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beholder_mod (beholder_mod) wrote in hp_beholder,
@ 2011-05-06 14:44:00

Entry tags:

bathilda bagshot, beholder_2011, femslash, fic, griselda marchbanks, griselda/bathilda, rating:r

FIC: "The Ladies of Godric's Hollow" for featherxquill
Recipient: featherxquill
Author: tetleythesecond
Title: The Ladies of Godric's Hollow
Rating: R
Pairings: Griselda Marchbanks/Bathilda Bagshot, implied background Albus Dumbledore/Gellert Grindelwald, with appearances of a canon-character's semi-original aunt.
Word Count: 17,000
Warnings/Content Information (Highlight to View): *None.*
Summary: Griselda Marchbanks and Bathilda Bagshot are two women with a dream and sound principles. However, when Bathilda's nephew pays them a visit in the summer of 1899, the question arises how to stay true to them.
Author's Notes: This comes with fervent gratitude to my fantastic betas, Kelly Chambliss and Pale Moonlite, who worked miracles on this tale. Dear featherxquill, I had the hardest time choosing between your wonderful prompts -- I hope you like what I did with this.

One literal and one paraphrased quote are from Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, page 287 of the British hardcover edition.

"The Ladies of Godric's Hollow"

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leela_cat
2011-05-08 11:53 pm UTC (link)

Canon informs this story (and our reading of it) brilliantly. Names that are mentioned (or simply surnames because they're ancestors) and each event expands into so much more because this is about Godric's Hollow as much as it's about Bathilda, Griselda, and Eleanor.

And the lines, even some of the tiny, throw-away ones, just add to this sense of the story being a part of a much larger tapestry. Like this one, that gave me chills (on top of the goosebumps that I got from the mentions of Eliza Shunpike):

What should they want from you, anyway, that Rita Skeeter hasn't taken already?

I've spent a good part of today reading this story and consider it a day very well spent.

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	tetleythesecond 2011-05-30 07:24 am UTC (link)
	Thank you so much for the comment and the rec! I'm glad you like it, and that you think it fits well with Canon. I thought that we need an explanation for the night Ariana died, and I'm glad that this version rings true. (Reply to this) (Parent)

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