The First Chess Match: Birth of the Death Eaters

Battles will be fought, villains will rise, pranks will be pulled, and some humor and romance will be flying around! This fic, starting at the end of the Marauders' fifth year, attempts to detail the start of the First War, focusing on the students whose lives were affected by it. Appearances by Marauders, Death Eaters, Aurors, Slytherins, Original Characters, and a "black-hooded messenger of death."

Friends in need are sometimes on their own...and sometimes find help in surprising places. Catch a glimpse of Bellatrix and Snape circa their fifth year, meet new characters, and learn the truth: that Quodpot is the way of the future!

Double Potions with Slytherins and Gryffindors in Snape and the Marauders' era...the plot thickens in the war against Voldemort...revelations are made to Lyra about the Black family...and the boys get up to no good!

Things get serious as the Marauders face a severe punishment at the hands of McGonagall. The Slytherins, including Bellatrix, Snape and a reluctant Lyra, prepare a rally. And finally...Lord Voldemort emerges from the shadows...finally setting into motion the First War.

The story of the First War continues as the Slytherins cause trouble and torture a muggleborn student and the Marauders find themselves torn between troublemaking and doing the right thing. Tensions come to a boil as the Quidditch Final draws closer, and the line dividing Slytherin and Gryffindor becomes bolder. Excitement, mischief, a cat fight--and love?

By now, "Snape's Worst Memory" is a famous episode in Harry Potter canon. However, do we know the whole story? Chapter Seven shows the incident from two very different perspectives: Lily's...and Snape's. See Potter and Black at their worst and a Hufflepuff at his best...

As the school year ends, Snape begins to discover he may have emerging feelings for someone he never expected. James and Lily suffer individually while trying to figure out the truth about each other's feelings. A sin of Sirius' past comes back to haunt him. Finally, Lord Voldemort emerges from the shadows and begins to assert his power through murder and torture...