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\chapter*{Word from the Author}
-\textbf{Title}: {A Song In Time of Revolution}
-
\textbf{Summary:} AU of HBP, HPDM slash. Revolution is never an easy
choice---and worse when you're trying to respect the free will of
everyone, wizard and magical creature alike. Prophecy and politics and
@@ -71,7 +69,7 @@ with me is my e-mail or my LJ.
And here we go. Thanks for coming all this way with me.
-\chapter{Haunted, Helped, Dreaming}
+\chapter{Haunted, Helped, Dreaming}
``And how does it taste?''
@@ -664,17 +662,7 @@ jolted his arm.
He frowned as the bird's laughter repeated itself in the distance.
-\subsection{*Chapter 2*: Intermission: Fever
-Dream}\label{chapter-2-intermission-fever-dream}
-
-Thanks for the reviews on the last chapter!
-
-This is not the only posting for today; a regular chapter will be along,
-but later. This Intermission does address something mentioned in the
-first chapter, however, and which will be a regular, running theme of
-the story. Once again, \textbf{Half-Blood Prince spoilers abound.}
-
-\textbf{Intermission: Fever Dream}
+\chapter{Intermission: Fever Dream}\label{chapter-2-intermission-fever-dream}
The world around him was dark, and close, and hot. The world outside
breathed light rain, the coolness of early summer in this part of
@@ -902,14 +890,7 @@ blood.}
\emph{Not ever again.}
-\subsection{*Chapter 3*: Demonstrations In a Hollow
-Room}\label{chapter-3-demonstrations-in-a-hollow-room}
-
-Thanks for the reviews on the Intermission! Review responses should be
-up in my LJ shortly. (Check the link from my profile if you want to read
-them).
-
-\textbf{Chapter Two: Demonstrations In a Hollow Room}
+\chapter{Demonstrations In a Hollow Room}\label{chapter-3-demonstrations-in-a-hollow-room}
Harry wished he had a lynx form outside of dreams. He thought it would
be a useful skill if he could flatten his ears. And, at the moment, he
@@ -1694,12 +1675,7 @@ him.
He wanted to tell Draco he was going to regrow his hand.
-\subsection{*Chapter 4*: Pools of Grief and Pools of
-Gold}\label{chapter-4-pools-of-grief-and-pools-of-gold}
-
-Thanks for the reviews on the last chapter!
-
-\textbf{Chapter Three: Pools of Grief and Pools of Gold}
+\chapter{Pools of Grief and Pools of Gold}\label{chapter-4-pools-of-grief-and-pools-of-gold}
Harry sighed. ``Yes, I promise I'll close my eyes and try to enjoy this
like a good little boy.'' He met Vera's gaze and held it until she gave
@@ -2427,15 +2403,7 @@ returned it.
Draco barely contained the urge to howl like a werewolf. \emph{And I'll
be right there fighting at his side.}
-\subsection{*Chapter 5*: Interlude: The Outer
-World}\label{chapter-5-interlude-the-outer-world}
-
-Just two notes: The dates on the letters and so on aren't wrong. This
-Interlude happens concurrently with the previous three chapters, rather
-than after them. Also, this is the only update for today, as the
-Interlude broke my outline and I need to revise it.
-
-\textbf{Interlude: The Outer World}
+\chapter{Interlude: The Outer World}\label{chapter-5-interlude-the-outer-world}
\emph{June 30th, 1996}
@@ -3060,19 +3028,7 @@ sing us through the storm.
\emph{Connor.}
-\subsection{*Chapter 6*: Recalled From
-Exile}\label{chapter-6-recalled-from-exile}
-
-Just a note, as I know that some readers are sensitive to this:
-\textbf{GORE WARNING for this chapter.} Or, at least, really nasty
-description.
-
-Because, of course, the angst was never going to stay away forever. On
-the other hand, I am proud of Harry in this chapter, and anyone who's
-read the story to this point knows that he's struggled enough to get
-here.
-
-\textbf{Chapter Four: Recalled From Exile}
+\chapter{Recalled From Exile}\label{chapter-6-recalled-from-exile}
``Any luck?''
@@ -3829,13 +3785,7 @@ He went to retrieve his book on place magic from outside Doncan's room.
It wouldn't do to have what he owned lying about everywhere, when he
intended to depart from the Sanctuary tomorrow.
-\subsection{*Chapter 7*: The Department for the
-Control}\label{chapter-7-the-department-for-the-control}
-
-Thanks for the reviews on the last chapter!
-
-\textbf{Chapter Five: The Department for the Control and Suppression of
-Deadly Beasts}
+\chapter{The Department for the Control}\label{chapter-7-the-department-for-the-control}
``No.''
@@ -4551,13 +4501,7 @@ the direction of the Ministry. \emph{I wanted to remain poised between
both of you, taking neither side, but now I have to take the
werewolves'. Good luck to you in weathering this war now.}
-\subsection{*Chapter 8*: Downrush}\label{chapter-8-downrush}
-
-Thanks for the reviews on the last chapter!
-
-And now there is a shitstorm brewing. Yay.
-
-\textbf{Chapter Six: Downrush}
+\chapter{Downrush}\label{chapter-8-downrush}
He felt the boy's magic the moment he returned to the world, because, of
course, there was no way Harry Potter could ever be \emph{quiet.}
@@ -5450,14 +5394,7 @@ one blood, one breath. Loki's declared vengeance on her murderers,
Harry, in accordance with pack law, and there isn't anything that will
stop him.''
-\subsection{*Chapter 9*: The Alliance of Sun and
-Shadow}\label{chapter-9-the-alliance-of-sun-and-shadow}
-
-Thanks for the reviews on the last chapter!
-
-This chapter was late because it's another long-ass one.
-
-\textbf{Chapter Seven: The Alliance of Sun and Shadow}
+\chapter{The Alliance of Sun and Shadow}\label{chapter-9-the-alliance-of-sun-and-shadow}
Harry spoke with McGonagall via the communication spell Charles had
taught all of them the moment he was out of the Ministry. The news of
@@ -6881,15 +6818,7 @@ Harry could feel the challenges that would be coming.
He braced himself to meet them.
-\subsection{*Chapter 10*: Theory, Meet
-Practice}\label{chapter-10-theory-meet-practice}
-
-Thanks for the reviews on the last chapter!
-
-And here's something there hasn't been in a while: a Draco-centric
-chapter.
-
-\textbf{Chapter Eight: Theory, Meet Practice}
+\chapter{Theory, Meet Practice}\label{chapter-10-theory-meet-practice}
Draco came down the main staircase in Cobley-by-the-Sea feeling as if
someone had run a hand through all his hair and made it stand on end. He
@@ -7728,14 +7657,7 @@ him to think about himself, but not as long as it once would have. This
is wonderful. For one thing, I can push and get better results than if
he were utterly resistant to it, or just ignoring me.}
-\subsection{*Chapter 11*: Interlude: The Daily Prophet August
-5th}\label{chapter-11-interlude-the-daily-prophet-august-5th}
-
-Thanks for the reviews on the last chapter!
-
-In which Rita shows that she is very, very good at what she does.
-
-\textbf{Interlude: The \emph{Daily Prophet}, August 5th, 1996}
+\chapter{Interlude: The Daily Prophet August 5th}\label{chapter-11-interlude-the-daily-prophet-august-5th}
\emph{The Daily Prophet August 5th, 1996}
@@ -7924,15 +7846,7 @@ trust that all {Prophet} readers are looking forward to what will happen
now as much as I am, and are as thankful to have such a brave,
determined young man dedicated to protecting us from You-Know-Who.
-\subsection{*Chapter 12*: Three Arguments, Two
-Discussions}\label{chapter-12-three-arguments-two-discussions}
-
-Thanks for the reviews on the last chapter!
-
-Well, isn't this chapter a weird mix of emotional tones.
-
-\textbf{Chapter Nine: Three Arguments, Two Discussions, and One Early
-Morning}
+\chapter{Three Arguments, Two Discussions}\label{chapter-12-three-arguments-two-discussions}
``Good---'' Draco paused when he stepped around the corner into
Regulus's study and saw Harry sitting at a desk covered with paper.
@@ -8885,15 +8799,7 @@ the next.
Remus sat down and put his head in his hands.
-\subsection{*Chapter 13*: Mysterious
-Enemies}\label{chapter-13-mysterious-enemies}
-
-Thanks for the reviews on the last chapter!
-
-And welcome to the chapter that wasn't supposed to exist, and has just
-changed the whole outline around to accommodate itself.
-
-\textbf{Chapter Ten: Mysterious Enemies}
+\chapter{Mysterious Enemies}\label{chapter-13-mysterious-enemies}
``And you think that we'll be able to get all the food we need from
Muggle shops?'' Camellia's eyes were wide and disbelieving.
@@ -9581,15 +9487,7 @@ mantra, hummed a single thought.
\emph{I will not let them make me afraid.}
-\subsection{*Chapter 14*: Intermission: Before the Darkness
-Cower}\label{chapter-14-intermission-before-the-darkness-cower}
-
-Thanks for the reviews on the last chapter!
-
-No chapter yesterday because I had to re-outline, but now we're cooking
-again. All the Intermissions, by the by, are Snape's dreams.
-
-\textbf{Intermission: Before the Darkness Cower}
+\chapter{Intermission: Before the Darkness Cower}\label{chapter-14-intermission-before-the-darkness-cower}
``Really, Severus, come along.'' One elegant arch of Lucius Malfoy's
eyebrow, as much to say that he didn't know what he was going to do with
@@ -9850,13 +9748,7 @@ opportunity for revenge.
Severus was willing to be used, for that.
-\subsection{*Chapter 15*: Unspeakables and Slytherins Play
-Chess}\label{chapter-15-unspeakables-and-slytherins-play-chess}
-
-The Unspeakable plotline is fitting into the story really well,
-actually. (Suspiciously well).
-
-\textbf{Chapter Eleven: Unspeakables (and Slytherins) Play Chess}
+\chapter{Unspeakables and Slytherins Play Chess}\label{chapter-15-unspeakables-and-slytherins-play-chess}
Snape came awake with a gasp that he could not control. At least the
gasp was soundless, and he pinched his lips shut immediately after
@@ -10580,12 +10472,7 @@ He would achieve success where others would only see lurking failure.
It was what a Malfoy did.
-\subsection{*Chapter 16*: Harry's
-Festival}\label{chapter-16-harrys-festival}
-
-Thanks for the reviews on the last chapter!
-
-\textbf{Chapter Twelve: Harry's Festival}
+\chapter{Harry's Festival}\label{chapter-16-harrys-festival}
This time, Harry didn't get much more warning than a soft, gleeful
laugh.
@@ -11455,12 +11342,7 @@ driven Harry frantic with worry. Now, all he did was get his blood up.
\emph{When are my enemies going to learn that they can't make me
afraid?}
-\subsection{*Chapter 17*: Lessons, Bloody
-Lessons}\label{chapter-17-lessons-bloody-lessons}
-
-Thanks for the reviews on the last chapter!
-
-\textbf{Chapter Thirteen: Lessons, Bloody Lessons}
+\chapter{Lessons, Bloody Lessons}\label{chapter-17-lessons-bloody-lessons}
Harry shifted so that the book on druidic magic settled more comfortably
into his lap. Another problem with not having two hands, he reflected,
@@ -12270,13 +12152,7 @@ worth it would be teaching Harry to have some fun again.
\emph{And some fun with me. I have missed him.}
-\subsection{*Chapter 18*: Vox Populi}\label{chapter-18-vox-populi}
-
-Thanks for the reviews on the last chapter!
-
-Here comes chaos again.
-
-\textbf{Chapter Fourteen: \emph{Vox Populi}}
+\chapter{Vox Populi}\label{chapter-18-vox-populi}
\emph{Bang!}
@@ -12947,17 +12823,7 @@ He had letters to write and research to do. Time to see if some of the
tidbits of information that his father had mentioned on the Hornblower
family over the years were grounded in rumor or fact.
-\subsection{*Chapter 19*: Draco Decides To Be a
-Distraction}\label{chapter-19-draco-decides-to-be-a-distraction}
-
-Thanks for the reviews on the last chapter!
-
-I had a few people ask me to warn for this, so here it is. This chapter
-does contain heavy slash. If you don't want to read that, stop at the
-sentence, ``And Snape isn't maddened by the presence of werewolves in
-the house right now.''
-
-\textbf{Chapter Fifteen: Draco Decides To Be a Distraction}
+\chapter{Draco Decides To Be a Distraction}\label{chapter-19-draco-decides-to-be-a-distraction}
``And you think that you need the book?'' Snape's voice was casual, and
only his grip on the silver stirring stick showed how tense he was.
@@ -13734,12 +13600,7 @@ how he felt other than dizzy and angry and relaxed and good and---
And happy.
-\subsection{*Chapter 20*: Another Visit to the
-Ministry}\label{chapter-20-another-visit-to-the-ministry}
-
-Thanks for the reviews on the last chapter!
-
-\textbf{Chapter Sixteen: Another Visit to the Ministry}
+\chapter{Another Visit to the Ministry}\label{chapter-20-another-visit-to-the-ministry}
``Because I thought you needed someone to help you.''
@@ -14578,15 +14439,7 @@ Unspeakables.}
\emph{Let's see what they do when Thomas's storm spreads its wings.}
-\subsection{*Chapter 21*: Dancing Above the
-Abyss}\label{chapter-21-dancing-above-the-abyss}
-
-Thanks for the reviews on the last chapter!
-
-Sometimes, I like torturing my characters. For instance, this chapter
-makes me gleefully sadistic.
-
-\textbf{Chapter Seventeen: Dancing Above the Abyss}
+\chapter{Dancing Above the Abyss}\label{chapter-21-dancing-above-the-abyss}
Thomas smiled as he admired the front page of the \emph{Daily Prophet}.
He and his people might almost have written the article. They hadn't, of
@@ -15407,10 +15260,7 @@ Ministry look very bad,'' she said.
Dionysus chortled. ``They deserve it. Bastards.''
-\subsection{*Chapter 22*: Dionysus and His
-Maenads}\label{chapter-22-dionysus-and-his-maenads}
-
-\textbf{Chapter Eighteen: Dionysus and His Maenads}
+\chapter{Dionysus and His Maenads}\label{chapter-22-dionysus-and-his-maenads}
``The Unspeakables he talked to confirmed that they attacked the Press
because they wanted to shut him down,'' Honoria said, her eyes
@@ -16433,14 +16283,7 @@ Loki's teeth. Politics did make for strange bedfellows, indeed.
\emph{And who said this would be easy?}
-\subsection{*Chapter 23*: Intermission: The
-Initiation}\label{chapter-23-intermission-the-initiation}
-
-\textbf{WARNING: Graphic gore.}
-
-The lines Rosier quotes are taken from Swinburne's ``Anactoria.''
-
-\textbf{Intermission: The Initiation}
+\chapter{Intermission: The Initiation}\label{chapter-23-intermission-the-initiation}
Snape wondered that no one in the building they were about to attack
could feel the power lapping around him, Malfoy, and Rosier in black,
@@ -16682,10 +16525,7 @@ defend,'' he said softly.
And Snape felt something like peace.
-\subsection{*Chapter 24*: Interlude: The Liberator's Third
-Letter}\label{chapter-24-interlude-the-liberators-third-letter}
-
-\textbf{Interlude: The Liberator's Third Letter}
+\chapter{Interlude: The Liberator's Third Letter}\label{chapter-24-interlude-the-liberators-third-letter}
\emph{August 27th, 1996}
@@ -16749,14 +16589,7 @@ Yours,
\emph{The Liberator.}
-\subsection{*Chapter 25*: A Most Tumultuous First
-Day}\label{chapter-25-a-most-tumultuous-first-day}
-
-Thanks for the reviews on the last chapter!
-
-Long chapter ahoy.
-
-\textbf{Chapter Nineteen: A Most Tumultuous First Day}
+\chapter{A Most Tumultuous First Day}\label{chapter-25-a-most-tumultuous-first-day}
\emph{Refusing people seems to have become a regular feature of my
life,} Harry thought. ``No,'' he said aloud.
@@ -18058,8 +17891,7 @@ He would go and find Parvati. She always made him feel better.
He could feel Ron's eyes on his back, but he ignored that. Ron could be
wrong, too, just like Harry.
-\subsection{*Chapter 26*: The Earth Will
-Shake}\label{chapter-26-the-earth-will-shake}
+\chapter{The Earth Will Shake}\label{chapter-26-the-earth-will-shake}
Falco brushed dirt from his hands, and grimaced. As much magic as he
possessed, as much useless time as he could avoid by bending it, the
@@ -18938,13 +18770,7 @@ I'll live.}
She walked a few steps on the moors, absorbing the sunlight and loving
it, before she Apparated to her Lord's side.
-\subsection{*Chapter 27*: Intermission: Disaster, Thy
-Name}\label{chapter-27-intermission-disaster-thy-name}
-
-\textbf{WARNING: Graphic gore.}
-
-\textbf{Intermission: Disaster, Thy Name Is Regulus}
-
+\chapter{Intermission: Disaster, Thy Name}\label{chapter-27-intermission-disaster-thy-name}
``Severus.''
Snape stiffened at the sound of his first name, and glanced over his
@@ -19229,14 +19055,7 @@ revenge. He was the reason it all tumbled apart in Snape's mind, two
years after his first meeting with Voldemort, and refused to put itself
back together again.
-\subsection{*Chapter 28*: Confluences}\label{chapter-28-confluences}
-
-Once again, I know some people don't want to read heavy slash, so, if
-you don't, skip from the point that says, ``Draco glanced at Harry
-curiously,'' to the scene break. This chapter has six scenes, and the
-fifth one does contain slash.
-
-\textbf{Chapter Twenty-One: Confluences}
+\chapter{Confluences}\label{chapter-28-confluences}
On the day the article in the \emph{Daily Prophet} came out that proved
Aurora Whitestag and Philip Willoughby had decided to work together,
@@ -19935,7 +19754,7 @@ with Draco. I'll show him the truth until that overcomes his willingness
to embrace a lie.}
\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
-
+% Slash section here %
Draco glanced at Harry curiously. Harry had seemed unusually fidgety
that evening, even as Draco studied his Animagus notes some more and
Harry tried to read information on place magic that Granger had
@@ -20052,7 +19871,7 @@ crook of Harry's neck. The last thing he heard before he fell asleep was
the soft, contented purring of Harry's magic, like the rumble of a great
cat, and the last thought he had, absurdly, was, \emph{His Animagus
form} is \emph{a lynx.}
-
+% End Slash section %
\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
Harry took a deep breath and shook his head before he walked into the
@@ -20157,17 +19976,7 @@ joined him for breakfast, the stare redoubled. Harry didn't care.
\emph{Some of the people I love are being stupid right now. That's all
right. They'll get over it, and I can wait for as long as they need.}
-\subsection{*Chapter 29*: Terror Runs On Four
-Legs}\label{chapter-29-terror-runs-on-four-legs}
-
-Thanks for the reviews on the last chapter!\textbf{\\
-}
-
-\textbf{WARNINGS: Graphic gore. Cliffhanger.}
-
-And now, things go \emph{spang.}
-
-\textbf{Chapter Twenty-Two: Terror Runs On Four Legs}
+\chapter{Terror Runs On Four Legs}\label{chapter-29-terror-runs-on-four-legs}
Harry heard Connor muffle a surprised squeak when he caught up with him
and Parvati on their way to Care of Magical Creatures. ``Can I walk with
@@ -21194,15 +21003,7 @@ of them can be killed without penalty, provided that the killer can
confirm they're werewolves afterwards. And they've arrested Hawthorn
Parkinson.''
-\subsection{*Chapter 30*: At Daggers
-Drawn}\label{chapter-30-at-daggers-drawn}
-
-Thanks for the reviews on the last chapter!
-
-A note on the title: ``At daggers drawn'' is a metaphor for ``at the
-point of open conflict.''
-
-\textbf{Chapter Twenty-Three: At Daggers Drawn}
+\chapter{At Daggers Drawn}\label{chapter-30-at-daggers-drawn}
The news made Harry \emph{want} to collapse. But he knew he couldn't.
For one thing, if he did, he probably wouldn't be able to get back up
@@ -22053,12 +21854,7 @@ already doing so.
Draco put his hands over his face and lay there, breathing.
-\subsection{*Chapter 31*: Called Woodhouse, Called
-the}\label{chapter-31-called-woodhouse-called-the}
-
-Thanks for the reviews on the last chapter!
-
-\textbf{Chapter Twenty-Four: Called Woodhouse, Called the Ancient Vale}
+\chapter{Called Woodhouse, Called the}\label{chapter-31-called-woodhouse-called-the}
Minerva sipped her tea. It made her look dignified. There was no one
around to see, but that didn't matter. Her parents had once told her
@@ -23268,14 +23064,7 @@ he'd been starving for it.
\emph{Yes}, Draco thought, smugness settling in his belly as he kissed
back. \emph{This is what I want. This is what I deserve.}
-\subsection{*Chapter 32*: Jailbreak}\label{chapter-32-jailbreak}
-
-Thanks for the reviews on the last chapter!
-
-\textbf{Cliffhanger warning.} But the clifhanger is easily avoided. Just
-don't read the last scene.
-
-\textbf{Chapter Twenty-Five: Jailbreak}
+\chapter{Jailbreak}\label{chapter-32-jailbreak}
Harry woke in a flood of early morning sunlight. He blinked for a
moment, wondering why on earth Tonks or someone else hadn't shaken him
@@ -24518,12 +24307,7 @@ He changed into his sea eagle form and sped out of the paths of Dark and
Light, aiming for the real world. When he reached it, he would Apparate.
It seemed that it was time he and Harry met in battle, face to face.
-\subsection{*Chapter 33*: Against the Lord of Sea
-Eagles}\label{chapter-33-against-the-lord-of-sea-eagles}
-
-Thanks for the reviews on the last chapter!
-
-\textbf{Chapter Twenty-Six: Against the Lord of Sea Eagles}
+\chapter{Against the Lord of Sea Eagles}\label{chapter-33-against-the-lord-of-sea-eagles}
Harry could feel his anger rising. The moment he saw Hawthorn crouched
in the corner of her cell like some whipped dog, it had begun, and now
@@ -25527,10 +25311,7 @@ about a lack of excitement or variety, at least.
Smothering a wry smile, he veered towards the sight of white-blond hair.
-\subsection{*Chapter 34*: Interlude: The Liberator's Fourth
-Letter}\label{chapter-34-interlude-the-liberators-fourth-letter}
-
-\textbf{Interlude: The Liberator's Fourth Letter}
+\chapter{Interlude: The Liberator's Fourth Letter}\label{chapter-34-interlude-the-liberators-fourth-letter}
\emph{September 30th, 1996}
@@ -25583,15 +25364,7 @@ Yours,
\emph{The Liberator.}
-\subsection{*Chapter 35*: Like a Hell Broth Boil and
-Bubble}\label{chapter-35-like-a-hell-broth-boil-and-bubble}
-
-Thanks for the reviews on the last chapter!
-
-This chapter is mostly a reaction one, and its title is, pretty
-obviously, an allusion to \emph{Macbeth}.
-
-\textbf{Chapter Twenty-Seven: Like a Hell-Broth Boil and Bubble}
+\chapter{Like a Hell Broth Boil and Bubble}\label{chapter-35-like-a-hell-broth-boil-and-bubble}
Rufus heard the \emph{Ennervate} distantly, as if it were happening in
another world. He felt it when someone grasped his arm and pulled him to
@@ -26471,15 +26244,7 @@ With the feeling that life was, at the moment, wonderful, he went to
take a shower to remove the sweat, and then write another letter to the
Minister. Four days without a response was too long.
-\subsection{*Chapter 36*: Master of the Rising
-Tension}\label{chapter-36-master-of-the-rising-tension}
-
-This is one of those chapters where, if you want to avoid slash
-entirely, you're going to have a hard time of it; the first three scenes
-all at least involve the characters thinking about it. Use your
-discretion.
-
-\textbf{Chapter Twenty-Eight: Master of the Rising Tension}
+\chapter{Master of the Rising Tension}\label{chapter-36-master-of-the-rising-tension}
Draco shut the door quietly behind him.
@@ -27194,12 +26959,7 @@ needed.
``We've got a war coming,'' he said. ``Best we plan how to meet it.''
-\subsection{*Chapter 37*: Sunrise In the
-West}\label{chapter-37-sunrise-in-the-west}
-
-Thanks for the reviews on the last chapter!
-
-\textbf{Chapter Twenty-Nine: Sunrise In the West}
+\chapter{Sunrise In the West}\label{chapter-37-sunrise-in-the-west}
Falco sat down against the ruined wall and closed his eyes. A wind
skittered through his hair, and he shivered. It had been a long time
@@ -28178,12 +27938,7 @@ look remarkably guilty, which of course was part of Skeeter's point.
Rufus didn't feel far different, himself.
-\subsection{*Chapter 38*: Intermission: A Leap Into Burning
-Light}\label{chapter-38-intermission-a-leap-into-burning-light}
-
-Thanks for the reviews on the last chapter!
-
-\textbf{Intermission: A Leap Into Burning Light}
+\chapter{Intermission: A Leap Into Burning Light}\label{chapter-38-intermission-a-leap-into-burning-light}
Snape crouched, his eyes lowered, and listened to the sharp shrieks and
cracks ringing through the room. Most of the time, the Dark Lord used
@@ -28402,10 +28157,7 @@ That was another thing Snape's mother had taught him.
On the night he changed his life to change his soul, his cheeks were wet
with tears, but the innards of his mind were dry.
-\subsection{*Chapter 39*: A War Within Their Hearts and
-Minds}\label{chapter-39-a-war-within-their-hearts-and-minds}
-
-\textbf{Chapter Thirty: A War Within Their Hearts and Minds}
+\chapter{A War Within Their Hearts and Minds}\label{chapter-39-a-war-within-their-hearts-and-minds}
``Come in, Severus.''
@@ -29061,12 +28813,7 @@ showed.
He was going to get his Ministry back.
-\subsection{*Chapter 40*: The Ritual of
-Cincinnatus}\label{chapter-40-the-ritual-of-cincinnatus}
-
-Thanks for the reviews on the last chapter!
-
-\textbf{Chapter Thirty-One: The Ritual of Cincinnatus}
+\chapter{The Ritual of Cincinnatus}\label{chapter-40-the-ritual-of-cincinnatus}
Rufus met Aurelius Flint on the fourth floor, at the entrance to the
Department for the Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures. Flint
@@ -30092,12 +29839,7 @@ The others were watching him, he realized, and waiting for an answer.
``It's done,'' he whispered. ``I control all magic used in the
Ministry.''
-\subsection{*Chapter 41*: The Hills In Their
-Might}\label{chapter-41-the-hills-in-their-might}
-
-Thanks for the reviews on the last chapter!
-
-\textbf{Chapter Thirty-Two: The Hills In Their Might}
+\chapter{The Hills In Their Might}\label{chapter-41-the-hills-in-their-might}
Rufus waited. He had sent Percy and the others on their way immediately
after they'd emerged from Courtroom Ten, having handed them the names of
@@ -30940,15 +30682,7 @@ Gratitude was at the forefront, marching like rain, and Harry thought
that was only sensible. \emph{If it hadn't been for Draco and Snape and
Woodhouse, Merlin knows what might have happened to me.}
-\subsection{*Chapter 42*: Breakthrough}\label{chapter-42-breakthrough}
-
-Thank you for the reviews on the last chapter!
-
-Another of those chapters with a heavy slash warning. Avoid reading the
-fourth scene if it isn't your cup of tea. Also, the second scene
-contains heavy descriptions of gore, though it doesn't actually occur.
-
-\textbf{Chapter Thirty-Three: Breakthrough}
+\chapter{Breakthrough}\label{chapter-42-breakthrough}
Harry felt anger sweep around him. Apparently, the flooding emotions had
decided to leave him at the mercy of others, and let the anger come back
@@ -31553,7 +31287,7 @@ controlled the magic there, and at least it would change the balance of
power.
\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
-
+% Begin Slash section %
Draco had lingered in the corridor until he felt the wards crumple and
fall away. He didn't have the strength to break through them---he didn't
think anyone in Woodhouse did---and while the silence from behind them
@@ -31798,13 +31532,8 @@ that.}
The magic purred. Draco, infinitely pleased with himself, Harry, and the
world, drifted off.
-
-\subsection{*Chapter 43*: Interlude: The Liberator's Fifth
-Letter}\label{chapter-43-interlude-the-liberators-fifth-letter}
-
-Thanks for the reviews on the last chapter!
-
-\textbf{Interlude: The Liberator's Fifth Letter}
+% End Slash section %
+\chapter{Interlude: The Liberator's Fifth Letter}\label{chapter-43-interlude-the-liberators-fifth-letter}
\emph{October 10th, 1996}
@@ -31871,9 +31600,7 @@ Yours,
\emph{The Liberator.}
-\subsection{*Chapter 44*: Ward Eaters}\label{chapter-44-ward-eaters}
-
-\textbf{Chapter Thirty-Four: Ward-Eaters}
+\chapter{Ward Eaters}\label{chapter-44-ward-eaters}
``Harry!'' A hand was shaking his shoulder, and someone was shouting his
name, but it was from so very far away. Harry didn't see why it couldn't
@@ -32656,12 +32383,7 @@ Harry grinned at her. He felt wild and light and reckless, his emotions
blowing through him like wind. He felt like a karkadann. ``I have no
idea.''
-\subsection{*Chapter 45*: Fathers and
-Heirs}\label{chapter-45-fathers-and-heirs}
-
-Thanks for the review on the last chapter!
-
-\textbf{Chapter Thirty-Five: Fathers and Heirs}
+\chapter{Fathers and Heirs}\label{chapter-45-fathers-and-heirs}
Indigena crouched over her Lord and closed her eyes, her hands vibrating
with the convulsions of his body. ``I'm sorry,'' she whispered, and was
@@ -33708,12 +33430,7 @@ approaching the stage. She gazed up at him and smiled diffidently.
``Minister,'' she said. ``I was wondering if we might talk?''
-\subsection{*Chapter 46*: Not Every Problem Is His To
-Solve}\label{chapter-46-not-every-problem-is-his-to-solve}
-
-Thanks for the reviews on the last chapter!
-
-\textbf{Chapter Thirty-Six: Not Every Problem Is His To Solve}
+\chapter{Not Every Problem Is His To Solve}\label{chapter-46-not-every-problem-is-his-to-solve}
Connor winced as the door slammed. Then he rolled on his back and stared
at the ceiling. He and the ceiling were fast becoming old friends.
@@ -34403,13 +34120,7 @@ It was not long after that before his breathing slowed and deepened to
match his wife's, and he fell back into a sleep that, this time, was
plagued by no evil dreams.
-\subsection{*Chapter 47*: Homo Homini
-Lupus}\label{chapter-47-homo-homini-lupus}
-
-The title of this chapter is Latin, and means, ``Man is a wolf to other
-men.'' Also, the ending could be considered a cliffhanger.
-
-\textbf{Chapter Thirty-Seven: Homo Homini Lupus}
+\chapter{Homo Homini Lupus}\label{chapter-47-homo-homini-lupus}
Rufus signed his name to the document with a flourish, then sat back and
looked over it. He felt sure Harry would agree to this set of laws. They
@@ -35287,15 +34998,7 @@ recognized in his face.
``I suggest that we make the Ministry step up, and prove that they do,''
Harry said.
-\subsection{*Chapter 48*: On the Eve of
-Revolution}\label{chapter-48-on-the-eve-of-revolution}
-
-Thanks for the reviews on the last chapter!
-
-Sometimes, there are no right decisions. There are only decisions you
-can live with.
-
-\textbf{Chapter Thirty-Eight: On the Eve of Revolution}
+\chapter{On the Eve of Revolution}\label{chapter-48-on-the-eve-of-revolution}
``But there is nothing we can do,'' said Draco in a calm, reasonable
voice. ``You have to understand that, Harry. Since you disagreed with
@@ -36032,12 +35735,7 @@ One of the Light Elders was tugging on his arm now, wanting to know
something about the makeup of the monitoring board. Rufus turned to tell
her to go talk to Griselda, and wondered what the morning would bring.
-\subsection{*Chapter 49*: Intermission: Back Into the
-Storm}\label{chapter-49-intermission-back-into-the-storm}
-
-\textbf{WARNING: Torture.}
-
-\textbf{Intermission: Back Into the Storm of Ravens}
+\chapter{Intermission: Back Into the Storm}\label{chapter-49-intermission-back-into-the-storm}
Snape stepped into the throne room a half hour after Voldemort had
called his other Death Eaters. All the muted conversation among them
@@ -36225,12 +35923,7 @@ He did not care.
He was free.
-\subsection{*Chapter 50*: The Day of the
-Phoenix}\label{chapter-50-the-day-of-the-phoenix}
-
-\textbf{WARNING: Cliffhanger.}
-
-\textbf{Chapter Thirty-Nine: The Day of the Phoenix}
+\chapter{The Day of the Phoenix}\label{chapter-50-the-day-of-the-phoenix}
Harry watched patiently as the sun arose. He had not slept, and it felt
as if grainy weariness were clawing at his eyes. But he could wait to
@@ -36844,12 +36537,7 @@ couldn't see him and was thinking about another target.
Harry stepped forward, and began to sing.
-\subsection{*Chapter 51*: Wings Vaster Than The
-Earth}\label{chapter-51-wings-vaster-than-the-earth}
-
-Thanks for the reviews on the last chapter!
-
-\textbf{Chapter Forty: Wings Vaster Than The Earth}
+\chapter{Wings Vaster Than The Earth}\label{chapter-51-wings-vaster-than-the-earth}
Harry wasn't entirely sure what he was doing as he sent his voice
spiraling upward, other than trying to draw Acies's attention---or the
@@ -37440,14 +37128,7 @@ into the heart of the sun. A deep contentment spread through him.
\emph{She's still alive. She's still free. Sometimes, I can keep my
promises.}
-\subsection{*Chapter 52*: Dawn and Dusk, Sun and
-Shadow}\label{chapter-52-dawn-and-dusk-sun-and-shadow}
-
-Thanks for the reviews on the last chapter!
-
-This one is mostly full of reactions.
-
-\textbf{Chapter Forty-One: Dawn and Dusk, Sun and Shadow}
+\chapter{Dawn and Dusk, Sun and Shadow}\label{chapter-52-dawn-and-dusk-sun-and-shadow}
Draco paced. The Minister had invited them all inside the Ministry, and
had invited Draco, Snape, and Helcas into his office. Draco had refused,
@@ -38064,12 +37745,7 @@ attention and time and words and kisses. I can give that back just as
well.} Harry reinforced the determination with stubbornness. \emph{And
from now on, that's what's going to happen.}
-\subsection{*Chapter 53*: The Monitoring
-Board}\label{chapter-53-the-monitoring-board}
-
-Thanks for the reviews on the last chapter!
-
-\textbf{Chapter Forty-Two: The Monitoring Board}
+\chapter{The Monitoring Board}\label{chapter-53-the-monitoring-board}
Harry wasn't surprised when the werewolves didn't follow him inside the
Ministry. The moon would be rising soon, and though they'd taken
@@ -38772,11 +38448,7 @@ topics than the monitoring board had limited itself to.
``I do,'' said Aurora, and smiled.
-\subsection{*Chapter 54*: The Aftermath}\label{chapter-54-the-aftermath}
-
-Thanks for the reviews on the last chapter!
-
-\textbf{Chapter Forty-Three: The Aftermath}
+\chapter{The Aftermath}\label{chapter-54-the-aftermath}
Harry opened his eyes slowly. He knew he had fallen asleep---he could
remember the feeling of Bone's tendons and muscles shifting beneath him,
@@ -39488,15 +39160,8 @@ Narcissa and I had to work to put him back together.}
\emph{Now, we may actually stand a chance of stumbling, and not breaking
when we land.}
-\subsection{*Chapter 55*: Glory Be}\label{chapter-55-glory-be}
-
-\textbf{WARNING: Heavy slash.} Since this chapter covers the Halloween
-ritual, it's pretty much all slash, so if you can't stand that, don't
-read this chapter. I've edited this to an M rating; if you want to read
-unedited posts, you can look at my LJ or my Skyehawke account, both of
-which links are available in my profile.
-
-\textbf{Chapter Forty-Four: Glory Be}
+\chapter{Glory Be}\label{chapter-55-glory-be}
+% Entire chapter full of Slash %
Woodhouse did not understand why part of itself would ever want to
leave. It preferred to dream and grow, and the current of magic that
@@ -39715,7 +39380,7 @@ breath.
Then he Apparated frantically away, feeling his skin stretch yearningly
towards Draco as he did so.
-SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
Draco stood blinking in the aftermath of Harry's vanishing, and then
shook his head lightly. He didn't have to wonder why Harry had fled,
@@ -39799,7 +39464,7 @@ battles for him. We made that mistake once already, and he told us we
were acting like Lily, and he was right. Now, he has to be the one to
stop acting like James.}
-SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
Harry had Apparated to the outer ring of Woodhouse's hills, the place
where they sloped down to the grass. He found he couldn't go any
@@ -39960,7 +39625,7 @@ travel for the first time. "\emph{Feel}, Harry."
And Harry leaned forward, and did.
-SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
Draco knew the difference now. He had thought Harry relaxed and
uninhibited when he'd lured him into bed after the release of his
@@ -40041,7 +39706,7 @@ fought past the lassitude in his muscles that wanted him to lie down and
go to sleep. ``You're going to let me return that,'' he said, eyes
locking on Harry's.
-SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
Harry felt his own breathing speed up, and wasn't afraid of what Draco
might think the reason was. Draco was meeting his gaze, anyway, and he
@@ -40143,9 +39808,7 @@ the ritual magic remained shining in his chest like a phoenix egg.
Then he did what he wanted, feeling better than he ever had.
-\subsection{*Chapter 56*: Readmitted}\label{chapter-56-readmitted}
-
-\textbf{Chapter Forty-Five: Readmitted}
+\chapter{Readmitted}\label{chapter-56-readmitted}
Harry snuggled closer to Draco. He had been unwilling as well as unable
to leave him for long yesterday, and though he knew the ritual had
@@ -40233,7 +39896,7 @@ arms. Draco murmured into his ear, and that helped, too.
The dream of pine needles and the sharp smell of snow and wolves howling
did anything but help.
-SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
``And you can't be convinced otherwise.'' Camellia's face said that she
knew it was a lost cause even as she pleaded it, but she made the
@@ -40453,7 +40116,7 @@ standing rapidly. ``I---I need to go finish my breakfast.''
Draco chuckled, not sounding at all upset. ``Yes,'' he said, as Harry
shuffled out of the room. ``I thought you might.''
-SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
Draco waited until he was sure Harry was out of the kitchen and not
coming back. It would have pleasant if he had, of course, because then
@@ -40564,7 +40227,7 @@ right thing.
\emph{Time for Lucius to bend his proud neck.}
-SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
Ginny bit her lip and waved her wand at her trunk. "\emph{Pack}."
@@ -40675,7 +40338,7 @@ my mum.''
Ginny wondered if her grin lingered in the air behind her when they
disappeared.
-SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
Remus had a decision to make.
@@ -40792,7 +40455,7 @@ werewolf.
\emph{Well, it's time I learned how to be a better one,} he thought, and
nodded a goodbye to Harry, and went to find Hawk.
-SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
Finally, there was nothing left to do but go to Hogwarts.
@@ -41026,10 +40689,7 @@ remainder of his sixth year.
\emph{I can dream, can't I?}
-\subsection{*Chapter 57*: Intermission: Discovery Is Your
-Death}\label{chapter-57-intermission-discovery-is-your-death}
-
-\textbf{Intermission: Discovery Is Your Death}
+\chapter{Intermission: Discovery Is Your Death}\label{chapter-57-intermission-discovery-is-your-death}
``Severus.''
@@ -41177,7 +40837,7 @@ Snape floated the charmed vial back into his robe pocket, scooped up a
cup, dipped up the cooling potion on the ten-minute mark, and then bore
it to Regulus.
-SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
Regulus was half-delirious from the pain, even after Snape had made him
sip the potion and then eased him back onto his pallet. That was the
@@ -41261,10 +40921,7 @@ strand of hair, the one I do not carry on me at all times.}
\emph{You are wrong, Regulus. I am no phoenix. Or I am, at best, one
that burns with a black flame.}
-\subsection{*Chapter 58*: Interlude: The Liberator's Sixth
-Letter}\label{chapter-58-interlude-the-liberators-sixth-letter}
-
-\textbf{Interlude: The Liberator's Sixth Letter}
+\chapter{Interlude: The Liberator's Sixth Letter}\label{chapter-58-interlude-the-liberators-sixth-letter}
\emph{November 3rd, 1996}
@@ -41320,11 +40977,7 @@ Yours,
\emph{The Liberator.}
-\subsection{*Chapter 59*: I Am No Lord}\label{chapter-59-i-am-no-lord}
-
-Thanks for the reviews on the last chapter!
-
-\textbf{Chapter Forty-Six: I Am No Lord}
+\chapter{I Am No Lord}\label{chapter-59-i-am-no-lord}
Connor hugged him on his way into breakfast a few days later, and Harry
turned and looked at him in puzzlement. Connor blinked back at him for a
@@ -41416,7 +41069,7 @@ work, better than I do, and he knows that people won't always be
reasonable, especially if it suits their purposes to remain
unreasonable.}
-SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
Draco \emph{did} understand how politics worked, and he had read the
articles in the \emph{Vox Populi} closely, as Harry had asked him to do.
@@ -41606,7 +41259,7 @@ his mind for right now. His refusal and his demands were both simple.
The political problems surrounding Harry were more complex and required
more of his attention.
-SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
Lucius stood when he noticed Julius wheeling towards the Manor; wards
attuned to the owl gave his master eyes to see where he flew, as soon as
@@ -41667,7 +41320,7 @@ But the boys\ldots{}
Lucius shook his head delicately, in sadness for the impetuosity of
youth, and went to put matters in motion.
-SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
``Potter.''
@@ -41909,7 +41562,7 @@ I was under the impression that Owen already had.} Then Harry thought of
something even better. \emph{Perhaps I should offer to release him from
his oath. That would lessen both my discomfort and his.}
-SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
Draco rapped his fingers against the desk, and immediately attracted
Henrietta Bulstrode's gaze. ``Mr. Malfoy,'' she said. "If you would come
@@ -41983,11 +41636,7 @@ Bulstrode demanded an answer to a question from him and he nearly said
something obscene. At least Harry stroked Draco's hand sympathetically
again while stifling his laughter.
-\subsection{*Chapter 60*: In Quest of
-Balance}\label{chapter-60-in-quest-of-balance}
-
-\textbf{Chapter Forty-Seven: In Quest of Balance}
-
+\chapter{In Quest of Balance}\label{chapter-60-in-quest-of-balance}
``I don't see why you should.''
``Because they requested it,'' said Harry, glancing at Draco. ``And I
@@ -42101,7 +41750,7 @@ close and honest.
He only wished he could communicate his sense of hope and excitement
about this to Draco.
-SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
Aurora raised her eyebrows when Harry joined them in the small room off
the Ministry's Atrium, the room in which they had laid the foundations
@@ -42170,7 +41819,7 @@ monitoring board such a good idea.
She leaned forward, smiled at Harry, and began the questioning. "Tell us
about your last week, \emph{vates.}"
-SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
Harry cocked his head. \emph{Simple questions. Well, I can do that.} He
felt Snape's presence at his shoulder, just waiting for someone to do
@@ -42514,7 +42163,7 @@ wouldn't put it past them to spy on his and Aurora's conversation.
``What did you want to speak with me about, Madam Whitestag?'' he asked.
-SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
Aurora considered him for a moment. Harry looked calmly back at her, his
eyes intent and shining. And Aurora had to smile, because it was
@@ -42676,11 +42325,7 @@ children, just as nothing can ever make up for Harry's childhood. What
we must be content with is the aftermath, the future, the
moving-forward.}
-\subsection{*Chapter 61*: Tea and a Cup of
-Philosophy}\label{chapter-61-tea-and-a-cup-of-philosophy}
-
-\textbf{Chapter Forty-Eight: Tea and a Cup of Philosophy}
-
+\chapter{Tea and a Cup of Philosophy}\label{chapter-61-tea-and-a-cup-of-philosophy}
Harry kept the set of his shoulders as relaxed as he could, considering
that Snape had just herded both him and Draco into his private quarters
and shut the door behind them. He hadn't had a chance to speak to Connor
@@ -42886,7 +42531,7 @@ anywhere, Draco, and certainly not in bed in your arms.''
He turned and walked out of the room, feeling their eyes on his back all
the way.
-SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
Rufus watched the wolf that stood in front of his desk. It watched him
back.
@@ -42954,7 +42599,7 @@ sipped at his cup of tea, and wondered when others would notice.
And if he had the time to have a bit of fun before they did.
-SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
Harry took his broom up from the Quidditch Pitch into a singing wind.
The day was not that fair, with heavy hanging clouds that would probably
@@ -43136,7 +42781,7 @@ right.}
He arched his back until it cracked, then landed and made his way to the
Quidditch shed to put the Firebolt away.
-SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
Connor grinned when he saw his brother wandering away from the Pitch.
Harry had obviously been out flying, probably thinking about Quidditch
@@ -43248,7 +42893,7 @@ dungeons.
he didn't worry about being left behind. Harry could obviously take care
of himself.
-SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
Snape waited. He and Draco had sat in silence when Harry was gone, and
Snape had wondered at that; he would have thought Draco, at least, would
@@ -43384,16 +43029,7 @@ indeed.}
He sat forward to meet it.
-\subsection{*Chapter 62*: A Matter of
-Equality}\label{chapter-62-a-matter-of-equality}
-
-Just a warning that after this chapter, I won't be updating for at least
-one day, and possibly a few, due to a probable lack of Internet access;
-I expect to be able to write but not post. I \emph{will} continue this
-story, though. Also, \textbf{the second scene here contains heavy slash,
-so skip it if you are uncomfortable with that.}
-
-\textbf{Chapter Forty-Nine: A Matter of Equality}
+\chapter{A Matter of Equality}\label{chapter-62-a-matter-of-equality}
Harry was gratified to see that Snape looked at him as if actually eager
for the conversation to resume, though he was concerned about Draco's
@@ -43613,8 +43249,8 @@ back to their bedroom in Slytherin and simply spoil him.
``Thank you, both of you,'' he said, and waited only for Snape's nod
before slipping away with Draco.
-SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
-
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
+% Begin Slash section %
Draco lay on his stomach on their bed, and felt more than heard Harry
murmuring, the words falling into his hair and trickling along his ears
like moisture.
@@ -43690,8 +43326,8 @@ and then Draco found himself spilling into the first genuinely unbroken
sleep he'd had in more than a week. He had nothing to feel sorry for,
and Declaring would satisfy the needs of his soul without changing his
relationship with Harry.
-
-SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
+% End Slash section %
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
Harry leaned on the wall of the dungeon corridor and shivered. He
\emph{knew} he had to do this. He couldn't have half of honesty and not
@@ -43886,7 +43522,7 @@ healing others.''
Harry sighed. ``This is going to be about how things taste again, isn't
it?''
-SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
Harry waited patiently outside the castle for Connor to come back from
Care of Magical Creatures. It was an unusually beautiful day for
@@ -43952,7 +43588,7 @@ you \emph{anyway.}"
Harry snorted, and they made for the Quidditch shed, arguing on the way.
-SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
Connor was \emph{determined}, this time. The game on Saturday had been
wonderful, productive, brilliant. The Gryffindor team had never flown
@@ -44174,7 +43810,7 @@ what those laws and courtesies were.
\emph{And if she helped Rhangnara, surely she's reasonable.}
-SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
Harry didn't know what to expect as he halted outside the room that had
been Sirius's office during the years he helped with the Gryffindor
@@ -44458,10 +44094,7 @@ was who could help him in reaching that future.
and if there was anything wrong with how deeply he bowed, she didn't
correct him.
-\subsection{*Chapter 63*: Intermission: Now Comes The
-Night}\label{chapter-63-intermission-now-comes-the-night}
-
-\textbf{Intermission: Now Comes The Night}
+\chapter{Intermission: Now Comes The Night}\label{chapter-63-intermission-now-comes-the-night}
Snape kept his eyes down as he listened to Regulus pacing in the next
room. His hands never stopped moving, grinding the precise combination
@@ -44581,7 +44214,7 @@ small voice that whispered this had been a mistake. It had been a
mistake for Regulus to start \emph{thinking}. He was not intelligent
enough to survive if he did that.
-SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
"\emph{Morsmordre!}"
@@ -44744,12 +44377,7 @@ Voldemort's trusted second-in-command.
Regulus would not live past this.
-\subsection{*Chapter 64*: White Wolf, White
-Moon}\label{chapter-64-white-wolf-white-moon}
-
-\textbf{WARNING: Gore in the last scene.}
-
-\textbf{Chapter Fifty: White Wolf, White Moon}
+\chapter{White Wolf, White Moon}\label{chapter-64-white-wolf-white-moon}
``But I don't understand why you wanted to talk to me.''
@@ -44886,7 +44514,7 @@ persist in stubborn hope long past the time when his relationship with
his parents could have been mended. He nodded at Michael and left the
Room of Requirement.
-SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
``So I thought I would ask you,'' Harry finished, and then sat back and
looked at him expectantly.
@@ -45241,7 +44869,7 @@ as frightening as his visions of Voldemort---Falco was simply an amateur
when it came to designing nightmares---and he had some hope of resisting
them now.
-SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
``Are you all right?'' Draco asked, when his touch on Harry's shoulder
had made Harry jump for the third time that day.
@@ -45543,10 +45171,7 @@ He bowed his head and followed the push of Camellia's gently insistent
muzzle, back towards the clearing where the magic would change him again
into a wizard and bear him back to the world he understood.
-\subsection{*Chapter 65*: Ideals of
-Restraint}\label{chapter-65-ideals-of-restraint}
-
-\textbf{Chapter Fifty-One: Ideals of Restraint}
+\chapter{Ideals of Restraint}\label{chapter-65-ideals-of-restraint}
It wasn't hard to catch Michael's eye, not when the other boy almost
drooled on himself the moment he saw Draco. \emph{Now I know why my
@@ -45715,7 +45340,7 @@ notice the snake in the grass until its fangs are sunk in his heel, I am
more cautious. Together, we are impossible for someone like Michael to
destroy.}
-SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
``Tell me again why you want the monitoring board to exist.''
@@ -45971,7 +45596,7 @@ badly, as he caught a glimpse of what he was going to need to change, if
he really could trust himself, and how radically and deeply it would
need to do so.
-SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
Aurora lifted her head like a hunting hound when Harry stepped into the
room.
@@ -46154,7 +45779,7 @@ Aurora concealed a groan. \emph{Who has done this to him?}
\emph{I will learn, so that I can remove that influence from his life.}
-SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
Harry leaned against the telephone box outside of the Ministry and
closed his eyes. He had used the \emph{Extabesco plene} charm, so that
@@ -46208,11 +45833,7 @@ lizard-tailed bird, sitting on the high wall of the alley and watching
him with something like approval before it took flight, wings clattering
invisibly across the sky.
-\subsection{*Chapter 66*: A View In}\label{chapter-66-a-view-in}
-
-Thanks for the reviews on the last chapter!
-
-\textbf{Chapter Fifty-Two: A View In}
+\chapter{A View In}\label{chapter-66-a-view-in}
Snape sat with his eyes closed and his face tilted upwards. He could
only imagine what some of his students would say, could they see him
@@ -46300,7 +45921,7 @@ nervousness had made him come out here in the first place. Snape turned
his head and watched the sun's reflection shimmering in the water,
dimmed but unconquered.
-SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
Owen lay on his bed, and stared at the ceiling, and cursed all idiots.
It was better than taking his \emph{wand} and cursing all the idiots.
@@ -46454,7 +46075,7 @@ But it was so refreshing, so relaxing, so different than anything he
could ever have imagined, to know that Harry would notice at least some
problems, and take steps to solve them as only he could.
-SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
Draco felt Harry's stare on the back of his neck like a blade.
@@ -46605,7 +46226,7 @@ Of course, perhaps he wouldn't have to if Draco didn't do things
deserving of it, either. Draco concealed his flinch and his frown, and
decided he could try to act a little better. Sometimes.
-SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
The wards around the Manor were all relaxed. His wand lay on the table,
a good distance from him. The auditory glamour around him, which
@@ -46703,7 +46324,7 @@ he would use to Declare to the Dark.
He was confident he could guess, and turn it to his advantage. Draco was
yet a snakeling with fangs, not a serpent full-grown.
-SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
``And Harry, if you would.''
@@ -46802,7 +46423,7 @@ magic was different from the other students', and he ought to follow
where it led him, not refuse the road because it was too long or turned
in unexpected directions.
-SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
He was awake again, and if he did not feel quite alive, he was in good
company. The fragment pulsing in the cup did not feel quite alive,
@@ -46867,12 +46488,7 @@ He would have to think on this. He had time.
He would always, he thought, caressing the cup, have time.
-\subsection{*Chapter 67*: Vengeance Lies
-Dreaming}\label{chapter-67-vengeance-lies-dreaming}
-
-Thanks for the reviews on the last chapter!
-
-\textbf{Chapter Fifty-Three: Vengeance Lies Dreaming}
+\chapter{Vengeance Lies Dreaming}\label{chapter-67-vengeance-lies-dreaming}
``Come and look at this article, Pemberley.''
@@ -47015,7 +46631,7 @@ caused.
Thus fortified to come back tomorrow and enjoy her task, Honoria merrily
flitted out of a window and was gone.
-SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
Ignifer was in the extraordinarily odd position of talking with her
father for the first time since he had cursed her with infertility and
@@ -47220,7 +46836,7 @@ all, someone without the Alliance of Sun and Shadow oaths hindering him.
Honoria tossed her head in pretended pique. "I'm \emph{radiant}, I'll
have you know."
-SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
Rufus rubbed his forehead. Days like today were why he hated being
Minister.
@@ -47316,7 +46932,7 @@ whatever Lucius's activities for them had been. At least that particular
association, of blind belief in and support for the Department of
Mysteries, did not taint him.
-SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
Lucius tapped his fingers rapidly against his knee as he read the
description of the Declaration ritual on page 363 of \emph{Declaring for
@@ -47378,7 +46994,7 @@ what Lucius would do was---minor, really. A suggestion here, a tweak
there. The wild Dark would approve of that, since Lucius was working
with its methods, subterfuge and deception.
-SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
Connor smiled as another gray-and-black owl flew down and alighted on
his bed. They were beautiful birds, the ones Mark kept finding to send
@@ -47419,7 +47035,7 @@ way, he would ask him if he wanted to play. Harry was spending an awful
lot of time without Draco these days, even though Draco's punishment for
being a right git to Michael was long over.
-SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
Draco took a deep, bracing breath. He stood on top of the Astronomy
Tower, lingering behind after his NEWT Astronomy class had departed
@@ -47473,14 +47089,7 @@ feel his magic.
\emph{Watch out, Harry. You're about to find out what it's like to have
a Dark lover, Dark in heart and soul as well as in magic.}
-\subsection{*Chapter 68*: His Night}\label{chapter-68-his-night}
-
-Thanks for the reviews on the last chapter!
-
-\textbf{Warning: VERY heavy slash in the seventh scene- edited to
-maintain an M rating.} Skip it if you're not comfortable with it.
-
-\textbf{Chapter Fifty-Four: His Night}
+\chapter{His Night}\label{chapter-68-his-night}
Harry came in late to breakfast that day, but he was already feeling
smug about what he'd accomplished so far. A letter to Camellia to let
@@ -47675,7 +47284,7 @@ knowledge swarmed back and struck him across the face like a blow from
the bird's lizard tail, and he took a deep breath that seemed full of
the complementary knowledge: that he might \emph{want} to do it, too.
-SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
Snape knew which ritual Draco had chosen to use, though he'd never seen
it act.
@@ -47750,7 +47359,7 @@ have his own will? This was the consequence.
And, disturbing as it was to see physical desire in his son's eyes,
Snape had to admit that Harry didn't look at all like he minded.
-SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
``Greetings, Mother.''
@@ -47818,7 +47427,7 @@ question.
``Is going to enjoy himself,'' said Draco blandly, and that ended that.
-SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
Harry shivered as they made their way out onto the Hogwarts grounds. The
sun was setting, and that meant the time had almost come for Draco to
@@ -47939,8 +47548,7 @@ The voice, when it spoke, made Harry nearly convulse in joy.
\emph{So. Show me that you are worthy to live.}
-SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS\emph{\\
-}
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
\emph{Let me justify myself to you.}
@@ -47980,7 +47588,7 @@ And then the Dark arrived, and he had to listen instead, but the doubt
grew further and further, worming fine lines into some of his most
cherished convictions.
-SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
\emph{So. Show me that you are worthy to live.}
@@ -48184,8 +47792,8 @@ didn't know. He didn't care.
He kissed Harry violently, and so began the attack.
-SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
-
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
+% Begin Slash section %
Harry rolled over, gasping, his ribs aching, not only from the
suddenness of the landing but from the fact that he had landed on top of
Draco. Then his glasses smashed into his face as Draco kissed him.
@@ -48467,7 +48075,8 @@ expression. He felt almost sorry for the one he gave.
``No fucking chance,'' he answered, and had the satisfaction of seeing
Draco's face flood with delight before he closed in for another snog.
-SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
+% End Slash section %
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
Draco woke to winter sunlight, and blinked slowly. He lay tangled with
Harry around him in a bed that was not theirs. He'd assumed that the
@@ -48516,15 +48125,7 @@ light.
``I still think you're beautiful,'' he murmured.
-\subsection{*Chapter 69*: Chapterlette: A Collection of
-Glimpses}\label{chapter-69-chapterlette-a-collection-of-glimpses}
-
-Thanks for the reviews on the last chapter!
-
-I'm calling this a chapterlette because, technically, all the
-Intermissions are supposed to be Snape's dreams.
-
-\textbf{Chapterlette: A Collection of Glimpses}
+\chapter{Chapterlette: A Collection of Glimpses}\label{chapter-69-chapterlette-a-collection-of-glimpses}
Lucius sat before his hearth in the study of Malfoy Manor and turned his
cup of cold wine this way and that. He could have had the house elves
@@ -48598,7 +48199,7 @@ Parkinson's condition to the Department of Mysteries.
Lucius drank more wine.
-SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
Narcissa could have been walking about Silver-Mirror, making
preparations for their guests. It was not so very many more days before
@@ -48640,7 +48241,7 @@ the ghosts of her sisters and cousins and younger childhood self.
For tonight, there were only her own.
-SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
Snape slowly tapped his glass stirring rod against the side of the
cauldron, the final step in brewing the Sunflower Potion. A shimmer, and
@@ -48718,7 +48319,7 @@ be cured by anything short of a bezoar. Snape had at first imagined it
applied to werewolves, but he would and could apply it elsewhere if
Draco were ever\ldots{}unwise.
-SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
Connor looked up curiously when Harry and Draco came into breakfast at
the Great Hall the next morning. He hadn't been invited to the
@@ -48806,15 +48407,7 @@ Connor thought he would owl her and ask to know the spell.
\emph{Just in case.}
-\subsection{*Chapter 70*: A Wind Drenched
-Christmas}\label{chapter-70-a-wind-drenched-christmas}
-
-Thanks for the reviews on the chapterlette!
-
-This chapter is almost pure fluff. Don't worry, that will be changing
-soon.
-
-\textbf{Chapter Fifty-Five: A Wind-Drenched Christmas}
+\chapter{A Wind Drenched Christmas}\label{chapter-70-a-wind-drenched-christmas}
"She \emph{should}, if she just understood," said Ginny, her cheeks
flushing so much that Harry thought she would fall over. ``But she won't
@@ -48913,7 +48506,7 @@ they eased further away from the Justification.
He gave himself a brisk shake, and went to find Luna so he could give
her her present.
-SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
Luna touched the stone of the wall, and listened gravely as she nodded.
Yes, this large block was unhappy here among smaller ones. When the
@@ -49026,7 +48619,7 @@ retreat.
Luna made a careful note to check for Heat Fleas later, and went back to
work.
-SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
Harry woke slowly. He nearly panicked for a moment, before remembering
they didn't have to hurry to Silver-Mirror; instead, he, Draco, Connor,
@@ -49077,7 +48670,7 @@ Harry.
``I suppose we should go downstairs,'' said Harry reluctantly. ``Or he's
liable to come back in here.''
-SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
Connor leaned against the doorway in the hall and tried to keep his
laughter down. He wondered how long it would be before Harry and Draco
@@ -49101,7 +48694,7 @@ tree with a satisfied smile. ``They should be down soon,'' he said.
\emph{And if they aren't, then I'll take Snape with me when I fetch
them.}
-SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
Harry watched Connor's face closely as his magic Levitated gifts from
under the trees, slinging them to their owners. He saw his brother blink
@@ -49425,7 +49018,7 @@ not having a broom behind him. He kissed Draco's chest and sat up, still
careful to avoid both his boyfriend's eyes and the mirror. Some changes
were harder than others.
-SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
Harry woke that night with a start. For a long moment, he lay in his
bed, skin tingling, and tried to think what could have awakened him. It
@@ -49508,16 +49101,7 @@ For now, he didn't care. He didn't care about anything but the fact that
Regulus was there, one heavy hand stroking his spine, here and back and
\emph{home.}
-\subsection{*Chapter 71*: Horcruxes}\label{chapter-71-horcruxes}
-
-Thanks for the reviews on the last chapter!
-
-Plot-pivotal chapter here. This explains, in part, why the seventh story
-will be so dark. And it lets some of the secrets that have been hidden
-since the second and third stories out. I've been looking forward to
-writing it, in spite of everything it implies.
-
-\textbf{Chapter Fifty-Six: Horcruxes}
+\chapter{Horcruxes}\label{chapter-71-horcruxes}
``But he might not be the real Regulus.'' Draco sounded calm, but it was
obvious that his voice wavered on the edge of breaking apart into shards
@@ -49574,7 +49158,7 @@ Regulus.
\emph{Sometimes, Draco is simply too paranoid.}
-SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
Snape had gone very still when Harry told him that morning that Regulus
had returned, and in some part of himself, he did not think the
@@ -49741,7 +49325,7 @@ Regulus gave a faint, bitter smile more like his old self as a Death
Eater than Severus had seen in years---at least in waking life. ``Bad
news,'' he said.
-SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
Regulus had asked to speak to him in one of Silver-Mirror's studies,
this one devoted to books on Dark applications for Light spells. Harry
@@ -50200,7 +49784,7 @@ arms.
``I think I'd like to be alone for a while,'' he said, and walked out of
the room before anyone could protest.
-SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
Five hours later, Harry stood on the small tower on top of Silver-Mirror
that some long-ago Black ancestor had built as an observatory, and
@@ -50249,13 +49833,7 @@ deserves better. All my allies deserve better.}
\emph{I am not worth that.}
-\subsection{*Chapter 72*: Intermission:
-Repudiation}\label{chapter-72-intermission-repudiation}
-
-\textbf{WARNING: Extreme gore hinted at.}I don't know if it's enough to
-squick everyone, but it may squick sensitive readers.
-
-\textbf{Intermission: Repudiation}
+\chapter{Intermission: Repudiation}\label{chapter-72-intermission-repudiation}
It was then.
@@ -50335,12 +49913,7 @@ allow himself to do.
It was then.
-\subsection{*Chapter 73*: Intermission:
-Rebirth}\label{chapter-73-intermission-rebirth}
-
-\textbf{WARNING: Once again, hinted-at gore.}
-
-\textbf{Intermission: Rebirth}
+\chapter{Intermission: Rebirth}\label{chapter-73-intermission-rebirth}
The graveyard breathed around him, and it was \emph{true}, it was
\emph{real}, what he had denied for so long was alive around him again,
@@ -50458,7 +50031,7 @@ and charmed new liquid to fill his veins as fast as they emptied, when
he broke Lupin's elbows with a single, simple spell, \emph{then} the
sounds could mingle with Harry's screams and make a sweet music indeed.
-SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
Snape sat up, breathing hard and touching his forehead. Almost---almost
he thought he had been dreaming after he had finished his dream of
@@ -50490,10 +50063,7 @@ hurt Lupin.}
\emph{But still, it would be sweet, if he turned against the wolf and
permitted that to me.}
-\subsection{*Chapter 74*: Sacrifice, Power, and
-Joy}\label{chapter-74-sacrifice-power-and-joy}
-
-\textbf{Chapter Fifty-Seven: Sacrifice, Power, and Joy}
+\chapter{Sacrifice, Power, and Joy}\label{chapter-74-sacrifice-power-and-joy}
\emph{I will not give up.}
@@ -50827,7 +50397,7 @@ Which, really, should be selfish and Slytherin enough on Harry's part to
content Draco. Harry wondered if he would ever manage to express it to
him in words that would.
-SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
Draco should be looking at his book, he knew. They had a Transfiguration
exam tomorrow, Professor Bulstrode making sure they hadn't forgotten
@@ -50934,7 +50504,7 @@ for self-sacrifice, for him.}
Perhaps he should trust to its working, Draco thought, and think less
about \emph{how} it did.
-SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
``He is worse than we thought, then.''
@@ -51109,10 +50679,7 @@ the sun rising in a distant sky.
And, for the first time, Harry could feel that it really was.
-\subsection{*Chapter 75*: Missions
-Accomplished}\label{chapter-75-missions-accomplished}
-
-\textbf{Chapter Fifty-Eight: Missions Accomplished}
+\chapter{Missions Accomplished}\label{chapter-75-missions-accomplished}
"If they continue like this, the Quidditch Cup is \emph{ours}," Katie
declared, spooning some potatoes onto her plate.
@@ -51248,7 +50815,7 @@ It was time to talk to Parvati and resolve this once and for all, rather
than leaving it in this endless drifting space where neither of them
knew what would happen next. He wanted his girlfriend back.
-SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
Parvati came in quietly, barely stirring the air around her. Connor sat
with his back to the door, in a desk, tracing one hand through the dust.
@@ -51427,7 +50994,7 @@ but then Parvati kissed him, and he could put his arms around her and
kiss her back, and that was different enough from anything he'd done in
months that he didn't think about the argument for a while.
-SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
Parvati approached Harry on Saturday morning. It was technically a
Saturday he was supposed to visit the monitoring board, Connor knew, but
@@ -51537,7 +51104,7 @@ Connor grinned, and kissed Parvati back, and waited until they were done
before he went away to fly, because flying was the only way he knew how
to deal with joy this extreme.
-SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
Dart and roll and dip and \emph{turn}, and the turn whipped him around
so fast that Connor felt as if the blood were sloshing in his head. He
@@ -51844,16 +51411,7 @@ He was much more interested in the cessation of pain from his cut, and
then what he would say to Harry---well, try to say---to avoid a scolding
when he returned home.
-\subsection{*Chapter 76*: Hail, Joy}\label{chapter-76-hail-joy}
-
-Thanks for the reviews on the last chapter!
-
-After this chapter, I won't post for a day. This chapter upset
-everything, and now I have to go back and re-outline the story again.
-I'll post the next chapter on either Friday or Saturday, depending on
-where you live in the world.
-
-\textbf{Chapter Fifty-Nine: Hail, Joy}
+\chapter{Hail, Joy}\label{chapter-76-hail-joy}
Harry put his forehead in his hand. ``Right,'' he said, but his voice
sounded hollow even to him. "So you received a wooden Snitch
@@ -52041,7 +51599,7 @@ I don't understand. Has some other barrier broken in me? Was it a sign
that I'm letting myself go more? Joseph will know. I should seek his
opinion on Snape's dreams, anyway.}
-SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
``No,'' said Joseph firmly. ``Severus's dreams were normal for the
Sanctuary, Harry. They brought him face-to-face with bad memories he'd
@@ -52284,7 +51842,7 @@ He smiled at him, said, ``Pardon me. There are things I need to do,''
and then turned and made his way rapidly back down the dungeon hallways,
to a door he'd shut behind him not an hour before.
-SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
Snape looked up sharply from his purple potion when a knock sounded on
his door. He cast the last Permanence Charm he needed to keep the
@@ -52358,7 +51916,7 @@ stood there, at a loss. Brewing a poison had suddenly lost its appeal.
And the most irritating thing was that he could not even say \emph{why}.
-SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
"\emph{Are you ready?"}
@@ -52486,10 +52044,7 @@ he would do some schoolwork that really needed to be done.
\emph{Draco shouldn't have to push me back into life anymore. Now that I
know it's always there to be lived, I'm going to do it myself.}
-\subsection{*Chapter 77*: Prometheus
-Unbound}\label{chapter-77-prometheus-unbound}
-
-\textbf{Chapter Sixty: Prometheus Unbound}
+\chapter{Prometheus Unbound}\label{chapter-77-prometheus-unbound}
Draco opened the bedroom door slowly, keeping his wand out. Harry hadn't
been at dinner, and Professor Snape had come in looking more than a
@@ -52596,7 +52151,7 @@ what this change meant to him.
He climbed onto the bed and drew the curtains closed around them,
shutting out the worry, shutting in the joy.
-SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
Connor leaned around Hermione and stared at Harry again. Harry and Draco
had just come out of NEWT Potions and were debating whatever Snape had
@@ -52709,7 +52264,7 @@ of the last few moments.
and gave himself a clout on the ear to, hopefully, forget it, and went
on to lunch.
-SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
Owen shut the door of the classroom slowly behind him. He had received a
message from his brother, a brief warble of phoenix song followed by an
@@ -52845,7 +52400,7 @@ would wish to bear.
Owen stood, gently snuffed out the \emph{Lumos}, and left.
-SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
Henrietta did not dance out of the classroom, but that was only because
it would be undignified for a professor to dance.
@@ -52941,7 +52496,7 @@ for a Lord or Lady instead of running.
Love bound her, love made her tame, and within its chain she was free.
-SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
Aurora was waiting.
@@ -53087,12 +52642,7 @@ she would need to tread to get there.
\emph{Somehow, I must get it out again.}
-\subsection{*Chapter 78*: A Different Kind of Birthing
-Bed}\label{chapter-78-a-different-kind-of-birthing-bed}
-
-Thanks for the reviews on the last chapter!
-
-\textbf{Chapter Sixty-One: A Different Kind of Birthing Bed}
+\chapter{A Different Kind of Birthing Bed}\label{chapter-78-a-different-kind-of-birthing-bed}
"I don't know if the \emph{Daily Prophet} will publish it," said Harry.
It was all he \emph{could} say, after he had finished reading Hermione's
@@ -53178,7 +52728,7 @@ But the point was not to cling to the insight. The point was to live it,
and there were ways that focusing on the house elves might help him do
that.
-SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
It was a few days after he'd started posting the letters that Padma
approached him at breakfast with a very strange expression on her face.
@@ -53296,7 +52846,7 @@ looking forward to it. If he no longer lived in his careful little world
where his main purpose was not offending others, then he had to accept
the bumps and bruises that would come with that.
-SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
Harry opened his eyes, and blinked. He stood in the middle of a snowy
field, with flat, silvery grass stretching in every direction about him,
@@ -53667,10 +53217,7 @@ every part of him.
want to do with my life, the most important thing. Thank you, Dobby, for
reminding me.}
-\subsection{*Chapter 79*: Wood and Bone and Blood and
-Iron}\label{chapter-79-wood-and-bone-and-blood-and-iron}
-
-\textbf{Chapter Sixty-Two: Wood and Bone and Blood and Iron}
+\chapter{Wood and Bone and Blood and Iron}\label{chapter-79-wood-and-bone-and-blood-and-iron}
Draco flexed his fingers in a slow pattern that his mother had taught
him the last time he visited her, to make himself calm down and think
@@ -53823,7 +53370,7 @@ to come near enough so that the ritual could start. Perhaps, in a way,
it was a good thing they were having this argument now. There was no
other courting ritual that would fit angry words so well.
-SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
Harry was still ``thinking'' at breakfast the next morning. Draco did
make his comment about robes cleaned with house elf magic, and Harry
@@ -53990,7 +53537,7 @@ head, would not stop confronting him with inconvenient truths?
That was a frightening thing.
-SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
Draco felt the pull of the Imbolc ritual the moment he opened his eyes.
He rolled slowly over and looked at Harry, who had spent the night with
@@ -54348,10 +53895,7 @@ knew he was flesh where it counted.
\emph{I} did \emph{hear that, you know.}
-\subsection{*Chapter 80*: And Fire Goes
-Free}\label{chapter-80-and-fire-goes-free}
-
-\textbf{Chapter Sixty-Three: And Fire Goes Free}
+\chapter{And Fire Goes Free}\label{chapter-80-and-fire-goes-free}
``Harry!''
@@ -54485,7 +54029,7 @@ less clear and succinct language.
\emph{There is a way. Somewhere, there must be a way.}
-SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
``Hermione?''
@@ -54656,7 +54200,7 @@ The courtyard of Hogwarts was as strange a place to come back together
again as it was to discover he was in love, Zacharias thought. But he
would take it.
-SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
``I don't think it's a good idea.''
@@ -54733,7 +54277,7 @@ would mistake for more than it was. ``Tell Father that I'm coming home,
and that I will accompany Harry when he does so, to talk about house
elves.''
-SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
"\emph{Vates.} A pleasure." Cupressus Apollonis performed a flowing bow.
He straightened up and kept his eyes on Harry, not Ignifer, though she
@@ -55041,13 +54585,7 @@ Harry laughed, and felt thoughts of difficulty, including what problems
Cupressus could cause over house elves in the future, flame and die. For
the moment, they stood in the light of a far different fire.
-\subsection{*Chapter 81*: What He Meant}\label{chapter-81-what-he-meant}
-
-Thanks for the reviews on the last chapter!
-
-The proverb Harry quotes here is real.
-
-\textbf{Chapter Sixty-Four: What He Meant}
+\chapter{What He Meant}\label{chapter-81-what-he-meant}
``Are you sure?''
@@ -55147,7 +54685,7 @@ on his face. ``But at least it should be for the right reasons.''
Harry smiled, a bit, and imagined he could feel the fingers flex in
return.
-SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
Draco approved highly of Harry's new hand. For one thing, he had chosen
well; the hand was beautiful as gleaming silver, and would adapt to
@@ -55266,7 +54804,7 @@ books you'll be using now.''
Draco followed him, smug both in the knowledge that he knew what his
form was now, and that he'd got there before Potter.
-SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
``Thank you for coming to meet me, sir.''
@@ -55403,7 +54941,7 @@ through his body and his wand, and slam against unseen barriers.
Then someone seized his arm, and the tug of a Portkey took him away, and
down, down, down.
-SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
Harry didn't hesitate; he released his magic directly at the
Unspeakables in the shadows, a hail of deadly knives that he thought up
@@ -55568,7 +55106,7 @@ Necessity, Harry decided, would have to shut up in a short while, if
what he suspected was true and the Unspeakables had really made Pharos
immune to questioning.
-SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
Rufus watched Harry as he shut the door quietly behind him. Percy had
preceded him into his office, and Rufus had let him go first to make the
@@ -55679,12 +55217,7 @@ direct control.
He would be more than happy to help defeat them.
-\subsection{*Chapter 82*: An Island In the Seas of
-Time}\label{chapter-82-an-island-in-the-seas-of-time}
-
-\textbf{Cliffhanger warning.}
-
-\textbf{Chapter Sixty-Five: An Island In the Seas of Time}
+\chapter{An Island In the Seas of Time}\label{chapter-82-an-island-in-the-seas-of-time}
It was pain.
@@ -55725,7 +55258,7 @@ darkness and the madness.
That was what he thought before the pain became all his world.
-SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
Harry halted and lifted his head. They were in the corridor that led to
the Department of Mysteries. They had come down from the lifts, and
@@ -55916,7 +55449,7 @@ Stone.
And then the Stone seized him and wrenched him out of the world, out of
his body, into the paths that lay on the other side of magic.
-SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
Draco shouted as Harry vanished, but he had to face the enemies bearing
down on them, dark birds with glittering metallic bodies and jeweled
@@ -55962,7 +55495,7 @@ Draco had never jumped so many minds so fast before.
Staring down the connections, an instant before he flung himself through
them, he had the feeling that he had better learn.
-SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
Harry landed in a twisted, oddly beautiful landscape. He crouched at an
angle, holding his head up and setting his magic blazing furiously
@@ -56036,7 +55569,7 @@ utter protection against it.
But something \emph{else} roared like an unleashed dragon, and this time
the Stone was the one who screamed.
-SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
Snape had closed his eyes immediately when he found his vision would not
stop spinning. He had trained to blind-fighting in the Dark Lord's
@@ -56079,7 +55612,7 @@ And then the Stone tore open and tipped them down a chasm, and Snape
spread his magic out like wings, unfurled and unleashed it, and
commanded it: \emph{Hold.}
-SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
Harry did not understand what was happening. All around him was
dazzling, white, shadowless brilliance, brighter than the brightest
@@ -56283,7 +55816,7 @@ A long moment passed, and then the Stone said, sounding more surprised
than it had so far, ``Someone seems to be preventing me from doing
that.''
-SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
Draco jumped from bird-mind to bird-mind, barely touching down in one
pond before he leaped on. In every mind, he planted the same direction,
@@ -56332,7 +55865,7 @@ Narcissa shook her head tightly.
All of them, from Draco to the weakest Auror, felt the enormous flare of
magic a moment later.
-SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
Harry gasped as something slammed into him, unseen. The dimension of
Time flickered and faded, and Harry tumbled, no longer supported on the
@@ -56349,9 +55882,7 @@ back, and Harry knew which enemy of his was at home in this country of
strange and secret paths, this country between the Dark and the Light.
He began to swing his magic as a chain, ready to meet Falco again.
-\subsection{*Chapter 83*: Defiance}\label{chapter-83-defiance}
-
-\textbf{Chapter Sixty-Six: Defiance}
+\chapter{Defiance}\label{chapter-83-defiance}
Falco had a vision in his mind. The vision had settled there the moment
he felt Harry wrenched from the wizarding world and deposited between
@@ -56385,7 +55916,7 @@ retreated, and Time loosened its clutch on him.
And Falco swooped, with the wave hiding the weapon that hovered at his
back like a knife concealed in a palm.
-SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
Draco bit his lip, riding out the explosion, or collision, that had torn
through him. His ears were ringing, and the blood dripping from the
@@ -56467,7 +55998,7 @@ an important and shining gift. That magic still crouched on the ring in
the form of a small blue stone. ``And I'll use what power I need to so
that I can burst through the wards or the walls, and rescue Harry.''
-SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
Harry could feel the magic swelling around him, rising, moving oddly,
shifting like the wave he saw at Falco's back. He had more power here
@@ -56571,7 +56102,7 @@ trembled and fell after its master. Harry faced him triumphantly.
And Falco cast the spell he'd been hiding.
-SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
He lifted his head, did Lord Voldemort, when he felt the clash of them
far away, the Dark Lord that was to be and the young one, his heir, the
@@ -56603,7 +56134,7 @@ He knew his Indigena would have a baffled expression on her face. He did
not mind. He liked confusing her. He petted her hair again, and sniffed
the smell of roses.
-SSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
Falco lay in place, as if weak and wounded, and watched his spell do its
work, wrapping around Harry's mind in a dazzle of chain. Harry bowed his
@@ -56670,7 +56201,7 @@ about it.
\emph{Age and cunning will defeat youth and stupidity every time,} he
congratulated himself.
-SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
Draco had not known if he would be able to sense the best place to break
through the barriers when they came to it. As it was, he didn't have to
@@ -56778,7 +56309,7 @@ for his wand to help the effect along with an incantation.
Then the world broke.
-SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
Harry felt his lip curl as he gazed at the headless creature nudging at
the foot of the path. It was quite the ugliest thing he had ever seen,
@@ -56970,10 +56501,7 @@ and his allies stood about him alive and unharmed, and Adalrico lay
senseless at his feet, and Draco was in his arms, breathing against him,
heart beating.
-\subsection{*Chapter 84*: Minds, Scarred and
-Unscarred}\label{chapter-84-minds-scarred-and-unscarred}
-
-\textbf{Chapter Sixty-Seven: Minds, Scarred and Unscarred}
+\chapter{Minds, Scarred and Unscarred}\label{chapter-84-minds-scarred-and-unscarred}
Draco closed his eyes, and held Harry, and said nothing. He could feel
cloth sliding under his hands, and cold silver along his spine---cold
@@ -57039,7 +56567,7 @@ wait. There was no reason to hurry.
Harry's heart was beating.
-SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
Millicent cast the spell lurking in her wand---at least, it felt as if
it were lurking there and not on her lips, and had been since the moment
@@ -57118,7 +56646,7 @@ neither the commitment nor the danger was going away.
Millicent slid the wand back into the holster on the side of her belt
and followed her parents.
-SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
Rufus was waiting for them.
@@ -57207,7 +56735,7 @@ murmured.
evidently determining whether there was anything he needed, and then
joined Rufus. They made the journey to his office in silence.
-SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
Harry smiled a bit and settled back in the chair Scrimgeour had given
him. He was not sure which felt better: the push of the cloth against
@@ -57327,7 +56855,7 @@ to make up for a disappointment in the matter of his metallic hand. If
some things were not yet right in the world, a good many other things
were.
-SSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
Aurora had felt the shifting of magic, as though one foundation stone
had just replaced another at the root of the world. She was wary, and
@@ -57443,7 +56971,7 @@ the confidence of a hawk who would not believe he could not strike the
target. Aurora concealed her pity behind a nod and a smile, and walked
past him.
-SSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
Lucius leaned back and closed his eyes.
@@ -57486,7 +57014,7 @@ not intend to be.
It was time for plans of escape.
-SSSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
Hawthorn scattered some more dust into the potion, then, with a curse,
cast a stabilizing spell on the cauldron and stepped away with a deep
@@ -57542,7 +57070,7 @@ And she was unsure if she could achieve that.
She stood there, silent now, save for the noise as she drew
frost-patterns on the glass, over and over again.
-SSSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
There was an old ritual that should have answered.
@@ -57575,12 +57103,7 @@ Starrise, instead of turning him over to the Ministry's justice.
Adalrico Bulstrode sat before the fire, and the desire for vengeance
stirred in him with a bright and high and deadly song.
-\subsection{*Chapter 85*: Intermission: Among the
-Nightshade}\label{chapter-85-intermission-among-the-nightshade}
-
-Thanks for the reviews on the last chapter!
-
-\textbf{Intermission: Among the Nightshade and Belladonna}
+\chapter{Intermission: Among the Nightshade}\label{chapter-85-intermission-among-the-nightshade}
``And does he yet suspect you?''
@@ -57730,7 +57253,7 @@ because he could feel the push in his mind for him to do so. Voldemort's
eyes were on his back the whole time, like burning coals, like watching
werewolves.
-SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
``Severus! Come in, my boy.''
@@ -57782,7 +57305,7 @@ wonder that he wanted revenge on Albus Dumbledore---revenge hot as a
knife, cold as the hand of an Inferius, sweet as clustered honey on the
tongue.
-SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
Snape slowly opened his eyes. Another dream, and it tattered and flew
across his mind like clouds across the moon. He thought he had been
@@ -57803,10 +57326,7 @@ saved.
Snape sighed as he cast yet another stabilizing spell on the cauldron.
There were times he dearly wished Remus Lupin were here.
-\subsection{*Chapter 86*: Interlude: The Liberator's
-Seventh}\label{chapter-86-interlude-the-liberators-seventh}
-
-\textbf{Interlude: The Liberator's Seventh Letter}
+\chapter{Interlude: The Liberator's Seventh}\label{chapter-86-interlude-the-liberators-seventh}
\emph{February 17th, 1997}
@@ -57875,10 +57395,7 @@ Yours,
\emph{The Liberator.}
-\subsection{*Chapter 87*: The Advantages of
-Research}\label{chapter-87-the-advantages-of-research}
-
-\textbf{Chapter Sixty-Eight: The Advantages of Research}
+\chapter{The Advantages of Research}\label{chapter-87-the-advantages-of-research}
``I did think of one, Harry.''
@@ -58027,7 +57544,7 @@ and Draco. The thought of that made him smile.
\emph{I'm living, I think. At least, I'm trying.}
-SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
``Zacharias. You wanted to speak with me?''
@@ -58223,7 +57740,7 @@ boredom for the next hundred and thirty years was a large part of that.
And what could he say? She had been right. He would be stupid to ignore
that, and he was not stupid.
-SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
Indigena Apparated into being near her house, and then paused. There
were lights in Thornhall where there should be none. Only her house
@@ -58456,12 +57973,7 @@ Lazuli and Jacinth could remain in the shadows, letting them shelter
them, instead of chancing exposure to a disgusted wizarding world and a
harsh war
-\subsection{*Chapter 88*: A Birthday
-Celebration}\label{chapter-88-a-birthday-celebration}
-
-Thanks for the reviews on the last chapter!
-
-\textbf{Chapter Sixty-Nine: A Birthday Celebration}
+\chapter{A Birthday Celebration}\label{chapter-88-a-birthday-celebration}
Harry cast his fifteenth charm on the letter. It glowed a little, and
then the glow faded, utterly failing to show that it had been smeared
@@ -58632,7 +58144,7 @@ for all I know. And then I have to talk to Snape.'' Harry grimaced
slightly. ``Three guesses on who's going to be the hardest to
convince.''
-SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
\emph{Dear Adalrico:}
@@ -58698,7 +58210,7 @@ afterwards.}
\emph{Harry.}
-SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
``Harry.''
@@ -58847,7 +58359,7 @@ Lord, to defend and serve and protect instead of compel.
Now he knew he could, if only for a moment at a time.
-SSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
Hawthorn glanced down at her hands. Tears were blinding her, and not
because Harry holding Marian like that brought back memories of Pansy at
@@ -58872,7 +58384,7 @@ She turned away from Harry and Marian, because they were only confusing
her, and watched Draco Malfoy watching Harry instead. The expression on
his face was easy enough to understand.
-SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
Draco felt as though he \emph{understood}, then. He'd been going through
Harry's memories in the Pensieve he gave him for Christmas. Some made
@@ -58908,7 +58420,7 @@ down yet. It would have to wait.
For once, Draco didn't mind waiting.
-SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
"\emph{Vates.}"
@@ -59119,11 +58631,7 @@ a shadowy body that wound around her.
\emph{So I'll fight. It's not the first time.}
-\subsection{*Chapter 89*: We Change}\label{chapter-89-we-change}
-
-Thanks for the reviews on the last chapter!
-
-\textbf{Chapter Seventy: We Change}
+\chapter{We Change}\label{chapter-89-we-change}
Indigena shifted the book in the dim light falling through the mouth of
the burrow, and then sighed. It was no good. Lately, her Lord's snake
@@ -59213,7 +58721,7 @@ tried: the golden bridle.}
Intrigued---she hadn't seen this before because of a few pages stuck
together---Indigena began to read.
-SSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
``Tom? Tom, are you here?''
@@ -59314,7 +58822,7 @@ swayed beside him and dreamed of the end.
Out of that end, there would be no morning, but only silence eternal, in
an eternal night.
-SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
Harry shut his mouth and looked expectantly across the room. Jing-Xi sat
with her head bowed, her long dark hair playing hide-and-seek around the
@@ -59529,7 +59037,7 @@ will I.''
Jing-Xi smiled, and it was a proud smile, like a banner or a call to
war. ``Indeed.''
-SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
Connor hung upside down from his Firebolt, because he could.
@@ -59701,12 +59209,7 @@ and had a final thought before he became too busy for thinking.
\emph{Maybe growing up isn't so bad.}
-\subsection{*Chapter 90*: Blood of
-Slytherin}\label{chapter-90-blood-of-slytherin}
-
-The lines quoted here come from D. H. Lawrence's ``Snake.''
-
-\textbf{Chapter Seventy-One: Blood of Slytherin}
+\chapter{Blood of Slytherin}\label{chapter-90-blood-of-slytherin}
``Promise me you'll stay behind me when we Apparate in.''
@@ -59856,7 +59359,7 @@ proceed to the Apparition point, Harry.''
Harry had to take several deep breaths before he could nod. ``All
right.''
-SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
Snape watched Harry closely as they moved along the Hogsmeade road
towards the Apparition point. None of them remembered the house well
@@ -59907,7 +59410,7 @@ And if Harry did not like that, he could be stunned and dragged
unconscious back to Hogwarts, and then delegate such tasks as this to
the trustworthy, rather than go on any more adventures.
-SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
Harry arrived with a larger bump that he would have liked; a small mound
of projecting earth on the hillside had fallen away from where he
@@ -59992,7 +59495,7 @@ refused to let anyone go ahead of him no matter how much they---well,
all right, Draco---pushed at him to do so. Voldemort was cunning, if not
intelligent. He could have set traps.
-SSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
``Indigena!''
@@ -60071,7 +59574,7 @@ of the golden bridle. She drew her wand in a circle around her all the
while, and her plants sank into the soil to anchor her, and her left
forearm flared and tingled and opened to a flow of bladed power.
-SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
Harry eyed the house. Closer to it, the feeling of evil, the stink of
vicious Dark magic, grew worse. He had the urge to bare his teeth and
@@ -60431,7 +59934,7 @@ gripped the bridle and shook it to death between his teeth.
And Rosier was free.
-SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
Indigena gagged, feeling as though someone had punched her in the belly,
and flopped on the floor of the tunnel as gracelessly as Falco dropping
@@ -60457,7 +59960,7 @@ back of her neck. ``Then we will move slowly, and subtly. The others are
more certain. Only our mad Evan, our broken one, needs such measures. Do
not repeat the spell, and Harry cannot trace the pattern.''
-SSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
Harry felt for a moment as if he were falling into an abyss, a black,
churning sea, crushed with lightning, that reared up to meet him. And
@@ -60495,10 +59998,7 @@ He landed safely on the grass outside Hogwarts, breathing in the scent
of Draco's hair, clutching him as if he would never let him go, and
tasting the slide of rain over his skin and his lips.
-\subsection{*Chapter 91*: See What Beauty
-Falls}\label{chapter-91-see-what-beauty-falls}
-
-\textbf{Chapter Seventy-Two: See What Beauty Falls}
+\chapter{See What Beauty Falls}\label{chapter-91-see-what-beauty-falls}
Draco took a deep breath, because he could, and then another one,
because he could see Harry watching him.
@@ -60588,7 +60088,7 @@ creeping up from his legs. He might have tensed when it passed over his
chest and above his still-laboring lungs, but he did not. He was
comfortable, and he was relaxed, and then he was gone.
-SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
Harry waited until he was sure Draco was asleep to lower the barriers
over his magic.
@@ -60739,7 +60239,7 @@ He lay back and closed his eyes. He should sleep while he could. The
moment he was awake, he had questions to ask Snape and others of his
allies---specifically, those who bore the Dark Mark on their arms.
-SSSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
``No.''
@@ -60885,7 +60385,7 @@ Severus, with all that bravery?''
Snape looked for something to throw, but Harry was already out the door.
-SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
``I don't understand why we're here,'' complained Melinda Honeywhistle,
tapping her quill against her scroll.
@@ -61074,13 +60574,7 @@ surviving.
Based on what he had seen from Dobby---the creature who had been, at one
point, called Dobby---he still had a lot to learn.
-\subsection{*Chapter 92*: Oaths and
-Ties}\label{chapter-92-oaths-and-ties}
-
-Thanks for the reviews on the last chapter!\textbf{\\
-}
-
-\textbf{Chapter Seventy-Three: Oaths and Ties}
+\chapter{Oaths and Ties}\label{chapter-92-oaths-and-ties}
Unlike the last time it had happened, Harry wasn't snatched out of a
sound sleep. He was sitting in the middle of the Slytherin common room,
@@ -61183,7 +60677,7 @@ Harry nodded, and turned away. He knew how to balance one set of
obligations with another set of obligations, and sometimes, he simply
couldn't give in to what his boyfriend wanted.
-SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
Owen Side-Along Apparated Harry through the Rosier-Henlin wards, and let
him go as soon as it was polite to do so. To his eyes, accustomed to
@@ -61419,7 +60913,7 @@ arms for a long moment. Owen waited. He felt a fragile silence in the
room even more powerful than that which had begun with the birth, and he
could hear the deep steady breaths from his twin, waiting by the door.
-SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
Harry knew what he would \emph{like} to name the little girl. He just
wasn't sure that it would fit in well with the rest of the names in the
@@ -61560,7 +61054,7 @@ happen when they arrived. Draco would understand his reasons for
attending the birth no more than Michael had understood his reasons for
refusing to accept a new oath from him.
-SSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
Draco didn't.
@@ -61656,12 +61150,7 @@ It hurt to realize that he didn't, and that Harry was still perfectly
capable of walking away from him when he thought he was being childish.
Even Harry's tolerance, it seemed, had limits.
-\subsection{*Chapter 93*: The Voices of the
-Light}\label{chapter-93-the-voices-of-the-light}
-
-Thanks for the reviews on the last chapter!
-
-\textbf{Chapter Seventy-Four: The Voices of the Light}
+\chapter{The Voices of the Light}\label{chapter-93-the-voices-of-the-light}
``Harry. I wish to speak to you, sir.''
@@ -61906,7 +61395,7 @@ on his face, which was like the look Harry imagined he must have worn
when Lucius presented him with his ultimatum about the rebellion, had
given Harry a rather urgent problem that needed taking care of.
-SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
He met the Gloryflowers and the Opallines for the swearing of the formal
family oaths in Hogsmeade, pertinently enough, since that was also the
@@ -62041,7 +61530,7 @@ with a brief flare of phoenix song. Paton rearranged the child in his
arms, and Laura approached quickly. Calibrid was already holding her
left arm out.
-SSSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
Draco flinched as a mud-ball splattered against the Shield Charm he'd
hastily raised around himself, then glared in several different
@@ -62356,10 +61845,7 @@ of themselves for questioning it.}
\emph{I'll show them who I really am.}
-\subsection{*Chapter 94*: Intermission: Gloom's Own
-Country}\label{chapter-94-intermission-glooms-own-country}
-
-\textbf{Intermission: Gloom's Own Country}
+\chapter{Intermission: Gloom's Own Country}\label{chapter-94-intermission-glooms-own-country}
``Severus.''
@@ -62528,7 +62014,7 @@ gnawing on its own chain.
\emph{Albus. You fool. You do not know what you have waked in me. But
you shall see son enough. How I hate you, old man.}
-SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
Snape rose with a yawn, the strips of the dream feathering around him
and falling away. This time, he didn't wake up with much hatred, other
@@ -62551,11 +62037,7 @@ he usually did, almost as if this life had been his own free choice.
He felt, for a moment, as if he walked in morning's own country.
-\subsection{*Chapter 95*: On the Rise}\label{chapter-95-on-the-rise}
-
-\textbf{WARNING: Cliffhanger.}
-
-\textbf{Chapter Seventy-Five: On the Rise}
+\chapter{On the Rise}\label{chapter-95-on-the-rise}
Harry blinked and carefully closed the door of their bedroom behind him.
It wasn't that it was all that unusual to come back to Slytherin and
@@ -62737,7 +62219,7 @@ apparently, feel slightly uncomfortable.
Harry inclined his head, and withdrew.
-SSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
Draco glanced at the bed. The papers and parchments he'd been studying
earlier were safely out of the way. The enormous \emph{History of
@@ -62891,7 +62373,7 @@ scent around him told how much he approved.
Draco jumped neatly into Harry's arms, and settled back, and waited for
praise.
-SSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
Connor decided he'd had enough of \emph{that}.
@@ -63019,7 +62501,7 @@ scowled at his ceiling instead of beginning to study right away.
\emph{Stupid noticing.}
-SSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
Harry woke on the day of the vernal equinox feeling both smug and
hopeful. He thought, he really thought, that Draco had changed enough
@@ -63146,10 +62628,7 @@ immediately.
\emph{So much for my holiday.}
-\subsection{*Chapter 96*: The Duel of Phoenix and
-Siren}\label{chapter-96-the-duel-of-phoenix-and-siren}
-
-\textbf{Chapter Seventy-Six: The Duel of Phoenix and Siren}
+\chapter{The Duel of Phoenix and Siren}\label{chapter-96-the-duel-of-phoenix-and-siren}
Harry came out on the shore of the lake, sure that he'd brushed through
wards as if they were spiderwebs, but not remembering if he had or not.
@@ -63251,7 +62730,7 @@ other sirens swam.
Harry lifted his head and sang of freedom.
-SSSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
Falco sighed when he heard Harry's voice. The boy was simply determined
to oppose his plans, wasn't he?
@@ -63332,7 +62811,7 @@ He took the first blade in hand, and held it tight, while he gazed into
the distance, towards the shore of the lake, and watched Harry wrestle
with his sirens.
-SSSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
Rufus blinked, feeling as if he'd just awakened from a dream.
@@ -63387,7 +62866,7 @@ real!" He waved a disgusted hand.
sigh to wait for the end of the display. ``He's saving the world again,
Elder, and that is sometimes a rather noisy endeavor.''
-SSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
Harry talked to the sirens.
@@ -63481,7 +62960,7 @@ and he felt himself shrinking to match it. Other memories flickered past
him, fading when he grasped at them. Draco, and Regulus, and Snape, were
fading, fading, fading, and he did not know why.
-SSSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
Falco had spun his web carefully.
@@ -63516,7 +62995,7 @@ moment when Harry Declared, after all, he thought. Urge him deeply
enough, and Harry would have to call on the Light, and use its power to
rise from the trap.
-SSSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
``What's happening now?'' Juniper demanded abruptly.
@@ -63571,7 +63050,7 @@ only to find the Elder's eyes fixed on the sky.
Rufus blinked and turned back to the struggling sea of images, trying as
best as he could to ignore the voices.
-SSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
A longing to relax and let the memory wrap him swept Harry. He
\emph{could} go back into the egg, and then everything would be over. No
@@ -63660,7 +63139,7 @@ hours, and his mind felt like stirred rubbish. He wanted to collapse.
But instead he turned to the Forbidden Forest and Falco, because that
was what he was supposed to do.
-SSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
Falco felt the moment when his trap failed, and he sighed, because,
although he understood the memories of Harry's childhood much more than
@@ -63689,7 +63168,7 @@ black companion eagle, singing in his ears and whispering promises that
things would be different next time. Falco supposed he could do worse
than listen.
-SSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
Fire and song burst back into the world again, so brilliant that Rufus
had to cover his eyes, and had the urge to cover his ears. So loud, so
@@ -63739,7 +63218,7 @@ were selling very well.
``Tell me what kind of festival you had in mind,'' he told the Elder.
-SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
Harry glared at Falco as the older wizard flew away. He was somewhat
disappointed that he hadn't been able to settle the contest here and
@@ -63792,12 +63271,7 @@ leaned his head on Draco's shoulder and waited for the inevitable crowd
who couldn't accept the idea that this was just something a \emph{vates}
did.
-\subsection{*Chapter 97*: Wound In Song and Crowned In
-Flowers}\label{chapter-97-wound-in-song-and-crowned-in-flowers}
-
-Thanks for the reviews on the last chapter!
-
-\textbf{Chapter Seventy-Seven: Wound in Song and Crowned in Flowers}
+\chapter{Wound In Song and Crowned In Flowers}\label{chapter-97-wound-in-song-and-crowned-in-flowers}
Draco felt hostile to the whole world as he stood there with Harry in
his arms. Well, at least \emph{potentially} hostile to the whole world.
@@ -63911,7 +63385,7 @@ he hurt, as if his legs were unable to support him.
\emph{Perhaps, no matter how great the achievement, having the
celebration right after it isn't a good idea.}
-SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
Harry wanted to brood.
@@ -64031,7 +63505,7 @@ their hands.}
\emph{I'm sick of it. I wish it would go away.}
-SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
``Thank you for coming here today, Harry.'' Scrimgeour was using a
\emph{Sonorus} charm, so that the rest of the crowd who spilled, shoving
@@ -64268,7 +63742,7 @@ offensive.
Harry shoved Draco's arms away from him, calmed the Many snake with a
tiny hiss, and Disapparated.
-SSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
Draco didn't have to ask where Harry was. While everyone else on the
platform acted as if Harry's disappearance was the work of Voldemort, he
@@ -64443,10 +63917,7 @@ days. \emph{He needs me just as much as I need him.}
\emph{Anyone who tries to get to him this weekend is going to have to
pass through not just his wards, but every trick I can put in place.}
-\subsection{*Chapter 98*: Interlude: The Liberator's Eighth
-Letter}\label{chapter-98-interlude-the-liberators-eighth-letter}
-
-\textbf{Interlude: The Liberator's Eighth Letter}
+\chapter{Interlude: The Liberator's Eighth Letter}\label{chapter-98-interlude-the-liberators-eighth-letter}
\emph{March 23rd, 1997}
@@ -64510,11 +63981,7 @@ Yours,
\emph{The Liberator.}
-\subsection{*Chapter 99*: Three Hours}\label{chapter-99-three-hours}
-
-Thanks for the reviews on the last chapter!
-
-\textbf{Chapter Seventy-Eight: Three Hours}
+\chapter{Three Hours}\label{chapter-99-three-hours}
``Why on earth you didn't come to me immediately, young man, I will
never know\ldots{}''
@@ -64589,7 +64056,7 @@ world's ended because I'm the one in pain.}
He stuck his head out the doors of the hospital wing and glanced up and
down the corridor. \emph{Draco is taking a long time in the loo.}
-SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
Draco was not actually in the loo, but he had raced into it to relieve
himself before he went to do the rest of his tasks, so he did not
@@ -64821,7 +64288,7 @@ ceremony the Ministry held, too.
\emph{He'll learn to stick up for himself, even if I have to lie in his
path like a log in order for him to do it.}
-SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
Harry watched as Hedwig flew away with his letter to Scrimgeour, and
sighed. He'd made his writing less purely apologetic than he wanted to,
@@ -64913,7 +64380,7 @@ He hurried off to fetch Argutus, now and then calling his name in
Parseltongue. The Omen snake still wandered the castle fairly often, and
hadn't wanted to go to some boring ceremony the way the Many snake had.
-SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
Rufus read over Harry's letter a few times, to make sure he understood
all the nuances of tone. Then he firecalled Elder Juniper, sitting back
@@ -64990,7 +64457,7 @@ last few lines of the letter, the ones that talked about a holiday.
\emph{If a holiday is what you need, then take it. We require you too
badly to let you explode simply because you wish to.}
-SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
``You're sure about this.'' Juniper's eyes were dark, both because that
was their natural color and because of the emotions thronging them. They
@@ -65067,7 +64534,7 @@ the finer points, illegal."
her. \emph{I may yet hope to help save our world, and this time working
with someone who has more political acumen than I do.}
-SSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
Harry shook his head as they appeared with a bump in Cobley-by-the-Sea;
Regulus had given them a Portkey, so as not to have to drop the house's
@@ -65202,12 +64669,7 @@ didn't smile. He reached out and caught Harry's hand.
``Come on,'' he said, tugging him towards the door of their bedroom.
``Let's go watch the hippocampi.''
-\subsection{*Chapter 100*: A Dream of
-Spring}\label{chapter-100-a-dream-of-spring}
-
-\textbf{Warning: The fourth scene here contains very heavy slash.}
-
-\textbf{Chapter Seventy-Nine: A Dream of Spring}
+\chapter{A Dream of Spring}\label{chapter-100-a-dream-of-spring}
Harry wondered if they could have achieved this peace and perfection in
any other season.
@@ -65414,7 +64876,7 @@ first.
Harry watched the light gleam off his creation, and hoped it didn't
taste like sawdust, and drank down Draco's smile like fine wine.
-SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
Draco decided the best time to do it was in the early morning, before
Harry was properly awake, and therefore before he could decide that
@@ -65634,7 +65096,7 @@ for right now.
Draco closed his eyes and let Harry bear him away.
-SSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
Harry stepped back and surveyed the table narrowly, then nodded. He
hadn't had a chance to look at the book that described this ritual in a
@@ -65799,7 +65261,7 @@ like. Will you let me do that?''
And Harry could only close his eyes and whisper an acceptance.
-SSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
Draco took Harry back to their bedchamber. He'd felt a different
succession of emotions in the last fifteen minutes: irritation and
@@ -65939,10 +65401,7 @@ can't ever have permanently. But dreams were meant to be enjoyed.}
\emph{And we've sure as fuck earned this one.}
-\subsection{*Chapter 101*: Realm of
-Night}\label{chapter-101-realm-of-night}
-
-\textbf{Chapter Eighty: Realm of Night}
+\chapter{Realm of Night}\label{chapter-101-realm-of-night}
Harry awoke slowly. He found his hand trembling as he reached out to
pick up his glasses from the bedside table, and frowned. He and Draco
@@ -66187,7 +65646,7 @@ who's spoken to Death directly, and even has her notice. Any tiny detail
he knows might advance my attempts to undo the chains further than a
dozen books would.}
-SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
Hagrid sniffled, and yet another large tear rolled down his nose and got
itself lost in his deep, bushy beard.
@@ -66300,7 +65759,7 @@ bawling again.
Harry patted his shoulder once more, and then cast a subtle lightening
charm on the book and went back to the castle.
-SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
Harry shrugged away the memory of the strange letter he'd received that
morning as he appeared inside the wards at Grimmauld Place. If Elder
@@ -66542,7 +66001,7 @@ and as supportive as he could be, offering silence or soothing words as
Regulus seemed to want them. Regulus's shadow rippled, dog-shaped,
watching them.
-SSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
Harry licked his lips and shifted his weight forward. In the end, he had
come to the Forbidden Forest alone to free a thestral, despite telling
@@ -66685,10 +66144,7 @@ length of his right arm.
Somewhere in the wondering, he passed into darkness.
-\subsection{*Chapter 102*: Intermission: Come Home To Your
-Heart}\label{chapter-102-intermission-come-home-to-your-heart}
-
-\textbf{Intermission: Come Home to Your Heart}
+\chapter{Intermission: Come Home To Your Heart}\label{chapter-102-intermission-come-home-to-your-heart}
Severus held himself still. The madness of his rage might have something
to do with that. If he moved, if he spoke, he would explode.
@@ -66770,7 +66226,7 @@ variant. Concentrating deeply on such a challenge would keep him from
lashing out with magic, the sole intent of which was to destroy Albus
Dumbledore.
-SSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
``Here he is,'' Albus's voice said, and the members of the Order of the
Phoenix turned their heads as he ushered Connor Potter into the room.
@@ -66841,7 +66297,7 @@ If all went as he expected it would, that permission should be granted,
and he could at last have his revenge on Albus Dumbledore for not
expelling Sirius Black and the others all those years ago.
-SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
Severus opened his eyes with a gasp. A surge of some powerful emotion
had awakened him, but he could not grasp what it was. The dream was
@@ -66883,13 +66339,7 @@ him on his way to the Great Hall, explained briefly that they hadn't
been able to get through the wards on his quarters, and \emph{then}
explained what Harry had been doing in the Forbidden Forest last night.
-\subsection{*Chapter 103*: Our Own
-Voices}\label{chapter-103-our-own-voices}
-
-The poetry lines quoted here are from ``Leda and the Swan,'' by William
-Butler Yeats.
-
-\textbf{Chapter Eighty-One: Our Own Voices}
+\chapter{Our Own Voices}\label{chapter-103-our-own-voices}
``You should have known better.''
@@ -67114,7 +66564,7 @@ Snape, what they would think and feel if they could hear him say it.
Perhaps it was time he did.
-SSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
It took labor for Draco to eat silently beside Harry instead of simply
giving in, wrapping his arms around him, and taking him back to their
@@ -67167,7 +66617,7 @@ he meant it. He \emph{refused} to be left behind, to be considered less
than an equal, while in the midst of a binding that was supposed to make
them exactly that. He deserved better than that.
-SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
Snape watched from the corner of his eye as Harry came in and headed
straight for the thick pile of books he'd been reading for the last
@@ -67214,7 +66664,7 @@ home through even a skull as thick as his son's.
Snape marked the essay in front of him `T' with a flourish.
-SSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
Connor waited patiently around the corner. He could hear soft voices
from ahead of him, one a voice he'd known since childhood and the other
@@ -67344,7 +66794,7 @@ as though his brother and his brother-in-law had made up, and so things
were swinging back towards equilibrium in their small corner of the
world.
-SSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
``It was actually the Horcruxes that made me think the most about what
you said, you know.''
@@ -67424,7 +66874,7 @@ Including the fact that in just a few more weeks, it would be the end of
April, and the time for their second Walpurgis ritual, the fifth out of
thirteen, taking place on the anniversary of the first.
-SSSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
Harry \emph{had} been thinking a lot. The week when he'd barely spoken
to Draco and spent his detentions reading stories that barely took up
@@ -67498,7 +66948,7 @@ because that meant he didn't have mornings and afternoons free for doing
the necessary study to find another way to defeat the Horcruxes or free
the thestrals.
-SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
``He may know something.''
@@ -67601,7 +67051,7 @@ bowing, when it saw her.
Aurora smiled at it. ``Would you fetch Madam Apollonis for me, please?
Tell her Aurora Whitestag would like to speak with her.''
-SSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
The letter that arrived back from Elder Juniper, confirming their
meeting for the third weekend in April, pleased Harry, but not as much
@@ -67695,7 +67145,7 @@ were moving. In spite of setbacks and mistakes, some of which he'd put
in his own path, things were moving. They would stumble forward, and
they would make it, in the end.
-SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
Henrietta often went outside the school grounds to practice the Darkest
magic she knew. For one thing, it relieved Minerva of the troubled mind
@@ -67832,7 +67282,7 @@ would have what she wanted.
She Apparated back to Hogwarts, but she saw him come forward, slowly,
step by step, boots slipping in the mud, to accept the pie.
-SSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
``Thank you for coming, Narcissa.''
@@ -67986,7 +67436,7 @@ might be his salvation, should Hawthorn come hunting him.
\emph{Surviving The Teeth of Destruction: What To Do When You've Killed
a Werewolf's Mate or Child.}
-SSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
Indigena snorted as she watched Falco fly away. She didn't know the
whole of what he'd come to talk to her Lord about this time, since they
@@ -68082,11 +67532,7 @@ Now it was not, and the endless waiting was nearly done at last.
She breathed, and thrilled to the sense of being alive.
-\subsection{*Chapter 104*: Day of Glory}\label{chapter-104-day-of-glory}
-
-Thanks for the reviews on the last chapter!
-
-\textbf{Chapter Eighty-Two: Day of Glory}
+\chapter{Day of Glory}\label{chapter-104-day-of-glory}
Harry studied the ring closely, then nodded and put it in his pocket. It
would do. If he had done what he was supposed to do in the first place,
@@ -68225,7 +67671,7 @@ from having actually studied the ritual this time. Unfortunately, Draco
also did, and would be angling for an early glimpse of his gift if at
all possible. Harry didn't intend to give him one.
-SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
Try as he might, Draco had not seen Harry's gift for him before they
went to bed, which meant that he awakened on the morning of the Giving
@@ -68364,7 +67810,7 @@ Harry's side he'd done in their first two years.
Draco decided he could wait until noon and endure the perceptions of
Connor Potter after all.
-SSSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
Connor chewed a crust of toast thoughtfully, and wondered if Draco could
feel it when he did that.
@@ -68428,7 +67874,7 @@ liked Draco now, and had accepted that the other boy would play a
phenomenonally large part in Harry's life, didn't mean he had to stop
teasing him.
-SSSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
Harry ran a hand through his hair and shook his head as he and Draco
headed towards the outer courtyard.
@@ -68537,7 +67983,7 @@ gold being a Gryffindor color, but apparently the gold was also rich
enough---or the craftsmanship of Harry's magic was beautiful enough---to
impress him.
-SSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
Narcissa stood gazing thoughtfully into the fire. She had come to stay
with Regulus in Number Twelve Grimmauld Place for the nonce, which
@@ -68607,7 +68053,7 @@ existence, did not still seem like dancing on a volcano.
``Dark, keep them safe,'' Narcissa whispered, and would have liked to
believe that somewhere she heard a great wolf howl in answer.
-SSSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
Draco had decided on his gift for Harry a few hours before nightfall,
and it was torture to wait patiently until they had finished dinner in
@@ -68688,14 +68134,7 @@ end of their ritual and their future.
\emph{And we} will \emph{have a future. I say so.}
-\subsection{*Chapter 105*: Night of
-Terror}\label{chapter-105-night-of-terror}
-
-Thanks for the reviews on the last chapter!
-
-\textbf{WARNING: Gore.}
-
-\textbf{Chapter Eighty-Three: Night of Terror}
+\chapter{Night of Terror}\label{chapter-105-night-of-terror}
Falco came from the sky, with the Dark running behind him.
@@ -68745,7 +68184,7 @@ On they traveled, towards the point where the immense, mysterious
backroads of the Dark opened into the mortal night of the British
wizarding world.
-SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
Harry was already looking around when Millicent landed them at the
Walpurgis celebration, the largest concentration of Dark magic in
@@ -68985,7 +68424,7 @@ He and Draco stepped forward. He heard the soft sound that was Draco
drawing his wand from its holster, and then every other noise was lost
under the enormous shrieking howl of a wolf the size of Hogwarts.
-SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
Falco was in sea eagle form as he dived, but he flickered in and out of
it as he reached the desert of the Dark and saw Harry waiting for him.
@@ -69046,7 +68485,7 @@ He heard the Dark wolf howl in triumph, as he had expected.
He had \emph{not} expected to hear Harry howling back as if in answer,
or to sense him begin to fight instead of calling on the Light for help.
-SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
Harry turned as Draco fell, shock in his mouth thick as the taste of
mint, for a moment. This \emph{could not} happen. The prophecy had said
@@ -69099,7 +68538,7 @@ at his back, unstoppable, unfightable. Harry's serpents exploded into a
dark rain of flesh and muscle, and he went sprawling to the ground,
pelted with bone shards, while Falco moved to hover above him.
-SSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
Falco was frightened, and angry. \emph{Why is he not calling on the
Light?}
@@ -69152,7 +68591,7 @@ throat like a tide made of icicles---
And the wild Dark wheeled back and away from him, once again hovering at
a distance to watch.
-SSSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
The world was very simple.
@@ -69218,7 +68657,7 @@ the next one.
And then Falco recovered enough to strike out at him.
-SSSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
It had all gone so wrong, so badly, so suddenly, and Falco did not know
what to make of it.
@@ -69259,7 +68698,7 @@ he would try.
And then Harry recovered.
-SSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
One kind of barrier had given way when Harry was worried about Draco,
and another when that worry intruded and occupied his mind. And then he
@@ -69470,12 +68909,7 @@ It had been a Walpurgis night like none other in history, he thought,
but he supposed the wild Dark might be insane enough to disrupt its own
celebrations on a whim, too.
-\subsection{*Chapter 106*: Interlude: The Liberator's Ninth
-Letter}\label{chapter-106-interlude-the-liberators-ninth-letter}
-
-Thanks for the reviews on the last chapter!
-
-\textbf{Interlude: The Liberator's Ninth Letter}
+\chapter{Interlude: The Liberator's Ninth Letter}\label{chapter-106-interlude-the-liberators-ninth-letter}
\emph{May 1st, 1997}
@@ -69536,12 +68970,7 @@ Yours,
\emph{The Liberator.}
-\subsection{*Chapter 107*: A Week of
-Sunlight}\label{chapter-107-a-week-of-sunlight}
-
-Thanks for the reviews on the last chapter!
-
-\textbf{Chapter Eighty-Four: A Week of Sunlight}
+\chapter{A Week of Sunlight}\label{chapter-107-a-week-of-sunlight}
\emph{Thursday}
@@ -69663,7 +69092,7 @@ the warmth of the blankets and the hand Harry placed on his, cocooning
him in such contentment that he would have purred if he knew how. He let
himself be swept away, once again.
-SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
\emph{Friday}
@@ -69757,7 +69186,7 @@ humming with putting him in a good mood beforehand.
He might have few enough moments like this with his son. He would take
them when and how he could.
-SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
\emph{Saturday}
@@ -69838,7 +69267,7 @@ Harry lifted his head. House elves were speaking in their own voices
now, thanks to Dobby. If wizards and witches could do the same thing, he
was more than proud of what he had achieved so far.
-SSSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
\emph{Sunday}
@@ -69928,7 +69357,7 @@ shared it with more than one person, including Draco, who turned him
around and concealed his own foolish smile by pressing his mouth to
Harry's.
-SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
\emph{Monday}
@@ -70022,7 +69451,7 @@ and had missed it. ``Right.''
It still didn't diminish his happiness.
-SSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
\emph{Tuesday}
@@ -70110,7 +69539,7 @@ the letter to Josephine in the first place.''
Harry let him think that.
-SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
\emph{Wednesday}
@@ -70176,14 +69605,7 @@ magical contamination in Draco's body.
But given Thomas's expression and the sudden, slow revolution of the
sphere for no discernible reason, that could wait.
-\subsection{*Chapter 108*: A Dagger Through The
-Vitals}\label{chapter-108-a-dagger-through-the-vitals}
-
-Thanks for the reviews on the last chapter!
-
-And here comes the angst, again.
-
-\textbf{Chapter Eighty-Five: A Dagger Through the Vitals}
+\chapter{A Dagger Through The Vitals}\label{chapter-108-a-dagger-through-the-vitals}
"Sir! \emph{Sir!}"
@@ -70261,7 +69683,7 @@ awakened.
``Headmistress's Office, Hogwarts!''
-SSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
Harry felt the surprised quiver of the wards before he even opened his
eyes. He was already rolling into a battle-prepared posture, feeling
@@ -70461,7 +69883,7 @@ And he had to think.
But he could see the path sprouting ahead of him, leading him, step by
dismal step, to the end of draining Lucius Malfoy of his magic.
-SSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
Draco couldn't breathe that well. He could hear Madam Pomfrey speaking
to him in a low, worried voice, trying to get him to uncurl from around
@@ -70621,7 +70043,7 @@ him, and Draco allowed himself just a bit of comfort from knowing that
someone else \emph{did} feel the howling sadness and the pain within
him.
-SSSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
Hawthorn paused. A letter lay on the table beside her bed. It had not
lain there a moment ago, she knew. She had only turned her back to
@@ -70698,7 +70120,7 @@ had probably hoped.
She would contact Harry. She would ask him if he thought there was a
possibility of this being true, and if so, what they should do.
-SSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
Lucius also found a letter on his breakfast table that morning. He
nodded. He had expected it. Gray parchment, black hourglass seal. When
@@ -70728,7 +70150,7 @@ what was going to happen to him, he had extra time to prepare.
He shook his head in amused disbelief as he went into his study. \emph{I
hope that Harry considers the trade in allies he's just made fair.}
-SSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
Harry watched Narcissa and Draco embrace in silence, and tried to decide
what to do.
@@ -70844,7 +70266,7 @@ Harry closed his eyes and nodded, even as he heard, faint and far away,
the ``pop'' of Apparition as Hawthorn appeared on the edge of Hogwarts
grounds.
-SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
Lucius felt the moment Harry, Draco, Narcissa, Severus, and Hawthorn
arrived on the outer defenses of the Manor. Of course, the first three
@@ -71020,12 +70442,7 @@ at before.
Merlin, he loved being a wizard.
-\subsection{*Chapter 109*: The Last of the
-Potters}\label{chapter-109-the-last-of-the-potters}
-
-Thanks for the reviews on the last chapter!
-
-\textbf{Chapter Eighty-Six: The Last of the Potters}
+\chapter{The Last of the Potters}\label{chapter-109-the-last-of-the-potters}
Harry did not wait for Draco to come out of the warded room from which
Lucius had vanished, although he heard Draco curse and curse, the second
@@ -71066,7 +70483,7 @@ But he had to do them, so Harry carefully balled up his emotions and
sank them, and then reached the outside of Malfoy Manor with Hawthorn
and Apparated away.
-SSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
``We need Argent-Free Potions,'' said Madam Pomfrey, with a helpless
shake of her head. ``They've just been developed to help werewolves
@@ -71098,7 +70515,7 @@ Boy-Who-Lived.''
He cast a handful of Floo powder into the flames, and called ``St.
Mungo's!'' as he stepped into them.
-SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
Harry found himself emerging from the fireplace in a large, quiet, pale
room that seemed designed to calm people who might stumble into it at
@@ -71200,7 +70617,7 @@ Clutching the potions close to his chest, he Levitated the Floo powder
out of its dish on the mantle and made the connection spring back to
life, calling on the way, ``Hogwarts hospital wing!''
-SSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
Draco felt as if he were moving, or possibly living, in a dream. His
father had vanished, he had destroyed a desk, and---
@@ -71279,7 +70696,7 @@ The Manor was his, but he didn't have time right now to stay and make it
him. ``Come on,'' he said, offering his mother his arm. ``Let's return
to Hogwarts.''
-SSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
Harry nodded when he recognized the flutter of Hawthorn's eyes---she'd
taken all four potions by then, and this was ten minutes after she took
@@ -71365,7 +70782,7 @@ would wake up and do what else needed to be done.
Many of those other things involved his parents.
-SSSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
Much to Harry's relief, everything had come out as he intended. He'd
come back to their bedroom to find Draco already deeply asleep, worn out
@@ -71499,7 +70916,7 @@ them,'' he answered. ``They need my help, so I'm going to help them.''
He would do this because it needed to be done, he told himself. The past
was the past, and might remain that way. This was for their futures.
-SSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
Rufus sat slowly back behind his desk. His whole head ached, but he had
to acknowledge that came from tension, and it wasn't going to be soothed
@@ -71565,7 +70982,7 @@ He closed his eyes and breathed deeply, counting down the moments before
he would have to firecall Hogwarts and tell Harry that his magic was
needed to heal his mother.
-SSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
``Yes.''
@@ -71689,7 +71106,7 @@ usual emotions he felt while doing it were anger and bitterness.
arm; it had been tingling rather fiercely since he woke up this morning.
\emph{Since he will never accept it coming from me.}
-SSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
``This may hurt,'' the Healer told Connor.
@@ -71889,7 +71306,7 @@ want to know what the man who was once his father would have said.
But Connor had done enough of what it wanted for one day, so he ignored
it.
-SSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
Harry had a new tactic for facing his mother. He had sunk his emotions
to the bottom of the Occlumency pools, then muffled the pools in dense
@@ -72151,12 +71568,7 @@ which were finally the way he had wanted them.
So he walked out of Tullianum, and left her there.
-\subsection{*Chapter 110*: Hawthorn, Dragonsbane, and
-Pansies}\label{chapter-110-hawthorn-dragonsbane-and-pansies}
-
-Thanks for the review on the last chapter!
-
-\textbf{Chapter Eighty-Seven: Hawthorn, Dragonsbane, and Pansies}
+\chapter{Hawthorn, Dragonsbane, and Pansies}\label{chapter-110-hawthorn-dragonsbane-and-pansies}
Rufus ran a hand through his hair in frustration. Then he tried to
smooth it back into place, because it already looked enough like a
@@ -72296,7 +71708,7 @@ Wizengamot of late, hated werewolves.
Rufus wondered which Fate had been assigned to make his life more
difficult, and why it had chosen May as the month to do so.
-SSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
Harry eased gently off the bed. He'd just given Draco a thorough
massage---that was much easier to do, now that he had two hands---and
@@ -72351,7 +71763,7 @@ scope of things. And he would offer his presence as a silent support.
If Hawthorn would not talk to him, then Harry would simply wait outside
the Garden for however long he needed to.
-SSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
Hawthorn dropped the vial, and it cracked open on the stone floor of her
Potions lab. The silver liquid, the result of a good six hours' work on
@@ -72676,7 +72088,7 @@ what to say. She simply knelt there in silence, instead, and Harry's
arms wrapped around her, and they were both still, there in the great
storm-colored world.
-SSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
Remus sniffed carefully at the air, and then let his tongue fall out to
loll through his jaws. He loved full moon nights now with a heady
@@ -72748,12 +72160,7 @@ doorstep of the neighboring pack's safehouse, the moon briefly blazed
out from the clouds overhead, and Remus gave tongue again, in glory and
exultation and glee at being alive.
-\subsection{*Chapter 111*: From Adalrico's
-Hand}\label{chapter-111-from-adalricos-hand}
-
-Thanks for the reviews on the last chapter!
-
-\textbf{Chapter Eighty-Eight: From Adalrico's Hand}
+\chapter{From Adalrico's Hand}\label{chapter-111-from-adalricos-hand}
``Minister. May I speak to you for a moment in private?''
@@ -73034,7 +72441,7 @@ belly shook, and in general he felt half-hollowed.
He stood, and did what he always did when he felt this way and was
alone: began to make himself a cup of tea.
-SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
``I didn't say that I disagreed with you,'' said Draco, looking as if he
were fighting hard to keep his temper. ``I just said that now might not
@@ -73172,7 +72579,7 @@ crackling burst of growth. Harry was used to them both. He thought it
was about time the wizarding world had a chance to get used to the
latter.
-SSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
Draco worried his lip between his teeth and stared at the canopy of
their bed. He told himself he was worrying too much. He told himself
@@ -73212,7 +72619,7 @@ himself whether Harry was faking it or not.
Satisfied, Draco closed his eyes and lay as if asleep, though he
listened for a sound of Harry's return.
-SSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
Harry stood waiting quietly in Blackstone's entrance hall. The house was
dim, as though too much light would be an insult to the Dark family who
@@ -73386,10 +72793,7 @@ little more closely from now on.
He walked calmly towards the castle, already reviewing what he needed to
do next in his head.
-\subsection{*Chapter 112*: Intermission: Purple, Silver,
-Green}\label{chapter-112-intermission-purple-silver-green}
-
-\textbf{Intermission: Purple, Silver, Green}
+\chapter{Intermission: Purple, Silver, Green}\label{chapter-112-intermission-purple-silver-green}
Severus was adding a drop of unicorn's tears to the green potion when he
felt the pain flare up in his left arm. Carefully, he tapped the vial to
@@ -73502,7 +72906,7 @@ gaze.
Albus smiled at him, then tapped his head and sent the vision into
Severus's memory. Like the other Order members, he Apparated.
-SSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
He easily ignored the carnage around him, the blood, the broken limbs.
There was a time he would have found it troubling, when he still
@@ -73583,7 +72987,7 @@ Best of all was the tragic look in Albus's eyes as he wrapped his arms
around the Potter boy and tugged him away from his dead parents, forcing
him to face his oncoming doom, his destiny.
-SSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
Severus woke with an edge of gladness and joy still riding his mind. He
did not remember the dream any more than he usually did, but he was just
@@ -73616,11 +73020,7 @@ out just how much he was hurting, Snape stalked out of his offices.
Harry had been behaving \emph{too} well these last weeks. It was time to
see what that kind of behavior was costing him.
-\subsection{*Chapter 113*: Luna's Gift}\label{chapter-113-lunas-gift}
-
-And now, things get worse.
-
-\textbf{Chapter Eighty-Nine: Luna's Gift}
+\chapter{Luna's Gift}\label{chapter-113-lunas-gift}
Luna slipped her hand gently out of Padma's and stood. They had been
studying for the length of time it would take hippogriff teeth to break
@@ -73680,7 +73080,7 @@ the floor beneath her, sending other stones into a paroxysm of
contentment. That made her walk a little more joyous than it might have
been.
-SSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
``Sit down, Harry.''
@@ -73857,7 +73257,7 @@ myself and do what I wanted to do. And this is what I want to do,} and
\emph{it helps other people, and it doesn't hurt me. I don't see how
they can really object.}
-SSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
Luna arrived in the Headmistress's office and stood still for a moment,
gazing around. It was late enough at night that the Headmistress had
@@ -73918,7 +73318,7 @@ to talk about the present instead of the past. It wasn't easy. This was
an old, proud room, and pone to ignoring people who weren't part of its
history.
-SSSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
Snape paced back and forth in his office, deep in thought. Part of him
was adamant that he should have forced Harry to take the silver
@@ -74027,7 +73427,7 @@ to carry him to Minerva's door---well, she was one of the few people in
the school whom he felt comfortable asking for advice. If she did not
sleep yet, he would ask more of her.
-SSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
Luna was surprised, but not startled, when she felt the gargoyle leaping
aside in obedience to a human voice. Of course someone might wish to
@@ -74095,7 +73495,7 @@ to watch out for something crawling through them, though, or to tell her
tales of abandoned rooms where powerful magical objects might lie. She
wanted to help Harry. He listened, too.
-SSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
``Through the front door, sir?'' Hope's voice was low and tense with
excitement.
@@ -74331,7 +73731,7 @@ Liberator herself, as she begged me to do.}
But the idea nagged at him. All the information they'd had access to
fitted Apollonis so \emph{perfectly}. If not him, then who?
-SSSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
Aurora stirred up with a half-shout when her Floo connection opened.
She'd fallen asleep in a chair in front of the fire, and her neck was
@@ -74371,10 +73771,7 @@ allegiance.''
Aurora caught her breath, and smiled. \emph{Sometimes, perhaps, good
news does come in the middle of the night.}
-\subsection{*Chapter 114*: Interlude: The Liberator's Tenth
-Letter}\label{chapter-114-interlude-the-liberators-tenth-letter}
-
-\textbf{Interlude: The Liberator's Tenth Letter}
+\chapter{Interlude: The Liberator's Tenth Letter}\label{chapter-114-interlude-the-liberators-tenth-letter}
\emph{June 1st, 1997}
@@ -74424,10 +73821,7 @@ Yours,
\emph{The Liberator.}
-\subsection{*Chapter 115*: Learning to
-Relax}\label{chapter-115-learning-to-relax}
-
-\textbf{Chapter Ninety: Learning to Relax}
+\chapter{Learning to Relax}\label{chapter-115-learning-to-relax}
Draco leaned his elbows on the table and studied Harry through the
corner of his eye. Harry was reading a letter that had come in by an
@@ -74499,7 +73893,7 @@ even Charms, where almost all their work was practical now.
\emph{Defense it is.}
-SSSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
Wherever he went that day, walking from class to class or sitting in the
Great Hall or working on homework in their room during one of their free
@@ -74830,7 +74224,7 @@ In the back of his mind, he imagined a sun, shining with all the fierce
determination he'd lost when the focus of his mind changed from the
Transfiguration. The icepacks began, slowly and steadily, to melt.
-SSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
Draco did as he had promised himself, sitting carefully back in his seat
in Defense while Professor Pettigrew gave a dire warning about the
@@ -74906,7 +74300,7 @@ This time, Draco thought the promise might hold.
He leaned back, and gave Harry a little nod, and decided to rework his
notion of what he would like for his birthday.
-SSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
Harry chewed the base of his quill, and carefully arranged phrases in
his head. He had quite a bit of correspondence to write that evening,
@@ -75009,7 +74403,7 @@ thought was a gentle, wry self-deprecation he hadn't felt in a while.
\emph{It would be too simple otherwise. And I'm not destined to lead a
simple life.}
-SSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
Rufus stretched his arms until they cracked. Then he sipped the last of
his tea. Then he signed his name to several small requests for funding
@@ -75085,7 +74479,7 @@ one present on stage during the great events of the last few years, was
the one that would truly rise in a wave, and knock Juniper and his
supporters off their feet.
-SSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
It was done.
@@ -75158,10 +74552,7 @@ rid you of some of this nervous energy.}
In the meantime, she would garden. That always relaxed her.
-\subsection{*Chapter 116*: The Old
-Light}\label{chapter-116-the-old-light}
-
-\textbf{Chapter Ninety-One: The Old Light}
+\chapter{The Old Light}\label{chapter-116-the-old-light}
Rufus had made sure he slept well. His mind was as clear as it was
likely to become. He had talked with Percy quietly as they went to
@@ -75349,7 +74740,7 @@ He caught Juniper's eye, and thus saw the almighty scowl the man was
throwing him. Rufus smiled sweetly back, and swept into the second phase
of his speech.
-SSSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
Narcissa appeared, and staggered. She had visualized the desolate heath
properly, but not the exact section of slope where she had Apparated.
@@ -75416,7 +74807,7 @@ sleep, he also seemed unchanged.
``Narcissa. My darling.'' He stepped away and made a deep bow, sweeping
his arm past himself. ``Do come in.''
-SSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
``I wish you to tell me, any of you,'' Rufus went on, his eyes burning
over the wizards and witches who stared at him, "when we last confronted
@@ -75522,7 +74913,7 @@ werewolf packs."
\emph{That} made them erupt, as Rufus had known it would.
-SSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
Narcissa lifted her head. ``I am not stupid, Lucius,'' she said quietly.
``I know the house will not permit anyone not of the elder Malfoy blood
@@ -75650,7 +75041,7 @@ risk-taking?''
He bared his teeth at her, mask cracked for the first time since the
conversation had begun.
-SSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
Rufus waited to see who would speak the first question. Really, he would
be disappointed if it were not Juniper. He should recover quickly enough
@@ -75789,7 +75180,7 @@ Rufus turned to face Elder Juniper. ``Elder Dawnborn has been
particularly eloquent in her appreciation of my efforts,'' he said.
``Your thoughts, sir?''
-SSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
``You do not have a right to call me pathetic,'' Lucius said, his voice
drained of emotion, but full of clenching teeth. "Or what are \emph{you}
@@ -75906,7 +75297,7 @@ did kiss the back of his hand to her. Narcissa saw him, and carried the
gesture with her into darkness, and then the bright, quiet beauty of
Silver-Mirror.
-SSSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
What else could he do?
@@ -76027,10 +75418,7 @@ This was only a small setback. Erasmus did not intend to allow that
torch, passed from generation to generation and still ablaze with love,
honor, and tradition, to go out.
-\subsection{*Chapter 117*: Lie In My Arms This
-Night}\label{chapter-117-lie-in-my-arms-this-night}
-
-\textbf{Chapter Ninety-Two: Lie In My Arms This Night}
+\chapter{Lie In My Arms This Night}\label{chapter-117-lie-in-my-arms-this-night}
"Parvati, we have to get---\emph{ah}---"
@@ -76333,7 +75721,7 @@ That couldn't erase the incident from Connor's mind, though. Or the fact
that Snape, questioned on his behavior, had looked lost, as though he
remembered nothing of the last several moments.
-SSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
Draco could feel a restless, itchy twitching climbing his shoulders, as
though \emph{everything} had suddenly become that place in the middle of
@@ -76471,7 +75859,7 @@ or even for himself. Just a normal day.}
\emph{That sounds right.}
-SSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
He didn't remember.
@@ -76583,7 +75971,7 @@ anything else could have done.
\emph{I could wake up tomorrow and find that Draco's changed his mind
again. I have to be ready for that.}
-SSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
In fact, the only thing on Draco's mind when he woke in the morning was
the intense pressure in the center of his chest.
@@ -76703,7 +76091,7 @@ deserved. Carefully, he settled it back in its box and started to cast
warding spells around it. No one would steal it from him, or wear it
without his permission.
-SSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
Harry kept waiting for---something to happen. For someone to yell at
him. For another letter to arrive saying the Ministry wanted him to take
@@ -76773,7 +76161,7 @@ appease Argutus's vanity, that he had relaxed, and nothing bad had
happened, and they were sitting at the table and having a normal day
like any other snake and his Parselmouth.
-SSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
Lucius's gift came at noon.
@@ -76876,7 +76264,7 @@ lunch, and knew they were watching him do it.
He ate every bite, calmly and without once stopping or glancing at the
wooden box beside him that contained the knife.
-SSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
Harry glanced sideways, started a bit, and blinked.
@@ -76937,7 +76325,7 @@ It took a long time, and the presence of Professor Vector sweeping past,
before Harry could look innocent again. He was tasting joy too strongly
and sweetly.
-SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
Sunset came.
@@ -77053,10 +76441,7 @@ on one when they chose to adopt honesty as a standard.
His hand reached out, to find Harry's waiting for it. Their fingers
intertwined, and that was, for now, quite enough.
-\subsection{*Chapter 118*: Interlude: The Liberator's
-Eleventh}\label{chapter-118-interlude-the-liberators-eleventh}
-
-\textbf{Interlude: The Liberator's Eleventh Letter}
+\chapter{Interlude: The Liberator's Eleventh}\label{chapter-118-interlude-the-liberators-eleventh}
\emph{June 5th, 1997}
@@ -77098,10 +76483,7 @@ Yours,
\emph{The Liberator.}
-\subsection{*Chapter 119*: Intermission: In
-Readiness}\label{chapter-119-intermission-in-readiness}
-
-\textbf{Intermission: In Readiness}
+\chapter{Intermission: In Readiness}\label{chapter-119-intermission-in-readiness}
He Apparated calmly to his Lord's side that night. He knew what the Dark
Lord would say to him, every word planned out, every dance step smooth.
@@ -77188,7 +76570,7 @@ turned a dull and shimmering red, the color of old blood.
``I give the honor of the kill to you.''
-SSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
Severus slowly opened his eyes. He felt more relaxed and satisfied yet
than he had from one of these dreams. It was almost enough to cause him
@@ -77216,24 +76598,7 @@ leaving it fresh and clean and---ready.
He pulled on his robes, absently caressed his left forearm, and swept
out of his office to begin the day.
-\subsection{*Chapter 120*: Slytherin and
-Gryffindor}\label{chapter-120-slytherin-and-gryffindor}
-
-\textbf{Author's notes (important, please read):}Okay, here's how it's
-goes. The ending of this story is spread out over the next five
-chapters, all of which will be posted today. All the chapters are at
-least technical cliffhangers, except the last, so even though I'll be
-posting them just a few hours apart, you may want to wait to read them
-if you don't deal well with suspense. This ending is also darker than
-the rest have been, to lead into the seventh story, which is the darkest
-of all, and more of a cliffhanger itself; immediate issues are resolved,
-but not their consequences. I'll begin posting the last story on Tuesday
-or Wednesday, depending where in the world you live. If you have
-questions, feel free to contact me on my LJ or by e-mail.
-
-Here we go.
-
-\textbf{Chapter Ninety-Three: Slytherin and Gryffindor}
+\chapter{Slytherin and Gryffindor}\label{chapter-120-slytherin-and-gryffindor}
Harry rounded the corner cautiously. He relaxed when he saw Snape
striding ahead of him, not yet returned to his office after dinner. He'd
@@ -77272,7 +76637,7 @@ condition that I want fulfilled if we look into my memories.''
what it is.} ``All right,'' Harry agreed, happiness bursting in the
center of his chest. ``Is it that I call you Severus? I can do that.''
-SSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
He awoke.
@@ -77378,7 +76743,7 @@ walls with his green potion. Any Slytherins who served the Dark Lord,
who had given their allegiance where it belonged, were already safely
out of the school.
-SSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
Minerva was more than slightly surprised when the gargoyle leaped aside
and her wards on the moving staircase informed her that Severus was on
@@ -77436,7 +76801,7 @@ The tea itself was warm, but ice seemed to reach out from it, spanning
her mind with frozen bridges, spilling coldness through her lungs and
her limbs. She sagged back against her chair, and felt her mind wander.
-SSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
Severus's heart beat as if it pumped excitement instead of blood. It had
worked. The slight time-delaying charm, which was not a common spell
@@ -77514,7 +76879,7 @@ towards the Headmaster's desk---Albus had fallen off his chair, and lay
on the floor---he turned towards the top of the school and the final
point his Lord had wanted him to make before Severus joined him.
-SSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
"\emph{What is that?"}
@@ -77742,10 +77107,7 @@ will not be.}
So Harry merely gave a sharp nod, and then turned, speeding towards the
feeling of Snape's magic, speeding towards the Astronomy Tower.
-\subsection{*Chapter 121*: Triple Edged Blade: First
-Cut}\label{chapter-121-triple-edged-blade-first-cut}
-
-\textbf{Chapter Ninety-Four: Triple-Edged Blade: First Cut}
+\chapter{Triple Edged Blade: First Cut}\label{chapter-121-triple-edged-blade-first-cut}
Indigena wished she could see, wished she could hear. Her Lord lay
motionless in a corner of his throne room, and reached out with his mind
@@ -77762,7 +77124,7 @@ despite her understanding that they could have not moved earlier.
She spent one more moment gazing at her dreaming Lord, then closed her
eyes and Apparated.
-SSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
Severus stood on top of the Astronomy Tower. He had finished enlarging
the Dark Mark so that it hung over the school as a malignant, glittering
@@ -77811,7 +77173,7 @@ and cause him only a little less pain than the words could---a weak
curse, actually, but one that the boy would have needed trained power,
not merely strength, to block.
-SSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
Harry was close enough to see Snape's eyes.
@@ -77866,7 +77228,7 @@ behind him. He took a step forward, eyes fastened on Snape's face.
``Sir,'' he said.
-SSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
Severus did not understand. The Potter brat was not that powerful. He
\emph{knew} he was not that powerful. The prophecy said he could not be.
@@ -77907,7 +77269,7 @@ know you are only trying to persuade me back to your side. Albus tried
that, too, and it didn't work. I am not of the Light. The Light does not
know \emph{hate} the way I do."
-SSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
\emph{Hatred. That's it. That's what Voldemort's using to control him, I
think. Hatred, and vengeance. He poisoned McGonagall because he thought
@@ -77943,7 +77305,7 @@ the heat of summer, the shadows of black jaguars and the coil of snakes.
to acknowledge my own power. Please, sir. Remember. Come home. I love
you."
-SSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
The Potter brat---
@@ -77991,7 +77353,7 @@ remind himself that this was an enemy, to make the Potter brat defend
himself and drop the strange façade that was working on Severus for no
reason he knew. To make him stop the \emph{magic.}
-SSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
Harry breathed deeply, his eyes focused on Snape. He could feel his mind
streamlining itself, other concerns falling away, from what Draco would
@@ -78029,7 +77391,7 @@ otherwise didn't move. His vision blurred, so hard was his heart
pounding, and Draco would have said he was insane. But Draco was not
here. It was his choice, to take the risk, to trust.
-SSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
Contradictions ran around inside his head, smashing themselves together,
sending shrapnel and bouncing stones down to rain on the unprotected
@@ -78066,7 +77428,7 @@ long ago.
\emph{I am more than the people I hate.}
-SSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
Harry saw the struggle begin in earnest. He knew it was probably similar
to the struggle Sirius had waged in third year to take his body back
@@ -78101,7 +77463,7 @@ had to be his doing. If Harry tried to join in, he would be taking over
Snape's free will, and he would never know for certain if perhaps
Voldemort's hook remained in Snape's mind, only buried, not removed.
-SSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
He was Snape, the Potions Master who hated teaching, the Dark wizard who
had given too much of his life to the cause of the Light, the father of
@@ -78167,7 +77529,7 @@ them, so he destroyed Voldemort's hold.
And then he was free, and he could feel Harry's hands gripping either
side of his face, and he opened his eyes and stared straight at his son.
-SSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
Harry screamed like a hawk when he felt what Snape was doing. Yes, it
hurt, yes, he had lost some parts of himself and would never be the
@@ -78190,10 +77552,7 @@ to prevent in your concern with your father!}
And visions slammed into him, an avalanche of despair.
-\subsection{*Chapter 122*: Triple Edged Blade: Second
-Cut}\label{chapter-122-triple-edged-blade-second-cut}
-
-\textbf{Chapter Ninety-Five: Triple-Edged Blade: Second Cut}
+\chapter{Triple Edged Blade: Second Cut}\label{chapter-122-triple-edged-blade-second-cut}
Rufus looked up with a small smile when he hard the knock on his door,
at long last. ``Come in, Hope,'' he called.
@@ -78338,7 +77697,7 @@ was dead, who would be Minister.
And before he could fully comprehend the consequences of that, the Light
came for him, wave after wave, to welcome him home.
-SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
Indigena leaned down further, and gently closed Minister Scrimgeour's
eyes.
@@ -78424,10 +77783,7 @@ Indigena climbed, steadily, her vines ripping out the stones in front of
her, cocooned in the power of green and growing things, bringing her
back to the evening light.
-\subsection{*Chapter 123*: Triple Edged Blade: Third
-Cut}\label{chapter-123-triple-edged-blade-third-cut}
-
-\textbf{Chapter Ninety-Six: Triple-Edged Blade: Third Cut}
+\chapter{Triple Edged Blade: Third Cut}\label{chapter-123-triple-edged-blade-third-cut}
It came on him as a sudden swelling tide would, black and littered with
the wrecks of ships. It struck through the Dark Mark on his left arm,
@@ -78488,7 +77844,7 @@ bowed to receive the touch of his hand, while the part of him that knew
better watched from behind steel walls of hatred and Legilimency, caged
by his own lack of love, helpless to act.
-SSSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
And he was back in Azkaban, in the cold, filthy cell, surrounded by
Dementors and the stink, not of human hatred, but of human indifference,
@@ -78580,7 +77936,7 @@ me to find out?''
Peter followed at his heels.
-SSSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
The wolf in her welcomed it, of course. It panted and wagged its tail
and thought that this was the greatest thing that had happened since the
@@ -78630,7 +77986,7 @@ be sane for long.
Indigena laid a hand on her shoulder, her smile full of pity. Then she
closed her eyes, and together they Apparated.
-SSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
It took less effort to take possession of Adalrico than it had almost
anyone else. Adalrico knew that, understood the moment the hatred began
@@ -78666,7 +78022,7 @@ So it would not be so bad.
Even as he knelt before the Dark Lord's throne, Adalrico did not know if
the justifications he had woven came from pragmatism or despair.
-SSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
Indigena appeared among the other Death Eaters, Hawthorn Parkinson at
her side, and shook her head as she watched them. This was where her
@@ -78758,17 +78114,7 @@ had a temper when he allowed himself to feel it.
Now, more than ever, she was sorry that she could not follow her Lord
into the vision, and would simply have to wait patiently for the result.
-\subsection{*Chapter 124*: Having Seen That Love Hath An
-End}\label{chapter-124-having-seen-that-love-hath-an-end}
-
-The title of this chapter comes from Swinburne's poem ``Hymn to
-Proserpine,'' which, not coincidentally, also provides the title for the
-seventh story,{ I Am Also Thy Brother.} Also, \textbf{this is the last
-chapter of {A Song In Time of Revolution}.}I will begin the next story
-on either Tuesday or Wednesday, depending on where you live in the
-world.
-
-\textbf{Chapter Ninety-Seven: Having Seen That Love Hath An End}
+\chapter{Having Seen That Love Hath An End}\label{chapter-124-having-seen-that-love-hath-an-end}
The vision flooded out of Harry again, leaving him shaken and drained.
For long moments, he could only lie on the stones of the Astronomy
@@ -78881,7 +78227,7 @@ listened to them before.
He noticed a small figure rising from the grounds to intercept him, and
growled in annoyance. He \emph{did not} have time for this.
-SSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
As he leaned into the wind, Connor had never been so glad that he had a
Firebolt.
@@ -78949,7 +78295,7 @@ stronger than yours.''
And he lashed his compulsion like a rope around Harry's mind. \emph{Fly
back to the Tower this instant, and stop being an idiot.}
-SSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
He hummed, did Lord Voldemort, he sang, because he had tapped into a
part of his heir's mind that was \emph{his}, and which lay deep in the
@@ -78985,7 +78331,7 @@ immune to compulsion.''
Which made him even \emph{more} annoyed.
-SSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
Connor could feel intense pain in his head. The pain only bled into his
anger. He was \emph{not} about to give in to the bastard trying to take
@@ -79039,7 +78385,7 @@ interrupting his self-pitying ramble. ``What?''
And, not giving himself time to think, he launched himself straight off
the Firebolt, and towards Harry.
-SSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
Lord Voldemort was very, very, very annoyed. Deeply irritated.
Displeased with life in general.
@@ -79065,7 +78411,7 @@ I have no doubt.''
\emph{It does not matter. I know the third.}
-SSSSSSSSSSSSSS
+\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}\end{center}
Connor was jumping from his broom, because he was \emph{mad}, and Harry
had to catch him before he could fall. He could not stand if someone
@@ -79169,7 +78515,4 @@ sacrifices.
\emph{The End.}
-As I said, the new story starts on either Tuesday or Wednesday. I hope
-you'll enjoy reading along as much as I enjoyed writing it.
-
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