A/N: Unfortunately, I am no longer feeling inspired enough to continue writing this, not least because it would undoubtedly be an extensive and time-consuming project. When I first started posting this, I thought that my intense dislike for incomplete stories would prompt me to see this one out. I'm sad to say that that is not the case; The Butterfly Effect has become tedious and tiresome to me, and I am not at all motivated to complete it.
In an effort to stick to my word, these next few chapters (for those of you who wish to read them) are the plans I had for each year at Hogwarts, starting with where I left off in first year, and ending with Voldemort's eventual defeat. The earlier years are far more detailed than the later years; none of this is edited, as these were just bulleted plans that I hoped to follow; I hope I managed to patch up any plot points I added as I went along, so as not to leave any gaping holes. If you do read these next few chapters and have questions about anything, feel free to ask; I'll do my best to answer.
In the unlikely event that I decide to pick this back up someday, this chapter and the next few will disappear; but, again, that is a highly unlikely future.
Once again, I'm very sorry to those of you who were looking forward to an actual story that would one day be complete; I'm afraid I just can't commit.
Thank you for your follows, favorites, and comments, and please enjoy!
- Haven's first potions class goes disastrously. Snape asks questions she can't answer, gives points to the Slytherins for wrong answers, pairs Haven and Neville up, and proceeds to give them both detention. Haven is annoyed that she has another detention - she just finished the set with Quirrell. Hagrid invites Haven and her friends to his hut, where he accidentally lets slip about Flamel and Fluffy. Haven and Neville go to detention, where Snape tries to explain that he was once a Death Eater, that he is now a spy for Dumbledore, and that even though he doesn't actually hate them, he has to treat them as though he does in public. He apologises and offers them extra potions lessons, and while Neville is quick to forgive and forget, Haven absolutely refuses to accept Snape's apology. She storms out and heads to the Quidditch pitch, where she spends the night flying around. Quirrell sees her flying around and joins her, allowing her to complain about Snape in great detail. He tells her that Snape must be very bold indeed to have spied on Voldemort.
- The kids work to find out who Flamel is. The first Quidditch match takes place, and though Haven's Slytherin friends are shocked to learn about her placement on the team, that doesn't stop Marcus and Terrence from catching her when the jinx knocks her off her broom. At the same time, Hermione, Ron, and Neville manage to distract everyone in the stands, because they can't quite figure out who is jinxing Haven's broom. Gryffindor wins the match. Malfoy tries to challenge Haven to a duel - his reasoning being that she's on the Quidditch team, and therefore not well-thought-out. Hermione interrupts, saying that duels aren't allowed, and she pitches her voice loud enough for everyone to hear; Malfoy ends up with a detention.
- On Halloween, everyone goes to the feast, and when Quirrell announces the troll, Dumbledore sends the Ravenclaws and Gryffindors to their common rooms, and the Hufflepuffs and Slytherins to some of the classrooms on the fourth floor. Once everything has settled down, the Gryffindors reveal that they have plans to celebrate Samhain; Amaryllis and Percy go to the Room of Requirement, and they open up a passage to the Gryffindor common room. Once all the Gryffindors are in the Room, they begin their celebration, which involves some dancing. The most important aspect is the bonfire, which allows the Gryffindors to commune with their dead. Haven is approached by the ghosts of her parents, who end up telling her that Sirius is innocent. The next day, Haven mentions this to her friends, and Susan tells her aunt, who begins to go through the trial records. She finds out that there was no trial, and pushes to have one. Sirius is proven innocent and is sent to a Mind Healer.
- Christmas comes. Hermione writes a letter from home telling them that Flamel is an Alchemist best known for the Philosopher's Stone. Haven receives her invisibility cloak and the flute from Hagrid, and she and Ron sneak into the third floor corridor and try out the music theory on Fluffy. It works, and Haven and Ron grow concerned with how easy it is to bypass Fluffy.
- After finding out about Flamel, Haven tells McGonagall that the Stone needs better protections and is told that McGonagall will look into it.
- Hagrid sends a note about the dragon. The kids see it hatch, and then they plan out what to do. Eventually, they come to the conclusion that Charlie should come pick it up, and Haven and Hermione help bring the Dragon up to the Astronomy tower. Charlie comes to get the Dragon in person; Haven promptly develops a crush. Haven and Hermione forget the cloak in the tower, but when Filch confronts them, Quirrell shows up out of nowhere and tells the caretaker that the girls were doing him a favor. He gives Malfoy detention for being out late without permission, and - once Filch is gone - warns the girls to be more careful next time.
- Quirrell (who has made it past all the traps once before and has since realised that he can't get the Stone on his own) kidnaps Haven after the DADA exam at the end of the year. Her friends don't realise she's missing (she tends to wander) until dinner, at which point they alert the teachers. It is not until they notice that Quirrell is missing as well that they begin to realize what has happened (they remember he'd told her to stay behind.) McGonagall goes to floo Dumbledore, who is conveniently meeting with Fudge (who needs his advice about the Sirius Black issue that Haven brought up after Halloween), and the Professors send their students to their common rooms and search for Haven. Haven's friends, of course, don't go, remembering how Haven's scar had been hurting in DADA, and how someone had jinxed her broom, and how Fluffy was standing on a trap door, and they remember learning about Flamel and telling McGonagall, and realize she did nothing (and it is this that begins to break their trust in adults, because they go to her and she does nothing), and they go to save Haven themselves. Of course, by the time they reach her (not all of them, because sacrifices have to be made) Haven has already rescued herself (in this world, she doesn't know how the Mirror of Erised works, and so despite Quirrellmort's prompting, she can do nothing; it is a surprise when she gets the Stone out - such a surprise, in fact, that she drops it and it shatters before Quirrellmort can summon it; he becomes furious and when he attacks her, her touch burns him and Voldemort flees), and Dumbledore is arriving, and so are the Professors, but it doesn't matter, because they came for her (there is more than one hero in this story.) Haven recovers, and receives an abundance of candy and scoldings and a toilet seat, and she plays Slytherin for the Quidditch Cup, and Gryffindor wins, and on the night of the leaving feast, she and her friends exchange addresses and telephone numbers and making plans, and then they have to sit at the House tables.
- Dumbledore awards points to everyone that helped Haven (and it's people from every House; they all did something beyond the pale, something impressive) and it results in the first ever four way tie (because this Dumbledore may play favorites, but he does it well, does it so that no one can tell, does it for the greater good, and this time that means having multiple favorites, it means unity [because Tom is still out there, and war is coming, and Dumbledore is finally learning to subscribe to the idea that no man is left behind - even ancient wizards can learn new things, and great wizards can learn new things from children]).