Nymphadora Tonks and the Liquor of Jacmel
Title: Nymphadora Tonks and the Liquor of Jacmel
Rating: PG-13
Length: 275,000 words approx
Pairings: Various, mostly OC/OC (some Tonks/OCC)
First posted: From 10th September 2004, Chamber of Secrets Forums
Version 2 posted from 6th March 2007 at Checkmated
Summary: It's never plain sailing for a newly-qualified Auror, and especially not for Nymphadora Tonks. Her Metamorphmagus talents are a big career advantage. Her dark wizard relatives certainly aren't. Being thrown in at the deep end on her first case doesn't make things any easier, either. So when Tonks puts her shapeshifting skills to good use investigating the trade in a highly dangerous potion, while simultaneously trying to deal with her family's very 'Black' past history, things quickly get complicated ...
Notes: The story posted here is 'Version 2.0' as revised for Checkmated (betaed by shiiki) and elsewhere. Brief notes on the changes and background below the cut. Almost DH-compatible but with a few small discrepancies.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Prologue
Round Midnight
1.
First Impressions
2.
Little Mrs Anonymous
3.
On The Night In Question
4.
The Value of Art
5.
Good Auror, Bad Auror
6.
Make Me an Offer
7.
Have a Drink On Me
8.
How Could I Have Been So Stupid?
9.
Clearing the Decks
10.
The Theatre of Dreams
11.
Defence Against The Dark Arts
12.
The Morning After The Night Before
13.
A Significant Development In The Case
14.
A Little Learning is a Dangerous Thing
15.
A Time to Reflect
16.
Together Alone
17.
Sources of Information
18.
Two Steps Forward, One Step Back
19.
I Can't Stand Up For Falling Down
20.
Fitting the Pieces Into Place
21.
No-One is Quite the Way They Seem
22.
Old Sins Cast Long Shadows
23.
Wolf at the Door
24.
Let's Face the Music and Dance
25.
Flushing the Game
26.
An Auror's Lot is Not a Happy One
27.
The Things We Do For Love
Epilogue
Between Midnight and Day
This fic was started in summer 2004, as the result of getting into reading fanfic at Chamber of Secrets Forums and then thinking it would be fun to have a go myself. The original version was first posted there, then an edited and cleaned-up version at FictionAlley from 2nd February 2005. Unfortunately, it took until 23rd November 2006 to actually get the story finished (I'd originally envisaged something of perhaps around 50,000 words, but when I starting adding and developing plotlines it grew to several times that). The current version has been worked over again to smooth out the rough edges that inevitably arise from this work-in-progress approach.
For anyone who has read the original version, the core plots remain unchanged -- the main differences are as follows:
Rating: PG-13
Length: 275,000 words approx
Pairings: Various, mostly OC/OC (some Tonks/OCC)
First posted: From 10th September 2004, Chamber of Secrets Forums
Version 2 posted from 6th March 2007 at Checkmated
Summary: It's never plain sailing for a newly-qualified Auror, and especially not for Nymphadora Tonks. Her Metamorphmagus talents are a big career advantage. Her dark wizard relatives certainly aren't. Being thrown in at the deep end on her first case doesn't make things any easier, either. So when Tonks puts her shapeshifting skills to good use investigating the trade in a highly dangerous potion, while simultaneously trying to deal with her family's very 'Black' past history, things quickly get complicated ...
Notes: The story posted here is 'Version 2.0' as revised for Checkmated (betaed by shiiki) and elsewhere. Brief notes on the changes and background below the cut. Almost DH-compatible but with a few small discrepancies.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Prologue
Round Midnight
1.
First Impressions
2.
Little Mrs Anonymous
3.
On The Night In Question
4.
The Value of Art
5.
Good Auror, Bad Auror
6.
Make Me an Offer
7.
Have a Drink On Me
8.
How Could I Have Been So Stupid?
9.
Clearing the Decks
10.
The Theatre of Dreams
11.
Defence Against The Dark Arts
12.
The Morning After The Night Before
13.
A Significant Development In The Case
14.
A Little Learning is a Dangerous Thing
15.
A Time to Reflect
16.
Together Alone
17.
Sources of Information
18.
Two Steps Forward, One Step Back
19.
I Can't Stand Up For Falling Down
20.
Fitting the Pieces Into Place
21.
No-One is Quite the Way They Seem
22.
Old Sins Cast Long Shadows
23.
Wolf at the Door
24.
Let's Face the Music and Dance
25.
Flushing the Game
26.
An Auror's Lot is Not a Happy One
27.
The Things We Do For Love
Epilogue
Between Midnight and Day
This fic was started in summer 2004, as the result of getting into reading fanfic at Chamber of Secrets Forums and then thinking it would be fun to have a go myself. The original version was first posted there, then an edited and cleaned-up version at FictionAlley from 2nd February 2005. Unfortunately, it took until 23rd November 2006 to actually get the story finished (I'd originally envisaged something of perhaps around 50,000 words, but when I starting adding and developing plotlines it grew to several times that). The current version has been worked over again to smooth out the rough edges that inevitably arise from this work-in-progress approach.
For anyone who has read the original version, the core plots remain unchanged -- the main differences are as follows:
- Rufus Scrimgeour is Head of the Auror Office from the start, instead of getting the job at the end, and replaces the original OC boss.
- The main Auror OC, Cassius, now has the surname Smethwyck, not Scrimgeour.
- The version of Dawlish as a rather senior Auror has been replaced by Gawain Robards.
- The shorter chapters have been combined to bring the chapter count down from 42 to 27.
- A few superfluous scenes and characters have been omitted, and the occasional scene moved or rewritten.
- The story has been checked through and some general tidying up done.