the muggle world for the first time.

2nd Place: Noelle Zingarella's Wizard Tales from Many Lands Challenge

Graphic by Noelle Zingarella

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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.

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Leanna Selwyn is a pureblood orphan who was taken in by the Longbottoms at the age of four. Her biggest misfortune is her natural tendancy to be evil and sarcastic. It could have been all right if James Sirius Potter and Fred Weasley were not in the same grade as her.

James is talented. Leanna is only gifted with a good memory. They have absolutely nothing in common save one - They both hate each other's guts. 

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A collection of stories inspired by The Handmaid's Tale

Please, take the warnings on this story very seriously.

Magic is a gift. A tool to change the world. But the wizarding world has fallen into a new age of darkness and fear, walling itself away. Scorpius Malfoy tried to fight that once, and lost.

Maybe he can’t change the wizarding world. But the Muggle world is full of evils that can be undone by one man and his wand. At whatever cost.

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