What happens to a starting fourth year muggleborn riding the Hogwarts Express to rumours the Golden Trio are dead, missing, have run away, or are fighting the returned 'You-know-who' that fourteen months prior, the Minsistry had been denying over a year long to have returned.

What happens to a starting fourth year muggleborn riding the Hogwarts Express to rumours the Golden Trio are dead, missing, have run away, or are already fighting the returned 'You-know-who' that fourteen months prior, the Minsistry had been denying over a year long to have returned.

Runes, twins, mulligan, mysteries, and twists! The rabbit hole starts with a Princeton acceptance letter but the twisting won't stop there. Blood will be bled to fuel magic's need. Darkness is required for light to be the best. All stories have a beginning. Nearly everything about where this was chosen to start is to deceive you into making incorrect assumptions. Enjoy the twists.

The arithmancy behind potions and spells is like the buffer solution in a chemical experiment allowing variance in the inputs to deliver a similar result. Of course power is lost, but it is worth the price paid to enable a consistent result. Ritual magic is unfettered, magic in the raw. Amazing and catastrophic are the possible results, and then there are times it is both. One shot

Harry realizes that his first friend is willing to face his greatest fear and follow the spiders. How can he as a good friend force his first friend ever to do that? So he decides to trick Ron into believing he doesn't plan to follow the spiders. On shot - complete.