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Widdershins & the Mantle of Ratatoskr by empatheticwizard
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
03 Oct 2025
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Magic is Menace. Sine Usu, Sine Timore. Sine Superbia, Sine Supplicio. Sine Magia, Sine Minatio.
Wizarding Britain, 2006. The Statute is trembling. Diagon Alley is still a mess. The leaks continue en masse. The Ascetics have begun to make moves, but they are not the only ones with designs on the magical world's future. The British Ministry's leadership? Still a question that no one's certain of the answer to.
The Postscript Society began with a simple idea: reach across the magical-Muggle line to meet the people on the other side. But as the ground shifts beneath them, witches and wizards of Britain are beginning to ask nervous questions, such as "Are they ready to meet?"
And, "Are we?"
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Book 2 of the Widdershins & the Contraries series.
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- Part 2 of Widdershins - The Post Script Universe
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Widdershins & the Eyes of Caduceus by empatheticwizard
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
19 Sep 2025
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The Statute was built for doors. Time, as my Muggleborn friends keep trying to explain, is increasingly fond of Windows.
In 1998, the war against Voldemort ended. Allegedly, in 2017, all was well.
Hogwarts, 2006. The war is over. The castle is still standing. The staircases still try to kill people. Muggle Studies still thinks the 'internet' is a type of cauldron. The ethics curriculum? Still designed for medieval dueling disputes. And yet.
Widdershins Weekly arrives monthly, anonymously, charmed to look like scrap parchment and packed with satire. And a cross-house group of misfits are beginning to ask inconvenient questions, such as "Is our entire society held together with Spellotape and siege mentality?"
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"I simply- Professor, I understand the reasoning of the Statute. But what if it is no longer sustainable? Not only ethically. In practice?"
"Unsustainable? Why wouldn't it be sustainable?"
"Do you really think Muggles won't... outpace us in remembering? Sharing? That they'll never figure it out in enough numbers to make stopping it ridiculous?" She shrugged. "You can't obliviate the world."
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Book 1 of the Widdershins & the Contraries series.
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- Part 1 of Widdershins - The Post Script Universe
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A Most Noble Harvest by empatheticwizard
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling, Harvest Moon: Friends of Mineral Town, Harvest Moon and Story of Seasons Series (Video Games)
16 Aug 2025
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Buckbeak kicks Draco Malfoy into his worst possible nightmare: a farming dimension where magic is useless, the Harvest Goddess runs game shows, and everyone expects him to grow vegetables. With his bare hands. And to get home, that might be the easy part.
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A zine by-students, for-students, unless Headmistress McGonagall finds it, in which case it was all hypothetical and no wizarding bureaucrats were harmed.
Since 2004, there's been a student newspaper sneaking about the corridors of Hogwarts. Come 2006, it's moved past the gossip and into play-bites.
(Companion fic to Widdershins & the Eyes of Caduceus, but can be enjoyed on its own without context.)
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- Part 3 of Widdershins - The Post Script Universe
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Age eleven and in a half-blood household, Adrian Silvertree awaits a letter from Hogwarts. And if it fails to arrive? His sister has a plan.
(Standalone Fic.)
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- Part 5 of Widdershins - The Post Script Universe
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- English
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Widdershins - The Post Script Universe by empatheticwizard
Fandom: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
03 Oct 2025
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The question isn't whether the world will notice us. It's whether we'll still be pretending not to notice them when it happens.
A post-canon, OC-centric set of Harry Potter fics centering on a cross-House group of Hogwarts students known to some as 'the Contraries'. They are of the 'lost generation' that began Hogwarts shortly after the war and came of age in the 2000s. Theirs is a story of the last days of the Statute of Secrecy - and their attempts to make a difference in it.
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The adventures of Alexandra Quick, an American witch whose story begins with mystery and intrigue, and becomes an epic saga of resistance, empowerment, and tragedy. Beginning in sixth grade, when Alexandra enters Charmbridge Academy, this seven-book series follows Alexandra through her teen years and her struggles to learn her origins, discover her destiny, and resist her fate.
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Bookmarked by empatheticwizard
24 Aug 2025
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You didn't inspire me (I discovered this after I started my thing), but you made me feel less alone in my choice of oddment. :) I'm glad this exists.
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It's been eleven years since Harry Potter brought an end to Voldemort; eleven years of peace, eleven years of recovery.
But not every wound can be healed. Teddy Lupin is loved and wanted by his family, adored by his godfather, welcomed in the extended Weasley clan, and happy that he's about to start at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, but he still feels the loss of his parents and the last lingering traces of the war.
As he begins his Hogwarts life, he finds connections to his past that he never suspected... and manages a bit of mischief as well!
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- Part 1 of Teddy Lupin
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Diamond of Long Cleeve Volume I: Twine by Zen_diagram
Fandoms: The Lord of the Rings - All Media Types, The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien
12 Sep 2025
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Diamond Cleeveholm never asked to leave home. But in the wake of her grandmother's death, she’s stuck in Tuckborough—a town that fears change and shuns strangers. Between cultural clashes, unexpected friendships, and haunting visions of a coming darkness, growing up is not going to be easy—and for Diamond, it may decide the fate of the Shire. Follow Diamond through this tale of self-discovery, love, war, and coming of age.
(2 years pre-adventure of the Ring; Joan of Arc-inspired, but scouring of the Shire.)
“I cannot bear to be forgotten—that is death.”
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- Part 1 of Diamond of Long Cleeve: The Lost Memoirs
Bookmarked by empatheticwizard
26 Jul 2025