Who will be next to perish? Should he support the Ministry? Does Dumbledore have a plan? These questions and more haunt Harry as he and his new Order train for war and vengeance. Snape gets the Defence job. Will he too be struck down? Harry has been warned about the returning Potions Master, but how can he resist hearing tales about Slughorn's favorite student, Lily Evans?

(Original Trilogy AU) In an alternate universe where Darth Vader is the Emperor and the Death Star was never built, Luke Skywalker joins the Rebellion's desperate struggle against the tyranny of the man he already knows to be his father... (The original 'One Missed Strike' stories, collected together in one newly revised and updated edition.)