Valley of the Shadow: Act III

Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
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Valley of the Shadow: Act III
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Characters
Regulus Black, Sirius Black, James Potter, Peter Pettigrew, Lily Evans Potter, Severus Snape, Tom Riddle | Voldemort, Narcissa Black Malfoy, Albus Dumbledore, Evan Rosier, Wilkes (Harry Potter), Gilderoy Lockhart, Filius Flitwick, Bartemius Crouch Jr., Spike Snape, Florean Fortescue, Canon Relationships - Relationship, Unjossed noncanon relationships, and really just all the grown-ups, some of whom are still titchy at this point
Tags
Fluff Family Angst Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD Humor Found Family Hogwarts Feels Academia Nepotism First War with Voldemort Occlumency 1980 Lares and penates tribalism Kids Being Awesome Kids being less than awesome Also adults Making marriage work Wizards aren't interested in your muggle sex and gender norms Smoke and mirror cloak and dagger Teaching is hard spying comes in all flavors People should not do more than two jobs at once coffcoffALBUScoff Lily passes the Bechdel test; Narcissa wasn't interested Facts are different from truths in that they sort of exist I'm saying Harry was an unreliable narrator Actually I'm saying everyone is an unreliable narrator So read me like one of your Slytherin girls
Summary
Autumn: 1980: The wizarding world has been straining against the rotting stitches of tradition and tribalism for at least a thousand years. Every few centuries, things get so bad that even wizards admit there's a problem. It's gonna be one of those years.Hogwarts may or may not be talking to its newest guardian through the stones, a government under threat that can't be pinned on a map is a dangerously predictable animal, the elements that move a nation are blood, gold, and ink, and Tom Riddle is pretty sure they should all be thanking him for the kick in the pants.What'cha got in there, Pandora?Ch. 47: Severus suspects that the group noun for implications might be 'an alarm.'
Note
PSA: Chapter-narrators are conveying their own opinions, not the author's. This goes also for what they consider to be true, and what they consider to be right, and even what they know to be the facts. Characters are allowed to be wrong, especially when they're smack in the middle of propaganda wars or stranded on a sea of oral tradition.Feedback about characters' behaviour and attitudes may be addressed to them directly in the comments, and I will pass it along unless I judge it would provoke them into poisoning your coffee.

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