Bad Guys and Broomsticks, an Almost Happily Ever After story by Jet LaBarge
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Ch 1 Back from Vacation My thanks to Beta readers FriendofMolly and PokePotterfan93 who helped with the start of this story.
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Ch 2. Ginny’s first days at the Harpies Ginny finds out how much time the Harpies are going to take. |
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Ch 3 Ron and Hermione’s Wedding My daughter got married in her mid-30’s after being on her own for years. Choir members from two churches sang, and it was a beautiful religious ceremony. I led the procession carrying a cross; I did not give her away. |
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Ch 4 At the Holyhead Harpies The Spitfire Spell is dedicated to my late father, an American who flew Spitfires in combat in WWII when the Americans did not have enough airplanes. I like to think that he and Harry Potter share the same attitude towards combat; they do it but it’s not something you should be proud of. When asked to give a talk about the glories of shooting the enemy down in combat my father refused, saying “You are just two scared young men trying to survive; there’s no glory in it.” |
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Ch 5 Nora Jones I want to PokePotterfan93 for the accents! He has been “Brit-picking” the story and doing an excellent job. I also want to thank FriendofMolly for some critical help. Good Beta readers are a joy to an author. |
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Ch 6 Quidditch, Mapping, and Druella Rosier Black More about Harry learning how to make maps. |
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Ch 7 The birth of Kreacher’s son Fletcher “We want to spend a couple of days doing tests” the witch said. “I can tell you right now that it looks like your house elves have a very weak baby that will not live very long. With lots of good care he may live a year or two, or he could die at any time.” |
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Ch 8 All it takes is like My British beta has gone back to school, so if you are a native speaker of the British version of English instead of the American version and would be willing to help I would be grateful. A reader plus FriendofMolly pointed out a major mistake involving the Zabini family, who has vanishes from the story (thanks to find and replace in Word.) I do make mistakes. |
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Ch 9 First String The starting Chasers are going to be Mrs. Donna Lionheart, Miss Tristan Brown, and Mrs. Ginny Potter. |
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Ch. 10 First Christmas at Grimmauld Place Jumpers are British for sweaters; Molly of course hand knits (with some help from the magic) a new jumper (sweater) for each child every Christmas. I want to recommend a little story. The author is a mom of twins and the story is A Weasley Christmas. |
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Ch. 11 “Into a New Millennium” CS Lewis wrote a Science Fiction trilogy, set on Mars, Venus, then Earth. It’s pretty dated by now, having been written long before humankind sent probes to actually visit Mars and Venus. The beheaded scientist’s head is in the last book of the series, That Hideous Strength. |
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Ch 12 Harry buys Hermione a house elf Harriet Tubman was an abolitionist ex-slave who lived around the time of the US Civil War. There was a song sung by slaves about following the “Drinking Gourd,” following the North Star north to freedom. No reference to any contemporary person or song was or is intended. |
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CH 13. Hermione meets Twinkie, and buys a house More on Dobedo |
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Ch. 14 Harry in China for Potions, then Reorganizing the Ministry Arwen, Elrond, Luthien, Beren, Galadriel and Elendil are Elves and Thorin is a Dwarf in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings. They are not used in any way like the original characters, but the Elfish references are intentional. |
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Ch 15 Attacked by Guns! I want to thank my Beta FriendofMolly. She has done great work catching my sometimes stupid spelling errors, and by her critique of the story line helped it develop. As always, reviews, good or bad, help us know if the story is working for you. |
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Ch. 16 Victoire has Red Hair! Family, Ministry and house elves |
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Ch 17 Going Topless in France A little vacation in France for Harry and Ginny, Bill and Fleur and, of course, Victoire. |
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Ch. 18 Relatives More about the Lionheart family. |
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Ch. 19 The Death of Fletcher The Death of Kreacher’s son Fletcher. |
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Ch 20 Kreacher Reflects Kreacher reflects on the death of his child in chapter 19 of Bad Guys and Broomsticks, part of my “Almost Happily Ever After” universe. |
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Ch. 21 Ginny’s Head Injury and Hermione’s Promotion I’m having to do a major re-write of chapter 22. Do not expect the next chapters to be posted as quickly as the last few have been. |
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Ch. 22 The trial of Dolores Umbridge The trial of one of the people we love to hate. |
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Ch. 23 Romeo and Juliet elves, Oh my! Freeing the house elves is a little more complicated than Hermione thought. |
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CH 24 The Christmas of 2000 Christmas, |
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Ch. 25 The Spring of 2001 Thanks to my Beta FriendofMolly who rejected parts of this chapter and had me do a major re-write. We welcome a new Beta who lives in Britain and hopes to help me avoid the most obvious Americanisms, MrJamesBrown from the FanFiction site. |
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Ch. 26 The Malfoy Wedding The Summer of 2001 including the ICWW and the Malfoy wedding. |
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CH 28 The Twin Towers We are back to the main flow of the story, after our brief foray into Dennis and Mary Lou Creevey’s last year at Hogwarts. This chapter starts the June and July of 2001. |
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CH 29 Quick Draw Joey, Romeo and Juliet Romeo and Juliet save the day. |
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CH 30, Babies and Children More about the new Aurors an the Weasley grandchildren |
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CH 31: The Shrine at Shell Cottage, Lilly P/W This chapter is mostly about Kreacher |
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CH 32 Ginny Needs a Knee I do not thank my faithful beta FriendofMolly often enough. Every chapter has subtle changes because of her work. This one has a substantial number of changes, sentences, parts of sentences, punctuation, due to her faithful work. |
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CH 33, The Summer and Autumn of Pain and Change Many thanks to my beta FriendofMolly. As usual her suggestions have made the story better. |
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CH 34 Finding the Hideout Many thanks again to my faithful beta FriendofMolly. I don’t thank her enough. She has been a great help with names. |
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CH 35 Attacking the Hideout Peter Pan is from the story by Sir James M. Barrie. Peter Y. Pan is my creation. |
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CH 36 The aftermath of the Attack Neville's return' |
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CH 37 Endings and Beginnings Thank you FriendofMolly for the chapter title and several important additions and clarifications. |
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CH. 38 Ginny’s Accident George and Jane Jetson are, of course, from the Hanna Barbara TV show “The Jetsos. |
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