Author: Rhetor

Story: Returning Were As Tedious

Part: 1: Prologue: Sound So Fair

Rating: Teens

Setting: Pre-DH

Status: WIP

Reviews: 22

Words: 11,534

New Chapter Progress: [ 40% ]

Progress Notes: I have written a substantial chunk of Chapter Four, at least half. Don't know how long it will take me to finish.

Summary:
I am in blood
Stepp’d in so far, that, should I wade no more,
Returning were as tedious as go o’er.
Macbeth,III.iv.160-162

The education, life and times of Severus Snape, with particular attention to the unhappy confusion of his affections and his relations with the Dark Arts.

Approximately 20-24 eventual chapters, including Prologue and Epilogue.

This story will hold to canon as closely as possible, except for the very few specific events in DH that contradict it. Its primary originality comes from its point of view and its choice of themes and metaphors. Additional author’s notes may appear at the end of each chapter.

Author: Rhetor

Story: Counting to Five Thousand

Part: Prologue: Before a Storm

Rating: Teens

Setting: Pre-DH

Status: Completed

Reviews: 74

Words: 11,869

Summary:
One decision leads to an army of consequences, and a lifetime is not too long to spend cleaning them up.

Author: Rhetor

Story: Learning to Breathe Together

Part: Learning to Breathe Together

Rating: Teens

Setting: Pre-DH

Status: Completed

Reviews: 24

Words: 6,767

Summary:
A frightened voice in the dark calls out a name. Whose name will you call when you are the one awakening? Moment by moment and breath by breath, you tell yourself the truth.

Author: Rhetor

Story: Minding the Baby

Part: DH Spoilers -- Minding the Baby

Rating: Teens

Setting: Pre-DH

Status: Completed

Reviews: 53

Words: 3,283

Summary:
Andromeda is left alone with Teddy, or so she thinks.

Author: Rhetor

Story: On the Headmaster's Wall

Part: Prologue

Rating: Young Teens

Setting: Pre-DH

Status: Completed

Reviews: 53

Words: 10,660

Summary:
Centuries pass; memories fade. No one remembers the sacrifices made to win the war. Only the portraits on the Headmaster’s wall, and one portrait in particular, is able to tell the story.

Author: Rhetor

Story: Quartet for Separated Voices

Part: Quartet for Separated Voices

Rating: Young Teens

Setting: Pre-DH

Status: Completed

Reviews: 40

Words: 3,957

Summary:
Four voices, separated by years and miles, consider the decisions before them. Each agonizes, each worries, each vacillates. Each decides.

Author: Rhetor

Story: Report on the Excavations of Sites HH-87 and HH-88

Part: Report on the Excavations of Sites HH-87 and HH-88

Rating: Young Teens

Setting: Pre-DH

Status: Completed

Reviews: 36

Words: 2,595

Summary:
Archeologists excavating the ruins of Hogwarts find more than they expected.

Author: Rhetor

Story: Savoring Patience

Part: DH Spoilers - Savoring Patience

Rating: Teens

Setting: Pre-DH

Status: Completed

Reviews: 49

Words: 2,063

Summary:
Harry and Ginny realize they have time.

Author: Rhetor

Story: The 312th Edition

Part: The 312th Edition

Rating: Young Teens

Setting: Pre-DH

Status: Completed

Reviews: 34

Words: 2,561

Summary:
History, sadly, isn’t really written by the winners; it’s written by the historians. Someday we will all be (at best) footnotes in somebody’s history book. How much of our passion and devotion will filter through to the distant reader of that book?

Author: Rhetor

Story: The Only Way Out

Part: The Only Way Out

Rating: Teens

Setting: Pre-OotP

Status: Completed

Reviews: 18

Words: 4,039

Summary:
Gideon and Fabian are out of options, but not out of choices.

Author: Rhetor

Story: The Torch

Part: The Torch

Rating: Young Teens

Setting: Pre-DH

Status: Completed

Reviews: 33

Words: 2,258

Summary:
Hermione Granger goes back to Hogwarts to say goodbye to her old life. What she finds there is unexpected.