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SHARP LIGHTNING AGAINST A DANGEROUS SKY

Summary: They meet again on a wide, muddy plain in Belgium where millennia of battles have been fought.

(Albus Dumbledore, Gellert Grindelwald, and the duel.)

Characters: Albus Dumbledore, Gellert Grindelwald

Words: ~3,800

Notes: Separate from the three stories in the "Golden, Ripe and Rotten" series, but thematically related.

Thank you to stereolightning for beta reading!

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( Sharp Lightning against a Dangerous Sky )

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 )

SHARP AND BRIGHT AGAINST A GOLDEN SKY

Summary: Gellert was gilded, aureate, bedazzling, resplendent; he was aureolin pigment on a blinding canvas, rays of light through beads of amber, stalks of goldenrod against a sunlit sky. And Albus Dumbledore had never before thought he needed a thesaurus just to talk about the evidence of his own eyes.

Characters: Albus Dumbledore, Gellert Grindelwald

Words: ~750

Notes: I’d been thinking vaguely about these two characters anyway, and then huldrejenta specifically asked for stories about them, and I was happy to comply! I think this might eventually be part one out of three, but we’ll see.

Update! This is now the first of three in series called "Golden, Ripe and Rotten." Link to the second story at the end.

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( Sharp and Bright against a Golden Sky )