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2018-12-09
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2018-12-09
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The Branghandle Romance

Summary:

“You ought to hear the theories about you, Mr. Dumbledore. Sister Gladys thought maybe you were foreign, since you didn’t speak much, but I say you’re one of those classified chaps from the war."
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In which Albus Dumbledore finds himself between Dark Lords to defeat, and in the company of a rather charming muggle.

Notes:

I was imagining what it must be like to be Dumbledore post-war. He's unwilling to join the Ministry in fear of his own power, and has a solid ten years before becoming Headmaster or getting an inkling of what Voldemort is up to. What's a bored, sad wizard to do while sitting on the Elder Wand yet determined not to use it for ill?

So! It's 1953, the country is on the mend with a new queen, and hey why not! Let's give Dumbledore a nice muggle boyfriend who can bring him around from what must be a nebulous era of his life.

Chapter 1

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JKR is an unrepentant and virulent bigot. She has betrayed the children that she once presumed put forward role models for. She has paid tens of thousands (if not more) to politically and legally victimize people living at the margins. I no longer want my work to be linked to hers. I encourage you, reader, to find a new outlet for the comfort and creativity you take from HP fandom, when its creator is so clearly hellbent on denying comfort to trans folks. You keeping HP relevant keeps the money pouring into JKR’s war chest, and I guarantee it makes many people around you think you’re kind of an immature jerk. You definitely don’t have to be a jerk. And for the record, you’re not immature for liking magical settings in fiction. You’re immature for refusing to acknowledge that JKR’s actions have consequences. Time to grow up.