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

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loving yourself is only the beginning.

lavender brown/oliver wood

finalist: best dialogue, inkys '22

winner: best universe/series, inkys '23

winner: favourite lead character, inkys '24

winner: best slow burn romance, inkys '24

second place: best friendship, inkys '24

J&TL Universe

"Younger sons cannot marry where they like." - Col Fitzwilliam (Pride & Prejudice)

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There’s little use in being a gentleman when you’re the younger son of a younger son. In fact, the person with the greatest chance of succeeding around here is Ginevra (if only she’d be reasonable).

But the willful sons and daughter of Burrough House in Devonshire may just find their way with a little nerve and a lot of heart (and some very unladylike behaviour).

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(A Regency-era Muggle AU)

When Finlay Blishwick returns to Hogwarts for his sixth year, he expects his entitled life alongside Tom Riddle to continue as it always has. They are even tasked with finding Henry Potter's illegitimate child for Grindelwald. What Finn doesn't expect, however, is how short the fall from grace really is, and that it leads straight into the arms of dynamic Hufflepuff Brindley McCroy.    

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A thoughtful gesture is enough to make someone's day. A Post Hogwarts story with both old characters we love, and new ones we learn to love.  

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The height of The Dark Lord's ascension. An impending banquet. A promised, impossible potion. A House Elf. Their loveless marriage.

For Ineke's Inspired by a Song Challenge V. 2

2022 Golden Ink Award Winner - Most Original Character (Alida Selwyn), Best Dark

2023 Golden Ink Award Winner - Best Long-Form Story, Best Slow-Burn Romance, Favorite Supporting Character (Portrait Regulus Black)

"I hate accidents

except when we went from friends to this"

~ "Paper Rings" by Taylor Swift

Ron and Hermione get a glimpse of what they can be together.

It's like 13 Going On 30 meets The Family Man.

Ted Tonks was always too good for Severus Snape. Severus was just too happy to care.

A series of fluff flash fiction from the Breathing Underwater-verse.

Written for RogueSlytherin's I'll Read Fluff if I Want To Challenge.

Verity works in a Diagon Alley Shop and has a great deal of fun at her job, but her dream is elsewhere.  Any time she can, she spends her nights drumming in clubs - mostly Muggle ones, at that - trying to get her big break.  She didn't expect the detour she took on that journey, though, or the surprises that awaited her after she followed the new route.

All things considered, it is quite hard to run away properly, when your friends can, quite literally, follow you to the Ends Of The Universe And Back.

This is fairly annoying when your friends' primary motivations for hunting you down seems to be to pretend that Everything's Fine Without Him, Really, ruin your perfectly-sweet, perfectly-quiet happiness with a sudden onset of Relationship Crisis, and to sidle you into playing Therapist when your only qualifications for the role are that you were once (sort of; it's a long story) a God and/or have previously given some Exciting News to a random virgin woman and some shepherds, neither of which are particularly helpful.

Beelzebub is Mildly Furious, Gabriel is Quietly Amused: together they're, well, sort of just... Meh about it all? 

and that's where the beginning of the end begun

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Cedrella Black is expected to marry well and raise a line of perfect, pureblood children, who further the aims of the society she was born into. But as she navigates the politics surrounding Wizarding Society's London Social, Cedrella finds herself inconveniently bumping into Septimus Weasley, a flirtatious fortune hunter with a family secret. While her parents push her to marry another, she slowly discovers she has more in common with Septimus than she ever dreamed possible.

As the events of the summer unfold, alliances are forged, hearts are broken, and a newly printed publication threatens to tear apart Wizarding Society's Most Sacred Twenty-Eight.

Golden Ink Awards 2022 Winner:

Best Worldbuilding

Best Slow Burn Romance

Golden Ink Awards 2021 Winner:

Best Description

Best Original Character (Cedrella Black)

January 2021 Sitewide Story of the Month 

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With everything in life, there is a season. And they are always changing.  

Maria Wynstone is mostly content with a quiet life at her family's country estate, but as the daughter of a gentleman farmer, she knows that a few bad seasons can make all the difference to one's circumstances. And Maria has had her fair share of bad seasons in Town, to make her never wish to quit there again.  

Arthur Colbourne does not mind the law per se, but an embarrassing bumble in court rattles his confidence to the point where he questions all he's ever worked for. However, when his Uncle Wallace unexpectedly dies and he inherits the estate, Arthur finds himself thrust into a role that he is quite underprepared for, particularly when he meets the daughter of his new neighbour, Miss Maria Wynstone.

Drawn to her quiet charms, Arthur finds himself feeling things he's never experienced before. And when the delightful Miss Wynstone receives startling news about her brother, Gerry, Arthur cannot help but offer his services to help her find the truth of what happened to him. As the hunt for Gerry reaches a critical turning point, both Maria and Arthur are confronted not only for their growing feelings for one another, but also ghosts from their pasts. They must then find a way to move beyond their individual failings, should they want to succeed together.

 Written for inmyownlittlecorner's Regency Rep Challenge.