For Want of a Nail

Harry Potter, Pre-Series For want of a nail the shoe was lost.November 1st, 1981: Surrey England: Nightly news:“Enough about strange owl behavior, how’s the weather coming up Ted?”“Well, all I’ve got to say is expect cold rain tonight……” For want of a shoe the horse was lost.After midnight, number four, Private Drive, Little Whinging: A […]

Fae Child 1

Where dips the rocky highlandOf Sleuth Wood in the lake,There lies a leafy islandWhere flapping herons wakeThe drowsy water rats;There we’ve hid our faery vats,Full of berrysAnd of reddest stolen cherries.Come away, O human child!To the waters and the wildWith a faery, hand in hand,For the world’s more full of weeping than you can understand.Where […]

Ending Before It Began

Harry Potter, Pre-Series, Riddle Fifty years before, at daybreak on a fine summer’s morning, when the Riddle House had still been well kept and impressive, a maid had entered the drawing room to find all three Riddles dead. The maid had run screaming down the hill into the village and roused as many people as […]

The Green Mage

Seventh YearNeville LongbottomBAMF Neville LongbottomGreen Mage Neville Longbottom Explicit Violence – It’s a battle The Green Mage The battle at the school had been going on for hours with no relief in sight from the outside. Many had already died or were in the process of dying now, and Neville was preparing for his last […]

Gyges A Marauders Tale

History, Harry Potter Gyges A Marauders Tale As Plato tells the morality tale of Gyges, a simple traveler from ages past in Greece. He came upon a fallen man in a well, who had died there. There he removed the wondrous Ring that granted the wearer invisibility. With this Ring, Gyges eventually made his way […]

I Am of the Grey

Harry Potter Hogwarts Fifth YearMinistry BattleUse of Jedi Grey Faction quoteDeath of minor characterDeath of Major Character off screen I Am of the Grey Harry felt Riddle arrive at the same moment Riddle’s lover sent Harry’s Godfather through the Arch that spoke quietly in a million voices. His body never came out the other side. […]

You’ve Got to Be Carefully Taught

Harry Potter First Year You’ve Got to Be Carefully Taught “It’s no wonder she hasn’t any friends.” Ron proclaimed, while Harry looked back to Hermione. “She’s a menace.” Harry grabbed onto Hermione and held her soothingly. While glaring at the boy he thought he had been a friend. But he found out was no better […]

Causes of Rebellion

Causes of Rebellion Words: Astra of the Grey Shadows (c) 1974 Ann CassTune: Retreat along the Wabash (Martha Keller/Juanita Coulson) Tell the truth to a lord you trust, “Neville? It would be a good day to stay in the common room, I think.”Neville looked at everyone there and nodded. More truth to a lord you […]

Sparrow 2

Lyrics by Simon and Garfunkel.Text from book 7 chapter 34. Sparrow Suddenly, he remembers the Snitch that Dumbledore willed to him – he pulls it out of the moleskin bag and reads its motto, I open at the close. It all makes sense now; he presses it to his lips, and it breaks open. In […]

Sparrow 1

First lyrics by Pete Seeger.Text from Chapter 35 of Deathly Hollows.Second lyrics from Sound of Silence by Simon and Garfunkel. The Next Adventure Where have all the flowers gone, long time passing?Where have all the flowers gone, long time ago?Where have all the flowers gone?Gone to young girls, every one!When will they ever learn, when […]