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Shades
A Half-Blood Prince year sequel to Shifts
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Chapter One: The End
[Live Journal Entries with commentary: Part 1 ; Part 2 ; Part 3]
Summary: Sirius Black's will is found, and the Order leaves Number Twelve, Grimmauld Place just as Remus Lupin gets news of a new undercover assignment. Meanwhile, Nymphadora Tonks is starting to feel the weight of the war, and experiences some unexpected changes.

Chapter Two: Shapeshifting
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Summary: The world is changing around Tonks--her Patronus, her job, and the whole wizarding government.

Chapter Three: Vanishing Acts
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Summary: Troubles with Remus and with her parents combine with a hard string of cases at work, leaving Tonks tired and unhappy.

Chapter Four: Interlude (1): Alpha
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Summary: The full moon rises, and Remus has his first transformation as part of Fenrir Greyback's "pack."

Chapter Five: Relocation
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Tonks prepares to move to Hogsmeade for her assignment.

Chapter Six: The Unforbidden Forest
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Assigned to Hogsmeade, Tonks begins looking into a string of Dementor attacks that seem connected to the Forbidden Forest.

Chapter Seven: Friends and Neighbors
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Tonks's friends attempt to help her through her difficulties.

Chapter Eight: Interlude (2): Lessons
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During Remus's second month with the wild werewolves, he struggles with questions of how much to share with the children.

Chapter Nine: Patronus
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As students return to Hogwarts, Tonks's duties begin to include protection. She also worries about Remus, who has not "checked in" after his transformation.

Chapter Ten: A New Leaf
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Tonks starts to take some control of her life back as a new mystery from the Forbidden Forest begins to attract her attention.

Chapter Eleven: Gates to Nowhere
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Tonks meets a strange entity in the Forbidden Forest, who tells her that someone is trying to let Dementors inside. Tonks and Maddie investigate.

Chapter Twelve: Interlude (3): Human
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Remus tries to exert more control over his life during his third transformation with Fenrir's wolves, but Fenrir is more prepared for the challenge than he expects.

Chapter Thirteen: Scattered
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Tonks tries to find a focus in her scattered life.

Chapter Fourteen: Self-Control
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Tonks learns what Fenrir did to Remus, as she and the Order try to track Mundungus's stolen items.

Chapter Fifteen: Going to Ground
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Mundungus Fletcher--and others--escape their surveillance.

Chapter Sixteen: Interlude (4): Fade
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While Greyback is gone, Remus has a chance to interact with the other werewolves unsupervised.

Chapter Seventeen: The Shrieking Shack
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Remus finds out that Tonks has been fixing up the Shrieking Shack, and it causes tension between them.

Chapter Eighteen: The Werewolf Capture Unit
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Tonks joins Bill in helping Remus with the problem of Greyback's pups by contacting the mother of one of them--a Ministry bureaucrat who works in the Werewolf Capture Unit..

Chapter Nineteen: Guard Duty
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Bill and Tonks pull guard duty at Hogwarts.

Chapter Twenty: Interlude (5): Accidental Magic
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Under the full moon, Greyback leads the men of the pack to a meeting with his "political friends."

Chapter Twenty-One: Bad Habits
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Tonks tries to get past her mental blocks.

Chapter Twenty-Two: French Leave
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When Dumbledore arranges the disappearance of Alderman's family, Fleur takes the werewolf rescue project to her grandmother in France.

Chapter Twenty-Three: Gray Christmas
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As Christmas approaches, Tonks begins to make connections with the werewolves.

Chapter Twenty-Four: Interlude (6): Sweet Surrender
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Remus goes to the Burrow for Christmas, but things back in the forest may not be as stable as he thinks..

Chapter Twenty-Five: The Lady of the Lake
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After Remus is expelled from Greyback's "pack," Tonks helps find a home for one of the children.

Chapter Twenty-Six: Living Arrangements
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After Remus returns from Greyback's pack, he and Tonks have to figure out how to fit into one another's lives... or not.

Chapter Twenty-Seven: Appearance Charms
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Remus and Tonks start to get on one another's nerves exactly when they need to be working together.

Chapter Twenty-Eight: Interlude (7): Dreams
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After his exit from Greyback's pack, Remus begins to have dreams about the night he was first bitten.

Chapter Twenty-Nine: The Poison Well
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An attack by poison at the school brings allies back into Tonks's circle.

Chapter Thirty: Rattling the Bones
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Tonks and Andromeda go to the Forest to prepare an escape for Greyback's pups.

Chapter Thirty-One: Comfort Food
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Remus and Tonks have a brief respite before the rescue.

Chapter Thirty-Two: Interlude (8): Make Me Human
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Tonks and Remus lead a dangerous attempt to rescue the children Greyback has kidnapped.

Chapter Thirty-Three: Make Me Whole
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After the rescue, a frantic Tonks tries to find out what happened to Remus.

Chapter Thirty-Four: Exquiro Corpus
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After several things get past critical points, Tonks takes stock of the changes in her life.

Chapter Thirty-Five: The Hogwarts List
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Following the disturbing revelation about Blondin, Dumbledore asks Tonks to accompany him on a trip to investigate a similar incident.

Chapter Thirty-Six: Interlude (9): The Top Side of the World
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Remus goes to France to transform with the pups, and Dumbledore shows up with a new assignment for him.

Chapter Thirty-Seven: Down to the Sea
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Tonks divides her time between her work in Hogsmeade and trying to find her old, comfortable relationship with Remus as he settles into his new assignment.

Chapter Thirty-Eight: Bloodstained
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Tonks deals with Harry's attack on Draco.

Chapter Thirty-Nine: Extraction
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Remus is pulled out of his latest attempt at a normal life when Greyback's women attack in the town where he is staying.

Chapter Forty: Interlude (10): In the Cold
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After leaving his last assignment from Dumbledore, Remus finds himself floundering with a changed Tonks and a demanding Sweet.

Chapter Forty-One: Unlocked
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Tonks and the Order are pulled into battle at Hogwarts.

Chapter Forty-Two: Sunrise
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After the battle, Tonks and Remus come to terms with what happened.