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(Enchanting Melodies) Chapter 238: Meeting His Match

Chapter 238: Meeting His Match

11 August 1994, Quidditch Trillenium Stadium, England

Harry woke up just after dawn. It was out of habit more than anything, due to his years of practicing his Occlumency early in the morning. He got up and took a walk around the campsite.

Harry walked quietly, his footsteps almost silent against the dew-drenched grass, leaving shallow impressions that glistened in the early morning sun. The campsite, bustling and noisy at all ...

(Enchanting Melodies) Chapter 237: Courtly Retroflection

Chapter 237: Courtly Retroflection

10 August 1994, Quidditch Trillenium Stadium, England

Fleur followed her father to her tent, feeling confused, lost, but also anxious. She had no idea how her father was going to react after she’d tell him about their conversation.

By the time they arrived at their tent, thousands of scenarios played themselves in Fleur’s head. She had no doubt that she had messed up whatever her father had planned, especially ...

(Enchanting Melodies) Chapter 236: Of Blooming Flowers

Chapter 236: Of Blooming Flowers

10 August 1994, Quidditch Trillenium Stadium, England

Fleur Delacour didn’t want to be there. She didn’t particularly like Quidditch. The sport just lacked grace. She preferred Broom Racing. Now, that was a fascinating sport, that pushed broom makers to make improvements every year, and where competitors had to be both precise and graceful to win. Quidditch felt like a sport created by barbarians, who had no idea what they were...

(Enchanting Melodies) Chapter 235: Vengeful Ruby

Chapter 235: Vengeful Ruby

10 August 1994, Cokeworth, Britain

Severus Snape found himself in a sorry state indeed. He couldn’t help but chuckle as he took a large gulp of Firewhiskey. Dumbledore had royally fucked him with his last stunt, and he had lost practically everything because of the old man’s need for control and secrecy.

It was no secret that Severus was Dumbledore’s spy. Even though people thought he was manipulating the man somehow, convinc...

(Enchanting Melodies) Chapter 234: The Clever Owl

Chapter 234: The Clever Owl

10 August 1994, Quidditch Trillenium Stadium, England

She must have noticed him staring because she turned and stiffened when she recognized his face. She snuck away from Neville, who was admiring a small Quidditch match happening in the background, and made her way to him, “Hello Harry Potter.”

Harry tilted his head and responded, “Hermione Granger. It’s been a while.”

“That it has. Although I ...

(Enchanting Melodies) Chapter 233: Cultural Exchange

Chapter 233: Cultural Exchange

10 August 1994, Black Manor

Having decided on who to summon, he took out the stone from the wand and turned it three times, thinking of Lily Potter. Yet, he was only met with a silent room. Harry’s eyes grew wider, and his skin grew paler with every second a shade didn’t materialize itself.

Lily Potter was alive.

Even weeks later, this sheer fact was mind-blowing. Honestly, if he had never met Sirius Black or...

(Enchanting Melodies) Chapter 232: The Stony Path

Chapter 232: The Stony Path

23 July 1994, Black Manor

Harry woke up feeling far better than he did for months. It was borderline miraculous to not feel the constant pain with every breath. With a grin, he summoned his glasses wandlessly, and relished the lack of strain on his magic circles. He felt better than ever, and he practically skipped down to breakfast.

Something must have shown on his face, because Arcturus, who was having tea at the time, raised an...

(Enchanting Melodies) Chapter 231: Remnants of Gaunt

Chapter 231: Remnants of Gaunt

21 July 1994, Little Hangleton

Harry knew he was being a little impulsive, but he had done his best considering the circumstances. Truth be told, he was more than a little desperate; his magic kept burning with extended use, something that was starting to terrify him. Even Arcturus looked concerned by the lack of progress regarding his position. The healers had tried to make him take ice baths every day and while they did help, they ...

(Enchanting Melodies) Chapter 230: The Wise Girl

Chapter 230: The Wise Girl

16 July 1994, Longbottom Manor

Neville lay flat on his back, breathing hard as though he had been running. He had awoken from a vivid dream with his hands pressed over his forehead, precisely near his infamous scar. He sat up, one hands still on his scar, and sighed with disappointment as he saw the blood on his pillow.

He groaned at his stood up. He always had a headache after that happened. The events that he had dubbed as ‘the...

(Enchanting Melodies) Chapter 229: The Old Guard

Chapter 229: The Old Guard

30 June 1994, London, England

Arcturus Black sat in a small café in London, while waiting for his ward to arrive from school. Though only in his mid-seventies, the Black Patriarch looked much older than a wizard of his years should. It was probably the stress and losing his wife that slowly drained the life out of him. Or it might have been the Great War. Grindelwald’s followers knew a lot of obscure curses and Arcturus was hit by a f...

(Enchanting Melodies) Chapter 228: The Serpent’s Maw

Chapter 228: The Serpent’s Maw

30 June 1994, Hogwarts, Scotland

The world was absent of colours. Everything was just shades of grey, and even as Harry looked at his own hands, they weren't any different. He felt a profound silence enveloping him, a quietude that seemed to stretch infinitely in all directions, smothering the very concept of sound. The air was thick like some kind of invisible fluid slowing movement in any direction.

Harry didn’t know why ...

(Enchanting Melodies) Chapter 227: Black and White

Chapter 227: Black and White

30 June 1994, Paris, France

It was night. The city of Paris, with its sprawling boulevards and grandiose monuments, lay cloaked in a serene silence, broken only by the soft murmur of the Seine as it meandered through the city's heart. The moon, full and luminous, cast a silver glow over the cobblestone streets, painting the city in a spectral light that seemed to belong to another world.

In the midst of this nocturnal serenity, a...

(Enchanting Melodies) Chapter 226: Wisdom Incarnate

Chapter 226: Wisdom Incarnate

15 June 1994, Longbottom Manor

“So, tell me, how have you been, Neville?”

The woman standing in front of Neville was a kindly young woman that had a warm smile on her face, “Seriously, that’s what you’re starting with? How have I been? What do you think?”

“I’d rather not make assumptions and understand things from your perspective. After all, we’re just starting to know one another.”

“Well, I tr...

(Enchanting Melodies) Chapter 225: Gold Rush

Chapter 225: Gold Rush

31 May 1994, Hogwarts, Scotland

It had been almost a month since the third task and Harry couldn’t quite believe that Dumbledore was really gone. He fully expected the old man to just come back one day with some kind of ridiculous excuse that the entire wizarding world would have bought without a second’s thought.

And yet, Albus Dumbledore remained outside the castle, his mighty empire being slowly destroyed, one brick at a time. I...

(Enchanting Melodies) Chapter 224: The Long Howl

Chapter 224: The Long Howl

20 May 1994, Republic of Ireland

Remus Lupin watched a small village near a green valley, admiring the way the children were playing without a single care in the word. The adults were sitting comfortably next to each other, either working or taking care of the children. To most outsiders, this place looked like it was a muggle village from the nineteenth century.

However, to Remus’ trained eyes, he could see the small scars that ...

(Enchanting Melodies) Chapter 223: A Rose’s Thorns

Chapter 223: A Rose’s Thorns

15 May 1994, Nott Manor, Liverpool

Cassius Nott loved his life. Oh, sure, it wasn’t perfect, but recently, everything was going surprisingly well for him. He was not blind to the advantages he had over most of the wizarding world. After all, he had been born as a Nott, one of the oldest families in the continent, who had come to Britain over a thousand years previously. There was a reason why his family was feared. Their family mag...

(Enchanting Melodies) Chapter 222: Darker Hearts

Chapter 222: Darker Hearts

5 May 1994, Hogwarts, Scotland

Harry woke up in pain, as he had the previous couple of days. He raised his trembling hands to the table next to his bed and quickly gulped the potion on it. Slowly, he felt his body cool down and stifle the burning sensation that had woke him up. He sighed in relief, slumped back to the bed, and stared at the familiar ceiling of the hospital wing.

He had stayed in this place for a few days now, and h...

(Enchanting Melodies) Chapter 221: Vast Sorrows

Chapter 221: Vast Sorrows

3 May 1994, Hogwarts, Scotland

In Neville’s perfectly unbiased opinion, the past couple of days sucked immeasurably. The task had started so well. He had proved to everyone just how skilled and how honourable he was. Until he was betrayed by Cassius Warrington.

If he was perfectly honest, he should have seen that coming. Neville shouldn’t have bought the fact that Warrington forgave him for almost killing him. Still, it was some...

(Enchanting Melodies) Chapter 220: Greener Pastures

Chapter 220: Greener Pastures

3 May 1994, Hogwarts, Scotland

The first thing Harry noticed was the smell. It was a peculiar mix of antiseptic, dried herbs, and something faintly sweet, which he couldn't quite place. His head felt as though it was stuffed with cotton wool, and his thoughts were sluggish, meandering through his consciousness like a slow-moving stream. He tried to open his eyes, but they felt incredibly heavy, as if they had been glued shut. With a m...

(Enchanting Melodies) Chapter 219: The Slow Knife

Chapter 219: The Slow Knife

2 May 1994, Ministry of Magic, London

Amelia Bones wanted to go home, lay down on her bed and fall asleep. She was so tempted to do just that and let someone else deal with this mess. Unfortunately, she didn’t know anyone competent enough to handle this. Fudge, by himself, was freaking out, hoping for some miracle that would make this whole mess disappear.

Unfortunately, every person worth knowing was in the crowds during the th...

(Enchanting Melodies) Chapter 218: Of Darkness and Death

Chapter 218: Of Darkness and Death

1 May 1994, Unknown Place

The shot made a hole in Sirius Black chest and Harry watched as the light left the eyes of the man who could have once been his godfather, “Goodbye, Sirius Black.”

Well, that was a thing. Harry groaned and limped down to find somewhere to sit. This whole mess had exhausted him to the extreme, both mentally and physically. First, he entered that bloody maze for the third task, then he e...

(Enchanting Melodies) Chapter 217: Short Fuse

Chapter 217: Short Fuse

1 May 1994, Hogwarts, Scotland

“The first seal was broken; the world serpent is dead. Ragnarök is coming. We need to be ready, Albus. Or everything we have, everything we are, will be gone, forever.”

Dumbledore couldn’t help but shiver when the word Ragnarök was spoken. It was like the entire Quidditch pitch froze, the birds stopped singing, and the wind stopped blowing. That single word created a wave of cold and une...

(Enchanting Melodies) Chapter 216: Contraction

Chapter 216: Contraction

1 May 1994, Unknown Place

Harry felt like shit. His body was sore, he had the worst headache in his life, and he his magic circuits were burning like crazy. He hoped that it worked. He had exactly one shot at getting out of the hellish garden and he hoped that he hadn’t scattered himself into oblivion with his portal.

Even opening his eyes was straining, but when the white light faded, he saw some kind of building. He saw something...

(Enchanting Melodies) Chapter 215: One Bad Day

Chapter 215: One Bad Day

1 May 1994, Unknown Place

With a clink, his chains fell, and Neville looked at his free hands with glee and relished the astonished expression on his cellmate’s face, “So, what next?”

Sirius Black suppressed the urge to cackle as Neville Longbottom followed his lead like a good little duckling. All it took was a sad story and a bit of acting and the boy was putty in his hand.

No wonder Lily’s spawn was able to ...

(Enchanting Melodies) Chapter 214: Historical Recurrence

Chapter 214: Historical Recurrence

1 May 1994, Hogwarts, Scotland

“Hello, Albus. Did you miss me?”

The headmaster paled as he turned and saw the recognizable face of the man who he had doomed to a fate worse than death, the man who secured his ascension, the man who he once loved, Gellert Grindelwald.

This was a face he never expected to see again, a face that haunted his nightmares. His relationship with Gellert was complicated f...

(Enchanting Melodies) Chapter 213: Infernal Garden

Chapter 213: Infernal Garden

1 May 1994, Unknown Place

“I will come after you, and I will never ever stop!” It was getting harder to resist, but Harry still held on, “That is my promise to you, Albus Dumbledore.”

And just like that, the artifact finally overpowered him, and everything turned white.

Harry regained consciousness with a gasp and realized that he was lying on what seemed to be very hard rocks. His first instinct w...

(Enchanting Melodies) Chapter 212: A War of Words

Chapter 212: A War of Words

1 May 1994, Unknown Place

Before he could say anything, Warrington sent him flying back towards the trophy. The moment he touched him, Neville felt a jerk somewhere behind his navel and the maze disappeared from his sight.

Neville woke up with a headache. With his eyes still closed, he tried to grab his head in a vain hope to relieving the pressure, only for his arms to meet some unexpected resistance. From the faint clin...

(Enchanting Melodies) Chapter 211: Turbulent Times

Chapter 211: Turbulent Times

1 May 1994, Hogwarts, Scotland

Victory was near. He could almost taste it. It was all coming together brilliantly. Even he hadn’t expected things to just align themselves so perfectly when he devised the tournament months previously. He had his doubts, especially with the Potter boy being a thorn on his side, but by the end of the day, everything should be in track for his dream to become reality in Britain in a few years, and soon a...

(Enchanting Melodies) Chapter 210: Tentative Allies

Chapter 210: Tentative Allies

1 May 1994, Hogwarts, Scotland

Neville looked around and saw the entire room fracture as if it was glass, leaving a stone chamber in its stead. He turned and tried to look at his rescuer, only to freeze when recognizing him, “Warrington?”

The older boy’s eyes visibly widened as he reached down to him, “Longbottom. Well, isn’t that a surprise?”

“What’s going on?” the younger boy muttered to himsel...

(Enchanting Melodies) Chapter 209: Nevermore

Chapter 209: Nevermore

1 May 1994, Hogwarts, Scotland

“I wonder, have you always been in Dumbledore’s thumb, or are your loyalties that fickle? What is it, Wormtail?”

For the first time in the encounter, the impostor’s formerly smug face turned into shock, “How?”

“Daphne would have noticed someone following her. It had to be something that no one else would pick up, that the wards wouldn’t even recognize as a person. So, you co...