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1. BillCipher_NatchoSans on Chapter 1 Fri 24 Jan 2025 07:08PM UTC

   

   YIPPEEE PHOENIX 🐦‍🔥🐦‍🔥🐦‍🔥 !!! I wanted to suggest that on insta (dammit I should've then you would suspect me of being in your house again lol) but it felt too Albus-oriented and I thought I had spammed the question too much alr, but seeing as the first part is named Ashes (which I DID get!) it's like Gellert and Albus' relationship dies (from that "CRUCIO!" which I'm still not over 💔 ), the fire of their relationship becomes ashes, then is reborn into a pretty phoenix!!! Which is actually really apt bc iirc in HP Dumbledore mentions that Fawkes looks ugly AF as a chick right after he's reborn, and needs time to grow back his feathers and mature again, just like how Grindeldore will need time to build their relationship back up again and get that happy ending! Or maybe I'm just completely off lol, it's 3am and my brain is kinda goofy around this time. Super excited for book 4!!! Wow I can talk a lot about a single word.
   Oh yeah is the 7 different parts related to how 7 is normally seen as a magically powerful number in HP? (Like 7 Horcruxes etc.) Also if the titles of the 7 parts form the life cycle of a phoenix I'd be so tickled (but it's probably more fire analogies lol 🔥) see you next week!

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2. 1. fleur_despoir on Chapter 1 Sun 26 Jan 2025 10:04PM UTC

      

      Hi there, I DIDN'T KNOW THERE WAS A PHOENIX EMOJII UNTIL THE DAY I POSTED IT?!?! well I'm smarter now XD
      I won't say whether this will be Albus-focussed, whether there will be actual phoenixes, the only thing I can confirm is that Ignotus the Phoenix is pissed at the state of affairs-
      Well done getting ASHES right!
      " it's like Gellert and Albus' relationship dies " ahahahahaha if only it were only the relationship that could die here-
      "Which is actually really apt bc iirc in HP Dumbledore mentions that Fawkes looks ugly AF as a chick right after he's reborn, and needs time to grow back his feathers and mature again, just like how Grindeldore will need time to build their relationship back up again and get that happy ending!" is that you having read ahead that I spy? 😂
      "Oh yeah is the 7 different parts related to how 7 is normally seen as a magically powerful number in HP? (Like 7 Horcruxes etc.) Also if the titles of the 7 parts form the life cycle of a phoenix I'd be so tickled (but it's probably more fire analogies lol 🔥)" I gotta be honest I didn't think about the seven hp parts but I can't even lie and pretend it's anything other than the seven life-stages of a bird, though in abstraction, that is SO clever of you, you deserve that praise now and not in two weeks when I actually show you the titles of the individual parts at least those that I have fixed, which are 6/7 by now- So YOU CAN BE TICKLED!!!!! till next week! 🐦‍🔥❤️‍🔥

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4. 1. fleur_despoir on Chapter 1 Sat 25 Jan 2025 10:05PM UTC

      

      hey you, thank you so much! it means a lot to hear! 💛

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      2. 1. fleur_despoir on Chapter 1 Mon 27 Jan 2025 09:10PM UTC

            

            💛 you're always welcome to create something if you wish to or someone you know

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            2. 1. fleur_despoir on Chapter 1 Tue 28 Jan 2025 08:57PM UTC

                  

                  don't have one XD

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                  2. 1. fleur_despoir on Chapter 1 Tue 28 Jan 2025 09:13PM UTC

                        

                        ? Not every person who writes has Discord? 😂

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5. Leo (Guest) on Chapter 1 Sat 25 Jan 2025 03:39AM UTC

   I love the name for the next part! And it's really perfect for the theme of the titles. I only thought it would be something more chaotic considering that crucio, but it's a perfect fit.

   I wonder if we wil see Fawkes debut, I always thought he appeared to Albus after Gellert's imprisonment post duel, but I don't know if it will happen in this universe.

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6. 1. fleur_despoir on Chapter 1 Sat 25 Jan 2025 10:06PM UTC

      

      thank you so much! I'm really glad you enjoy the book title! Oh, there is chaos, I promise, much more than you might expect, the first part isn't called Ashes for nothing!
      I won't say ANYTHING on the Fawkes front, but I can promise 150% phoenix involvement for SOMETHING-

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7. Lilibeth_Rose (Guest) on Chapter 1 Sat 25 Jan 2025 05:14PM UTC

   What a beautiful title sweetheart:)
   At first l thought it could be but I discarded it because too Albus oriented. But I so like it, hopefully a real or metaphorical phoenix will be a balm for their sore hearts !

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8. 1. fleur_despoir on Chapter 1 Sat 25 Jan 2025 10:08PM UTC

      

      heheh thank you 💛 I'm glad you like it so much!
      Aurelius is currently the only person who actually HAS a phoenix, so... besides, is it really about a phoenix literally or just metaphorically? That's for the future to answer 🐦‍🔥 thanks for jumping in to say hi real quick, and that you like the title 💛

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9. springteeth on Chapter 1 Sun 26 Jan 2025 09:33PM UTC

   

   Oh dang I did think Phoenix but didn't actually say, I regret everything lol

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10. 1. fleur_despoir on Chapter 1 Fri 31 Jan 2025 09:28PM UTC

       

       ohhh nah don't regret anything you're good! (I'll find time for the other comment sometime soon I'm just swamped, not ignoring you!) good intuition tho!

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11. Sebbyssun on Chapter 1 Mon 27 Jan 2025 09:56PM UTC

    

    I was so off for the name but oh well 😅😅😅 Ashes is really WONDERFUL considering everything burned up into ashes after that crucio 😭😭😭

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12. 1. fleur_despoir on Chapter 1 Tue 28 Jan 2025 08:58PM UTC

       

       Hey, sometimes, you don't guess right, that happens...! hey I mean any phoenix starts in ashes so... room for improvement I guess?

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13. murawa on Chapter 1 Sat 01 Feb 2025 03:13PM UTC

    

    >So... I don't think anyone guessed "Phoenix" as a title?
    i DID! :D and i'm so glad about that because that's such a great choice, i honestly don't know a word that can fit better. it continues the fire theme AND makes it eternal, so while any other fire will eventually burn down, phoenix will be just born again from the ashes. don't know if that would be a route you go with, just wanted to share some musings! aaaaand does it literally mean that Ignotus (and GASP fawkes?? baby??? 👀) will play a bigger role?

    >And all of those have their own, individual name, and those of you who were thinking "Ashes" would be the name of this, well, you were half right, the first of the seven parts IS called "Ashes"!
    two for two! that's the first time in my life when giving two answers didn't make me wrong in any way :D but, man, seven parts? that's quite a magical number you pulled there :) now i'm interested if names of parts will also continue the fire theme (re: ashes) or if it's going to be something completely different. also i just know that angst will be so delicious... can't wait!

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14. 1. fleur_despoir on Chapter 1 Wed 05 Feb 2025 09:42PM UTC

       

       See, I always miss SOMEONE XDD This time, that had to be you, sorry, then FULL credit to you, your brilliance is unrivalled and wuhuuu you guessed it! and thanks for saying it's a perfect fit, I do like it quite a lot as well, in terms of themes, possible cameos and so much more!
       "it continues the fire theme AND makes it eternal, so while any other fire will eventually burn down, phoenix will be just born again from the ashes." literally the mission statement here, so... you're right on the money.
       "aaaaand does it literally mean that Ignotus (and GASP fawkes?? baby??? 👀) will play a bigger role?" I will ONLY comment on Ignotus, and Ignotus will be more prominent this time around!
       wow you were really on a roll there huh? well-guessed!
       "but, man, seven parts? that's quite a magical number you pulled there :)" didn't even REALISE that I was just going for something completely different with the number seven XD
       I hope you'll like the titles, I'll post them on Friday with some synopses if I get around to it-... thank you so much for the INCREDIBLE accurate guesses, and much love to you! ❤️‍🔥

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15. Meg (Guest) on Chapter 1 Tue 04 Feb 2025 05:30PM UTC

    What a perfect name! I was really struggling with how you would come up with a single fire word that would ultimately encapsulate both the current darkness and chaos and the eventual happy ending. I also don't know if it was intentional, but I noticed the word "ashes" in the last chapter, which made me suspect it would have something to do with that, knowing how you are about slipping the book titles into the text. I'd also just like to say that the fact there are seven parts has me so excited!

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16. 1. fleur_despoir on Chapter 1 Wed 05 Feb 2025 09:38PM UTC

       

       Oh thank you so much! I also promise I'll get to other older comments soon, I'm working on it! 💛
       I'm really glad you think Phoenix is a good name for the upcoming story, and that there's that many parts, which, honestly? Sanity-robbing XDDD I'm just wrapping up the sixth of seven and man I've still got so much left to discuss 😳 I'm just glad I have passionate readers that don't abandon me because I can't keep myself short at this point cause... I'm just yapping so much XD

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17. Lina_m3 (Guest) on Chapter 2 Fri 31 Jan 2025 07:29PM UTC

    I'M SO EXCITED!!!!!!!!!1!1!1!!1!1

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18. 1. fleur_despoir on Chapter 2 Fri 31 Jan 2025 09:23PM UTC

       

       HEHEHE thank you so much! ❤️‍🔥

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19. Sebbyssun on Chapter 2 Fri 31 Jan 2025 10:13PM UTC

    

    A MONTH LEFT AAAAAAAAAAAA

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20. 1. fleur_despoir on Chapter 2 Sat 01 Feb 2025 09:47PM UTC

       

       true lol you can do this!

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21. disasterslytherin on Chapter 2 Sat 01 Feb 2025 02:37AM UTC

    

    the way im reading this from the club lmaoo😭😭 but im so so so excited

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22. 1. fleur_despoir on Chapter 2 Sat 01 Feb 2025 09:47PM UTC

       

       well, multi-tasking is great I hope you had a good time!

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23. BillCipher_NatchoSans on Chapter 2 Sat 01 Feb 2025 04:00AM UTC

    

    Yay congrats on finishing another semester of teaching!!! I wanted to finish at least one piece of AtR fanart by the next interlude, but I've been so busy CNY visiting every day that I haven't had time 😓. IT'S COMING FOR SURE! (I also wanted to draw the CRUCIO scene and then I realised they were naked the whole time lol I've got another idea for it.) Also I immediately went to reread chappie 74 lol. Theory time! (Inhales)

    "not only one life hangs in the balance" both Gellert and Albus are on the brink of death, Gellert from the Pact and Albus from the CRUCIO, I suspect the Pact is what is causing the first part of Gellert's vision in chapter 74 (the Phantom part), and so as seen in the vision, he's massively injured. And at the end of the vision he sees Death, aka they're both facing death rn, because as above so below, and if Gellert is in such danger, Albus surely is as well. From chapter 74: "You won’t go before me, do you hear me?! You WON’T! I won’t let you" one of them is healing the other, or someone close to them is.

    "spark grew to flame, and the inferno consumed it all. There is only ashes" WE'RE IN FOR ANGSTTTT 😭😭😭 ough the start of Phoenix is gonna be rough. Yeah their relationship is low-key dead rn.

    "two unlikely teams...friends- nay, family" Nurmengard found family for sure, and uhh Albus' whole cute community? (I just really miss Dorothea but idt she's gonna appear for this) NEWT SCAMANDER APPEARANCE??

    "learning, in the process, a great many things" they learn about Grindeldore, maybe Nurmengard found family finds out about his multiple forms/ terrible visions/ true form/ huge trauma. And Albus' friends learn about Quenbus Dumblefoy/ Albus' trauma/ Albus' mental health issues.

    "one rather gruff innkeeper" ABERFORTH
    "one's great-aunt" BATHILDA!
    "One's great-cousin" Cosimo??? YIPPEE!!! Actually it could be smol Voldy if it's from Aurelius' POB, but idts.
    "godchild and adopted family" someone on Albus' side. The Lestranges? Idk there's so many kids idk who Albus is a godfather to OOPS-
    "one's mother" between the 2 of them, Gellert is the only one whose mother is still alive, but didn't he say she was in a muggle village somewhere??
    "One's grandpa" whomst the heck??? Ok idk who this is gonna be. Maybe figurative grandpa, so Nicolas Flamel??? Idk about literal grandpas.
    "half-sibling" wait WH- um ok so one of them has a half sibling??? I'm guessing Gellert, because well there's no love lost in his parents' marriage. What if his mother fell in love with one of the Muggles there, and gave Gellert a half-blood half-sibling? That'll be funny lol. Also I'm kinda shocked Aurelius wasn't mentioned lol.
    "we're getting ahead of ourselves" NO FLEUR COME BACK PLS this is such an amazing summary I'm in so much suspense lol-

    "second chances under the Parisian starlight" they get back tgt in PARIS??? Gellert HATES Paris-
    "dragonfyre in Hungary" Franzi time!
    "crypt in Yorkshire" Necromancy time?
    "bowels of Hogsmeade" Aberforth time. Maybe Aurelius meeting Aberforth finally?? Not sure what we're doing in India and Ilvermony either.
    "paragraph 397" idk what this is. Some ridiculous British law?
    "Yorkshire suddenly the most important place" Grindeldore being goofy there probs lol. Maybe a date Travers catches them in.
    "joint twin-flowers" ARE THE FLOWER TATTOOS FINALLY GONNA BE USED??? PLS 🥹🥹🥹💠🪻
    "Cosimo's and Næve's year-mates"...why are Cosimo and Næve even interacting? Cosimo is a student, or still travelling, Næve is a Nurmengard resident (the one who's got at a drawing iirc) are both of them going to school tgt? The word year-mates implies they are students in the same year. Maybe they're both at Ilvermony? Is Næve infiltrating a school as a spy, or just genuinely a student? Cosimo could be at Nurmengard instead, since he's likely mentioned earlier in the summary, then year-mates would just indicate one of the kids at Nurmengard who's the same age as them.
    "Where are Patrice Lemont and his entourage?" Who is Patrice Lemont and his entourage? Interesting name tho, makes me think of Lemony Snicket lol.
    "slumbers below Hogsmeade" is it the Basilisk and the Chamber of Secrets?
    "Azhar" no clue what this is either LOL
    "India" ooh are they visiting India at some point? Cool!!!
    "heathers on the mural...Hyseberht's fruit bowl" I think this is an analogy for Quentin focusing on one thing when he should've focused on smth else instead.

    "phoenixes" FAWKES 🐦‍🔥🐦‍🔥🐦‍🔥 I wonder when he will appear, in Ashes seems like the best spot bc Albus is in great need at that point in time (mortal peril probs), or maybe Albus' animagus form is a phoenix! That'll be cool, and he becomes a phoenix when he is "in direst need".

    Next week sounds fun!!! The chapter count is gonna be like 200 😭, good luck Fleur! I can't wait to see what the parts are called!

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24. 1. fleur_despoir on Chapter 2 Sun 09 Feb 2025 08:54PM UTC

       

       Thank you so much! I do hope the CNY celebrations were not only exhausting but also fun and that seeing a lot of people was nice at least to some degree, and thank you again for the art! the piece I've seen is lovely and I think I'll link it in the beginning of 4!
       "(I also wanted to draw the CRUCIO scene and then I realised they were naked the whole time lol I've got another idea for it." 😂😂😂 not ENTIRELY but definitely enough to see shit unless you work with angles oups
       "both Gellert and Albus are on the brink of death, Gellert from the Pact and Albus from the CRUCIO, I suspect the Pact is what is causing the first part of Gellert's vision in chapter 74 (the Phantom part), and so as seen in the vision, he's massively injured. And at the end of the vision he sees Death, aka they're both facing death rn, because as above so below, and if Gellert is in such danger, Albus surely is as well. From chapter 74: "You won’t go before me, do you hear me?! You WON’T! I won’t let you" one of them is healing the other, or someone close to them is." ok wow first of all that was a long paragraph copy what the hell me, second, I can't comment, but I really enjoy the theory, know that! 💛
       Oh yes the start of Phoenix is unironically really rough. Like, read with caution TW before every chapter rough. Unironically for once, I'm not making a joke of it, it's harsh.

       I can't promise any appearances or disappearances! Not even precious little Dorothea

       " they learn about Grindeldore, maybe Nurmengard found family finds out about his multiple forms/ terrible visions/ true form/ huge trauma. And Albus' friends learn about Quenbus Dumblefoy/ Albus' trauma/ Albus' mental health issues." how many way to say no comment but I really enjoy the ideas you have here? 😂
       Aberforth ✔
       Bathilda ✔
       Cosimo ✔
       Albus isn't officially Godpapa to anyone so... besides, these could be pertaining not only to those two but others as well XD
       Making no comment on Nico, Mama Meinhardt or any possible half-siblings XD Gellert with a little sister/brother? Oh, now I made myself sad-
       (can't deny the comedy potential though)
       ""we're getting ahead of ourselves" NO FLEUR COME BACK PLS this is such an amazing summary I'm in so much suspense lol-" can you tell I was trying to be cheeky XD
       ""second chances under the Parisian starlight" they get back tgt in PARIS??? Gellert HATES Paris-" Gellert does hate Paris yes.
       I mean... necromancy in Yorkshire is technically wrong and right?
       Ouh, I like the Aberforth meeting Aurelius idea!
       ""paragraph 397" idk what this is. Some ridiculous British law?" oh yes, it is
       ""joint twin-flowers" ARE THE FLOWER TATTOOS FINALLY GONNA BE USED??? PLS 🥹🥹🥹💠🪻" 😂😈 decidedly no comment on that
       "The word year-mates implies they are students in the same year." lol they're graduates from Durmstrang and were in the same year, so someone else who was in the same year as them (Anna for example) would be a year-mate to my mind
       Fun fact, Le mont is French for "the mountain" and a pretty common last name in France XD and more like leMONT and less LEmont too. One of Gellert'd followers!
       Something's below Hogsmeade and I'm not telling
       ""Azhar" no clue what this is either LOL" AHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHA this is so funny cause nobody has the first idea what that is (literally in story)
       Hm, I like the Quentin theory as well
       I won't spoil anything on potential phoenix ex machinas 🐦‍🔥
       thank you so much for all the guesses, I will stay tight-lipped on these, but of course you can always come back later and see whether any of them were accurate, it might just take two years for those things to be solved 😂 Oh, yeah optimistic 200 chapter count over here now that I'm at 170? if I'm not completely wrong? was I? no, 171 as of yesterday. So... def over 200 if I get everything done the way I want, thanks for the good luck wishes I'll need them I swear- this book is too much of a monster to stop it at this point- thanks for the comment!💛

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25. murawa on Chapter 2 Sat 01 Feb 2025 03:56PM UTC

    

    it would have been SO funny if you posted the next chapter of interlude on the 10th of february x)

    >There is only Death, and his antidote, a life of torment. The spark grew to flame, and the inferno consumed it all. There is only ashes, now.
    that's such a raw line. loved it. eating it and leaving no crumbs.

    the paragraph about families is very interesting. the "rather gruff innkeeper" is obviously aberforth, that's basically his yet another middle-name. but then you switch to gellert's relatives with bathilda and cosimo, and i'm actually not sure that it switches back to albus? i'm pretty sure that gellert didn't have any godchildren in the story, but those dot-dot-dots do look incriminating! oh what i wouldn't do to see his grandpa though. i also like the focus on family connections, that makes it so much more intimate, like the story have become so big that you promising us india and ilvermorny, so narrowing it on some level is clever (and i'm a sucker for family feels, bring it IN)

    oohhh i have exactly zero thoughts about the majority of the mentioned things in the second half, like yeah, no, WHAT slumbers below hogsmeade?? some other great beast like basilisk and squid?? i also would like to know! second chances in paris sounds so funny if that's really about grindeldore, they are so against it, kicking and screaming, and yet paris still could be the city of love for them x) and joint twin-flowers — can it be about their tattoos? it's the final installment and those still have to do something, i'm crossing my fingers. i was also surprised by the connection between cosimo and næve and i'm not sure if i forgot something or if it will be revealed. time to reread some chapters, i guess ;)

    and!! at the end!! my first thought was about fawkes of course (will he heal albus from cruciatus? will he heal albus from the heartbreak? if nothing else, save him from ptsd, there is no therapy in wizarding world, fawkes, help) BUT!! "perhaps some can simply become phoenixes themselves" — that line right there made me think about it in a metaphorical way, so now i'm imagining dumbledores coming to each other in the hour of need, helping and healing

    really interested in the structure!

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26. 1. fleur_despoir on Chapter 2 Sun 09 Feb 2025 09:00PM UTC

       

       arrrrrg that would've been funnier I should have timed this so much better argh- but the thought counts.
       "that's such a raw line. loved it. eating it and leaving no crumbs." awww thank you so much!
       ✔️Aberforth, ✔️Bathilda ✔️Cosimo, and more I cannot tell, those were sort of the more obvious ones, and who says it's only Albus and Gellert? There could be others hidden in there as well!
       Gellert as of now doesn't have godchildren, no, WHOM would he have as a godchild? 😂
       "i also like the focus on family connections, that makes it so much more intimate, like the story have become so big that you promising us india and ilvermorny, so narrowing it on some level is clever" thank you, I'll try my best with it! It's a pretty big story though most of it is central Europe still with excursions elsewhere

       " no, WHAT slumbers below hogsmeade??" that's the question. I've been seeing the Basilisk guess, absolutely love it though I can't say whether it's right or wrong! Love the Paris idea too, they'd both hate it so much- Won't say anything on the flowers or the tattoos! but you're right, the tattoos would have to do something I can't just find them and then never make use of them in any fun-to-heartbreaking manner. Cosimo and Næve just happened to graduate together from Durmstrang XD (and so was someone else you've already met)
       No promises on any phoenix-related beings appearing in the story besides (1) Ignotus who is very done with people sometimes. "so now i'm imagining dumbledores coming to each other in the hour of need, helping and healing" oh now THERE is a good take-
       thank you so much for the comment and all the theorising, it means a lot ❤️‍🔥

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27. Meg (Guest) on Chapter 2 Thu 06 Feb 2025 12:35AM UTC

    Hooray for no more work for a while! I am SO EXCITED after reading this teaser, and my mind is spinning with all the possibilities. Here are my wild speculations. When you first started teasing the possibility of one or both of them being dead, I thought Gellert was the most likely candidate if the blood pact overcompensates while getting its shit together and doing its damn job. Now though, I think I'm leaning more toward Albus being dead or near dead. In the last chapter, it seems like he's having the start of a panic attack even before Gellert tortures him, and I could see that combo stopping his heart or something. I can't really see Aberforth or Cosimo or anyone going to any great lengths to save Gellert, even if Albus asked them to, which I'm not sure he'd be inclined to do under the circumstances anyway. Plus, the "you won't leave without me" part in the vision felt like more of a Gellert thing to me.

    If I have to pick one wild theory to pursue, here it is: Albus is dying due to a combination of Crucio and panic attack, and then Gellert makes some sort of deal with Death or something to stop it. The "old friend" reference makes me suspect the Master of Death idea is going to come into play somehow. Maybe the deal is they have to find either the Resurrection Stone or all the Deathly Hallows within a certain timeframe or Albus dies (and maybe Gellert too)? I kind of love the idea of Gellert suddenly having to scramble to find the Deathly Hallows and then give them up in order to save Albus from Gellert's own anger management issues. I'm picturing this as a mad dash where Gellert and Albus have to get help from all of their friends and allies to have a hope of figuring this out in time, running counter to their mutual desire to never ask for help or openly share information with everyone. Maybe Nurmengard and Albus's friends have to team up - I love stories where enemies have to work together! It says "two teams" though, so maybe they're competing somehow. (Oh, maybe the original scenario was that Albus and Gellert both died and now everyone is trying to find the Resurrection Stone to bring them back or something.)

    The list of people to rely on sounds like it could be entirely Gellert's, and I love the idea of him getting the life lesson of how people and relationships matter. I feel like I can sort of see the outline of the blueprint for how you're going to make Gellert get himself together enough for a happy ending after the travesty of Inferno, and it's fantastic!

    Random thoughts on the (delightful) details:
    - "even though one rather gruff innkeeper would never admit affection outright" - this sounds like Dumbledore Family Healing, which as you know is one of my favorite things!
    - "one's great-aunt" - Bathilda is probably going to ship these two so hard (preferably after yelling at Gellert for being a dumbass)
    - "one's great-cousin" - Assuming this is Cosimo, who will probably ship them less hard, but I could see him definitely stepping up to help Albus
    - "godchild and adopted family" - I initially read this as two people and thought it was the Flamels and some kid that Albus was actually godfather too despite all of his hesitations regarding Dorothea, but now I think this might actually be Aurelius (as related to Gellert), since it would make sense syntactically that you're talking about one person here, and we know Gellert and Aurelius are all about the adopted family vibes
    - "one's mother" - Erika?!
    - "one's grandpa" - Was Gellert's grandpa the one that had the vision about the earthquakes and got everyone to evacuate to safety? And then Gellert was being all sulky earlier about how no one listened to him like they did to his grandpa. If so, maybe he'll give some Gellert some guidance on how to navigate his visions and also interact with people in a not terrible way.
    - "half-sibling" - My guess here is Erika had another kid. Hopefully it wasn't Frederick who had another kid, since that dude is the worst. On one hand, I'm happy for Erika getting out of that toxic situation and starting a new life, but on the other hand this woman's track record doesn't suggest she's cut out to have kids. Also, I know this isn't actually true and probably makes zero sense temporally or geographically, but my new theory is that Erika is Jacob's mom (which will bring us nicely back to the possibility of Gellert and Jacob teaming up to bake dragon meringues in the future haha).
    - If we're going to India, does that mean we get more Anna? Yay!
    - If we're going to the US, does that mean we get more Perce? Yay!
    - Parisian starlight and Hungarian dragonfyre sound like Albus and Gellert ideas of romantic dates, so that's heartening!
    - I'm wondering if Yorkshire is where one of the Deathly Hallows is hidden? Or where the Gaunts are currently?
    - "joint twin-flowers" - I love how everyone in the comments is all: "flower tattoos?!?" - you've created such a great piece of lore there!
    - Were Cosimo and Naeve in the same year at Durmstrang? It's interesting to think about them interacting. Maybe this year-mate is connected to the half-sibling mentioned earlier?
    - I feel like we know barely anything about Patrice, so I'm interested to know more
    - Library of Tehran - !!!! I cannot wait for this!!! Please tell me Gellert has to be friendly and polite with a bunch of sphinxes
    - I have no idea what the Quentin reference is about, but it suggests he's alive and compos mentis at that point in the story, which is encouraging under the circumstances!

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28. 1. fleur_despoir on Chapter 2 Tue 11 Feb 2025 09:30PM UTC

       

       Yes, no more work is GOOD! I've actually been super productive since! I still can't believe that honestly. I'm glad to have excited you so much with this teaser, and appreciate the speculations so much, thank you! ❤️‍🔥 I won't say anything in terms of true or false specifically, but you have one thing in the first paragraph literally almost entirely correct!
       the "you won't leave without me" also hasn't happened yet, and it'll surprise you who says it, I promise !

       Ouhh I like the entire Master of Death deathly hallows old friend sort of ideas, though I'll reserve a hearty NO COMMENT on those 😂 Now that the stone is out there, is certainly could be a clue, I mean, I didn't just put it there to forever forget about it again, I can guarantee that. " I kind of love the idea of Gellert suddenly having to scramble to find the Deathly Hallows and then give them up in order to save Albus from Gellert's own anger management issues." what a high fantasy solution I LOVE- The entire paragraph is just good, thanks! I really enjoy this theory very, very much, though I can't make any promises.

       I will say, the list of people is from the POVs of three different people!
       "I feel like I can sort of see the outline of the blueprint for how you're going to make Gellert get himself together enough for a happy ending after the travesty of Inferno, and it's fantastic!" ehehe thank you getting him from his possibly most irredeemable point to something positive is... definitely something. Honestly, this is really challenging for me because I've never said this little about an upcoming work and I jut want to go like HERE THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS! at everyone XDD
       "- this sounds like Dumbledore Family Healing, which as you know is one of my favorite things!" 💛
       "Bathilda is probably going to ship these two so hard (preferably after yelling at Gellert for being a dumbass)" very true, Bathilda would totally do that
       Cosimo is someone who would step up yeah
       I like the Flamel idea on the godchild idea as well as the Aurelius one!
       " "one's mother" - Erika?!" watch Erika just rock up at Nurmengard like- "Ich hab mir deinen Scheiß jetzt lange genug angeschaut, Kind, jetzt hörst du mal zu und BENIMMST dich gefälligst" (I've looked at your shit for long enough, child, now you listen and BEHAVE yourself) and the whole of Nurmengard just like... "he has a mother?"
       I think that one goes a bit further back, great-grandpa? Maybe one more great? I don't know right now.
       "My guess here is Erika had another kid. Hopefully it wasn't Frederick who had another kid, since that dude is the worst." watch it be Percival XDDD
       "but my new theory is that Erika is Jacob's mom (which will bring us nicely back to the possibility of Gellert and Jacob teaming up to bake dragon meringues in the future haha)." oh that is a head canon now thank you!
       India could mean Anna, and US could mean Perce, yes. Logically.
       "Parisian starlight and Hungarian dragonfyre sound like Albus and Gellert ideas of romantic dates, so that's heartening!" I mean you're not wrong
       " I'm wondering if Yorkshire is where one of the Deathly Hallows is hidden? Or where the Gaunts are currently?" like this theory!
       " "joint twin-flowers" - I love how everyone in the comments is all: "flower tattoos?!?" - you've created such a great piece of lore there!" hehe thank you! 💛😈
       Cosimo and Næve were in the same year!
       Patrice the conundrum yeah.
       "Library of Tehran - !!!! I cannot wait for this!!! Please tell me Gellert has to be friendly and polite with a bunch of sphinxes" uhhh you're making me realise I only have two chapters on the library so far and I kinda hate how few those are whoops need to do more in the future I guess-
       " I have no idea what the Quentin reference is about, but it suggests he's alive and compos mentis at that point in the story, which is encouraging under the circumstances!" glad you take any and all life signs of Quentin!
       thank you so much for all the theorising, I really appreciate it! ❤️‍🔥 I hope you'll enjoy the story I have set out, whether it's what you already predicted or something entirely different!

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    2. 1. Meg (Guest) on Chapter 2 Sat 08 Mar 2025 05:40AM UTC

          ""My guess here is Erika had another kid. Hopefully it wasn't Frederick who had another kid, since that dude is the worst." watch it be Percival XDDD" - Albus's dad Percival? I didn't think that one was super likely because he was in Azkaban, but I guess either he or Kendra could have had a kid before they met. I don't get a cheating/child-out-of-wedlock vibe from the Dumbledore family dynamics, though I could be wrong.

          I think in my head initially I was imagining locating the Deathly Hallows would be some sort of massive challenge, but it seems like our characters already have a pretty good idea of where all three are. So I guess the real problem if you go that route would be communication/information sharing, which seems appropriate.

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       2. 1. fleur_despoir on Chapter 2 Sun 09 Mar 2025 09:55PM UTC

             

             Hey, anything could happen XD Though your arguments are perfectly reasonable of course
             Yeah the Hallows are sort of... there, I mean, canonically, we kind of know where they are so I didn't want to make a large mystery out of them-

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          2. 1. Meg (Guest) on Chapter 2 Wed 02 Apr 2025 02:32AM UTC

                Ok, now Percival's letter to Albus is making me question everything! I'm assuming it wasn't Kendra, since I assume the kids would have noticed if she was pregnant or just disappeared for nine months, but maybe Percival did have another kid.

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             2. 1. fleur_despoir on Chapter 2 Wed 02 Apr 2025 08:21PM UTC

                   

                   Yeah the kids probably would've noticed that, but you can never know! 😂

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29. Nekot29 on Chapter 5 Fri 21 Feb 2025 09:39PM UTC

    

    I can't believe how excited I am about next Saturday. Fleur, you must be a complete genius, how did you manage to only give us crumbs from all those summaries, I don't even understand. Now, I do have a lot of theories, but there're way too many words or possible turns to really have a good guess.

    Ashes: this got me to really worry about Quentin (too late - I know), I feel like Albus will send him to the witness protection equivalent in the wizarding world, and Quentin would have to leave Hogwarts, maybe go to India or America? I'm not quite sure yet. Also, my poor Gellert and Albus, this is going to be too depressing and I'm all for it.

    Eclosion: "the king sacrifice"? Oh no, what is going to happen? Also, "the two possible wielders of willow and fir" I guess that Aurelius will have to pick a side between his blood family and his found one (you cannot tell me he and Gellert are not family). I'm a bit afraid, how would Gellert be if he loses Aurelius? My poor psycho would die. And let us not forget the "two possible wielders", who is the other one? Are we talking about the Gaunts?

    Nesthäkchen: I feel like here they would start to talk again, maybe by letters? Also, we have the Yorkshire mystery and the guest at Hogwarts (not even the titles of the selected chapters give us any clues). Oh, Bathilda and Gellert talking? I need to see their reunion, they're both so insane.

    كَتْكوت: This summary is the one that confuses me the most, like what? We have two unlucky bastards and their adventures through Asia. Albus is a full-time Hogwarts professor, so if he's the one going they have to be in summer vacations, also he probably isn't with Gellert, so maybe Aberforth? I would love if he went with either Graves or Newt too.

    Flügge: Here we have the real change in their relationship, the joint twin flowers finally together. Now it seems that both of them are taking different political actions. Also, the 29-th birthday of Aurelius, "two characters wander down memory lane, to 1870's New York", 1870's? I wonder who they could be, the Flamels? I can't imagine them outside of Paris thou. Who then?

    Second Spring: We have three sides: The Greater Good (that one is the easiest), The order of the phoenix (Albus's side), and ... the necromancers? Or maybe the "governments"? I have no clue of what happens here, but it seems happy, right?

    I really cannot wait any longer, the next part is going to be everything, alone it has the word count of all the series till now! Thank you so much Fleur for sharing your story with us.

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30. 1. fleur_despoir on Chapter 5 Sun 23 Feb 2025 09:08PM UTC

       

       I'm so glad you're excited! That means a lot to hear!
       "Fleur, you must be a complete genius, how did you manage to only give us crumbs from all those summaries, I don't even understand" trust me it was a process and a half, even just writing the summary for part 4 was horrible. Also because I drafted up the first chapter and the book on ao3 and it's too long?!?! so I needed to shorten it and needless to say it's much less cool now XDDD
       anyways, thank you so much for all your guesses, it was so fun to read them! I'll see how much I can say about them I don't want to give anything away but thank you for guessing I really appreciate it! it makes me feel all important ✨

       Ashes:
       Worry about Quentin is always good, I like that you like him!
       "this is going to be too depressing and I'm all for it." puh I'm glad to hear cause it's not very pleasant, I try to keep it somewhat short but it still takes a hot second
       Eclosion:
       ""the king sacrifice"? Oh no, what is going to happen? " you'll have to wait and see 😏 Oh, Gellert losing Aurelius? That wouldn't go well I assume. Well, yes, two possible wielders. Someone else is out here with willow and fir as their woods, and chooses as well! and it's a pretty important choice!

       Nesthäkchen:
       Could be the phase where they talk, yeah. I'm not saying Gellert and Bathilda is talking, though, her biscuits are that spirited and mean, they might as well have a voice for themselves XD

       كَتْكوت:
       I'm glad to confuse people XDD They're not THAT unlucky, Asia is pretty after all. I can't tell you whether a single person of those you named actually goes to Asia or not, that would be a massive spoiler. What I can tell you is that you expect neither, really, earlier in the book, nor do you expect them to be going so far away.

       Flügge:
       Interesting thought! Can't confirm anything about the twin-flowers though, that would be a bit of a spoiler. Let's just say the tattoos play an important role in something. Yes, the birthday is Aurelius, I can already say that!
       "1870's? I wonder who they could be, the Flamels? I can't imagine them outside of Paris thou. Who then?" nobody you would ever expect to have a speaking turn in this story xDDDD

       Second Spring:
       Interesting thoughts on the three factions! I've heard quite a few variations, necromancers, Albus, Gellert, Vinda, governments and any coalition of these against any of the others, so I won't say a word about this and just... let things unfold as they are.

       "I really cannot wait any longer, the next part is going to be everything, alone it has the word count of all the series till now! Thank you so much Fleur for sharing your story with us." thank you so much! It's only a few more days now I can't believe the hiatus is already almost over, I'm still not caught up with everything lol- I'm so glad for your faith in me as I descend into madness over the word count and how much I still have to write with that little voice in my mind whispering that nobody could possibly like it or want to read it, so that assurance actually means more than you think! thank you for this lovely comment, and hope you enjoy the first chapter of Phoenix!❤️‍🔥

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31. Kosm0 on Chapter 5 Sat 22 Feb 2025 04:43PM UTC

    

    Uhhhhhhhhhhh this is all so fun and amazing to specualte on, because there are so many crumbs and yet so much uncerteinty.
    I've read the last Inferno chapter over and over again and really want to write a more all encompassing comment there, but it's hard to even sort my thoughts so that I would find them somewhat coherent myself lmao (Regardless i'll definetly leave a comment sometime this week to say many thankful words, because this ending was just incredible.)

    Anyways here are my spontaneous and likely not very accurate guesses! :D (based on this and the other Interlude chapters, so they're not very sorted, but i tried to stick to the parts)

    ASHES

    I think here both of their inner circles or loved ones will have to make some hard decisions. The whole part seems to be very emotional and worrisome for them. They will probably learn some, partly harsh, truths about them both of our favourite Schrödinger's cats and about each other. For instance they'll probably learn about more family or loved ones existing, on Gellert's side I am thinking of Bathilda, Cosimo and Erika, and on Albus' of Aurelius. This list is surely incomplete though. Also a few peole might learn about Albus' and Quentin's relationship. resulting in Quentin obliviating them, because he get's the danger now. But he probably will not trust Albus again for a long time if ever. The last kiss may be theirs. He will likely also be the one to chose a new profession. I mean Albus may also need to, but it seems like he'll have other things to worry about for now, like not dying. Quentin will surely leave the continent. Poor poor Quentin, he'll have such a hard time from now on, with nobody to really fall back on, when he was not even in the know of any of this. :( For "Frederike and Franziska" my silly initial thought was that Albus would design a female persona and they will meet, but I am very convinced that this is not what is happening. At least not this early on, Gellert may have given up on his sapphic fantasies but I certainly have not. I think this is more likely to be Vinda masquerading as Franziska and someone she takes along to the austrian ministry. (to not blow Gellert's cover, and they will continue his work with dargons) She is in charge now after all. I really hope this will be accepted amongst everyone by the way, this is definitly not the time for division within the movement.

    ECLOSION

    Here I am so so clueless and so so curious. I cannot wait to reach this part, by my estimates sometime in summer? (This is not meant to pressure in any way of course i was just guessing it would be somewhat close to the regular schedule) Anyways, content wise I can only see Aurelius choosing a side (or maybe creating his own? Aurelius building a faction, I'd be so here for it), I really think he will play THE major role here. Very interested to see were that willow and fir stuff leads, maybe the second person is Nagini? Even if not I would really love to see them reunite at some point. Or may be "the two possible wielders" is more metaphorically meant to be Aurelius himself? Can't wait to find out! And some sort of decision to keep Albus, Gellert or both of them alive will be made at the end of the previous part, leading the sides to somehow having to work together, though I have no concrete ideas as to what specifically, so this is basically just what the synopsis said.

    NESTHÄKCHEN

    Here I really can't make sense of the synopsis again. I'm very exited to see by which chapter or part we have enough context to make educated guesses on the later parts' synopses. The unexpected guest may be Vinda or just Gellert himself. I would find either of these having a convo with Bathilda super hilarious. And seriously interesting as well. My guess is that this will lead somewhere semi-hopeful. I don't know if Aurelius would consider himself american, but if so it may be him? Although i think not, and the character will be completely new. I am fairly sure that they are the same person whose name was X'ed out in the chapter titles. So maybe that means we do know them. Arghhh I have no clue! My use of the character-overview has gradually increase the further i've read this story and I feel like it will come in really handy in Phoenix lol. I mean this really will be the time for all other charcters to shine since we practically know that our two idiots are, at least for a while, incapacitated. Anyways I am going off topic here.

    كَتْكوت

    : Well, outrageous guess I know, but this part likely won't take place in Europe at all. Although I, again, can imagine fairly little in terms of concrete events it seems so freshly exciting and adventurous vibe-wise. The unexpected duo could be nearly anyone, but I read someone guess Aberforth and Gellert and I think that would be hilarious. No real idea though. Wild prediction but this seems like the most fun part just reading-wise.

    FLÜGGE

    This one seems really grand and important for the charcters involved as well as the world at large. I think, a hope many others have shared in the comments, that the joint twin flowers is referring to their tattoos. This is still one of my favourite lore piece you invented, it is such a fitting touch. Panther and prince may be Lysander and Albus? Not so sure on Albus, but Lysander I am fairly certain. The birthday is likely Aurelius'! I think Gellert and Albus could be returning to Montmatre, but I don't know who would remember 1870's New York besides the Flamels maybe. The X'd name will likely be the same as in the previous part. I am really curious for that one, since I can't even imagine what would make you deem it necessary to censor... The end of this one will be drastic yet again I am guessing, the last chapter title and beginning of the next part at least seems that way. But predictions with the chapter titles are tricky without knowing the number.

    SECOND SPRING

    Here everything seems to explode politically. I am super excited to learn about the Legend of Grindelwald who would have thought that they both have a family legend! (although Gellert's is likely a bit different and a touch darker lmao) The three sides will either be: Albus&Gellert vs Vinda (with the Greater Good movement in tow) vs ministries or Aurelius' faction, OR Albus (I think he will become a major political player, beofore this part even starts probably) vs Gellert&Aurelius vs the Greater Good movement un der Vinda again. It also seems like this will be all over the place. Like litterally.

    ???

    Well here I really am at a loss for words. I don't know if this is the end end, but if I presume so for a second then we'll likely see everything boiling over with a lot of heartful moments and honest conversation afterwards.

     

    This was the first Interlude where I had the pleasure of reading it before the corresponding part starts and I have to say this is super excited and at times absolutely nerve wracking when you stare at a sentence and realize it might take years before you can understand it's full meaning.

    So yeah this is all I have to ramble for now, let me know what you think! :) (this goes to Fleur of course, but to any other person reading this as well, let me know what you agree or disagree with and please inform me of any logical fallacies in this haha)

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32. 1. fleur_despoir on Chapter 5 Sat 22 Feb 2025 11:03PM UTC

       

       Helllo! 💛
       I'm glad you had fun speculating and guessing! I really tried to keep things vague, so bearing that in mind, you were able to extract quite a lot of interesting theories from it XD Already thank you for considering to write a longer comment for the last chapter, even that means a lot to me! I'm glad you liked the ending so much!
       Ashes:
       "The whole part seems to be very emotional and worrisome for them" it is-
       I will promise at least 1 person learning of Albus and Quentin! whether there are more? you'll have to wait and see! I'm also very interested in your theory that Quentin might be going away because it's so dangerous for him to be there! That seems rather logical. Ouuh interesting thought on Frederike! I can definitely tell you that it isn't happening with Albus though. Vinda involved? That's more likely. "She is in charge now after all" oh yes, Vinda is in charge now! and no, not a good time for division honestly-

       Eclosion:
       I'm glad to leave you both clueless and curious XD I think summer sounds about right, or late spring, 15 weeks from March, so... oh wow it's going to take a second before it's not all totally depressing huh? 😬
       Aurelius building a party? Sure! sign me up, I support him. uuuh now the two wielders both being Aurelius? THAT I can definitely get behind! Not much else to say on this though, it's really hard not to give anything away but I want to comment back anyways!

       Nesthäkchen:
       "I'm very exited to see by which chapter or part we have enough context to make educated guesses on the later parts' synopses. " my answer is never cause there are a few plot twists on the way. not like, out of the world crazy ones, that's not my style, but a few things happen here and there that aren't expected beforehand and can't be guessed. you'll probably be able to tell the overall structure by the end of part 2, but beyond that? It's a bit woozy honestly. Vinda+Bathilda=GOALS omg-
       Aurelius could be the American, yes! So far, other Americans are... Well, Queenie, Tina, Perce, Jacob, Abernathy... I think that just about covers it. Could be a new one too, though.
       " I am fairly sure that they are the same person whose name was X'ed out in the chapter titles." 100% right guess, I have to say that. It's not really a spoiler so I figured I'd just tell you now
       "My use of the character-overview has gradually increase the further i've read this story and I feel like it will come in really handy in Phoenix lol." just you wait until I slam another 50 OCs at you cause I will- I have just designed like 20 the other day, I'm dying at my own brain sometimes- I'm trying to have other characters have a bit of spotlight too! I can't wait to share some of it honestly

       كَتْكوت:
       Maybe it'll be in Europe, maybe not! 😶 "freshly exciting and adventurous vibe-wise" that part does have that vibe a little, honestly, if I'm being perfectly honest
       Aberforth+Gellert=also goals.

       Flügge:
       "This one seems really grand and important for the charcters involved as well as the world at large" OH YES. there are some MAJOR things happening here, like, plot-wise. Big realisations, big character moments, etc. maybe that's why I like it so much. I have to say, in that paragraph, there is at least one guess that is 100% correct. I won't tell you which one tho! 😈
       I'm so glad you like the flower tattoos! I can't say whether this is referring to the tattoos however, that'd be a massive spoiler!
       (seriously though you activated your detective skills in this paragraph)
       "But predictions with the chapter titles are tricky without knowing the number." I did try to sort them according to when they appear in the book! So the first chapter on the list is early, the last late in the part!

       Second spring:
       "Here everything seems to explode politically." for my standards. Don't expect like a crazy spy story with loads of explosions, that's not my vibe, but some political drama and intrigue is to be found here.
       Oh, the Grindelwald legend has a few twists and turns. Though, it mostly unfolds in the present tense. I like your ideas for the sides! You covered all the bases there!

       Part 7:
       is the final part, yes, The end-end. I'm just getting into it right now, trying to see what I still want/need to write, which plot threads are still so jarringly left open-ended that I can't help but do something with them. I#ve had to abandon quite a lot because I just couldn't keep it short and want to do other projects as well, so... but recently, writing has been going quite well, and I hope there are indeed heartfelt moments and honest conversations in this part.
       Uhh your first interlude? (and your last-😬) anyways, I',m really glad you liked it
       "I have to say this is super excited and at times absolutely nerve wracking when you stare at a sentence and realize it might take years before you can understand its full meaning." oh wow I never thought about it like that but you're absolutely right, some parts of second spring are likely NEXT summer or autumn, not THIS one. Wow I just realised I'll be posting for two years, likely, if I keep up my biweekly rhythm 😂 well, strap in folks, it's gonna get long!
       Hi, yes, all others, have fun and theorise away, I'd really like to hear opinions about these too! (considering some were SO right!) thank you so much for taking the time to write this up and tell me all your theories, it means a lot! ❤️‍🔥

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33. Meg (Guest) on Chapter 5 Tue 25 Feb 2025 12:32AM UTC

    Well, if your goal was to give nothing away, I think you definitely succeeded! I don't even know where to start in terms of guesses for the upcoming chapters, but here goes nothing.

    Ashes - It sounds like we're going to get the perspective of a whole bunch of minor characters, which I love. I'm kind of hoping this is just a scenario where Quentin has to go into hiding or whatever because of his relationship with Albus. Unfortunately though, I think it much more likely that Albus is dead (at least temporarily) or catatonic or something. I'm anticipating a situation where Gellert and Quentin, both grief-stricken, have to interact, and I hope Quentin doesn't pull any punches in this scenario. Maybe he can use that "liebling" tip Albus gave him earlier.

    Eclosion - This is making me think that there's some sort of tentative allegiance between Nurmengard and Albus's people. The "bite" part makes me think lycanthropy might also be involved in this whole issue. The willow and fir makes me think Aurelius (and Ignotus) is at a crossroads, and I hope things go ok for them, whatever may happen with the rest of the story. I'm assuming the 'certain young American" is Aurelius.

    Nesthakchen - The "mutual genesis" and "rosy greys" sound pretty promising here. Also, I hope this part involves Bathilda torturing Gellert with terrible biscuits, because he absolutely deserves that!

    Stage 4 (I can't navigate the Arabic characters) - I don't really have any idea what this is about, but all I can think about is sphinxes and an epic library, so we'll see if that comes into play here. I'm very curious who this "destroyer of worlds' is - Andulbaith? Gellert? The "raven chicks" makes me think of the Lestrange kids, but who even knows at this point!

    Flugge - The 29th birthday seems like Aurelius? I think that's about the right age for him. Is this maybe the birthday party by the sea scene that I think you alluded to at one point? I have pretty much no idea about the rest of it. Maybe the 1870s part suggests Gellert had an older half-sibling? Wild theory based on New York - Percival and Gellert are half-siblings. That would break everyone's brains! I'm not sure how old Perce is exactly, but I think he's at least slightly older than Albus and Gellert. For the Montmartre part, can this please be Nico, or better yet Peri, yelling at Gellert? Basically, I'd be fine with 2 million words of Gellert getting yelled at by various characters in various locations lol.

    Second Spring - The new world order part feels ominous; it's making me a little nervous. Hopefully it's a nice new world order though. I'm very curious what the three sides are, Albus and Company and Nurmengard seem like the obvious ones. Maybe the ICW? Maybe Andulbaith? Maybe Death, if I stick with my earlier crazy theory about Gellert/Albus making some sort of deal with Death? Maybe Hitler, if we're getting a "stop WWII without committing genocide" team-up? That would be an extremely cathartic thing to read right now.

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34. 1. fleur_despoir on Chapter 5 Tue 25 Feb 2025 09:47PM UTC

       

       Hello dear! I hope you're doing ok! 💛
       Let's see!
       Ashes:
       Ouh, so you're predicting different perspectives from A&G? Interesting! Kinda would make sense if they're dead though how else would I tell the story? " I'm anticipating a situation where Gellert and Quentin, both grief-stricken, have to interact, and I hope Quentin doesn't pull any punches in this scenario. Maybe he can use that "liebling" tip Albus gave him earlier." we can only hope yeah that would be a serious gut-punch from Quentin's side.

       Eclosion:
       Could be, could be... I can definitely tell you one willow/fir is Aurelius, and it does sort of... shape his story. A certain young American could definitely be Aurelius too. There's only really Queenie left other than that, huh? Everyone else doesn't qualify for young

       Nesthäkchen:
       Whether it is by proxy or in person, Bathilda's biscuit torture sure is very harsh 😆

       كَتْكوت:
       (literally have to copy them all the time as well)
       "all I can think about is sphinxes and an epic library" I can promise Sphinxes, whether the library is epic is up for you to decide
       You do have good instincts and that's all I'll say here

       Flügge:
       that is really Aurelius' birthday yes! and yes, that could be the seaside birthday party. There is another seaside birthday party that he attends too though...
       "Maybe the 1870s part suggests Gellert had an older half-sibling? Wild theory based on New York - Percival and Gellert are half-siblings. That would break everyone's brains!" That would indeed break everyone's brains, mine included. So... depending on how insane I've sounded recently, you might be able to make it out XD I've made Perce in my story about as much younger than Gellert as Gellert is to Albus, so about three years younger than Albus, and one and a half years younger than Gellert.
       Maybe I shall fulfil your Montmartre dreams...? I won't exclude a meeting between Gellert and Nicolas at this point.
       "Basically, I'd be fine with 2 million words of Gellert getting yelled at by various characters in various locations lol." reasonable-

       Second Spring:
       ahahaha you're not the only one whom the new world order makes a bit jumpy
       "I'm very curious what the three sides are, Albus and Company and Nurmengard seem like the obvious ones. Maybe the ICW? Maybe Andulbaith? Maybe Death, if I stick with my earlier crazy theory about Gellert/Albus making some sort of deal with Death? Maybe Hitler, if we're getting a "stop WWII without committing genocide" team-up? " all of those are VERY interesting options I've seen so many different teacups in the comments (it did not just correct team-ups to teacups did it...? 😬 I'll leave it in for your entertainment) and I would love to see all of them. I hope what I eventually choose will be interesting enough!
       "Maybe Hitler, if we're getting a "stop WWII without committing genocide" team-up? That would be an extremely cathartic thing to read right now." I AGREE. Even my stupid country, which is literally the EXAMPLE as to why right-wing parties aren't that great, is 20% right.wing and 30 % party that has drifted so far in their direction that they're the mini-right at this point. it's EXHAUSTING as a normal person to be like PEOPLE WHY ARE YOU THAT F*CKING STUPID CAN YOU NOT THINK WITH YOUR OWN BRAINS WHOM DOES IT HELP IF WE ABOLISH LAWS THAT MAKE PEOPLE BE HAPPY?! Like, why? just why? What in the world has convinced people that it's about damn time for right-wing exclusionist tendencies again? Urgh I hate it and I only live in the light version of it I don't even want to imagine being where you are, I send you all the strength and power! I wish we had some wizards who could just obliviate a bunch of folks and make us NOT have a war in the future please? Peace is a good option too... Anyways, thank you for the comment, sending you strength ❤️‍🔥

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    2. 1. Meg (Guest) on Chapter 5 Sat 10 May 2025 10:41PM UTC

          Coming back to this now that I learned a few things in the beginning of Phoenix! Queenie's recent rant about Aurelius being too afraid to meet his dad because he thinks Abe and Gellert are going to kill each other, makes me think that the "willow and fir" part might be a subconscious metaphor for this. It's bullshit though hopefully, since I'm pretty sure both Gellert and Abe would prioritize Aurelius over their mutual hatred (at least as long as Gellert has some self-reflection time built in, since we've recently seen that his impulsive actions can be VERY BAD.)

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       2. 1. fleur_despoir on Chapter 5 Sun 11 May 2025 08:40PM UTC

             

             Ouuuh I like the idea! I can tell you that willow and fir really does have something to do with Aurelius. But I won't spoil more! Oh, you think that Albus and Gellert would cooperate on Aurelius' health? Interesting. Let's see at some point whether this actually works, or whether Gellert's bad impulse reactions interfere with things againXD

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35. BillCipher_NatchoSans on Chapter 5 Thu 27 Feb 2025 07:57PM UTC

    

    OMG SO EXCITED!!! YIPPEE!!! "considering both Albus and Gellert are currently Schrödinger's cat-" please omg I can't 😂😭 they gotta be alive Fleur lol. Congrats getting into phase 7!!! Endgame is hopefully in sight? I'm sorry the 7k chappie didn't work out. Will you be posting it as like an extra or smth?

    Ok theory time (my phone is at 5%, it's 2.20am):

    "ephemeral darkness" Death. Like, they're caught between life and death, even foreshadowed in Gellert's vision in book 3 (the one that had crucio and the honey).

    "Fiendfyre Deluge" chappie title spotted! Also this is the life part of between life and death, one of them has lit the house on fire (Gellert's seaside cabin NOOOO 💔🔥). I'm thinking Albus, cos Gellert cast the Crucio on him, he maybe on accident did a Fiendfyre in response, they're now both Schrödinger's cats, and Gellert is suffering from the blood pact punishing him, which is why in the vision (IT WAS SO SIGNIFICANT OMG) he thought he was being tortured by that guy again. Gellert probs didn't cast the Fiendfyre cos he was casting the Crucio first, then busy almost dying from the blood pact, but if it was him then he cast it in reflex of the pact hurting him. Albus is just also suffering from Crucio aftereffects, and maybe the pact too if he cast the Fiendfyre.

    "less prominent players" the beloved side characters show up! Nurmengard found family + Albus gang lol.

    "Resolutions" Grindeldore resolve to see each other again at some point/ not see each other again until smth happens/ survive this OR side characters resolve to get them back tgt or heal them/ make sure they survive

    "last kisses" GRINDELDORE KISS???? Or Quentin and Albus lol.

    "laments" everyone is sad afterwards, Grindeldore mail each other while feeling depressed? It does say written after all, but not necessarily sent. Diary maybe? They're just full of regret I think (from lament)

    "new professions" uhh idk who is getting a new job tbh. Albus??? Maybe he joins Gellert in Nurmengard and stops teaching at Hogwarts lol (I'm probs delulu again but wilder guesses have landed).

    "new reality" Albus and him broke up. I think? Especially since Gellert now knows about them. Or maybe it's some other life changing thing, like he's the one changing professions?

    "susceptible to depictions of emotional darkness" oh no that's me. I will indeed read with caution then.

    "king sacrifice" Gellert is indisposed? Cos of the incident? Ok I googled: "a situation where a player intentionally allows their king to be attacked or placed in check, often to gain a strategic advantage or force a win, even if it means their king is vulnerable" Gellert is bait for something? I'm assuming king refers to Gellert, cos he's the leader of a group, while Albus isn't.

    "two parties" Greater Good movement + idk. Actually might be terrorist stuff and not Grindeldore stuff.

    "diplomatic agreement" actual negotiations, so 2 normally opposing parties need to work together for some reason, maybe rescue Gellert?

    "blood, bite or surrender" bite might refer to werewolves. Wait a sec. It could also refer to animals. ALBUS??? Ok if king's sacrifice is actually about ALBUS, the 2 parties may be Salina and Zuzu, agreeing to get along for Albus' sake lol.

    "two possible wielders" wait did I rmr wrong? I thought willow and fir was Aurelius' wood. Or maybe the 2 wielders is Aurelius and his obscurus.

    "willow and fir" CHAPPIE TITLE MENTIONED!

    "their sides and their destinies" Destinies makes me think of the rightful heirs of destiny chapter. Not sure if it's related. And what sides?? Between Aberforth and Gellert?

    "come forth from the egg" Stage title reference!!!

    "mutual genesis" Grindeldore are both beginning to heal/ have healed and are beginning to be normal again. Alternatively, Aurelius + his obscurus went through smth in the previous part and they've become born anew and more stable.

    "quest for destiny" Aurelius goes to find his relatives? Grindeldore find the Hallows?

    "the worst has truly passed" Aurelius is no longer in danger/ Grindeldore are physically fine + resolved their issues (not likely)

    "Yorkshire" ...that's in England no? Uhh what's in Yorkshire? I wanted to say Aurelius finds Tom Riddle, but Wool's Orphanage is in London, not Yorkshire. I just looked it up, it COULD be Aurelius found Little Hangleton (+ the Gaunts there), which is in England but never specified where in England.

    "unexpected guest" idk, someone from the Greater Good? IS IT GELLERT?

    "Bathilda's biscuits" Either Grindeldore is having a meeting, or Bathilda is meeting Gellert and making him eat her cookies + scolding him for whatever happened to Albus. The Rhine runs through Europe, including Germany, so it could actually be Gellert. Bathilda's Bane probably happens here too. Or maybe it's the DMLE not having learnt their lesson lol, and they're eating very bad tasting cookies again.

    "the world rises to at least rosy greys" the future is looking marginally better/ sunrise?

    "young American" I'm really sorry, the only one I can rmr is Aurelius? Both his parents are British tho, so maybe it's one of the Nurmengard kids. Or maybe it is Aurelius and I'm overthinking. The American part also ties in to Ilvermony.

    "an exceedingly rare talent" Parseltongue maybe, if it's Aurelius? He is a Gaunt, after all. If it's not Aurelius, some magical talent like idk portrait painting? Or it could be a muggle talent that's just really hard.

    "young fledgelings" Stage title reference!!!

    "friends and family" more side characters!!! We'll hopefully see everyone we like lol. And lots of emotional support.

    "Kalina Georgiev's horror-catacombs" ...idk what this is gonna be, sounds kinda scary. The name sounds russian, but I have 0 clue if I've heard this name before. If it's one of the people Gellert punished (especially that watching forever lady), maybe the mysterious creature is some weird thing they kept in their basement??

    "unlikely duo" could literally be anyone. Imagine if it's ABERFORTH + GELLERT 😂 also they're going to Asia yippee!!! My continent!!!

    "consensual espionage" ...what? Are Grindeldore getting kinkier or smth LMAO, but anyway I'm guessing that Gellert invited Albus/ one of his proxies over while knowing he's gonna take the opportunity to collect info on Nurmengard. The person gets more info than they thought they would, and Gellert is tbh probs flexing Nurmengard to them, especially if it's Albus.

    "the Maigold Mystery" my guess: someone has planted Maigolds in a greenhouse, no one knows who/ smth is wrong with the Maigolds, no one knows what.

    "fight at a ministry" I literally dc who atp, PLEASE tell me someone beats up Travers lol. I just want revenge for him being a huge jerk to Albus. I'm also not sure what the grander story is? But this event helps to lead up to that, maybe it's a coup at the British ministry of smth. Albus takes over?

    "Firouzeh" 0 clue who this is. Maybe a centaur? The name reminds me of Firenze from Harry Potter lol. Also 0 clue on the Destroyer of Worlds.

    "raven chicks" stage title reference!!! Also ooh, ravens? Cool!! They're my sister's fav bird lol.

    "birds are leaving their nests" stage title reference!!!

    "much change" I'm guessing the new gen of Hogwarts is graduating and is going out to make change, and maybe some Nurmengard people also?

    "séparation" chappie title spotted!!! And it's still the french one. Also resignation to separation could mean someone resigns from their job and thus leaves, or someone is feeling resigned and leaves. Idk who??

    "century-long tradition" ...idk what it is. Broken in 2??

    "grand realisations" could be anything lol. Maybe Grindeldore finally realise they love each other?

    "Death" NOT AGAIN 😭 ok is the pact acting up against both of them again? Or is it regular mortal peril?

    "crypt" please tell me we're not in the Paris catacombs omg. That's terrifying. Also, why are we in a crypt?

    "joint twin-flowers" chappie title spotted! Also, yippee the tattoos!

    "panther and the prince" panther is Lysander, is the prince Lennox? But we wiped his memories. Idt prince is Albus, the title doesn't fit him?

    "twenty-ninth birthday" uhh not Grindeldore WAIT AURELIUS IS LIKE 20+ OMG MAYBE HE'S TURING 29!!! 🎉🎉🎉

    "1870s New York" Even Albus isn't born yet, who is it having this flashback?

    "Montmartre" that's in Paris lol, another meeting? Yay!

    "new world order" ooh big things are going down, someone's emerging victorious from this World War. Wait are they gonna stop WWII?

    "Legend of Grindelwald" Gellert lore? Or just a lot of things happening?

    "Bowels of Hogsmeade" Aberforth and the Hog's Head?

    "three sides" The Greater Good, Albus' side, the Ministry (maybe in Britain only, not world wide)/ The Greater Good, Ministries, Muggle WWII

    "mystifying, well-deserved and usurped power respectively" mystifying = Gellert (seer power)/ Aurelius (obscurus power), well-deserved = Albus (ofc), usurped = someone??? (maybe Travers lost it in the UK)/ Gellert (took over smth)/ Nurmengard person (coup against Gellert?)

    "one's ally" oh it's about to get complicated lol. Albus finally joins Gellert after British MoM pushes him too far? Ministries ally with Gellert to stop WWII?

    "Paris... vineyards" MEETING SPOTS???

    "the heart, famously, wants what it wants" GRINDELDORE!!!!

    Ooh if Flügge is your favourite then I'm excited for it! Idk anything about Ilvermony sorry 😔 also it's now 3.52am and I typed until my phone was at 1% so it's charging now lol. If I sound weird it's cos I started to get tired around 3+ oops. I'm gonna sleep now! Sorry for the long comment lol all the descs are so good!!!

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36. 1. fleur_despoir on Chapter 5 Fri 28 Feb 2025 09:47PM UTC

       

       Hi there!!!
       Phase 7 is a monster already and I've barely started-
       I don't know yet, I might. It's diverging from the canon a little, someone was going to come out to someone else but it just didn't work in writing, so I might still have it. I have been thinking that too. There are always little snippets that didn't make it, but I'll see about it honestly. Don't know yet.

       "my phone is at 5%, it's 2.20am" your dedication is REAL ✨

       They may definitely not be doing so hot right now-

       Yeah the vision was absolutely accurate like, it happens 1:1. Fun fact, Tabetha predicted the exact same thing for her New Year's prediction, but that very likely got lost in all the Dorothea cuteness XD (two people predicted horrible things happening and nobody listened)

       ""less prominent players" the beloved side characters show up! Nurmengard found family + Albus gang lol." prepare for side-character shenanigans 🌺

       Won't spoil the kisses by any means!

       "OR side characters resolve to get them back tgt or heal them/ make sure they survive" you might be on to something here 🤔
       (side note it is SO hard not to unveil anything, there have been , in your comments and others as well, guesses that were light-years off and guesses that made me wonder whether you were sitting behind me lurking in the background having read along because they were that accurate and me in the middle trying to be sneaky and mysterious 😂)

       Everyone is sad is a good description

       You won't guess the new profession and the person who gets it it's unexpectedly RIOTOUS😂

       There's some life-changing shit early on I admit that.

       ""susceptible to depictions of emotional darkness" oh no that's me. I will indeed read with caution then." 💛 be safe! Everything gets ok in the end I promise no matter the earlier (abridged) darkness I've written characters in worse places honestly.

       "a situation where a player intentionally allows their king to be attacked or placed in check, often to gain a strategic advantage or force a win, even if it means their king is vulnerable" that is exactly what happens yeah. But whom to? Who is the King Sacrifice? 🤔

       Might be wolves. Might be other animals. "the 2 parties may be Salina and Zuzu, agreeing to get along for Albus' sake lol." LOVE that guess- Ignotus might have something to say about it too though, I*m sure he has an opinion on Gellert hurting a Dumbles

       it's Aurelius' wand wood choices, yes. But maybe his Obscurials has those needs? Or becomes a person? or someone else entirely? Mysteries mysteries

       I'm skipping. a few points sorry I just don't have much to say about those

       "Grindeldore are both beginning to heal/ have healed and are beginning to be normal again. Alternatively, Aurelius + his obscurus went through smth in the previous part and they've become born anew and more stable." both legit good guesses

       same holds true for the next one

       "Aurelius is no longer in danger/ Grindeldore are physically fine + resolved their issues (not likely)" yeah cause there is ISSUES otherwise I couldn't write the story I need the drama to substitute plot 😂

       It's in England! More I won't say! Because that would be a massive spoiler!

       Gellert at Hogwarts and Armando just like... "you know what honestly I've seen crazier things recently just don't be an ass to the kids and get out through the back I can't with this world nowadays everything was better three centuries ago when people were NORMAL"😂

       Someone eats bad biscuits and learns a lesson. More I can't unveil

       (love all the guesses though in case that wasn't obvious)

       ""the world rises to at least rosy greys" the future is looking marginally better/ sunrise?" 100%

       Queenie is young and American too, Tina as well, Aurelius, Abernathy, but that's about it.

       THE RARE TALENT SHALL STAY UNMENTIONED because it would literally be such a spoiler I love your guesses

       I've made her be Georgian and I am now noticing that I should have redesigned that cause Georgia might not exist at this point in history, ok I need to look that up otherwise she's elsewhere 😬 thanks for catching that on accident.

       "Imagine if it's ABERFORTH + GELLERT 😂" THERE HAS BEEN A MURDER I REPEAT THERE HAS BEEN A MURDER would be what would happen XD

       "Are Grindeldore getting kinkier or smth LMAO" 😂 the audible snort I released

       ""the Maigold Mystery" my guess: someone has planted Maigolds in a greenhouse, no one knows who/ smth is wrong with the Maigolds, no one knows what." that's so anticlimactic that's right up my wheelhouse honestly 😂

       Travers is in need of a good bashing yeah. Revisit this point in the future is my advice cause... there's one thing here that's eerily close

       Oh I like the guess about Firouzeh, who is not in fact a human! Good instinct!

       Ravens are pretty prominent latest by that stage year!

       I mean you're not off temporally by much honestly to put it towards graduation time

       Like the theory on Séparation. It's one of my favourites

       ""century-long tradition" ...idk what it is. Broken in 2??" it's pretty important 😂

       ""grand realisations" could be anything lol. Maybe Grindeldore finally realise they love each other?" Oh we wish they did...

       "Or is it regular mortal peril?" I love how this is a genuine question 💛😂

       No, we're not going to Parisian crypts. These are cooler. (and more emotional)

       Ahhhh you've picked up the panther being Lysander! I won't say anything about the prince!

       "WAIT AURELIUS IS LIKE 20+ OMG MAYBE HE'S TURING 29!!! 🎉🎉🎉" yaaass he is! (at least someone's older than me in this fic)

       ""1870s New York" Even Albus isn't born yet, who is it having this flashback?" who indeed?

       "Wait are they gonna stop WWII?" that is kinda the overall goal of everyone lol-

       Legend does have Gellert lore I have to say. Or like, Grindelwald lore. Overall.

       ""Bowels of Hogsmeade" Aberforth and the Hog's Head?" yeah that would make sense huh?

       "The Greater Good, Albus' side, the Ministry (maybe in Britain only, not world wide)/ The Greater Good, Ministries, Muggle WWII" ah an abundance of options indeed

       literally am looking at the mystifying well deserved and usurped and am like... wait, of the first two who's who and why?😱 I don't know what I'm doing ignore me XDDDDD

       The British MoM does have the tendency to push Albus to do silly things so...

       ""the heart, famously, wants what it wants" GRINDELDORE!!!!" It might just eventually be that they get together?

       It's ok I#ve got Ilvermorny pretty sketched now! And I love it I wanna go there instead of Hogwarts now😂 anyways, thank you sooo much for the long comment it took you ages omg thank you so much!!!! I hope you slept well and rest well overall, and see you in phoenix! ❤️‍🔥

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37. Erised19 (Guest) on Chapter 5 Fri 28 Feb 2025 07:42PM UTC

    Dear Fleur
    I am sorry that I was not really present during this interlude phase. I had quite a difficult month, my experiments are not really working and everything just takes much longer. That's why I was stressed out and worked a lot.

    It's not easy to guess much. I was thinking about all the snippets you gave us but ...
    Ok so Albus or Gellert is dead!? I am not ready to believe this! Maybe one of them is in a kind of coma, because so far there is no evidence that someone who is dead can really come back. Then there is of course the question who. From your summary it sounds like both are in a life threatening situation, which is easily explained by Gellert's crucio and the possibility that the pact will still react, probably quit heavily. My first guess is that Gellert is in coma after the whole crucio situation and because I think Albus still has to learn how much is likes Gellert and seeing him actually being almost dead might help to realize that. However the titles from ashes sound more like Gellert so I am not sure if maybe Albus is in coma. Also because apparently Quentin has to phase new realities. Ok first I am glad that he is alive! And second that means something has changed, does he still has to pretend to be Albus, because he is in coma? Did Gellert imprisoned him? Or did Albus "just" breakup with him because it's too risky? Or are both in the beginning in a coma (I just stick with that) and that's why you always refered to two teams etc.?
    I also read the vision Gellert had again and was shocked with that. The heart pain sounds terrible, might be the pain Gellert is now experiencing. And then he heard part of Albus' und Quentin's conversation and felt the honey! "You won’t go before me, do you hear me?! You WON’T! I won’t let you!" That sounds for me like Albus is dying and Gellert screams that at him.
    The white fox could be a patronus, who's patronus is a fox?
    “HELP! HELP!”

    “What is the matter, Ku-“

    Is Ku maybe a name? Maybe Kurt? Is Gellert apparating somewhere in Germany after what happened with Albus?
    Paragraph 397 sounds like a new british law. And what slumbers below Hogsmade no clue, I don't think the basilisk.
    It sounds like Cosimo and Naeve went together to Durmstrang and I believe we so far only know about Anna which was in the same year. Who is Patrice Lemont, don't remember his name at all.
    Looking forward to the libary of Tehran!
    Will Albus get a phoenix? That would be so cool!
    From the stage title the second spring catch my attention the most. It sounds like Albus and Gellert are getting closer again and I guess their first spring was when they first met.
    "After the king sacrifice" is this a reference to the prophecy the divination teacher made for Albus? Very hard to interpret for me
    "The panther and the prince" gellert and Albus?
    "on a twenty-ninth birthday, two characters wander down memory lane, to 1870s New York. But returning to Montmartre, THAT is where change really begins to unfold. " Sounds like Aurelius and maybe he is visiting the place he grew up?
    "On each of the three sides" why three sides? Gellert, Albus and the ministry? Or which sides?
    "And the heart, famously, wants what it wants." Ok this must mean that in the end Gellert wants Albus and Albus Gellert.
    I cannot believe how much you wrote. It's like seven books! I am looking forward so much, eventhough you warned me that the next chapter will be a shocker. (I still think what can shock me more than Gellert's Crucio, naive me)
    Enjoy your Birthday tomorrow!

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38. 1. fleur_despoir on Chapter 5 Fri 28 Feb 2025 09:09PM UTC

       

       Hello to you, dear!
       Oh, it's hard to hear that you've had so much misfortune with your experiments! 😫 I wish you didn't have that, and that everything was working much more smoothly for you! I do hope that a miracle can happen and you can get some things done for yourself, to boost your confidence! You can always rant here if you want to/need to💛

       "It's not easy to guess much" haha purposefully
       "Ok so Albus or Gellert is dead!? " wait until tomorrow and see! Albus as a ghost would be fun though let's be real. Like, if Albus dies because of the curse, the blood pact is going to kill Gellert. Any injury Gellert inflicts will be mirrored onto him, or get even worse on him, that's the deal here. It's just a question of how much and what. I like the first guess you had! I can't confirm/deny but I like it!
       So many questions I can't answer... 😂 But I promise there'll be a lot of answers this week!
       You've already seen this Patronus I promise. A very foxy person. 😏
       I think the vision will fully make sense tomorrow, I think the chapter ties the last moving pieces Gellert saw in the vision.
       it's an old law, but it's a shit law.
       "And what slumbers below Hogsmade no clue, I don't think the basilisk." 🐍🐍🐍 😂 🐲🐲🐲 (that'll make sense in about 2 years)
       yes, Anna was in that year too! So it could be Anna, or someone else...?
       "Who is Patrice Lemont, don't remember his name at all." Patrice was I think in the actual very first chapter of this entire fic! just a supporter or Gellert's
       No confirm/deny on any amount of possible phoenixes 🐦‍🔥
       "I guess their first spring was when they first met." that would make logical sense yeah
       Poor Tabetha predicted exactly what Gellert saw as well 😬 (and Albus blissfully unaware just accidentally ignored both)
       Gellert does like panthers... 🤔
       Aurelius is indeed turning 29!
       Hey, three sides could be anyone honestly. There have been so many options proposed by you all, I really enjoy it!
       "Ok this must mean that in the end Gellert wants Albus and Albus Gellert." I think Aberforth might have something to say about this😫 (such as that Albus would be horridly stupid)
       Hahahah yeah I can't believe it either honestly... I just can't seem to stop, I have this plan and it keeps getting out of my hand I am so bad at estimating how much space I need. Hm, I don't know how much shock value the chapter has, it has an early shocker and then just... more.
       thank you so much for the birthday wishes 💛💛💛💛 I'll try my best to enjoy it! wishing you well, dear!

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39. lciel on Chapter 4 Fri 14 Feb 2025 10:06PM UTC

    

    The Maigold Mystery.... I like this one, it sounds like a sherlock holmes case :)

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40. 1. fleur_despoir on Chapter 4 Sun 16 Feb 2025 12:05AM UTC

       

       hehe thank you! I hope it'll unfold as such to you as well !

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