Ellie Potter and the Tiger's Eye | Glowfic Constellation

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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

"So who defeated Grindelwald?"

out-of-feathers

"...Dumbledore's credited with it."

warrior-my-warrior

"...Oh."

raise-the-dead

"...Voldemort's certainly noticed that, too. But at least Dumbledore's hard for him to take down..."

out-of-feathers

"That might be why Voldemort's so obsessed with tearing apart Hogwarts."

"Of course, at that point, knowing who likely has the wand doesn't help us get it..."

warrior-my-warrior

"Not really, no."

raise-the-dead

"Pointing out that I don't like Dumbledore and don't see a problem with assassination doesn't really help, does it."

warrior-my-warrior

"Not super, no. I don't think we want to jump straight to that without a lot more certainty than we have right now."

raise-the-dead

"Fair. No one's actually sure what having all three Hallows does, anyways..."

warrior-my-warrior

"There's not a whole lot of overlap or really obvious synergies."

raise-the-dead

"There's some guesses, but... It's worse than myth, since supposedly no one has ever even held, let alone mastered, all of them at once."

warrior-my-warrior

"Bet people just made up whatever crazy thing they wanted."

raise-the-dead

"Pretty much. Usually whatever suited their political agenda - I think Grindelwald's claim was that he'd become the 'Master of Death.'"

warrior-my-warrior

"Yeah, like that. What would that even mean?"

raise-the-dead

"I think at that point whatever fits the propaganda best. He might've been going for 'gets to decide who dies.' I know Voldemort was going for immortality."

warrior-my-warrior

She shakes her head. "Terrible."

raise-the-dead

"Absolutely no creativity whatsoever."

out-of-feathers

Sadly, they're unable to get much of anything else out of analyzing Lily's words, at least for now. It leaves them with more than they started with, of course, but... There's still a lot of questions.

One thing Fay turns the conversation to near the end is the upcoming school year.

up-at-the-stars

Defeating Voldemort is more important than their education, but... Anathema's unsure what she and Ellie can necessarily do to help that they can't from Hogwarts.

And the problem might very well come to Hogwarts again.

warrior-my-warrior

They have a couple NEWTs left to do.

up-at-the-stars

Yeah. Honestly they probably could've taken the Defense NEWT along with Transfiguration, but Anathema had wanted to spend an extra year in Fay's class and hadn't had a ton else to put in that slot. Still, they have Charms, and the OWLs for their electives, and Anathema decided to start her Potions NEWT in the slot left open by Transfiguration.

warrior-my-warrior

Ellie will swap for Herbology, then. See if it gets trickier at the NEWT level.

up-at-the-stars

If they get bored maybe they can study for the History NEWT on their own.

warrior-my-warrior

Wonder who the teacher'll be this year...

out-of-feathers