Ellie Potter and the Tiger's Eye | Glowfic Constellation

up-at-the-stars

As far as Anathema Potter-Canta is concerned, the end of fifth year has been by far the best yet. Her mom seems on the mend, even if Anathema is trying very hard not to think too much about her mom's taste in girlfriends. (Well. Single girlfriend. Bellatrix flirts with Fay a lot but doesn't seem to actually be doing anything about that, unlike how she's hanging off of Elodie.) They thumbed their noses very successfully at Voldemort, and Anathema's pretty sure there's been fallout from that but none of it's hit her, so. The last month of term is peaceful, despite the Transfiguration NEWT McGonagall insists they take trying to murder Anathema personally. (That is possibly a slight exaggeration. They probably passed, at least.) (She barely even notices it when Fudge loses his runoff against Director Bones in a landslide, except with a vague 'good riddance.')

And, most importantly, Anathema has a wife who is the most beautiful and smartest person in the world, and she has a wedding and honeymoon to plan. It's just family and very close friends, nothing big, and Anathema's never cared about social propriety, so the planning isn't as stressful as she usually hears people complaining about. Her mom lets her draw whatever she wants out of the full family vaults to pay for it, not just the little slice accessible to Anathema at her age. They're sticking with the magic beach Elodie recommended for the party and the first bit of the honeymoon, and Anathema wants music and obscenely fancy catered food, a new dress, jewelry - including a custom ring she commissions for Ellie, with as many runic enchantments woven in as a rune carver willing to work with muggle precision tools can carve.

She's having the time of her life.

Her mom's smiling more often, at ease, by the time the wedding date fully rolls around. Anathema wants to hold it at midsummer - she'd started a lot of this before confirming their venue, but the near date still leaves her rushing to get everything ready (money helps dramatically, as does the small size of the wizarding community - things in general aren't too busy). Smuggling her mom into France isn't hard at all. She's floating on cloud nine the whole time they spend planning, staring at her wife every chance she gets with a broad grin on her face.

(They're married.)

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warrior-my-warrior

He really is desperate.

out-of-feathers

True.

Sadly, even with a fairly broad net - there's only so many people even vaguely qualified to teach the position, and no one's been willing to try doing two nonconsecutive years for a while.

warrior-my-warrior

Maybe he'll be able to break the curse while he has the position.

out-of-feathers

That'd be very nice.

warrior-my-warrior

Dumbledore should be able to do it, if anyone can.

up-at-the-stars

It'd be nice for future students to have a steadier idea of who their teacher will be... And then Dumbledore could actually hire someone competent.

warrior-my-warrior

Yeah...

up-at-the-stars

The two of them did pretty well, but... Yeah. It wasn't ideal.

warrior-my-warrior

Maybe if things work out they can do a History NEWT next year and have a good teacher for it.

up-at-the-stars

Yeah! They'll have a lot of free time after all, what with finishing a lot of their other courses - probably they can't get away with three years of Defense, and Anathema's finishing at least Charms and Music this year, hoping to get caught up enough in Astronomy to take that one too... She probably won't manage to finish Ancient Greek, though, but she'll keep up with it anyways.

warrior-my-warrior

Maybe they can be student TAs for Defense.

out-of-feathers

Fay can probably arrange that.

warrior-my-warrior

Bet she could, yeah.

up-at-the-stars

Sounds fun.

warrior-my-warrior

It'll be great practice.

out-of-feathers

Give them a wider variety of opponents to spar against, if nothing else.

warrior-my-warrior

Plus more time with Fay.

out-of-feathers

There's certainly that.

warrior-my-warrior

Yep.

out-of-feathers

They do still need to get ready for sixth year, though. Clothes - Ellie and Anathema both had pretty notable growth spurts near the end of fifth year, though hopefully that's the last of them. Books, too, especially for their new NEWT classes. Miscellaneous school supplies...

(There's an aura of tension in Diagon Alley. It's not as bad as the height of the Death Eater war last time, but there have already been attacks, and people are worried.)

warrior-my-warrior

Hopefully nothing interesting happens while they're there.

out-of-feathers

Fay's alert, at least, though not blatantly so.

Still, the shopping trip's peaceful - though not too long after they get back, Fay approaches the Potter-Cantas with: "There's an opportunity for you two to get more involved in the indirect parts of the fight, if you want."

warrior-my-warrior

"How so?"

out-of-feathers

"Dumbledore's got a group of his old allies - larger than ours, and he's willing to include the both of you in at least some of the meetings. It'll be a chance for information, if nothing else, but since I'm already in those meetings it's I think more important to get a chance for - networking, essentially. Get people to start taking you seriously, see if you can't get anyone to tell you things they wouldn't otherwise."

warrior-my-warrior