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Subject: Thank You — and What’s Coming in August ✨

Hey there! 👋

First, a huge thank you to all of you who supported me in July — One month ago — on July 1 — I started posting regularly again. I wasn’t sure how it would go. But because of you, it’s already grown faster than I imagined. You helped bring these stories to life — with over 40 chapters released across 4 fics in just one month.

Thanks to y...

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Chapter Release 1-08-25

Harry and The Master of Death

Chapter 19 – “The Trainee with Two Left Feet”

The new groundskeeper fell over her own mop bucket. Two times.

The first time was in the entrance hall, where her foot hit the rim and sent a wave of soapy water skimming across the old flagstones like a silver tide. The bucket spun in a crazy way, hit the wall, and tipped over with a flourish that would have impressed Flitwick. The second time was three steps later, when sh...

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Chapter 51 – Consecrated Silence



The soundstage doesn’t greet them with bustle or brilliance—it greets them with breath held, like a lung unfilled. A cavern of shadows and scaffolding, vast and dim, where echoes go to rest. The air is dry, but thick. Still, but weighted. The kind of stillness that makes your footsteps feel like interruptions.

It is a body without skin, ribs o...

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Chapter Release 31-07-25

Harry and the Unexpected

Chapter 38 – The Weight and the Flame

The ramp of the Gryphon lowered with a whispering hiss, a breath of old steel exhaling into the soft light of the hangar. The brushed metal

The ramp of the Gryphon lowered with a whispering hiss, a breath of old steel exhaling into the soft light of the hangar. The brushed metal


The ramp of the Gryphon lowered with a whispering hiss, a breath of old steel exhal...

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Chapter 50 – “The Breath Between Words”

The church no longer waits to be lit—it begins to breathe with the camera.

Light doesn’t strike. It arrives. Soft. Shifting. As if the building itself is choosing when to reveal its wounds.

Morning paints in whispers. Noon glows like confession. And by dusk, the walls seem to shimmer with things unsaid.

The crew doesn’t chase perfection...

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Chapter Release 30-07-25

Harry Potter and The Help Of Merlin

Chapter 49 — “The City That Listens”


Philadelphia
The city meets you the way old grief does—quietly, from the corners. It doesn’t leap to introduce itself, doesn’t throw its arms around strangers. It waits. Patient. Unmoving. As if the stones beneath your feet are older than your questions and already know your answers.

It unfolds slowly, like a hymn half-forgotten and hummed beneath breath. Street by ...

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Chapter 12: The Castle That Waited

The wind that brushed Harry’s cheeks was brisk, crisp, and laced with the scents of moss, lakewater, and something older—something earthy an




The wind that brushed Harry’s cheeks was brisk, crisp, and laced with the scents of moss, lakewater, and something older—something earthy and deep, like stone that had remembered the weight of centuries.

He stood at the edge...

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Chapter Release 29-07-25

Harry and The Master of Death

Chapter 18: The Weight of Wards

The door to the staff room clicked open behind her.

Not slammed. Not closed for good. Just... let go, as if the hinges didn't want the meeting to end.

Minerva McGonagall walked into the hall.

As always, her posture was straight. She wouldn't slouch, even if Death itself was standing in front of her. But she could feel the strain in every bone and the weight press...

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Chapter 48 – “First Slate Test”

It presses gently against the skin of the world, as if asking permission to enter.

Outside, the city is still swaddled in sleep, its windows slow to glint, its engines still coughing themselves awake. But inside the old church on the corner of 22nd and Morris, the air is already charged—thin, trembling, reverent. Not with noise. With potential.

The stained-glass windows, ...

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Chapter Release 28-07-25

Harry and the Unexpected

Chapter 47 – "The Ones Still Living"

The casting room was quiet, cloaked in the long hush of dusk—when daylight doesn’t end, it just exhales. Slanted amber light cut across the floor, slipping between the blinds like something searching. The air was thick with the kind of stillness that precedes either revelation or grief.

Shyamalan sat in a folding chair by the window, the script open across his knees. He wasn’...

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Chapter 37 – Ellie’s Tomorrow

POV: Ellie Ellie's earliest memory wasn't a lullaby or a birthday candle, nor was it the warmth of pancakes or the tickle of summer grass. I

POV: Ellie

Ellie's earliest memory wasn't a lullaby or a birthday candle, nor was it the warmth of pancakes or the tickle of summer grass. It was the colour of dust — not golden, not soft — but grey, choking, the c...

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Chapter 1 – The Room Below

Chuck Bartowski had a rule. Never, under any circumstances, let anyone see behind the curtain.

To most of the world — the Buy More staff, the NSA, the CIA, even Sarah — he was still the lovable nerd, the accidental asset who stumbled into a world far too dangerous for his khaki pants and Converse sneakers. And that was how he liked it. Because behind the curtain, behind the nervous sm...

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New Story: Chuck The First Intersect Reboot

Hey everyone!

A number of you have reached out asking if I’d ever revisit Chuck — and after enough pings, I gave in 😅 So here it is: a reimagining of Chuck, starting from the moment he becomes the first Intersect.

But before we dive in…

⚠️ A Quick Note on Updates

This story is something I’m excited to explore, but it wo...

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How far into the dark should we go?

Hey everyone,

The arc ahead is one I’ve carried for a long time. It’s powerful. But it’s also painful. It touches on themes of cruelty, systemic silence, and the suffering of the most innocent.

This part of the story was never meant to be comfortable. But it was always meant to be true.

That said, I want to honour your trust. This is your space too. And while I ...

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Do You Want a Chapter from a Different POV?

I already have a POV chapter planned for a new character around Chapter 43 👣
But I’d love to know what you think:

Would you be interested in a bonus or upcoming chapter told from the perspective of one of the main characters?

🧠 Options I’m considering:

  • Hermione – Intellect, strategy, and maybe a bit of internal fire

  • ...

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Chapter Release 25-07-25

Harry and The Master of Death

Chapter 46 – “The Ones Who See”

The casting studio was the kind of building that had survived too many eras without ever being loved—faded carpet. Blinds bent at odd angles. A corner ficus that hadn’t grown in years. The air was tinged with dust and nerves and the faint trace of cold Starbucks sipped hours ago.

Outside, the L.A. sun pressed against the dirty windows like a nosy god. Inside, the light knifed...

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Chapter 17: The Quiet Between Storms

The Gryffindor common room, which had been full of warmth and laughter, was now very quiet, as if everyone was holding their breath. The sound of the day was still in every worn cushion and every softened edge of furniture, even though it had faded into memory.

Some of the portraits were sleeping, with some snoring softly in their frames and others curled up like cats on oil...

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Patreon Exclusive Preview: Chapters 38–40

The calm before the reckoning is over.

The fleet drifts through hyperspace, bound for a world long thought silent—but Harry Potter has received a message that changes everything.

Whispers become truth. Truth becomes fire. And fire demands a response.

In these chapters, tensions crackle across ships, bridges, and hearts. A leader must speak the unspeakable. A fleet m...

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Chapter Release 24-07-25

Harry and the Unexpected

Chapter 36: "The Other Side of Silence"

POV: Hermione (with Harry beside her) The step was simple. A foot forward, a breath drawn, a ripple of light — and then the world changed. T

POV: Hermione (with Harry beside her)

The step was simple. A foot forward, a breath drawn, a ripple of light — and then the world changed.

There was no thunderclap or lurch of motion, no stomach-turning pull like App...

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Chapter 45 – The Things We Name

It began not with a meeting, but with a marker.

No agenda. No bullet-pointed deck. Just Maya standing in front of the largest whiteboard in the warehouse—blank, gleaming, expectant. It reflected the overhead lights in soft streaks, like the surface of a lake before a stone is cast.

Her hands rested on her hips, her brow drawn in quiet tension. She looked not at the board,...

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Chapter Release 23-07-25

Harry Potter and The Help Of Merlin

Chapter 44 – The Pulse of First Light,

The warehouse breathed differently now. Not hollow, not tentative—but charged, as if the space had woken up remembering who it was meant to become. The morning air held a gentle electricity, soft but undeniable. Skylight slats sliced through the dusty upper air, casting golden bands across plywood walls and scattered crates. In the shafts of light, suspended particles drifted...

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Chapter 11: A Home of His Own

The marble halls of Gringotts felt different the second time Harry walked through them that day. Not colder. Not warmer. Just… familiar. He




The marble halls of Gringotts felt different the second time Harry walked through them that day.

Not colder. Not warmer. Just… familiar.

He stepped with the ease of someone no longer uncertain of his place here. His wand ta...

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