I finished chapters for all the Marauders' parents last year, but now I've gone back and added Lily and Snape's families as well, and recorded a podfic. This series of shorts is compliant with A Conspiracy of Cartographers, and acts as a sort of prequel.

Title: A History of Cartographers
Words: 7127
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Major ( Read more... )

My plan was to have this up much earlier in the weekend. Sorry. But here it is! So much dialogue, most of it written during bouts of exhaustion. Hope it's coherent.

Excerpt:"They're going to figure it out," insisted Remus. "They're too clever not to ( Read more... )

Pedanius Pettigrew loves his wife and son, and never wants them to have to be afraid.

Warning for character death. I'm losing my grip on the whole "500 words per chapter" thing. This one is over 650.

I started writing A History of Cartographers the other day as a means of getting to know and better understand the Marauders' parents. I was hoping the exercise would help make them "come alive" for me, and make their relationships with their kids more complex and interesting. Well, I guess it worked. They've stopped being just names and plot ( Read more... )

A few years back, some of you may remember, I wrote a ~500 word fic called A Brush With Destiny, about baby Remus and baby Sirius meeting for the first time at a Ministry Christmas party. The story was from the POV of Remus's mother, Sylvia Lupin, a Muggle. Well, today I got bunnied to do similar mini-fics from the POV of each of the Marauders' ( Read more... )

Summary: Excuse me while I pour a bucket of subtext on a couple of unsuspecting 12-year-olds.

Excerpt:"D'you want to go outside, Moony?" Sirius asked ( Read more... )

Summary: The November moon and Sirius's newly tainted blood combine to exacerbate his quarrel with James.

Excerpt:He felt restless, like he wanted to run and run and never stop. Taking the great staircase two steps at a time, Sirius almost flew to the third floor landing. He didn't want to go back to Gryffindor tower yet; all the rooms there were ( Read more... )

Thank you for your patience. I think I figured out part of what was giving me so much trouble: this chapter has a shit-ton of dialogue in it ( Read more... )

I've just finished uploading an audio version of A Conspiracy of Cartographers: Year One for anyone who might be interested. The zip file can be downloaded from Dropbox. I've also included a download link to the first page of the fic on my webpage. Please let me know if there are any issues with it ( Read more... )

Title: A Conspiracy of Cartographers, Year Two, Chapter 13
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