chapter six: talons and tea leaves

[marginalia]

[talons and tea leaves] - molly, ginny.

Ginny was of their best fliers. Best soldiers. It didn't make it any easier on Molly, sending her only girl in the footsteps of her sons. Another battle, another generation of loss.

She sat at the kitchen table, surrounded by ghosts, hands cradling a rapidly cooling cup of tea. She watched the leaves swirl at the bottom, but Divination had never been her strong point. One of the Order's owls appeared, talons clicking against the windowsill. Molly closed her eyes briefly, then reached out to take the message.

Post-battle paperwork. Bureaucracy invented by Death Eaters. Save dinner? Love, Ginny

Comments

[phineasjones.livejournal.com]

oh, so sad and so powerful.

[marginalia.livejournal.com]

thank you :)

[dacro.livejournal.com]

Kick-ass Ginny!
Love the letter to Molly.
*hug*
~J~

[marginalia.livejournal.com]

*licks yer icon*

[willysunny.livejournal.com]

Oh, oh I love that letter. And your drabble, my dear, is beautiful and poignant and really hard to read - as a mommy. So well done!

[marginalia.livejournal.com]

*hug* thank you :)

[dorrie6.livejournal.com]

Oh, this is just so lovely. Warm and hopeful and... gah. I needed this today. :)

Your Molly is gorgeous.

[marginalia.livejournal.com]

aw, thank you!

[meganberrieh.livejournal.com]

DWD. I adore that last line. It's clever as hell and makes me laugh.

I love the way you have the owl be one of the Order's, and the way you have Ginny as a soldier, too, after the boys did the same thing. I think you did an excellent job capturing how Molly would feel in that situation.

[marginalia.livejournal.com]

\o/

it's so much fun, figuring out those details. and since i don't really read hp fic, i don't have the burden of fanon on me. it might have all been done a million times, but -i- don't know that.

[starfishchick]

Excellent ending! And I love your Molly.

Is it bad that I wanted to type that as 'Molleh'? I think Berry has been a bad a good an influence on me.

[marginalia.livejournal.com]

i think you mean berreh *nod*

thank you :)

[starfishchick]

Strangely, I don't think of Berry as Berreh. But Molleh is almost always spelled thusly.

[deaver.livejournal.com]

Love the "grown up Ginny".

I've been enjoying these little drabbles so far... keep up the good work, they are definately getting me excited for the movie. Thanks!

[marginalia.livejournal.com]

she's such a cool character, so much potential.

and thanks! it's a really fun project!

[kylegirl.livejournal.com]

*contented sigh*

That was lovely.

[marginalia.livejournal.com]

thank you, dear :)

[jenish.livejournal.com]

She sat at the kitchen table, surrounded by ghosts sent shivers down my spine. And that letter was beautiful, so.. Ginnyish. And Molly has a beautiful voice in this.

And I love it when Ginny kicks arse.

Wonderful. And there's two of these fantastic drabbles on my flist every day! *hugs self in glee*

[marginalia.livejournal.com]

it's great fun for us, too. thank you!

[belovedsnail.livejournal.com]

i really, really love the contrast between Molly's lonely worrying and Ginny's flippant humour. ("Bureaucracy invented by Death Eaters" is really priceless!)

also, the phrase another generation of loss is so sad and perfect.

[marginalia.livejournal.com]

i just love seeing how much i can smoosh into 100 words. ah, the fun of form :)

thank you!