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(EM Vol. 2: A Wandering Melody) Chapter 119: Frozen Kindling

Chapter 119: Frozen Kindling

123 AC, Lands of Always Winter

However, at its end was a blade that made Cregan shiver with its sight alone. It was akin to seeing a fragment of the night’s sky while surrounded by something crimson, which unsettled everything around it. The creatures glared at Harry hatefully, “THEN WHAT COMES NEXT IS YOUR DOING!”

Leaf stared at the battling form of the Stranger and the King of the Old Ones, wishing with all of he...

(Arcane Tinker) Chapter 25: Alternate Perception

AN: Like the other AT chapters so far, this isn’t part of the weekly schedule. Tomorrow will be an AWM (EM Vol. 2) chapter, as you guys chose in the last poll.

Chapter 25: Alternate Perception

25th October 1991, Hogwarts

Harry Potter had dreamt of going to Hogwarts ever since he was young. His parents had often spoken of the castle, of their times there before the war, before Lord Voldemort and what came after. His mum even spoke somewhat ...

(EM Vol. 2: A Wandering Melody) Chapter 118: Song of Dawn

Chapter 118: Song of Dawn

123 AC, Lands of Always Winter

“We're not exactly safe here, and it won’t be long before they notice that something isn’t right.” “Move where?” Cregan asked. The golden-haired woman looked at him as if he were an idiot, “To the Heart of Winter, of course.”

Cregan couldn’t help but feel surprised when Daphne quickly pulled him towards her and followed them in running away from the giant worm monster, which ...

(EM Vol. 2: A Wandering Melody) Chapter 117: The Hand of the Other

Chapter 117: The Hand of the Other

123 AC, Lands of Always Winter

He idly rubbed his wedding ring as a smirk curled up at his lips, mirroring the creature’s own, “Hello there, I’m Harry Potter. I believe it’s time we had a conversation, don’t you?” This was going to be fun.

Harry looked at the so-called King of the Others, who seemed to be staring at him as one would an exotic animal. There was interest at the sight of something dif...

(EM Vol. 2: A Wandering Melody) Chapter 116: A Heart of Winter

Chapter 116: A Heart of Winter

123 AC, Frostfangs, Beyond the Wall

As if to prove her point, Cregan’s ancestral weapon glowed in Harry’s hand, which created a shockwave that seemed to stall the titanic figure sliding at him, a shockwave that he distinctly did not feel in any way.

It had been some time since Harry Potter felt genuinely angry. He found that he did not miss the feeling at all. Rage had never been something that drove him, or emotio...

No Chapter Today

Sorry, as the title says, I won't be able to upload a chapter today. I'm pretty bummed about it since I really value being consistent with my upload schedule. Whenever something comes up, I usually manage to write the chapters ahead of time to avoid messing up the schedule.

Unfortunately, I had something of an emergency today, which I don't know if I'll be able to deal with early enough to have time to write anything. I typed this on my phone and scheduled it for my usual upload time, j...

(EM Vol. 2: A Wandering Melody) Chapter 115: A Frozen Hollow

Chapter 115: A Frozen Hollow

123 AC, Frostfangs, Beyond the Wall

Harry answered his question by turning to Leaf, “Your people really went overboard when they destroyed the Other’s settlement, didn’t they?” Cregan gulped and nodded, unable to refute the sorcerer's claim. The Elder Child of the Forest had truly understated things when she said that the settlement had been destroyed.

Cregan walked alongside his companions into the giant valley ...

(EM Vol. 2: A Wandering Melody) Chapter 114: The Biting Cold

Chapter 114: The Biting Cold

123 AC, Frostfangs, Beyond the Wall

The sorcerer then walked forward, the same smug smirk that he always wore on his face and turned towards the Other, “Hello there, I’m Harry Potter. I believe you and I are due for a lovely conversation. Don’t you?”

With the excitement of the battle fading away, Cregan Stark couldn’t help but stare at the creature before him, mankind’s greatest enemy. He had heard stories of...

(EM Vol. 2: A Wandering Melody) Chapter 113: Of Dreaded Pasts

Chapter 113: Of Dreaded Pasts

123 AC, Frostfangs, Beyond the Wall

The cold recoil forced the creature to take a step back; its flame flickered and dimmed under the pressure. Then two figures stepped from the flames, the Stranger and his mate, looking at the creature with a mixture of interest and exasperation, “We couldn’t even leave you for five minutes, could we?”

Cregan had felt that he would not like what he found from the moment Leaf was ...

(EM Vol. 2: A Wandering Melody) Chapter 112: Fangs of Frost

Chapter 112: Fangs of Frost

123 AC, Haunted Forest, Beyond the Wall

After all, he had come North of the Wall to help prevent a second Long Night, and that was worth far more than any danger he might be in. And so, he walked, following the Potters and Leaf into the deep North, toward a place no sane man had tried to reach in thousands of years.

Leaf seethed in silence as she walked alongside the Stranger, his mate, and the Winter King, to what was mo...

General Check In and Poll on Future Chapters

Hello everyone,

I wanted to share a quick check-in to see how you’re feeling about the content so far. I’ve noticed things have been a little quieter recently, so I’d love to hear if there’s anything you’re not enjoying, anything that’s unclear, or any suggestions you’d like to offer. I’ll be posting these from time to time to make sure I’m not taking the story in a direction that doesn’t resonate with you.

Oh, by the way, I really did not like yesterday's chap...

(EM Vol. 2: A Wandering Melody) Chapter 111: Wilted Saplings

AN: This chapter was revised and updated on 28/11/2025.

Chapter 111: Wilted Saplings

123 AC, Haunted Forest, Beyond the Wall

Leaf stared at her kin and shook her head, making the elderly woman gain a mixture of pride and grief on her face. “Then ask your questions, Stranger. I will answer what I can.”

Cregan Stark knew, from the very way Harry’s head moved forward in anticipation, that the coming conversation would be as...

(EM Vol. 2: A Wandering Melody) Chapter 110: Molten Chains

Chapter 110: Molten Chains

123 AC, Hardhome, Beyond the Wall

From the ashes, a figure appeared. It was Harry Potter, but he was different. As he turned towards the Greenseer’s last thrall, the scythe in his hand disappeared into mist, and he spoke up with a serious tone, “I believe it’s time for us to have a conversation, Brynden Rivers.”

Cregan Stark stared at the remains of the so-called Greenseer, unable to do anything but feel confusion ...

(EM Vol. 2: A Wandering Melody) Chapter 109: Broken Wings

Chapter 109: Broken Wings

123 AC, Hardhome, Beyond the Wall

Brynden Rivers knew that history would not remember him kindly, if it would ever remember him at all. Perhaps that was the fate of most bastards, even ones with royal blood, legitimised he might have been. Daeron had certainly used this when Daemon inevitably rebelled, starting many of the Blackfyre rebellions that followed.

He had committed dreadful deeds, all to protect his brother and the realm a...

(EM Vol. 2: A Wandering Melody) Chapter 108: Traitorous Flames

Chapter 108: Traitorous Flames

123 AC, Hardhome, Beyond the Wall

The walls themselves shifted, with giant scales starting to appear on their surface, and finally, giant eyes opened, their glow illuminating the cave far beyond Leaf’s Weirwood torch. She could move in sheer fright as the beast’s giant maw opened and everything was swallowed by dark, blue flames.

The world was on fire. That was the sole thought in Cregan’s mind as the caves withi...

(EM Vol. 2: A Wandering Melody) Chapter 107: Hardened Earth

Chapter 107: Hardened Earth

123 AC, The Haunted Forest, Beyond the Wall

Leaf looked back at the Heart Tree, one of the oldest in existence, and the home of what remained of her people. She couldn’t help but feel wary about the journey ahead. Ash and Scales would protect them until her return, for the Singers shall return, if only for one last song in the face of the Cold Ones. Those were not their names, nor was her name truly Leaf. They were what the Last Green...

(EM Vol. 2: A Wandering Melody) Chapter 106: Of Cursed Ravens

Chapter 106: Of Cursed Ravens

123 AC, The Haunted Forest, Beyond the Wall

Harry raised his hand, and the illusion dissipated. He turned towards Cregan with a smug smile on his face, “Well, we’ve heard what a White Walker had to say, and we thought it best to do the same with their sworn enemy, the Children of the Forest. That should be an interesting meeting, don’t you think?”

The Children of the Forest were mysterious creatures that had bee...

(EM Vol. 2: A Wandering Melody) Chapter 105: Ghost of a Future

Chapter 105: Ghost of a Future

123 AC, Fist of the First Men

He should not delay his expedition for something like this. And so, he turned away, going back to the top of the hill, leaving the echo of the Corpse Queen’s weeping still ringing somewhere deep in the frozen dark behind them.

The walk back down from the Fist of the First Men was completely silent and but it was a silence that Cregan appreciated. He had never thought he would even have t...

(EM Vol. 2: A Wandering Melody) Chapter 104: Queens and Snow

Chapter 104: Queens and Snow

123 AC, Fist of the First Men

However, what completely surprised him was the fact that it was not a man that he saw, but a woman. And immediately, he realised who he was facing, for if this was the body of the Night’s King, then this was his Corpse Queen, the creature who almost destroyed the Night’s Watch.

Cregan Stark stared at a figure of legend, a living creature from the Age of Heroes itself. He had grown up wit...

(EM Vol. 2: A Wandering Melody) Chapter 103: Frozen Helpings

Chapter 103: Frozen Helpings

123 AC, The Wall

And just like that, Cregan blinked, and the sorcerer and his wife disappeared completely, leaving Cregan alone just as they had found him. The wind howled across the Wall, and for the first time, Cregan thought he could almost hear it speak.

It took more time than he would have liked for Cregan to convince his men that he would be ranging alone North of the Wall. If he had not made it an official command...

(EM Vol. 2: A Wandering Melody) Chapter 102: Unforgiving Ice

Chapter 102: Unforgiving Ice

123 AC, The Wall

Cregan Stark stood atop the wall that his greatest ancestor had ever made and stared into the distance. It was time again, Winter. The Maester may wish to deliberate all they wanted as they tried to unravel what was to come, but he could feel it in his bones. Winter was coming, and this time it was different.

The change in seasons was sudden, as it had been Summer mere moons ago, and Autumn had barely lasted more...

(EM Vol. 2: A Wandering Melody) Chapter 101: Nurturing Hope

Chapter 101: Nurturing Hope

123 AC, King’s Landing

Alicent Hightower stood on her room’s balcony and watched her father’s escort leave the city, taking many of House Hightower’s guards with him. It stung that he had done so obviously as a way to answer for her failures, or perhaps he even knew of her betrayal, that she had actively asked Viserys to send him back to Oldtown.

He had obviously been taken by surprise during the feast when Viserys announc...

(EM Vol. 2: A Wandering Melody) Chapter 100: Visions of Death

Chapter 100: Visions of Death

123 AC, Dragonstone

Harry stepped through the portal and closed it behind him, doing his best to stifle a sigh. He couldn’t help but feel drained by what he had just done. It was not because it was hard; it hardly even took any effort to pull off, but he couldn’t help but feel weary after killing so many people, despite that they were barely more than monsters.

He didn’t really mind fighting, not really; he just didn’t e...

(EM Vol. 2: A Wandering Melody) Chapter 99: A Fallen Queen

Chapter 99: A Fallen Queen

123 AC, Qarth

Moqorro had never thought that this day would ever come. He had risen far in his life, starting from a lowly slave to the Belaerys family of Old Valyria, born only as a curiosity as he was the result of the very rare union between a Valyrian noble, though not a Dragonlord family, and his Summer Islander bedwarmer.

He had been grateful at the time for his masters, for they were kind ones compared to what he had seen in...

(EM Vol. 2: A Wandering Melody) Chapter 98: Kind Fury

Chapter 98: Kind Fury

123 AC, Chroyane

Pyat Pree stood at the helm of the ship that he was sailing on, almost feeling the sheer excitement of the Undying Ones at the back of his mind. His target should come soon from the depths of the cursed city of Chroyane, according to the visions that the blind Red Priestess received, the one that he had discreetly had access to while in Volantis.

The Warlock had to admit that the road to this city hadn’t been an easy ...

(EM Vol. 2: A Wandering Melody) Chapter 97: A Steep Price

Chapter 97: A Steep Price

123 AC, Chroyane

“How?” Lady Daphne asked, her eyes having widened in shock in a way that Helaena had never expected of the woman. “I was once The Mother of All, my dear. Is it truly a shock that I would know of your wish to be a mother yourself?”

Helaena had never thought to see the Potters look so incredibly shocked by the goddess’s casual reply. She also didn’t know why their wish of having a child was obviou...

(EM Vol. 2: A Wandering Melody) Chapter 96: A Mother’s Light

Chapter 96: A Mother’s Light

123 AC, Chroyane

Lord Harry approached her, before sadly raising his hand, a familiar scythe appearing inside it, and with a flick, he swung it directly towards the goddess’s wound. Slowly, light started to spread across the statue like cracks, before glowing brightly, and then, everything turned white.

Helaena opened her eyes, blinking, wondering if she had stared at the sun for too long. After a few moments reviewi...

(EM Vol. 2: A Wandering Melody) Chapter 95: Divine Rot

Chapter 95: Divine Rot

123 AC, Chroyane

However, it was also different; impossibly, she could almost hear words, intent, in the screaming. She didn’t understand the language. She wasn’t even sure it was a language at all. But the meaning struck her all the same, “WHY ARE YOU HERE?”

Helaena Targaryen had thought that nothing could terrify her, not after Valyria, at the very least. With her gift, she had seen one future after another, many of ...

(EM Vol. 2: A Wandering Melody) Chapter 94: Garin’s Curse

Chapter 94: Garin’s Curse

123 AC, Chroyane

“I have already underestimated you once, but I will not do so again. After all, that’s what the Valyrians did when they came to this place.” The sorcerer waved his hand, and the shroud faded away. “Isn’t that right, Prince Garin?”

Helaena Targaryen had been familiar with Prince Garin of Chroyane. How could she not, when he, alongside Queen Nymeria, was one of the few Rhoynish rulers still name...

(EM Vol. 2: A Wandering Melody) Chapter 93: Of Misty Shrouds

Chapter 93: Of Misty Shrouds

123 AC, Chroyane

As their boat drifted slowly towards the entrance, the princess felt as if some boundary had been passed, with the mist becoming even more oppressive than it used to be. And so, in complete silence, they finally entered the city of Chroyane.

If Helaena Targaryen had to describe what remained of the great city of Chroyane, she would say that it was grey. She had first thought that it had been the mist clo...