Sons of Prophecy
This story begins in the New Year of 1998, just over six months after the end of The Half-Blood Prince. It is a sequel to my story Mood Music (a.k.a. Sound is a Horse), which should ideally be read first. It is being written turn and turn about with a straight SF novel so it will probably be updated only once every two or three weeks, rather than once every two or three days as Mood Music was. Those readers who haven't read Mood Music yet, but who intend to, should probably skip the The Story So Far section, which summarizes Mood Music for the benefit of those who've read it but can't remember what happened, and is therefore one big spoiler. Unless you're like me, and usually read the last page of a book first to see if you're going to like it!
N.B.: Deathly Hallows Revisions Table
This story has been re-edited up to Chapter #15 to take account of the new canon backstory revealed in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (although the events of this story and its predecessor, Mood Music, are of course AU from a point a few weeks before the end of HBP). All the signficant changes are listed in the Revisions Table, so you can see what's been altered without having to go back and re-read the entire story (unless you want to, of course). Most of the edits are fairly minor, but the portrait-scene in Chapter #15 has been substantially re-written.
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The Story So Far
Being a summary of the plot of Mood Music, the story to which this is the sequel.
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#1: Silence is Pronounced
In which Mad-Eye Moody and the Ministry of Magic behave about the way you would expect them to.
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#2: Counsels of War
In which various decisions are reached.
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#3: Unchartered Waters
In which vesels are for hire - at a price.
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#4: Talking Back
In which notes are passed in class.
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#5: Oil and Water
In which various things are stirred, or stirred up.
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#6: And the Truth Shall Make You Free
In which Minerva exploits her sex appeal.
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#7: Many Happy Returns
In which Snape is once more footloose, if not quite fancy free.
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#8: A Shore Thing
In which domesticity occurs.
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#9: Present Company Accepted
In which various problems are pin-pointed.
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#10: Coming to Grief
In which Severus suffers a loss, and finds the music.
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#11: Poetic Licence
In which damages are limited, and options assessed.
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#12: Misty Watercolour Memories
In which the past bears examination.
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#13: Medicine Songs
In which music soothes the savaged breast.
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#14: Damaged Limitations
In which boundaries are drawn, and then scribbled all over.
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#15: Old School Ties
In which, among many other things, a very Auld Acquaintance is renewed.
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#16: The Swimming-Pool Library
In which wisdom comes from the deep, but water alone cannot wash away the past.
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#17: Household Accounts
In which various forms of petting are discussed.
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#18: Not Raving, but Drowning
In which trouble is afoot, and matters come to a head.
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