She curls into Ellie, crying as well. 

"I love you so much too."

Hug so many.

She cuddles for a bit, then - "Do you wanna summarize what you know so far about getting rid of it? Or at least - what you think won't work."

"Or if you want to just - have a nice birthday. We can talk about that tomorrow."

"Might as well- talk about it all now."

She can get Anathema up to speed on everything she and Fay know and have tried.

It's not much in the way of firm successes. A lot in the way of dead ends.

Anathema snuggles Ellie pretty aggressively throughout. "Did you guys try sparring to transfer the Elder Wand already?"

"Yeah. Didn't work."

"But we're confident it jumped from Grindelwald to Dumbledore on defeat."

"...Guess beating her in a spar wasn't defeat enough."

"It did jump from Dumbledore to Fay, so yeah he must have had it."

She nods. "...I think Fay'd be really willing to have you - defeat her more completely. Whatever that means."

"Fay dying isn't an option."

"I know."

"But - Grindelwald's not dead."

"No, but they were fighting seriously."

"It might not work, but - "

"Magic sometimes has weird definitions of 'defeat.' It might be possible to defeat her in a way that counts even if you don't mean her harm or even if she's willing."

"...That'd be tricky to get right..."

"Something like that is probably easier to research, at least. The broad principle would be relevant to a lot more stuff, especially ritual magic, not just this one artifact."

"We should start looking into it, then."

Nod.

"...Let's get our marriage paperwork signed first, though."

"Okay."

She kisses her wife. "We'd have to ask Minister Bones about it, probably..."

"Let's go do it now."

"Yeah! Let's."

So, picking up their books and heading out?

Yep!

They've got a civil marriage ceremony to see to.

Heee.

Minister Bones can be tracked down - and she's not too busy right now. She looks mildly amused about the paperwork request, at least, and directs them to her secretary - "I can accept it into the pile to be filed when we have the Ministry again, and I can declare it valid in any territory I control. Though you might have to resubmit if it gets lost in any future shuffles."

(Also, Anathema can in fact fill it out in sparkly gel pen, as long as the sparkly gel pen or ink lack any magical properties.)

They can do matching sparkly signatures, then.

Excellent! (In blue ink with gold-ish sparkles. It's a really pretty color set on Ellie. Recalls their Yule Ball outfits pretty well.)