Saturday, 22rd March 2014

Hello, all!
There's an early update waiting for you, on your site of choice... :)

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He would have no choice but to follow in his father’s footsteps, and kneel at the Dark Lord’s feet, and he would have a life of servitude whether he wanted it or not.

That was what Narcissa feared, what she wanted to avoid, regardless of the cost.

Severus did, of course, want Draco to have a better quality of life than ‘Death Eater’ but above all - and he’d never admit this to anyone, and especially not to Dumbledore - he just wanted Draco to be happy, doing whatever he enjoyed, or spending time with people whose company he appreciated.

And, Severus knew, thanks to his and Narcissa’s manipulations, there was really only one place that he’d find that.

For all the good it does, he thought, I am sorry, Draco.

Until next Sunday! :)
MarauderLover7.

Sunday, March 16th 2014

Hi, everyone!
The next chapter's up!

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"Have fun!" Tonks shouted, waving. Her hair flashed through the colours of the four Houses, making Harry grin, and others on the platform turn and point.

"Eat your vegetables!" Padfoot called, walking alongside the train. Ginny was running just in front of him, laughing and crying, and waving at her brothers. "Don't start anything with Hufflepuffs or Slytherins without your friends – they hunt in packs!" Harry just laughed. "Say hi to Peeves, and old McGonagall, and tell Snape I want my bloody book back!" Padfoot was jogging now. "And cause trouble, but don't get caught!"

The train was gathering speed quickly, and Padfoot dropped into his dog-form so that he could keep up. Harry could hear him barking, right up until the train rounded the bend, and the platform disappeared from sight.

Enjoy!
MarauderLover7.

Sunday, 9th March 2014

Hi everyone!

The next chapter's up! :)

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Harry woke up to Padfoot's freezing nose in his ear, and hot, doggy breath in his face. He laughed, pulled Padfoot out of the way by his collar so that he could sit up, and then batted his godfather away with his pillow.

Padfoot just caught the end of it – gently - between his sharp teeth, and gave Harry a silly, tongue-lolling grin. Harry gave up on trying to wrest it away, and pushing him – and the pillow – off the bed.

Padfoot bounced back up almost instantly, and Harry just knew he was going to lose the scuffle that would come next, so he did the only thing he could do.

"Is Moony awake yet?" Padfoot paused mid-bound, and his ears perked up. Harry put on his glasses, grabbed his wand, and with a grin, hopped out of bed.

Padfoot made an impatient noise, and Harry laughed again and ran after him.

Until next week!
MarauderLover7.

Saturday, March 1st 2014

Hello, everyone!
The next chapter of "Initiate" is up, and we're getting closer to Hogwarts with every passing scene! :)

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“It was planned, then,” Sirius murmured, dabbing Remus' other shoulder.

“They didn't know their way around the house,” Remus said. “That's probably what saved us. I thought it was Mad-Eye, but then I realised it couldn’t be-”

“Poorly planned, then,” Sirius said. “You can't rely on that next time, though.”

“Next time?”

“This was planned,” Sirius said rolling his eyes. “Obviously someone wants you dead and since you're still alive, it's reasonable to conclude they'll come looking for you again.”

“He's right,” Dora said, not seeming to like the revelation at all. Remus didn’t like it much either.

“Of course I am,” Sirius said. 

Enjoy!
MarauderLover7.

Saturday, February 15th 2014

Hello, everyone!

Firstly, I would like to say an enormous thank you to everyone; I can't believe how positively the first chapter of Initiate has been received, and how lovely your comments at the end of Innocent were. :) I've started to answer some of them, but haven't got around to them all just yet. :)

The next update for Initiate is up a bit early (updates are still due on Sundays), but it's a reasonably short chapter - sorry!

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“No warts,” Harry agreed, rubbing mud off his shorts.

“No toad,” Hermione said nervously.

“Nope,” Harry said. “Very muggle-ish.” She’d actually done well, he thought. Zabini’d carried herself like a pureblood – haughtily – so he doubted she spent much time in the muggle world, but she’d certainly looked the part.

“Pardon?” Hermione asked, eyes huge. Harry realised his mistake too late.

Enjoy!
MarauderLover7.

Saturday, February 8th 2013

Hello, everyone!
Several announcements today...

Firstly, "Innocent" is finished! I've just posted the final chapter! :D

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The man folded the newspaper – the headline read Flying In Circles? and on the front was a moving photograph of a large, spiny dragon being caught in an even larger net over the British Channel – and set it down on the table.

“He was worth keeping alive if only for that,” he mused, looking at the stocky redheaded man from the forest; he was on a broom in the photograph, flying rather well. “Got a dragon off our tail if nothing else.”

Indeed, replied the other, but he seemed distracted; his thoughts were - as they had been since the forest – looping through the same series of images:

The stone, the castle and the boy.

And, secondly, because I had a bit of extra time this week, I was able to also finish the first chapter of the sequel, "Initiate". :) So, if you're interested, you can launch right into that! :D

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“Wand, Harry,” he said; the item in question was protruding from the pocket of Harry’s school shorts.

“Oops,” Harry said, spinning around. “Sorry.” He squeezed past Dora and then Sirius, dropped his wand on the kitchen table. His lunchbox, which he’d forgotten, was pressed into his hands by Kreacher. “Thanks! Bye, Kreacher,” he called, letting Sirius usher him upstairs, down the hallway, and out the door. Sirius took a moment longer, to retrieve his bike from the indoor shed he and Harry had replaced his father’s old office with, back in early January, and wheeled it out into the warm, June sun.

Dora yawned and bid them both goodbye before she promptly vanished, and Sirius carefully maneuvered his bike down the front steps to where Harry was waiting impatiently, spelling out words under his breath.

Updates will continue for Initiate, on Sundays, as usual. :)
MarauderLover7.

Sunday, February 2nd 2013

Hello, everyone!
The next chapter's up, for those of you who are interested. :)

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Marlene made a furious noise from somewhere on his left, and there was a clatter as a wand fell. Sirius rolled onto his side in time to see the man release Marlene. She fell to the floor, limp and unmoving, and Sirius crawled to her side, ignoring the man for the moment. He, Sirius realised detachedly, didn’t seem to mind; he just watched from beneath his hood as Sirius felt for a pulse and found none.

“No,” he croaked. He held his hand above Marlene’s nose, hoping to feel a whisper of breath, but none came. He shook his head, trying to keep it together. His eyes were stinging.

“Last man standing,” the Serpent Sworn man said softly, from above him. Sirius understood the implications; the Aurors and the trainees – Dora, Mad-Eye, Robards, Scrimgeour, all of them – were all either dead, or captured. He refused to think about that in any more depth. Not now.

“No,” Sirius said. He reached for Marlene’s hand, and hoped that the movement distracted the man from Sirius’ other hand, which had just curled around his wand.

... Not looking good, is it? :/
But no cliffies this week, haha; it's resolved now. 
Until next week!
MarauderLover7.