Bridget O'Brien's Times In Malfoy Manor

by lillywith2ls

Meet the Becky Sharp and Moll Flanders of the Wizarding World. Plucky and cunning, Bridget O'Brien is a Muggleborn who served Voldemort and a Ravenclaw prone to self-destruction, a Dumbledore's Army member who tried to flee to France in an act of cowardice...until she was caught by Snatchers and left to rot at Malfoy Manor. But a resourceful girl like Bridget can't be pinned down.

1. Foreward

In June 2015, Bridget Moira O'Brien was arrested by Wizarding authorities in Belgium after performing a Full Body-Bind Curse on a Muggle policeman in the presence of several Muggle bystanders. Bridget was accompanied by Mr. Anastasiy Karkaroff, a Squib who claimed to be her husband despite no legal records of a marriage between them in her native Britain, his native Finland, or beyond. Anastasiy Karkaroff was imprisoned alongside Bridget in a medieval fortress in Ghent before their eventual release in 2019. Bridget and Anastasiy's time as convicts had caused quite a stir in the Wizarding World because of the old stories of Bridget's shady dealings with Death Eaters during the Second Wizarding World, which most definitely complicated a magical assault on a Muggle. Ever more curious is the fact that Bridget is a Muggleborn.

This was not Bridget and Anastasiy's first run-in with the law, though it was their first run-in with Wizarding law. Muggle records detail two incidents of Bridget and Anastasiy's public mischief-making, the first of which was in 2004—"A small blonde woman and a rather burly man recklessly crashed a sports car into an ancient Celtic burial ground, and were subsequently found by officers to be intoxicated and in possession of five illegally smuggled exotic birds". Bridget currently resides in York with her daughter Irina, who widely acknowledged to be fathered by Anastasiy. Anastasiy's whereabouts are at the moment unknown, but Bridget confirmed in a 2021 interview with Witch Weekly that they keep in contact and are still in love.

The 2021 Witch Weekly interview with Bridget was held to advertise Times In Malfoy Manor, a newly released history book authored by Bridget that marked her debut as a historian. The book spanned from the founding of one of Wizarding Britain's oldest manors in the wake of the Norman Conquest to the use of the manor as Death Eater headquarters in the 1990s. Malfoy Manor is a cornerstone of the stories detailing Bridget's involvement with Lord Voldemort, with Bridget supposedly being held there as a Muggleborn prisoner who was willing to betray Harry Potter. After the war, Bridget reentered Harry's good graces, having used some tears to persuade him that she was penitent of her actions.

Complicated is the tale of Bridget O'Brien, a Muggleborn who served Voldemort, cheating pureblood dogma and later Ministry law as she was pardoned for involvement with the Death Eaters because of her blood status. Did Bridget deserve a pardon from Kingsley Shacklebolt simply because she was a Muggleborn? Well, that's for you to decide…