femgenficathon

Title: Missive
Author: kellychambliss
Fandom: Harry Potter
Characters: Griselda Marchbanks, Minerva McGonagall
Rating: PG
Word Count: 3900
Prompt: 37) Someone will remember us / I say / even in another time -- Sappho, (born 630-612 B.C.E., died circa 570 B.C.E.), Greek poet.
Summary: "As a rule, it's easier to write what one feels than to say it. But it's always a good deal harder than one expects." Griselda Marchbanks writes a letter.

A/N: This story is not the one I started out to write -- that one, as per the prompt, was going to be set in another time. But my mental time-turner got stuck near the end of Order of the Phoenix, when McGonagall gets hit by four Stunners and is taken to St. Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries. So I wrote about that time instead of "another time." Many thanks to tetleythesecond, beta-reader extraordinaire.

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In Potter canon, we don't know Griselda Marchbanks's exact age, but when she comes to Hogwarts to supervise the O.W.L. exams in OoP, she's immensely old, and we learn that she administered Dumbledore's N.E.W.T.s. Canonically, Albus was born c. 1880; I've taken the liberty of birthing Griselda in 1870 (making her 27 at the time of Dumbledore's exams -- young for an examiner, perhaps, but that’s a story for another femgenficathon).

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( Missive )