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Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Intro Chapter 2: Monday, June 24, 1996 Chapter 3: Friday, July 5, 1996 Chapter 4: Sunday, July 14, 1996 Chapter 5: Monday, September 2, 1996 Chapter 6: Saturday, October 18, 1996 Chapter 7: Sunday, December 8, 1996 Chapter 8: Friday, January 3, 1997 Chapter 9: Sunday, March 9, 1997 Chapter 10: Wednesday, May 21, 1997 Chapter 11: Outro
Chapter 1 The Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry is a very large place. There are towers and turrets, corridors and secret passageways. There are rooms which are hidden, and rooms which have just plain been forgotten, some in obvious places and some off corridors which are so far off the beaten path that they have barely been set foot in since a group calling themselves the Marauders had mapped most of the castle in the 1970s. This was one such room, mid-way up what most students now called the 'divination tower,' unoccupied except by paintings and one fairly eccentric divination teacher. This room had a lovely view out of two windows looking towards the northwest, overlooking the Forbidden Forest. There were two stuffed chairs (one a rocker) and a small set of shelves. Every evening at 8:00, one staff member climbed the stairs to indulge in his two vices. On rare occasions, the Headmaster might join in. Sometimes the Muggle Studies or Potions professor might join him as well. One year, to his great annoyance, Gilderoy Lockhart had shown up a few times. John Russell taught 'Runes' -- magical symbols and languages. Muggle-born students sometimes asked if he was related to the famous Muggle noble family of the same name. His branch, the magical branch, was actually the senior branch of the family, emerging from the Muggle commercial class in the late 1300s. In appearance, Muggles would think he was a thick-set man in his early forties. In actuality, he was in his early sixties. His wife and two sons had been killed in a terror attack early during Voldemort's First Rising. His daughter, his youngest child, had survived (mostly because she had been a student at Hogwarts, leaving in 1982), and the first of his three grandchildren would start Hogwarts in just over a year. Even after all these years, he had a difficult time associating Voldemort with the teen who had been Head Boy his first year. Russell had not paid much attention to Voldemort until the terror attacks had escalated in the mid-1970s. He had been a well-known magical scholar by the early 1960s. Voldemort had sent three Death Eaters after him, to coerce him into helping decipher some Dark Magic scrolls. Russell had destroyed the scrolls and killed two of the three Death Eaters. He had survived six attacks on his own life, taking down six of his attackers, but his wife and two sons had not been so lucky. Neither had the three Death Eaters he had learned had been in on the attacks, although the others had escaped him. Russell had proven himself a very dangerous wizard.
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Page 29 and 30: "I was meeting an acquaintance from
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"So, how many points did you dock P
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Russell frowned as he saw McLaggen
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Hermione, seeing that McLaggen was
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"Exactly." "And who is the fourth l
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entertain at the time. I ran here i
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As the weeks passed, Russell saw no
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Russell frowned. "Why is everyone e
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"You would have enjoyed the competi
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Russell turned around and saw Hermi
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"What about Pettigrew?" Russell ask
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Hermione squared her shoulders and
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"I am disciplining a dangerous chil
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"I trust that met with your approva
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Friday, June 13, 1997 The next thre
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Chapter XI For several long seconds
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keeping the force from making their
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House. Send or bring anyone else to
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"It's time I told you everything I
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