Tushar Srivastav

Subject: Thank You — and What’s Coming in August ✨

Hey there! 👋

First, a huge thank you to all of you who supported me in July — One month ago — on July 1 — I started posting regularly again. I wasn’t sure how it would go. But because of you, it’s already grown faster than I imagined. You helped bring these stories to life — with over 40 chapters released across 4 fics in just one month.

Thanks to you, August is already off to a strong start — and there’s much more coming:

📖...

Chapter Release 1-08-25

Harry and The Master of Death

• Tier 3 (Master) Chapter 19 – “The Trainee with Two Left Feet”

• Tier 2 (Scholar) Chapter 15: Into the Fire

• Tier 1 (Reader) 2025-08-01 14:30:00 +0000 UTC View Post

Chapter 19 – “The Trainee with Two Left Feet”

The new groundskeeper fell over her own mop bucket. Two times.

The first time was in the entrance hall, where her foot hit the rim and sent a wave of soapy water skimming across the old flagstones like a silver tide. The bucket spun in a crazy way, hit the wall, and tipped over with a flourish that would have impressed Flitwick. The second time was three steps later, when she fell into the puddle she had made and flailed her arms like a Quidditch keeper who had lost his br...

Chapter 51 – Consecrated Silence

The soundstage doesn’t greet them with bustle or brilliance—it greets them with breath held, like a lung unfilled. A cavern of shadows and scaffolding, vast and dim, where echoes go to rest. The air is dry, but thick. Still, but weighted. The kind of stillness that makes your footsteps feel like interruptions.

It is a body without skin, ribs of steel and plywood, ceiling swallowed by darkness so complete it might as well be sky. The floors d...

Chapter Release 31-07-25

Harry and the Unexpected

• Tier 3 (Master) Chapter 38 – The Weight and the Flame

• Tier 2 (Scholar) Chapter 28 – The Rhythm of Rebuilding

• Tier 1 (Reader) Chapter 24:...

  2025-07-31 12:44:40 +0000 UTC View Post

Chapter 38 – The Weight and the Flame

The ramp of the Gryphon lowered with a whispering hiss, a breath of old steel exhaling into the soft light of the hangar. The brushed metal

The ramp of the Gryphon lowered with a whispering hiss, a breath of old steel exhaling into the soft light of the hangar. The brushed metal

The ramp of the Gryphon lowered with a whispering hiss, a breath of old steel exhaling into the soft light of the hangar. The brushed metal of the bay gleamed like a still lake at daw...

Chapter 50 – “The Breath Between Words”

The church no longer waits to be lit—it begins to breathe with the camera.

Light doesn’t strike. It arrives. Soft. Shifting. As if the building itself is choosing when to reveal its wounds.

Morning paints in whispers. Noon glows like confession. And by dusk, the walls seem to shimmer with things unsaid.

The crew doesn’t chase perfection—they chase presence.

Each frame is not setup—it’s surrender.

And in the silence b...

Chapter Release 30-07-25

Harry Potter and The Help Of Merlin

• Tier 3 (Master) Chapter 12: The Castle That Waited

• Tier 2 (Scholar) Chapter 9: The Founding of House Watson

• Tier 1 (Reader) Chapter 6: “To Touch...

  2025-07-30 11:30:36 +0000 UTC View Post

Chapter 49 — “The City That Listens”

Philadelphia
The city meets you the way old grief does—quietly, from the corners. It doesn’t leap to introduce itself, doesn’t throw its arms around strangers. It waits. Patient. Unmoving. As if the stones beneath your feet are older than your questions and already know your answers.

It unfolds slowly, like a hymn half-forgotten and hummed beneath breath. Street by street. Brick by brick. A city constructed not just of mortar, but of memory—rusting fire escapes,...

Chapter 12: The Castle That Waited

The wind that brushed Harry’s cheeks was brisk, crisp, and laced with the scents of moss, lakewater, and something older—something earthy an

The wind that brushed Harry’s cheeks was brisk, crisp, and laced with the scents of moss, lakewater, and something older—something earthy and deep, like stone that had remembered the weight of centuries.

He stood at the edge of the wards, staring into what seemed at first like nothing more than open land—gentle hills rol...

Chapter Release 29-07-25

Harry and The Master of Death

• Tier 3 (Master) Chapter 18: The Weight of Wards

• Tier 2 (Scholar) Chapter 14: Preparations and Promises

• Tier 1 (Reader) Cha...

  2025-07-29 14:04:04 +0000 UTC View Post

Chapter 18: The Weight of Wards

The door to the staff room clicked open behind her.

Not slammed. Not closed for good. Just... let go, as if the hinges didn't want the meeting to end.

Minerva McGonagall walked into the hall.

As always, her posture was straight. She wouldn't slouch, even if Death itself was standing in front of her. But she could feel the strain in every bone and the weight pressing her shoulders down lower than she would ever let the staff see. The folder in her hands hurt her...

Chapter 48 – “First Slate Test”

It presses gently against the skin of the world, as if asking permission to enter.

Outside, the city is still swaddled in sleep, its windows slow to glint, its engines still coughing themselves awake. But inside the old church on the corner of 22nd and Morris, the air is already charged—thin, trembling, reverent. Not with noise. With potential.

The stained-glass windows, cracked at the edges, do not glow. They bleed. Deep reds and melancholy blues slip sideways through ...

Chapter Release 28-07-25

Harry and the Unexpected

• Tier 3 (Master) Chapter 37 – Ellie’s Tomorrow

• Tier 2 (Scholar) Chapter 27: Ashes, Echoes, and Morning Light

• Tier 1 (Reader) Chap...

  2025-07-28 13:44:17 +0000 UTC View Post

Chapter 47 – "The Ones Still Living"

The casting room was quiet, cloaked in the long hush of dusk—when daylight doesn’t end, it just exhales. Slanted amber light cut across the floor, slipping between the blinds like something searching. The air was thick with the kind of stillness that precedes either revelation or grief.

Shyamalan sat in a folding chair by the window, the script open across his knees. He wasn’t reading. Not anymore. His eyes moved over the page as though they already knew the words, as if th...

Chapter 37 – Ellie’s Tomorrow

POV: Ellie Ellie's earliest memory wasn't a lullaby or a birthday candle, nor was it the warmth of pancakes or the tickle of summer grass. I

POV: Ellie

Ellie's earliest memory wasn't a lullaby or a birthday candle, nor was it the warmth of pancakes or the tickle of summer grass. It was the colour of dust — not golden, not soft — but grey, choking, the colour of loss.

She remembered her mother's hands more than her voice. Thin, trembling fingers ...

Chapter 1 – The Room Below

Chuck Bartowski had a rule. Never, under any circumstances, let anyone see behind the curtain.

To most of the world — the Buy More staff, the NSA, the CIA, even Sarah — he was still the lovable nerd, the accidental asset who stumbled into a world far too dangerous for his khaki pants and Converse sneakers. And that was how he liked it. Because behind the curtain, behind the nervous smiles and endless pop culture references, lived someone else. Someone who no longer trusted easily. 2025-07-27 13:38:56 +0000 UTC View Post

New Story: Chuck The First Intersect Reboot

Hey everyone!

A number of you have reached out asking if I’d ever revisit Chuck — and after enough pings, I gave in 😅 So here it is: a reimagining of Chuck, starting from the moment he becomes the first Intersect.

But before we dive in…

⚠️ A Quick Note on Updates

This story is something I’m excited to explore, but it won’t follow my usual update pace. I want to set clear expectations:

📅...

2025-07-27 13:38:54 +0000 UTC View Post

How far into the dark should we go?

Hey everyone,

The arc ahead is one I’ve carried for a long time. It’s powerful. But it’s also painful. It touches on themes of cruelty, systemic silence, and the suffering of the most innocent.

This part of the story was never meant to be comfortable. But it was always meant to be true.

That said, I want to honour your trust. This is your space too. And while I won’t share spoilers or specifics, I do want to ask:

How far into the dark are you w...