Hogwarts School of Witchcraft & Wizardry (Challenges & Assignments): Chocolate Frog: Bronze- Callidora Longbottom (challenge)


When Callidora Black married Harfang Longbottom, she hadn't expected that he would be kind. She understood that there was no love in an arranged marriage, she saw it plenty of times through her parents. So she had prepared herself for a cold and cruel man, she took mental notes on how her mother acted around her father in public and in private. Cedrella thought she was crazy to give up her life so easily, and Callidora scoffed at that. She didn't think she was giving up, she saw it as following tradition. And there was nothing wrong with that, it was crazy for Cedrella to think that she could turn her back on her duty. What Callidora was doing was right, and she would be rewarded. And rewarded she was.

Harfang surprised her with all his gentle ways. He was a man of ideas and beliefs that were looked down upon in the pureblood society, yet he was able to have them because kept them to himself. But he shared with her and loved hearing her opinions. He even took the time to know her, to figure out her favorite hobbies, color, food, and listen to her most foolish dreams. Except they weren't foolish to him, as he had once put it 'Nobody's dreams are foolish, sometimes they can become a reality.' Though she seriously doubted that hers would ever come true, it was a nice philosophy to keep. Callidora didn't even know when it happened or how, but she had fallen hard for him. She had been that rare case where there was love in the arranged marriage.