A numbers game with a definitive set of rules will always end the same. Twist any of those rules and it will take longer to reach that conclusion. Break those rules, and the game changes. It still plays out, players come and go, but the ending will never be the same. On October 31st, 1987, the ending was already in flux, and the rules are already broken.

".. So there's this thing I needed in the old manor house, and I made my way on over. Took a look, but other than a nice chandelier and a dead guy, there wasn't much to see really. Oh, and a full team of Aurors showed up too, real tough. Now I know what you're thinking - Potter, how the hell did you ever get out of there? Well, I had a good eye, and a handful of bullets."

20 years have gone by after the fall of Voldemort, and everything has changed. Auror Captain Daphne Greengrass struggles to bring in the wanted criminal known only as the Ventores. As she chases after him, the line between what is right and what is easy begins to thin, and as the Magical World moves towards global war the truth will become a luxury that no one can afford.

It's not the fury of the moment one should be afraid of. It is the slow anger. The one that sits for years before forcing its way to the top, refusing to be denied. It burns across the battlefield, wrath and ruin devastating and all encompassing. Oneshot. During the Battle of Hogwarts.

Errant Redux. The strings of Destiny seldom play its part in the lives of men, yet when it does it plays a much larger part than Prophecy. The prophecy of the Girl-Who-Lived has begun. The destiny of the Wanderer is just beginning. The board is set, and the first piece has just begun to move.

Euro is weakened by the shadow that was Voldemort, and as they prepare for his return an ancient evil is stirring. All hope is now upon the shoulders of a young man wandering what is now left of the land.

"Life isn't fair Daphne." She would prove him wrong, no matter what it took, one day at a time.

Every man makes dozens of empty promises. But they always make at least one promise that they will keep, no matter the cost. But that promise they make good on, could be useless. So even if they keep that promise, is it still empty? Wrong Girl-Who-Lived. H/D