Housecleaning: slight revision of "Golden, Ripe and Rotten" series

Hi again! Me shuffling things around again.

My young Dumbledore/Grindelwald series is almost complete; but as I was writing story #3, I realized I wasn't quite satisfied with the set-up I'd created (or perhaps failed to create) in story #2. So I've made a few tweaks to story #2 ("Ripe as Summer Quinces") – nothing too major, just a few paragraphs' worth I've added here and there – and will be posting the new version shortly. But I'll also leave up the post with the first version, because the comments some of you left there were helpful in my thinking about how to revise the story, so it makes sense to me to leave both versions here... But the new one will be the "official" one.

And part 3 (the "rotten" of "Golden, Ripe and Rotten") is coming soon!

(Oh, and...yes, I'm writing a fourth story about them, too, set several decades later...)

Ripe as Summer Quinces

RIPE AS SUMMER QUINCES
(Part 2 of Golden, Ripe and Rotten)

Summary: “Albus, my white knight,” Gellert said, and something in Albus’ chest loosened and blossomed, as it always did when Gellert spoke those words. “What shall we do today, with all the world at our feet?”

Characters: Albus Dumbledore, Gellert Grindelwald, Aberforth Dumbledore, Ariana Dumbledore

Words: ~2,700

Notes: This is part 2 of a series of 3 stories about young Dumbledore and Grindelwald, from beginning to end of the summer they knew each other in Godric’s Hollow. Part 1 of the series is “Sharp and Bright against a Golden Sky.”

This is a (slightly) revised version from the one I originally posted. (The original one was here.) Nothing too major’s changed, just a few threads I wanted to highlight a little more, to make this a better set-up for the upcoming story #3. Thanks to stereolightning, huldrejenta and gilpin25 for commenting and tossing around ideas with me!

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( Ripe as Summer Quinces )