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(Enchanting Melodies) Chapter 178: The Frozen Side

Chapter 178: The Frozen Side

15 January 1993, Hogwarts

Harry raised an eyebrow as Neville Longbottom passed out in front of him, before being rushed by Hogwarts’ resident Mediwitch, Madam Pomphrey. It was concerning just how chaotic the boy’s emotions became the moment he saw him and his friends. The pure rage that he was feeling just for losing a race was just too wild, too extreme of an emotion to be natural. It honestly sounded like drums of war to his Arca...

(Enchanting Melodies) Chapter 177: Race Against Destiny

Chapter 177: Race Against Destiny

15 January 1993, Hogwarts

Neville Longbottom stood in the freezing weather doing his best not to appear nervous; the warming charm he had applied to his tournament clothes barely able to stop him from shivering constantly. The boy who lived really wanted to punch Dumbledore in the face for sending them out on the Black Lake in the middle of winter.

He didn’t know what Dumbledore expected by making the first task at this ti...

(Enchanting Melodies) Chapter 176: Tasking Course

Chapter 176: Tasking Course

15 January 1993, Hogwarts

Harry sat with the rest of his year mates, looking unconcerned as he waited for the first task in the school tournament. Funnily enough, it seemed like this task helped unite students from all four houses, then anything else. It was mostly out of fear and panic. This was literally the first time that the students would ever display their magical prowess, and they were all forced into it.

If anything, Harr...

(Enchanting Melodies) Chapter 175: Winter Charm

Chapter 175: Winter Charm

5 January 1993, Hogwarts

Albus Dumbledore fell on his seat with a loud sigh. Finally, after nine hours, the Wizengamot finally decided about that standardized cauldron’s thickness for their regulation to pass their bills. Sometime, the elderly headmaster wondered why he didn’t just grab power after he defeated Grindelwald, all those years ago. People’s time wouldn’t have been wasted on such trivial matters.

It was very sad h...

(Enchanting Melodies) Chapter 174: Of Cheeky Emeralds

Chapter 174: Of Cheeky Emeralds

19 December 1993, Hogwarts

Tracy huffed as she dodged another animated rope and used a cutting charm cut through a swarm of others, “When I asked you to train us, Harry, I didn’t think it would involve this…”

Harry stifled a chuckle and waved his wand in response. The ground beneath her started to tremble and she instinctively yelled, “Ascendio!”. The ascension charm was cast perfectly, and she flew in the air just...

(Enchanting Melodies) Chapter 173: Of Evil and Death

Chapter 173: Of Evil and Death

15 December 1993, Nurmengard

Sirius Black woke with a start. He had another nightmare. It wasn’t really a surprise, and the nightmare was always the same: they were surrounded by countless Death Eaters and mercenaries, realizing that Wormtail had betrayed them. Four members of the dark lord’s inner circle were there, three that he knew well, and one that he did not expect. Bellatrix was as mad as ever, laughing with glee as she k...

(Enchanting Melodies) Chapter 172: Chaotic Retribution

Chapter 172: Chaotic Retribution

28 November 1993, Hogwarts

Harry sat in his common room, mindlessly reading his new translated tome. Alas, his sprit just wasn’t in it. He wasn’t even paying attention to the words on the page he had been looking at for the better part of an hour; his mind was preoccupied with the events of the previous night.

Dumbledore’s announcement changed things and Harry was never fond of change. There had always been something so...

(Enchanting Melodies) Chapter 171: Of Dystopian Declarations

Chapter 171: Of Dystopian Declarations

27 November 1993, Hogwarts

Finding a translation spell for Ancient Greek was oddly difficult. Harry did not doubt that there would be such a spell in Greece, or at the disposal of Curse Breakers, and there was probably a spell in the library somewhere but finding it would just be time consuming.

It was far simpler to simply use a generalized translation matrix for the job. He was easily able to find and copy an Ancient ...

(Enchanting Melodies) Chapter 170: Of Precious Findings

Chapter 170: Of Precious Findings

27 November 1993, Hogwarts

Harry had woken up late once more, something that was becoming a trend in the last few weeks. He had been up all night in the Forbidden Section of the library, trying to find any magic that manipulated different dimensions, in a way that would help Harry actually defeat the mad man hunting him down in a permanent manner. However, things weren’t going well on that front. Sure, the Colt was a guarantee t...

(Enchanting Melodies) Chapter 169: Of Hounds and Wolves

Chapter 169: Of Hounds and Wolves

15 November 1993, Hogwarts

In the end, Harry had to leave the man to actually go see Fluffy. He wasn’t lying when he said that he wanted to go see his good friend. And with that, Harry entered the forbidden forest once more.

The change in atmosphere the moment he entered the forbidden forest was very noticeable. The air immediately grew denser, a mix of earthy scents and the subtle, underlying tang of magic. The t...

(Enchanting Melodies) Chapter 168: Of Uncomfortable Giants

Chapter 168: Of Uncomfortable Giants

15 November 1993, Hogwarts

Harry Potter woke up earlier than usual and decided to walk by the Black Lake to clear his head. He had gone down without even actively thinking about it, but he found himself treasuring his solitude after the argument he had with his friends. It had been his fault, after all, he had forgotten that they were children, teenagers mostly, and he had pushed them a little too much. Blaise, Tracy, and Daphn...

(Enchanting Melodies) Chapter 167: New Resolutions

Chapter 167: New Resolutions

5 November 1993, Hogwarts

Albus Dumbledore sat in his office and contemplated the happenings of the recent attack on Hogsmeade. It was perplexing issue, whose outcome was not one he would have expected. He knew that a few inmates had to have escaped. They would have found the bodies by now if they had perished in the attack. Some of the inmates with small sentences actually willingly surrendered to the ministry, who offered them either...

(Enchanting Melodies) Chapter 166: Fresh Perspective

Chapter 166: Fresh Perspective

1 November 1993, Hogwarts

Harry’s walk after his spat with his friends did help relax him. There was just so many things swimming around in his head that he needed to really stop and think about what he was doing. He didn’t want to go to the Room of Requirements, since his friends might try to follow him there, and he didn’t want to stay alone.

The truth was that this year just made him feel stifled. He tried to ignore it...

(Enchanting Melodies) Chapter 165: Amends

Chapter 165: Amends

1 November 1993, Hogwarts

Daphne watched as her best friend got up and left the Great Hall out of obvious frustration over their words and felt a mixture of guilt and shame. This wasn’t how she wanted things to go but even if they had done it badly, they had put their point across. It had completely backfired, and the blonde couldn’t help but wish that they hadn’t confronted him like they had.

Tracy, Blaise and she did talk the prev...

(Enchanting Melodies) Chapter 164: Dark Wings

Chapter 164: Dark Wings

1 November 1993, Hogwarts

Harry woke up from his bed and realized that it was later than his usual waking time. He was genuinely just exhausted by the time he had gotten to bed, and he would have loved to sleep in. Alas, it was Monday and they still had classes. How unfair was that? He literally saved an entire village from an attack, and he had to go to class the next day.

Things were tense when he joined his friends back, while levi...

(Enchanting Melodies) Chapter 163: Reunion

Chapter 163: Reunion

31 October 1993, Hogsmeade

Sirius quickly got up with a snarl, “Moony. I’ve been meaning to give you a visit. How nice of you to spare me the effort.”

Harry decided not to involve himself as the two Marauders met for the first time in over a decade. It was useful data. Emotions tends to get people to reveal information that they would rather keep close to their chests. Sirius Black and Remus Lupin were mysteries that he wa...

(Enchanting Melodies) Chapter 162: Unmasked

Chapter 162: Unmasked

31 October 1993, Hogsmeade

One thing was missing though. When Harry peered towards his downed opponent, he froze as he recognized their unmasked face looking back at him.

It was hard to describe what was beneath the killer’s mask outside of it being monstrous. The twisted face that Harry now stared as was a mix of horror and strangely enough, familiarity, a blend that sent a chill down his spine. The left side of the attacker...

(Enchanting Melodies) Chapter 161: A Good Man Goes to War

Chapter 161: A Good Man Goes to War

31 October 1993, Hogsmeade

The Shrieking Shack, once rumored to be the most haunted dwelling in Britain, stood shrouded in the gathering dusk, its windows like blind eyes watching over the chaos that had engulfed Hogsmeade. The aged wooden exterior, weather-beaten and warped, groaned mournfully as the wind whistled through its cracks and crevices, an ominous accompaniment to the dire situation at hand. Harry and his friends, the...

(Enchanting Melodies) Chapter 160: Demons Run

Chapter 160: Demons Run

31 October 1993, Hogsmeade

Augustus Rookwood stood a distance away from Hogsmeade, looking down at the bustling village. It felt strange to him how, despite the time that had passed since his days at Hogwarts, some things, like the crisp fall weather of October, remained the same. The afternoon sun hung in the sky, bright and strong, lighting up the village in a way that almost made it sparkle. The air was cool but not too cold, just how he...

(Enchanting Melodies) Chapter 159: Rebellion

Chapter 159: Rebellion

31 October 1993, Hogsmeade

It was the day of Samhain, the day he dreaded for over two months. The weather was rather good for a late October day, which contrasted starkly with the ominous knowledge that had been gnawing at Harry. He looked out at the bustling streets of Hogsmeade, the quaint village that lay in the shadow of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, and it was as if he was seeing it through a different lens. The shops, bri...

(Enchanting Melodies) Chapter 158: Looming Death

Chapter 158: Looming Death

15 October 1993, Britain

As he did every day, Augustus Rookwood woke up in pain, hating having to serve the madman who had saved his life and what a miserable life it was. He was one of the most reputed Unspeakables in the Department of Mysteries, the one who let nothing stand in his way in the name of progress. Every single project he had taken was a resounding success and he was on his track to become the Head of the Department.

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(Enchanting Melodies) Chapter 157: Feral

Chapter 157: Feral

29 September 1993, Hogwarts

And just like that a switch flipped. The man’s face turned cold, and he suddenly burst into laughter, “You know, I should have expected it. You’re her son after all.”

Harry expected Lupin to have tried to bring up some kind of nostalgic feelings and unearth some kind of bond with his dead father. After all, Harry had snuck into Filch’s old files, before the squib left the castle, and he saw hi...

(Enchanting Melodies) Chapter 156: Bloody Confessions

Chapter 156: Bloody Confessions

29 September 1993, Hogwarts

“Welcome, welcome. As you probably noticed, today will be a practical class. We’re going to study a particular dark creature that’s been very commonly referenced in the news and riddled with both real and fake information.”

With a wave of his wand, an illusion of a creature appeared, and people started to panic, “Ah, some of you recognize them. Today, we’ll be talking about ...