Mortalus

Anomie by Mortalus
08/21/2007

Nearly a decade post-Hogwarts, Harry's Quidditch career is slipping into oblivion, his marriage to Ginny is failing, and even his friendship with Ron is on the rocks. Lord Voldemort, having lost all his magical powers, has been imprisoned by a Ministry too fearful to kill him and is slowly whiling his years away in bored ignominy. Meanwhile, the magical world itself is losing the ability to perform magic ...

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Seventh year. Harry, Ron and Hermione intend to destroy Voldemort's Horcruxes, but finding them is a problem. Clues drop into the trio's laps, but they may be too good to be true. Members of the Order of the Phoenix are being picked off one by one and Aurors are dying fighting the good fight, but the Ministry itself is on no one's side but its own. Lord Voldemort, meanwhile, is setting the wheels of his own master plan in motion.

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