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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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(Anonymous)
2011-05-17 08:45 am UTC (link)

I read the story a few days ago, but I knew there was no need of an immediate comment, as I certainly would not forget this one and return again; so now I mulled it over in my mind for a while, thinking about what makes it so special...
It is a HP story, no doubt about it, but it also is one of universal human issues and truth, which effects the reader on so many levels. And the biographies of real English women of the 19th century always run along under the surface - this fic is not so purely a fantasy-story as so many others are.

The prominent theme of calling the partner "Dearest" was one of the details that almost had me in tears ♥

Thank you so much for this gem,
Minervas_Eule

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	tetleythesecond 2011-05-30 08:11 am UTC (link)
	Thank you so much, M! I was happy to read that you found that it's more than a HP story -- it certainly into more than that for me during the writing. :) (Reply to this) (Parent)

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