A Ghost Comes to Visit [Harry Potter]

The basketball players and cheerleaders were the most popular people on campus.

Club officers and good students were in the middle.

The rest, like Beth, barely got noticed.

She stared at the fan overhead. Round and round.

Who had set up such a rigid hierarchy?

If Darwin's theory of evolution was anything to go by, people might never have left the jungle. The genes that had taken the top spot in ancient times thanks to their reproductive advantage were still thriving in 1997.

Does a soul have weight? Is there a scale that can measure it?

Who knows.

But a soul was floating right in front of her.

Or, more accurately, a ghost.

A ghost with nothing but a name.

He begged her for meaning, like a skeleton begging for flesh and blood.

#GhostRomance

#AwkwardTeenageLove

#IStartedThisJustToSetUpTheRomanceButTheRomanceEndedUpBeingTheMostJarringChapterT-T

Reader's note:

1. Lots of headcanon; the main story takes place in the Muggle world.

2. The heroine is a complete Muggle. Her only connection in the Wizarding World is Hermione.

3. Sirius is still alive.

What-if storyline synopsis:

Set in a world where [Voldemort stays on as the Defence Against the Dark Arts Professor].

Since school was hard, we formed a [Let's Survive Under the Rule of the Overachievers Alliance].

Our members include a violent revolutionary, someone emotionally obtuse, someone with a running verbal commentary, people who collide like wind chimes as they walk, someone with a smooth cerebral cortex...

And a pretentious student from Slytherin.

We welcome anyone, except those who discriminate against Muggle-borns.

*The main story focuses on growing up; the what-if storyline is lighthearted everyday life.

I'm not good at realistic stories, so they're all sweet little fluff pieces that don't require any thought.

(#But they're not stupid!)

(#If you think they're stupid, pretend I didn't say that!)

My next book is finally going to be about Voldemort. The basic idea is that Voldemort tries to get rich witch Hepzibah to give him a windfall, but just as he's about to get what he wants, she dies.

Synopsis:

In London, 1946, Margot loses her mother, Hepzibah Smith.

She is left a huge inheritance and a pack of relatives ready to devour it.

Just as she's about to be torn apart, the last lover her mother had appears.

The handsome, humble shop assistant from Borgin and Burkes, praised by every widow: Tom Riddle.

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Tom Riddle thinks life is easy and that everything is within his grasp.

Except for Margot, who should have been an easy kill, but withdrew from the game and escaped unscathed.

Theme: Love can transcend life and death