In The Heat Of The Night

There are Aurors and Unspeakables, the shining examples to the wizarding world, the protectors against the Dark Arts and the horrors they inspire. Rightly so they are praised and rewarded, however what gifts and praises are given to the Auror Operatives, the invisible fighters who have not been called on wider duty since 1979? This story chronicles the actions of these people and the lives of those around them.

In the aftermath of his capture, the beaten and humiliated Nott is taken to the fortress of Azkaban, where his fellow Death Eaters have recently broken free from to resume their service to Voldemort. On what is Nott's Green Mile, his captor Alamus Clayfield views the destruction and evil around him from his own patronising, rose tinted view, and contemplates the unfolding horrors around him.

I assume many of you have fallen in love at some point. Yes? Then you'll know how it feels to never want to be parted from someone and the feeling that if you were taken from them you couldn't live. But could you stay with someone if the whole world was telling him or her to leave? Could you stay with someone if you were the very thing they should be fighting? Macnair thinks of this when he is lying in his bed and wonders how exactly he and his fiancée do this.

The war moves on and Voldemort is gathering more supporters, many of the non-human kind and envoys must be sent to bargain with them. When Fudge plans to send the Operatives it becomes a struggle of the mind to decide who will go. But can you really trust him at a time like this? And when faced with a clash of personalities, all with strengths and weaknesses, who exactly do you send?

After standing in Celeste's shadow for years and being pushed into by a job she really doesn't want to do by to spite Fudge, how exactly will Cathy get through this and live? Here be monsters.

You’re nervous and edgy. You may feel incapable of moving, or then again you may feel like wanting take destroy everything in your way. You dwell on the past and form solutions to the problems that eat away inside you. And maybe, if you’re lucky, you’ll have realisations of what your life means and why you do thing you do. Sometimes insomnia is an amazing thing.