(  Chapter 6 )

(  Chapter 5 )

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The eighth year students left Transfiguration with pages of notes and even a homework assignment. McGonagall had not been kidding when she said she wanted to prepare them; she'd started a review from sixth year without pause, calling out questions Harry only had vague answers to. He had jotted notes as quickly as he could ( Read more... )

 
(  Chapter 4 1/2 )

There was no doubt it was the Room of Requirement, although the doorway was in plain sight without the need to wish it into existence. Harry wasn't sure how he felt about staying in it, though he imagined it would look nothing like the rooms he'd used before.

On its only door hung a elegant black frame, but there was nothing in it at the ( Read more... )

It was the night of August thirty-first. The new term began the next morning, but while Ron and Hermione slept upstairs, Harry wandered about downstairs unable to sleep. Since his conversation with Hermione at the end of June he'd split his time more evenly between taking care of Teddy, fixing up Grimmauld Place and spending more time with the ( Read more... )

( Summer should have been a time of for relaxation, visiting the tropics with the largest of your worries amounting to whether or not you've brought enough sunscreen. Since Harry could remember, not one summer in his eighteen years had ever been a pleasant one; he really shouldn't be surprised this one wasn't any different. )