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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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	tetleythesecond 2011-05-30 08:09 am UTC (link)
	his head buried in his face. Oh my. Thank you! Can you believe that this escaped me during every single re-read, and I even had to read your quote three times before the glaring error hit me? I clearly need to revise my first-year vocabulary one day. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	perverse_idyll 2011-05-30 08:24 am UTC (link)
	I think because it's a familiar turn of phrase, our minds simply elide the word and substitute what we know should be there. I completely missed it the first time I read this. (And hurrah for speedy Beholder fix-its!) (Reply to this) (Parent)