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, like you guys chose in the last poll.
Chapter 18: Enchanting Charms
2nd September 1991, Hogwarts
He nodded as the other boy left and stood stiffly at his desk as the last few students filed out, the door clicking shut behind them. Flitwick turned around from his own desk and looked up at him, expression still kind...
2025-07-25 14:00:20 +0000 UTC
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AN: I changed Greg's name to Grenn (including in the previous chapter), since someone pointed out that it didn't really seem suitable, and I found myself agreeing with them when I thought about it.
Chapter 40: Cryptic Mystery
123 AC, Dragonstone
“I knew you’d come around, Grenn. Now, don’t worry. I’m not planning on digging into the ground, especially since there is an obvious entrance.” The boy looked exasperated when he asked...
2025-07-24 14:00:13 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 39: Winter’s Heart
123 AC, Dragonstone
It took a lot of convincing to get her Grandparents to agree on the trip to Winterfell, despite the fact that it was the largest castle in the North and that she would be under the protection of the Potters.
Well, she could see their thoughts, given the rumours of Pyke made their way to Dragonstone, alongside the rest of the Seven Kingdoms. The entire fortress of Pyke had been destroyed, most blaming it on a f...
2025-07-22 14:00:21 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 38: Blooming Spring
123 AC, Dragonstone
Rhaena walked across the fortress of Dragonstone with a skip in her steps. Most people would have likely worried, as she had just witnessed seven shadows almost kill Lord Harry the previous night.
To think this had all started with a boring dinner with the King, about Rhaena’s grandmother becoming his Hand. Well, it wasn’t entirely boring. Her stepmother had practically run away in her fury for not being ch...
2025-07-20 14:00:05 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 37: Tales and Rats
123 AC, Dragonstone
Larys Strong had all but run away from the cursed fortress, his heart beating loudly, each breath becoming more uneven than the last. The only reason he hadn’t run away was because of his clubbed feet. He needed to stay away from the monster in human skin, of this sorcerer that he had foolishly tried to slay once.
And to think that he’d been optimistic when he’d arrived at the shores of this cursed island....
2025-07-19 14:00:06 +0000 UTC
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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, like you guys chose in the last poll.
Chapter 17: Structure and Chaos
2nd September 1991, Hogwarts
This actually looked somewhat challenging, and the professor seemed to explain things very clearly. He could tell why people would find this class to be too hard, but as the explanations continued, Dean couldn’t he...
2025-07-18 14:00:17 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 36: Untethered
123 AC, Dragonstone
Rhaenys was halfway turned when Harry raised a hand casually, “Stay a moment, will you? I gave you time just as you asked, but I think it’s time we had a proper talk about Rhaena.”
Rhaenys knew that this would eventually come, even if she’d hoped that she could delay it a bit. Looking the sorcerer in the eyes, she knew that he had decided that he had been patient enough.
And the day had starte...
2025-07-17 14:00:12 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 35: Shadow and Flame
123 AC, Dragonstone
Corlys Velaryon practically sprinted alongside his wife from the moment Ser Criston gave them the news. And to think that Corlys had been celebrating inwardly Rhaenys’ official appointment as Viserys’ Hand, as well as Rhaenyra’s realisation of the position that put her in.
Rhaenyra being Hand of the King was the logical choice if Viserys wished to cement his choice in her to rule, yet the man was also st...
2025-07-15 14:00:27 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 34: Shadow’s Bane
123 AC, Dragonstone
Rhaena Targaryen walked out of the odd dinner, alongside her sister, feeling like it had all been a waste of time. She could have been playing with Solarys, or even better, visiting the Potters. She still craved whatever that weird hot brown drink called chocolate, whatever it was. And yet, she knew that she would have to deal with her father and stepmother being angry. Again.
Her father had been angry ever sin...
2025-07-13 14:00:28 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 33: Bloody Brine
123 AC, Dragonstone
Daemon Targaryen should have been smiling. He should have been loudly laughing; the moment he had heard Viserys speak the news, “I have sent a letter to the Small Council. I have decided that, starting from my return to King’s Landing, Otto Hightower will no longer be my Hand. He has served me faithfully for years, but it is time for him to rest and return to his family home.”
This had once been one of his g...
2025-07-12 14:00:14 +0000 UTC
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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, like you guys chose in the last poll.
Chapter 16: The Art of Change
2nd September 1991, Hogwarts
And just like that, he left, probably to prepare for his own classes, not that he thought about it. Dean ignored Ron, calling the prefect a prat beneath his voice and decided to get his bag and take it down to the Grea...
2025-07-11 14:00:15 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 32: One Good Deed
123 AC, Dragonstone
Aegon Targaryen heavily disliked being on Dragonstone. It was a stark reminder of the King’s preference for Rhaenyra over any of his other children. Even before he was bedridden, he rarely spoke with any of them, and now, after years of not speaking with her, Rhaenyra came to King’s Landing unannounced, and he immediately agreed to leave the Capital for Dragonstone.
To be honest, he wasn’t sure if he liked ...
2025-07-10 14:01:58 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 31: Black and Blue
123 AC, Qarth
Growing up, Thalor Thornezh knew that Qarth was the most beautiful city in the world, and in all his years, he never found reason to deny it. After all, their city had predated Valyria itself, and perhaps even more than any other human settlement, enough that some of his fellow Pureborn often claimed that it was the birthplace of civilisation, something that visitors often debated out of pride.
It did not matter in th...
2025-07-08 14:00:12 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 30: Salt and Fire
123 AC, Pyke, Iron Islands
Rhaenys Velaryon had seen much in her life, and yet every few hours she spent with the Potters, she felt like she had to re-evaluate her knowledge of the world. To think that this had all started with them being worried about Rhaena spending time with a sorcerer, and it ended with a presumably dead god, and the sorcerer, who had been so jovial during their talks, looking solemnly at the body of the boy who had o...
2025-07-06 14:10:18 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 29: A Drowning Man
123 AC, Pyke, Iron Islands
Corlys Velaryon had seen much in his life. He had seen the beautiful shimmer of the Jade Sea at sunrise, the pale spires of Leng carved from ivory and myth, the floating markets of Yi Ti where spices and silk danced in the wind. He had seen the horrors of Asshai, the streets choked in shadow even at midday, where there were no children, no birds, not even the sounds of the waves.
But nothing, in all his y...
2025-07-05 14:00:18 +0000 UTC
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I'm sorry if I was a bit late. It's my bad, I kept forgetting about the poll slightly. I'll try to be more regular about the polls. For those who do not know, every few weeks, I’ll be posting a poll like this one to help decide how I divide future chapters between EM Vol. 2: A Wandering Melody (AWM) and Arcane Tinker (AT), until the next poll, of course.
Since I write 4 chapters a week, I want to tailor the balance based on your preferences. You don’t have to pick just one story; yo...
2025-07-04 14:00:18 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 28: The Iron Price
123 AC, Westerlands
The wind howled louder still. The waves rose behind them. And Rhaenys was left clutching her dagger, uncertain whether she’d been taken prisoner or had simply wandered into madness.
Rhaenys and her husband had been thrown unceremoniously into the hull of the Greyjoy ship hours ago. She had ended up surrendering her dagger after a pleading look from her husband, something that she regretted, if only ou...
2025-07-03 14:00:08 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 27: Tempest of Magic
123 AC, Dragonstone
“Free her from our influence? What are you on about?” the sorcerer asked, genuinely bewildered, glancing at his wife as if to confirm he hadn’t missed something. Corlys shared a look with Rhaenys at that, both silent, both frowning, realising, perhaps for the first time, that things might not be as they had feared.
Rhaenys Velaryon would admit that confronting the two sorcerers while they were a...
2025-07-01 14:00:12 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 26: Waves and Tides
123 AC, Dragonstone
Corlys Velaryon was wary of magic. It wasn’t always this way. He had once been fascinated by it, hoping to find a magical treasure in one of his journeys, perhaps even a Valyrian Steel sword. And yet, he had learned through experience and hardship why people feared it so.
He was a scion of Old Valyria, a legacy of a Kingdom built on magic and dragons, and yet what he had seen in Asshai, what he had lost there...
2025-06-29 14:00:07 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 25: A Tower's Choice
123 AC, King’s Landing
Otto Hightower sat at the helm of the Small Council table, and he couldn’t help but wonder how everything went so wrong. No, he knew perfectly well how everything went wrong, with Rhaenyra consorting with foul sorcerers, likely pushing it as a way to further legitimise her claim on the Iron Throne.
The tales had started to spread, despite Otto’s effort to stifle them. Many servants, as well as a few m...
2025-06-28 14:00:18 +0000 UTC
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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, like you guys chose in the last poll. There will be a new poll soon so that you can decide on the new upload schedule (I forgot to make one last week, sorry).
Chapter 15: First Days
2nd September 1991, London
That was his last thought as he fell asleep, staring at his mother’s kind eyes, hoping that they were re...
2025-06-27 14:00:15 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 24: Kind Eyes
123 AC, Dragonstone
Rhaena’s return to her room had been spent mostly contemplating what she had just experienced. Lord Harry didn’t explain much of what happened in that cavern, and she had a feeling that he regretted bringing her with them. She had seen something that she wasn’t meant to. If she had to guess, she was welcome to see the dragon egg, and even the Child of the Forest, but not the one-eyed ghost, or the entity that spoke t...
2025-06-26 14:02:20 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 23: The Coming Tides
123 AC, Dragonstone
Rhaenys returned to the bedchambers provided for her, feeling slightly faint after her conversation with Viserys. She was to be Hand, now. She was to essentially rule the realm, as she would have had she been Queen. A small part of her relished at the thought, at the vindication as the man who had won against her, who the realm had chosen in her stead, admitted to needing her help.
And yet, the larger part of ...
2025-06-24 14:00:10 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 22: The Lord of Time
123 AC, Skagos
The other burned red, like a coal left too long in the hearth. His skin was stretched thin over sharp bones, hair like milk spilt in ink. He looked at Lord Harry with a completely fearful and hateful expression, “You! What have you done?”
Rhaena did her best not to gape at the apparition of the man before her. She could feel Solarys’ unease at his presence as well, and she had to ask herself just how...
2025-06-22 14:00:12 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 21: A Man’s Wisdom
123 AC, Skagos
She was ready to fight. But then she stopped. She stared at Lord Harry with wide, trembling eyes, and her lips parted as if the words had been torn from her. “What… are you?” she whispered, voice cracking like old leaves underfoot.
Rhaena knew that she would never forget the look on the creature’s face, the mixture of awe and terror, as it looked at Lord Harry. It was very similar to how most peopl...
2025-06-21 14:00:40 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 14: Lion’s Roar
1st September 1991, London
He racked his brain, wishing that he was wrong in some way, hoping that he just hadn’t paid any attention. Yet, the fact was undeniable. Hermione Granger hadn’t come to Hogwarts.
Looking back, the shock of Hermione Granger’s absence shouldn’t have affected Dean as much as it did. He knew that the world that he saw in his vision was different, completely so. People didn’t have their own p...
2025-06-20 14:00:18 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 20: Cold Truths
123 AC, Skagos
“Like I told you, our next expedition. Welcome, Rhaena, to Skagos,” the man answered casually. "Oh!" she simply said. It took a few moments for the answer to truly sink in: “I’M IN SKAGOS?”
Rhaena knew very little of Skagos. She barely even recognized the name when Lord Harry mentioned it, only being interesting when Rhaena realized that there were unicorns there. It was a rocky inhospitable island in...
2025-06-19 14:00:11 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 19: Curious Dragons
123 AC, Dragonstone
Rhaena quietly left her room, with Solarys perched on her shoulders. She had gotten used to sneaking out, but she had to admit that the guards being overwhelmed by the visiting royal family helped a lot. Her father had been on edge ever since Princess Rhaenyra flew to meet with the King, and the visit had been a surprise to everyone and the entire castle scrambled around, trying to prepare for the King’s arrival.
2025-06-17 14:00:09 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 18: Deep Tempest
123 AC, Dragonstone
Rhaenys Velaryon, the Queen who never was, as many still called her to this day, stared at Dragonstone from her husband’s ship, with feeling some very conflicting emotions. She had once loved this island, when her own father Aemon had ruled it, as his right as Prince of Dragonstone.
Her time there hadn’t been long; she barely remembered most of it, but she knew that whatever memories she had were happy ones, e...
2025-06-15 14:00:22 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 17: Dreams and Wine
123 AC, Dragonstone
But then Alicent turned, and the sight made the blood freeze in her veins. The sorcerer sat at ease, speaking softly. And across from him, her daughter, sweet and strange Helaena, laughed like she’d known him forever.
The Queen of the Seven Kingdoms stared at her daughter’s face as she walked closer. Helaena looked happy. There was always this melancholy to her, ever since she was a child. Alicent ...
2025-06-14 14:00:10 +0000 UTC
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