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To Fight the Coming Darkness To Fight the Coming Darkness By Jbern 1 Table of Contents To Fight the Coming Darkness..................................................................................................................1 Chapter 1 Three Stand Alone................................................................................................................3 Chapter 2 Confrontation......................................................................................................................10 Chapter 3 A Chat in the Breakroom....................................................................................................18 Chapter 4 Every Teenaged Witches Fantasy.......................................................................................28 Chapter 5 - The Fine Art of Negotiation.............................................................................................41 Chapter 6 - The Next Day...................................................................................................................49 Chapter 7 - Percy: The other white meat.............................................................................................64 Chapter 8 - End of the Line.................................................................................................................79 Chapter 9 - Secrets of a Successful Death Eater...............................................................................100 Chapter 10 - Azkaban on the brink....................................................................................................118 Chapter 11 - The Fall of Azkaban.....................................................................................................138 Chapter 12 - Of Wicked Witches and Unforgivables........................................................................155 Chapter 13 - Naked Hannah..............................................................................................................170 Chapter 14 - Light in the Shadow of the Wulf..................................................................................193 Chapter 15 - Stun Hannah and join me in the tub.............................................................................216 Chapter 16 - Penny for your thoughts...............................................................................................237 Chapter 17 - Not My Best Birthday Ever..........................................................................................254 Chapter 18 - For sale one Weasley twin slightly damaged................................................................269 Chapter 19 - Why Lucius Will Never Eat Corn Again......................................................................284 Chapter 21 - When Giants Roamed the Land....................................................................................312 Chapter 22 - Of Death, Remembrance and Dark Magic...................................................................321 Chapter 23 - Debts Paid in Full.........................................................................................................340 Chapter 24 - Divided Loyalties.........................................................................................................353 Chapter 25 - A Lesson in Uncomfortable Truths ..............................................................................368 Chapter 26 - Black Widow Rush.......................................................................................................387 Chapter 27 - All the King's Horses ...................................................................................................402 Chapter 28 - Reflections of Anger and Madness ..............................................................................415 Chapter 29 - Payback........................................................................................................................428 Chapter 30 - The Songs Goblins Sing...............................................................................................451 Chapter 32 - According to the Plan...................................................................................................477 Chapter 33 - The Things We Do For Love........................................................................................499 Chapter 34 - It's Like Mick Jagger Says ... I can't get no satisfaction...............................................523 Chapter 35 - The Hero Always Gets the Girl....................................................................................552 Chapter 36 - Utter Chaos...................................................................................................................573 Chapter 37 -Hidden Agendas, Open Hostility...................................................................................587 Chapter 38 - An Overdue Reunion....................................................................................................601 Chapter 39 - One Last Moment in the Setting Sun...........................................................................622 Chapter 40 – It’s Always Darkest......................................................................................................639 Chapter 41 – Before the Dawn..........................................................................................................657 2 Chapter 1 Three Stand Alone "Susan are you almost finished with the dishes? Your aunt and I would like to see you in the living room." "Almost done mum. Just a few more." Susan answered cheerfully placing a plate in the drying rack. She started to work on a silver pot cover. While doing so, she regarded herself in the reflection. Susan Bones was pretty. Not really "cute" and certainly not "gorgeous or stunning". Her eyes had a very nice tint of blue and were framed by an oval face with a clear complexion. One of the two things she always received compliments on were her hair a silky mass of auburn usually in a braid that ran halfway down her back. The other feature was her smile. She almost always had a slight smile on her face. Her best friend Hannah Abbott would commonly mention how Susan had a private joke that she did not want to share. An outside observer standing in the kitchen of the Bones family manor would see a young woman who had was just a few months shy of her seventeenth birthday. Had her birthday been just one week earlier she would be attending her seventh year at Hogwarts instead of her sixth year at the renowned school of magic. Susan was "beginning to bloom" as her mother put it, developing some womanly curves on her five foot six inch frame. One of the more recent developments, especially since it was the summer break and Susan was no longer required to wear the bulky and notoriously unflattering school robes, was her developing bustline. The few boyfriends in her past would often joke how they could get lost in her eyes, but recent encounters with males in her age group found that more often then not the young men's eyes would start at her face and but would quickly drift downward to her cleavage. Susan had confided in her mother how self-conscious this made her feel. Her mother's response was to describe the males in her age group as a "pack of hormone driven, depraved, mangy mongrels with delusions of grandeur". She completed the last of the dishes. This was Susan's only assigned chore, the manor did after all have a house elf, which would have gladly done this as well as all the other chores, but Susan's mother and aunt insisted that she do this to enforce a sense of responsibility. Susan certainly did not shy away from hard work; she was after all a hufflepuff. One of the defining characteristics of that house was the willingness to roll up the sleeve and put in a solid effort. It is fortunate that most of the students in that house took great pride in their work ethic, because of the four houses at Hogwarts; Hufflepuff was probably the least respected by the others. The other three houses suffered from their own degrees of arrogance. The Slytherins were noted for their cunning and ambition and saw Hufflepuff loyalty and steadfastness as tools to be used and discarded as necessary. If you need help on an assignment and can't charm a Ravenclaw, then simply say a few kind words to a Hufflepuff drone. If you can't find a date for a Hogsmeade weekend there are always a Hufflepuff or two that could be convinced with a few choice words. The other two houses Gryffindor and Ravenclaw were less contemptible in their treatment of Hufflepuff, but still maintained certain sense of superiority. Both houses appreciated the virtues of loyalty and hard work, but each of the other houses always seemed to have an air of "if you were just a little braver you could have been in Gryffindor or perhaps a bit brighter and you could have been a Ravenclaw". It was an unspoken truth that the other 3 houses believed you were sorted into their houses or "put" into Hufflepuff as if were something of a consolation prize. 3 "Sorry," Susan said walking in from the kitchen. "It took a little longer than I expected. What did you want to talk to me about?" Her mother smiled at her. "Well, Amelia has some news she would like to share with us." "What is it Auntie?" "It appears that Minister Fudge has lost the no confidence vote. It was not even a close contest. We will be reconvening tomorrow to select a replacement. I have it on good authority that I am the leading candidate to replace him." "That's fantastic Auntie!" Susan
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