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THE SNOW WOLF

Summary:

While on his undercover mission to the werewolves, Remus disappears. Tonks sets out north, across countries and islands and frozen terrain, on a quest to find the man she loves and reclaim him from the clutches of a powerful magical beast. Along the way, Tonks meets many who help – or hinder – her quest, until at last she reaches the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard to face the dreaded Snow Wolf himself.

(A fairy tale fusion, bringing together the world of Harry Potter with the plot of Hans Christian Andersen’s The Snow Queen. Or: in which I took a 19th century fairy tale that's surprisingly full of strong female characters, and added even more of them.)

Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven

Story also available on AO3.

RAISE YOUR LANTERN HIGH

Summary: In which Remus and Tonks fight battles, arrest criminals, befriend werewolves, overcome inner demons and, despite it all, find themselves a happy ending. A love story, and a story of the Order years. (My Remus/Tonks epic, years in the making! This is the second half of the story, set in the Half-Blood Prince year.)



Here are all the chapters of "Raise Your Lantern High." This is actually Part Two (the Half-Blood Prince year) of a story that started with Part One, "Be the Light in My Lantern" (the Order of the Phoenix year), but I think you can also read this one as a stand-alone, if you want to.

Chapter One: Get Back On
Chapter Two: Sympathy from All Sides but the Right One
Chapter Three: To the Wolves
Chapter Four: Origin Stories
Chapter Five: Quiet
Chapter Six: Knocking on Doors
Chapter Seven: Enquiring Minds
Chapter Eight: Nymphadora Tonks and the Case of the Dodgy Bookseller
Chapter Nine: From Different Angles
Chapter Ten: Samhain Night
Chapter Eleven: Midwinter Nights
Chapter Twelve: Christmas at the Burrow
Chapter Thirteen: Coming Together and Moving Apart
Chapter Fourteen: Questions and Offers
Chapter Fifteen: Alone Apart
Chapter Sixteen: The Duel
Chapter Seventeen: Worse Than No News
Chapter Eighteen: Scents of Spring
Chapter Nineteen: Beltane Eve
Chapter Twenty: Making a Scene
Chapter Twenty-One: Returning
Chapter Twenty-Two: Raise Your Lantern High

There will also be short coda story, still to come. ("Raise Your Lantern High" itself is complete, though; the small story-to-come is just an extra.) update, July 18, 2017: This story now exists! "If You've Got a Lantern Hold It High"

And the "Raise Your Lantern High" playlist is here.

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High time to corral the "Be the Light in My Lantern" series into one master post...


The BE THE LIGHT IN MY LANTERN series will eventually include: update, July 18, 2017: is now complete! includes:

• "What I Have Taken Long Before" – a short prequel that brings both Remus and Sirius up to the point where we find them at the beginning of OotP.

• "Be the Light in My Lantern" – the first half of my Remus/Tonks story, during OotP.

• "Raise Your Lantern High" – the second half of my Remus/Tonks story, during HBP.

• "If You've Got a Lantern Hold It High" – a small companion piece, catching up with characters from "Raise Your Lantern High" a few years later.

• Plus, the playlists to both "Be the Light in My Lantern" and "Raise Your Lantern High," with songs that reflect each chapter. (And yes, I listened to these mixes a lot while writing these stories...)


Or FIND THE WHOLE SERIES ON AO3.

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GOLDEN, RIPE AND ROTTEN
A short series chronicling the rise, height and fall of the summer young Dumbledore and Grindelwald met in Godric's Hollow.

Sharp and Bright against a Golden Sky
Gellert was gilded, aureate, bedazzling, resplendent; he was aureolin pigment on a blinding canvas, rays of light through beads of amber, stalks of goldenrod against a sunlit sky. And Albus Dumbledore had never before thought he needed a thesaurus just to talk about the evidence of his own eyes.
Characters: Albus, Gellert
Words: ~750

Ripe as Summer Quinces
“Albus, my white knight,” Gellert said, and something in Albus’ chest loosened and blossomed, as it always did when Gellert spoke those words. “What shall we do today, with all the world at our feet?”
Characters: Albus, Gellert, Aberforth, Ariana
Words: ~2,700

The Rotten Core
And still, for one endless second, Albus thinks Gellert might say, I’ll stay.
Characters: Albus, Gellert, Aberforth, Ariana
Words: ~1,000


Also, not exactly part of the series, but closely related:

Sharp Lightning against a Dangerous Sky
They meet again on a wide, muddy plain in Belgium where millennia of battles have been fought.
(Albus Dumbledore, Gellert Grindelwald, and the duel.)
Characters: Albus, Gellert
Words: ~3,800


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Updated to add: These four fics now exist in Chinese translation! See this post for links.

CHAMBERS

Summary:

In the winter after the war, Ginny navigates not only her own recurring nightmares, but also the demands of Quidditch captaincy, the weirdness of double-dating with one's brother and the surprisingly difficult path back to Harry, along with Hermione's obsession with inter-house unity, Neville's retreat into his books, Luna's lonely family life and a gaping hole in Ginny's family where her middle brother used to be.

In the winter after the war, Ginny starts putting the pieces back together, with a little help from her friends.

Characters: Ginny, with Harry, Hermione, Neville, Luna, Ron and all the Weasleys!

Words: ~22,000

Story:

Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five

Story also available on AO3.

ON A WINDSWEPT CLIFF

Summary: On the cliff top where the fearsome Lord Black once stalked, an outcast man meets a big black dog, and things are not as they seem.
Or: The Remus/Sirius gothic romance AU!

Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
Chapter Eight
Chapter Nine

Story also available on AO3.

BE THE LIGHT IN MY LANTERN

Summary: In which Remus and Tonks fight battles, arrest criminals, befriend werewolves, overcome inner demons and, despite it all, find themselves a happy ending. A love story, and a story of the Order years. (At long last, my Remus/Tonks epic, which has been years in the making!)




Here are all the chapters in Part One, "Be the Light in My Lantern" (the Order of the Phoenix year):

Chapter One: The Newest Member of the Order
Chapter Two: Cleaning Days
Chapter Three: Werewolves and Woes
Chapter Four: The Captive and the Cousin
Chapter Five: Surviving October
Chapter Six: The Classics Reimagined
Chapter Seven: Feeling the Pull
Chapter Eight: 'Tis the Season
Chapter Nine: Who You Believe Yourself to Be
Chapter Ten: Everything for the First Time
Chapter Eleven: A Cautious Distance
Chapter Twelve: Healing Wounds
Chapter Thirteen: Breakout
Chapter Fourteen: A Little Hope
Chapter Fifteen: Things Unsaid
Chapter Sixteen: The Calm before the Storm
Chapter Seventeen: The Storm
Chapter Eighteen: The Aftermath


Part Two of the series, "Raise Your Lantern High" (the Half-Blood Prince year) completes the story!


NOTE: Also, the Be the Light in My Lantern playlists are now here or go straight to listening here.

La Ronde Noire:

What began as simply a remix of stereolightning's Andromeda-and-Narcissa story "The Chimes at Midnight" showing the other perspective from the same scene (Narcissa-and-Andromeda in "The Landlord's Other Daughter") quickly spilled over into some related thoughts about Narcissa-and-Regulus ("Tea, No Sympathy").

Another inspired suggestion from stereolightning got me wondering whether it would be possible to write a La Ronde (a format in which each subsequent story follows one character from the previous scene into a new scene with another character, until it eventually circles around to the first pair of characters again). By then I was already thinking that an Andromeda-and-Narcissa story I'd already written ("Two Sisters Take Tea," formerly titled "A Visit") could actually bookend such a set of stories quite well. The rest – Regulus-and-Sirius ("Two Brothers Down a Dark Alley Sometime in 1979"), then Sirius-and-Andromeda ("Forget This Tapestry") – fell into place from there!

Here's the whole set:

1. The Landlord's Other Daughter (remix of The Chimes at Midnight by stereolightning) – Narcissa and Andromeda, circa 1971

2. Tea, No Sympathy – Narcissa and Regulus, circa 1976

3. Two Brothers Down a Dark Alley Sometime in 1979 – Regulus and Sirius, 1979

4. Forget This Tapestry – Sirius and Andromeda, 1995

5. Two Sisters Take Tea – Andromeda and Narcissa, 1998