In September of 1971, Severus Snape finds a forgotten portrait of the Slytherin family in a dark corner of the Slytherin Common Room. At the time, he has no idea that talking portrait will affect the rest of his life.
By December, Nizar has been free of a portrait's boundaries for a little over a month. Just in time for things to start to get interesting: he is less than impressed by Death Eaters, agrees with Sirius Black that 12 Grimmauld Place should possibly be burned to the ground, and learns a few things he'd really prefer to avoid.
the PLOT THICKENS! and continues to thicken. for 100k words. also the more you look at the word 'thicken' the less it looks like it should be in common usage.
This is… something. Much easier to get into than the first book in this series, but ends on a cliffhanger. Massive delicious worldbuilding, but that romance again. Decent enough (I think) Spanish but utterly bad (almost certainly machine-translated, which forgot to translate some words, and no proper genitive forms) Latin. And then that big surprise. On the flip side the appearance of a Hogwarts founder. If any more people who should be dead are going to show up later I’ll get angry. Quite OP but they don’t actually do anything (though understandable, as Nizar is still finding his feet, and then there’s the whole romance subplot) about it. It looks like it’ll be anticlimactic eventually. But perhaps the ride there will be fun, ya?
Update: gaaah! This one ends with a cliffhanger, and the next book in the series deals with something that happened in the past instead. GAAAH!
Second part of a delightful fic. The rapid setup continues – it doesn't obviously lead anywhere yet, except into romance, but the romance is grown-up and delightful and so I won't complain. Continues the general competency porn.