Squib Sisters: A Harry Potter Story
~ by Emily Kopf It’s not easy being a Squib in an esteemed magical household. It’s even harder being a Squib in said household and pretending to have magic. It all started with Martyn and…
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Black Flame: A Harry Potter Story
It is dark. An unmoving darkness, voiceless and cold. It is not like the snows, fresh and flowering, but like metal, cutting and deadly. They had left me here to disintegrate in an inner hell…
A Hidden Hero: The Importance of Ron Weasley in the Harry Potter Series
Hidden heroes are everywhere. Behind the light of the protagonist of a story or movie is an almost equally bright light of the hidden hero. One particular hero, I found recently, is Ron Weasley from…
Legend of the Lost: A Harry Potter Serial – Chapter 6: A Song for Easter
Harry and Snape’s conversations became much more literarily focused after the books came into the equation. The boy discovered that this old teacher had quite a hidden passion for the subject, and seemed just a…
Legend of the Lost: A Harry Potter Serial – Chapter 5: Anathema Sit
The next day, Harry arrived at the shack toting a small wagon behind him filled with a pile of old books with fraying colored bindings and gold embossed lettering. “Alright, what…is all…
Legend of the Lost: A Harry Potter Serial – Chapter 4: The Pact
Harry and Snape got fairly used to suspiciously observing one another while they ate lunch together over the next few days. It was a strange situation indeed, but Harry kept showing up at the…
Legend of the Lost: A Harry Potter Serial – Chapter 3: Tea and Sandwiches
When Harry returned to the shack the next day, there was a paper bag in his hand. Snape studied it suspiciously as the boy set it down on the end table and slid it…
Of Fairy Tales and Joy: A Reflection for the 20th Anniversary of Harry Potter
“Fairy tales say that apples were golden only to refresh the forgotten moment when we found that they were green. They make rivers run with wine only to make us remember, for one wild moment,…
Legend of the Lost: A Harry Potter Serial – Chapter 2: Cradling the Dead
Snape was shivering. For hours, he had been shivering. He hated it. It made him look weak. Not that anyone was watching him, not in this place. But he knew it was so, and…
Legend of the Lost: A Harry Potter Serial – Chapter 1: Smoke and Mirrors
Smoke rising, fog rising, breath rising. No, no…not again…not waking up to yet another round of sport…no, no, just let it all melt away with the pain… Snape felt the grip of…