#minerva/poppy

[horriblegoosefest]

What We Fought For

By Sky_Watcher_Rose Pairing/s: Minerva/Poppy Rating: M Word Count: 23,114 Warnings/Content: No warnings apply Goose: @siobhanhazel

Summary:

The immediate aftermath of war is overwhelming. But Minerva finds that she isn’t alone — and that beautiful things can happen if she gives them a chance to.

Tags

Post-Second Wizarding War with Voldemort (Harry Potter), Fluff and Angst, Angst with a Happy Ending, Hurt/Comfort, Grief/Mourning, Trauma, hints of PTSD, Portrait Banter, Late life love, Friends to Lovers, Headmistress Minerva McGonagall, Horrible Goose Fest 2024, First Kiss, Animagus transformation

A honk of appreciation from goose SiobhanHazel:

"What We Fought For" is such a tender exploration of Minerva, and the writer's care in characterizing her truly comes through! I love seeing Minerva in the immediate aftermath of the war, as she steps into the role of Headmistress and helps with repairs at the castle while struggling with her own emotions. Her new perspective lets her look at Poppy in a new light, and their budding romance is so, so, so sweet. It's the kind of fic that makes me want to get a big stamp and inkpad to scream CANON as I smash ink onto a printout of it! Please give it a read 💕

[songbookff]

Bandaging th other's hand and not quite letting go for Min/Poppy please!!

Here are our ladies...

Minerva was staring out the window at the moon while Poppy treated her hand. She had broken a glass during a staff meeting, grasping it so hard to mask her anger at the current Headmaster.

"The salve will help and you should be able to remove the bandage before breakfast," murmured Poppy. A quiet sniff drew Minerva's attention away from the window and immediately her heart broke.

Silent tears were running down the Matron's face and even though she had completed wrapping her hand, Poppy had not let go. Minerva gently added her uninjured hand on top, now cradling Poppy's hand.

"Oh love, I am so sorry." Minerva knew that this year had been the hardest on Poppy. She had even moved back to her rooms in the Hospital Wing, never truly taking a break. Even in the same castle, the separation was hard on the two, but it was what was best right now.

Poppy began to cry in earnest now and so Minerva gathered the other woman in her arms. She held her tightly, wishing this year would be over soon; that this war would finally end. She missed the days that could be spent enjoying each other and the children who were in their care.

But for now, Minerva held on tight, just grateful they were both still alive.

[lucigoo]

Calmwrimo:Day 19 - 3165 words

So i wrote a second part for my Minerva/Poppy series "Who Harry Should Have Grown Up With". The secind oart is called "You Wont Be Alone Madadh-allaidh" found here on A03. Heres a snippet for you all

Minerva heard the door bang. Not a knock, but a bang. She rushed forward, wand raised. “Who is it?” she called and heard the unmistakable sounds of a giggling Remus Lupin. She looked at Poppy, who raised an eye. Drunk it was then. She should remember that when it came to Remus Lupin, her wife was always right. She looked at the man before her when she opened the door to him and was both angry and hurt for him. It had been just over 48 hours and he had obviously been in more than one fight and was absolutely stinking drunk. She just sighed at him and helped him into the cottage. He needed all the help he could get, tripping over his own feet the way he was. “Come on, darling.” Poppy said, cajoling him on to the sofa. “Not a darling, no one’s darling. Darlings in prison. Boom, killed a rat and a stag, killed a baby and a doe, killed me Poopy, he killed me, too.” He said with sudden clarity. Looking right at her, his damaged heart in his eyes.

[flyingdeskset]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Minerva McGonagall/Poppy Pomfrey Characters: Rolanda Hooch, Pomona Sprout, Lyall Lupin Additional Tags: Minor Fleamont Potter/Euphemia Potter, 50s Hogwarts, making the harry potter universe gay one rare ship at a time, Lesbian Minerva McGonagall, Lesbian Poppy Pomfrey, Ravenclaw Poppy Pomfrey, best thing about this is it's basically impossible for them to be ooc, unbeta-ed we die like none of these characters do, Quidditch, Miscommunication, kind of, poppy's just repressed and minerva's oblivious, literature references, Amortentia, it's not really a plot point though, Hogwarts Astronomy Tower, like all those sad jegulus fics Summary:

Who the hell does she think she is?

Minnie’s not great at relationships – she knows she comes on too strong sometimes, too intense, too hot-and-cold – but even she knows that up-and-disappearing is not considered commonplace behaviour for someone who claims to be your best friend. It’s been nearly a week since she’s seen more of Poppy than the back of her head as she runs away or her blue eyes steadfastly avoiding her gaze as she slinks past her old seat in transfiguration. Judging by Hooch’s glances away and Sprout’s awkward coughs whenever she broaches the subject, neither of them is the focus of this one-woman disappearing act. Just Minnie. She takes solace in her anger – it’s really the only thing keeping her from crying.

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Poppy is avoiding Minerva. Minnie is confused - and then angry.

[lolo-gay]

One random day in the Great Hall

Bellatrix : The Noble House of Black will always be on top !

Remus : *spits out his pumpkin juice and starts laughing uncontrollably*

Sirius : *blush furiously while trying to get Remus to shut up bc everyone is looking at them*

James : *trying for his deer life (and failing) to understand what's so funny*

Lily : *smirks* *just smirks*

Pomfrey : I KNEW IT ! MY BOY'S THE TOP ! HA ! I TOLD YOU MINERVA ! MY BOY'S THE DOM !

Minnie : *gives her 5 galleons while looking visibly frustrated and glaring at Sirius*

Remus : *laughs even harder if it's possible*

Regulus : *trying to forget the horrible traumatic images that are forming in his head and silently crying*

[theprongspotter]

Euphemia: *sighs*

McGonagall: They never listen, do they?

Pomfrey, rubbing her temples: It’s exhausting.

Hope: Being a mom is hard.

James, sitting down beside them: Tell me about it.

[moutainrusing]

pen pals

943 words, @wolfstarmicrofic

On the other side of town, there was a hospital, where children in need of long-term care spent their days and nights. On this side of town, there was a boarding school, where children in need of discipline spent their days and nights.

As an act of further discipline, the Headteacher, Professor McGonagall, had decided that the students of Diagon Academy should write a letter to a patient in Pomfrey’s Hospital, and forge a new friendship, become pen pals for life.

According to Sirius, she was delusional. But he still wrote a letter.

- - -

With his incredibly bony, stick-like, shaking fingers, Remus wrote a letter to someone in the rich, stuffy boarding school, who would apparently become his pen pal for life. (Unlikely.) Firstly, he was Remus. No one wanted to be his friend. Even if they weren’t in their right mind, he was a sick, frail loser, unable to do anything except stutter and sit in awkward silence.

Secondly, the people at Diagon Academy were judgemental snobs. Posh and pretentious and loaded. Why would he befriend that?

- - -

Minerva and Poppy sorted through the letters in companionable chatter, pairing a student with a patient in a match they hoped would lead to a long-lasting friendship.

Once the pairs had been made, the children could keep addressing letters to their pen pal; the school Prefects and hospital wardens would be able to deliver the letters by reading the name on the envelope, ensuring the children got the privacy they needed to open up to each other.

Minerva wanted the slightly troubled (okay, very troubled) students at her school to learn how to care for someone who didn’t live in their narrow-minded world, and Poppy wanted the minorly self-loathing (okay, very self-loathing) patients at her hospital to open up to the possibilities of the world around them. Together, the couple had come up with the idea of pen pals, and together, they wanted this to work so badly.

“I think we’ve found the perfect pair,” Minerva commented as she held Remus’s and Sirius’s letters side-by-side.

Poppy grinned. “I bet those two’ll end up more than friends.”

- - -

Dear pen pal (for life, apparently; I think the nurse may be barmy, but she’s well-intentioned and she’s my favourite and I want it to be known that I am doing this for her. So if I make an embarrassment of myself, it was for her. And I’ll never even get out of this hospital, so I don’t care if you think I’m weird.)

I’m supposed to write about myself. I’m fifteen. I’m a boy. I’ve been sick for as long as I can remember and I look like undercooked pastry. I like reading. There’s not a lot you can do in hospital. But you do get stickers. I’m actually fond of my sticker album. You get a sticker for every injection you take, and when I was younger, I used to get stickers for talking, because I was and am an anti-social freak. I’m really selling this.

Anyway, I’ve organised the pages of my sticker album because I have nothing better to do. There’s a page for leaves from deciduous trees, animals that specifically live in the savanna, fruits which are FRUITS and that includes tomatoes, and a lot of other fully sorted pages. This is my legacy. I might die any day but I still made this impact.

Look, if you’ve read this far, I’ll have to assume you’re as weird as I am.

Yours,

Remus Lupin

Sirius traced over the wobbly penmanship of his pen pal with a grin on his face. Remus was funny. And nice. Those seemed like such simple adjectives, but Sirius meant them to such an intense degree.

He got to writing back about how he was so much weirder than Remus. Although Remus must already know that from Sirius’s introductory letter.

- - -

Dear pen pal,

Minnie, our lovely Headteacher, and my future wife, even though she’s resistant to my charms at the moment (I don’t know why, I’m literally the hottest hunk of meat in this school I’m kidding sorry too soon) (also it may be because she’s gay and so am I) anyway, Minnie came up with the fanciful idea of pen pals. She really hopes this will mean something, and I don’t wanna let her down now, do I?

I mean, I also hope this means something because she has POISONED my brain with these delusional fantasies, and so has my best mate. James really believes this will benefit the country or something from the way he talks.

So, about myself. (It may seem I like talking about myself. I hate it. I’d rather show people who I am.) So, I’m not gonna talk about myself! I’m mysterious like that. Oh-so-interesting.

Like, yesterday, James and I put bouillon cubes into all the shower-heads and the boys ended up smelling like chicken broth (us included). It was fucking GROSS. And fucking awesome. Minnie immediately knew it was us though. My mystery works on everyone but her (another reason we’re soulmates, I should tell her).

LOTS OF LOVE

SIRIUS BLACK, EL AMOR DE TU VIDA

Remus actually snorted. He’d been worried, initially, to see ‘POISONED’ glaring at him in swirling cursive when he cast a cursory glance down the letter, but then he saw ‘THE LOVE OF YOUR LIFE’ in Spanish, and found that Sirius was a hyperbolic little shit.

He proceeded to write a letter to tell him exactly that. Oh, and another prank idea, because why not? It wasn’t like he’d be suspected. Maybe he could help Sirius and James with an original idea that couldn’t possibly be pinned on them.

[maraudersthesis]

Hello! I'm 21 years old. I'm an Argentine Communications student. I'm writing my thesis on how fanon is built within fandoms. Please rb to help me reach more people.

I'm looking for a way to get in contact with the legendary MsKingBean89,

in hopes they'll be kind enough to grant me an interview. It'd be (of course) under that username, and I'M NOT GOING TO ASK FOR ANY PERSONAL INFORMATION. All I need is a short interview (could be written, but I'm okay doing it over voice call or any other way they prefer) about the Marauders fandom and the fanon.

This may be a long shot, but it's worth trying.

I've been in the fandom for a while, so when I had to choose a topic for my thesis I knew I had to do something like this. I've always been fascinated by the way the fandom works, how we create all this content we identify as The Marauders™, even though there isn't a lot of canon information about the characters and their story. I love the personalities we've given them, all the symbols we identify them with, and all the relationships we've created.

I'm studying the way people interact on the internet and the colective creation that results of that interaction.

If you want to talk about this, the Marauders or have any suggestions or ideas I'd love to chat!!

Edit: this is a sideblog, so I can't follow back/send asks/like posts, but I'd like to thank anyone who reblogs this: you're helping me get my degree and I appreciate that a lot.

[izzy-prizzy]

no i just-

Imagine after a certainly bad moon, Poppy is just sitting there beside Remus' bed, where he lies unconscious, covered in bandage, still healing scratches all over him..

She just sits there, looking, staring at her boy, no thoughts in her head, all blank..

She doesn't realise how much time has passed since she was sitting there until Minerva comes in.

"Poppy..?" the voice whispered softy.

And when she looks up to Minvera, it's like the silent spell broke. She couldn't hold it in longer. Her lips are trembling and before she knows tears are streaming down her face.

Minerva is there by her side in an instant, holding her as she cries against her.

"He's just a boy.." She croaks out.

"I know.."

"He's.. just a boy, Minerva.."

[incorrect-maraudersaandco-quotes]

Mcgonagall: A teacher can learn many things from their students Pomfrey: So, what did you learn from the boys? Mcgonagall: Why some species eat their youngs

[the-colourful-witch]

🩹Madam Pomfrey 🩺 Everyone's favourite Healer :) Drawing her was great! I had already done a few sketches of the Healer uniform, so it was easy to do the costume. I was thinking more about the way she styles her hair. I like this a lot, it makes her look friendly and maternal, which she is.

I always love reading bits in the books with Madam Pomfrey. She is so discrete and caring. She doesn't ask questions and doesn't judge. She just wants to protect the students, even if it means yelling at the Minister for Magic, which is bad ass... On this page, we stan Madam Pomfrey! Hope you like her :) 🧡✨

[isabel-lillah]

so we all agree the professors were betting on different relationships of their students, right

but I present to you the students betting on whether McGonagall and Poppy are together

the whole thing was started by Remus, and then it spread through the whole castle like a wildfire

legend says Slughorn once stopped Lupin in the corridor to place a bet too

[songbookff]

Oh you're back!!! "Holding the other's hand so they cant run away" for Minerva/Poppy

This is a bit short...but I hope you like it.

Someone called out for Minerva and she turned to go, but Poppy reached out to grasp her hand, keeping her from going. They only had a few seconds. There was chaos and death all around them. But Poppy needed her to know.

"I love you." The rest went unsaid: come back to me.

Minerva opened her mouth to reply, but she couldn't seem to find the words. Something sad reflected in her eyes, but Poppy ignored it. If she thought about it too much, she would lose her grip on reality.

Poppy felt a tight squeeze to her hand where she had grabbed Minerva. It was all the other woman could give her. This was war; nothing was promised.

Someone called Minerva's name again and Poppy let go of her hand. All she could do now was hope.

[lucigoo]

So here is my list of Non-Marauder fics. By Marauders Im speaking of what I would class as a Marauder fic, So Lily with Harry, yes. Mary pining for lily, no. I'm hoping some of my smaller fics get see and loved as much as I adore them. I hope someone enjoys at least one of them. They are a mix of gen and different ships. <3

Unhappy Ending: It's over, they're all gone (Minerva/Poppy) Summary: Poppy stood surrounded by the aftermath of the battle. The deaths were terrible, but one, one particular death has broken her heart all over again. Mischief Managed (Gen, Weasleys) Summary: Fred and Percy shared the last joke they will ever have with one another. George feels his life ending in that split second. My Regrets Hurt More Then My Death (Petter Pettigrew-centric) Summary: Peter lay dying, killed by the Master he had served for 15 years, a Master he had given everything for. Destroyed by the hole he had got himself trapped in and watched by the boy he had hurt more then anyone else in the world. I'm sorry George - Lucigoo89 - Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling [Archive of Our Own] (Agelina Johnson-centric) Summary: Roxanne has gont to Hogwarts, now the long days of just Angelina and George lay before her. But even now, all these years later Angelina has to admit the truth to herself, he just isnt Fred. Lily oh Lily (One-sided Mary/Lily) Summary: Mary loves Lily with all of her being, sadly, Lily loves james with everything inside her. Mary knows this, she understand this but her heart isnt able to figure out she is always the friend, never the beloved. We Could Do It If we Tried? (Alice/Narcissa) Summary: Alice wants to convince Narcissa it will be ok, that they can be together happily, but can they? Will Narcissa agree? Only me in the limelight (Gen, Cormac McLaggen-centric) Summary: Harry has just signed up to pay Quiddich proffesionally. Cormac McLaggen is not happy, at all!

Getting Together: We're safe, together (Madeye Moody/Kingsley Shacklebolt) Summary: Kingsley had come to help Moody sort out his wards and home protection. Moody is always so self-controlled that nobody but Kingsley can see he needs support and cuddles. Afterlife fics: Harry is loved in this life and the next (Draco/Harry) Summary: Harry James Potter breathes his last at 93 years of age. Surrounded by his family. Ready to be reunited with those he lost so many painful years ago. Molly's Ready (Molly Weasley-centric) Summary: Its been a long time since Molly last held Fred and 13 years since she saw her husband.

Shes ready, Molly's ready to close her eyes and find her missing family members and wait for the others.

Post Second Wizarding War: Kiss for the camera (Harry/George) Summary: Harry is going to his first Quidditch game with Teddy. Maybe he will come home with more then good memories of the finale. Two Orphans And A Widow Can A Family Make (Gen fic, Andromeda-centric) Summary: Andromeda has buried most of her family, all she has left is a sad lonely teenager and an orphaned infant.

But Andromeda is a Black through and through, regardles sof her last name, and Black's never give up, they never surrender and she is one of the two only Black's left alive. She will not give up whilst she is needed, and she is oh so needed by these boys. We won, but at what cost? (Molly Weasley-centric) Summary:Molly looks at her empty table, a table that should have been full with all 7 of her children (8 with Harry) but now it's empty. She has lost Fred to death, but she had lost her other children to the ravages of grief.

So she sits at her empty table as she thinks about what they lost and wonders if it was worth it. If her boy was the price worth paying for "peace." "Where did you go Wally?" ( Past Walburga/Euphemia)

Summary: Walbuga Black drove her heir away, now she watches as he laughs his way onto the Hogwarts Express. She watches as it takes her heir and spare somewhere safe.

Whilst she watches, SHE comes along, and angel or a demon, it doesnt matter because she is a better witch, a better woman and a better mother then Walburga has ever been, has ever been allowed to be. Women always suffer with the History of Men (Narcissa/Lucius Malfoy) Summary: Narcissa is on trial after the Battle Of Hogwarts. She will do anyhting to save her Dragon, including tell the truth. The honest, bitter truth that she and her foremothers have endured. For women always suffer at the hands of men. It is their history and at their hands that Narcissa has suffered by. No longer.

Fireseeker verse: (Post second War, Percy/Viktor Krumov): Fireseeker Verse Percy and Viktor and their love through the years.

[dramaticallycryingblood]

Things I don’t get about the marauders fandom as someone who’s been obsessed with them for literal years

1. How we let so many characters be only children?? like I get that people don’t necessarily want to make OCs but HOW did it get to this? James, Marlene, Peter, Remus, Mary, Barty, Dorcas, Alice, Frank and so many others! Idk maybe it’s just where I’m from but look me in the eyes and tell me you know that many people who don’t have siblings ALSO the ratio is so off and barely any of them have only child energy. It’s just not right.

2. How sooo many of you aren’t multi shippers. Like what do you MEAN you can only see James with Regulus and Regulus with James?? What about bartylus? what about sunrose? what about draksun/sunkiller? what about moonwater? what about jily? what about prongstail? WHAT do you read?? Aren’t you bored??? WHAT DO YOU MEAN you only have ONE ship for each character???? As a multi shipper, I can be convinced of any ship with anything ranging from a real good fic or a pretty edit to an enthusiastic rant from a random person on TikTok and it just makes things interesting. Maybe my adhd brain just needs more ships to focus on or maybe some of you just lack flexibility ( or imagination), but we need to fix this cause there aren’t enough fics with the ships I like 😭😭

3. THE SHIP NAMES. I can’t be the only one who thinks some of these suck right? Like why are we saying jegulus when starchaser and sunseeker are RIGHT THERE?? Same with jily and flowerpot, and bartylus and starkiller. ALSO some names make me wonder if some of you just haven’t grasped the concept of ship names or if I just got it all wrong cause marylily and jegulily are just annoying, why are we keeping the L in Lily? The point is to merge the names together not stick them one beside the other, I just say marily and jeguily because it rolls off the tongue so much more easily

4. The Peter erasure. I just don’t get it, it’s so easy to include him in things, you don’t have to make him a main character, but just mention him every once in awhile. Sometimes I’m reading an important scene in a fic and everyone is mentioned EXCEPT for Peter! It’s so easy, just make him roll his eyes at his friends being idiots or something. And it’s not like you’ll get his personality wrong, ALL THESE CHARACTERS PERSONALITIES WERE MADE UP BY FANS but I understand that some people lack imagination so here’s some things about Peter I like to imagine: he’s a HUGE gossip, like my man sees and hears everything and he takes notes!! He likes to randomly turn into a rat and take a nap in one of the other marauders’ pocket, he does it so much that they had to tell the girls that they had a pet rat cause they were asking too many questions. He’s really perceptive and his friends are all oblivious so it leads to funny scenarios like:

Remus & Sirius after YEARS of pining: we’re dating

Peter: I thought you guys had been together since third year?

Sirius: I’ve literally introduced you to people I was dating?!

Peter, shrugging: look mate I don’t question you lot anymore, you do whatever you want, I don’t care what you’re into, I just don’t wanna know about it

He also pulls people, like he’s really nice and will gossip to anyone who’s in his vicinity so he’s friends with basically everyone and he’s funny and pretty and he’s got charisma so he just charms everyone and when I say everyone, I mean everyone, even the slytherins have a soft spot for him (that’s how he gets accepted among the death eaters during the war actually). In pranks he’s the lookout so he often has to distract the teachers so he asks them random things and spits out half-made up facts about anything so he’s besties with most of the teachers which means he doesn’t get many detentions.

5. The Black brothers, more specifically the way the speak to each other in most fics, like they call each other “brother” so often and as someone who has a brother I’ve never called him that. Is it an anglophone thing? Like do people who speak English at home all do that or are fic writers only children?? (That would explain my first point actually) Or is it more a rich people thin?? Cause I know it’s not a francophone thing that’s for sure (also special mention to people who don’t know anything about French writing Sirius and Regulus as French speakers, I can tell you don’t know what you’re writing about but I eat it up everytime anyway)

6. This is actually just about ao3 but I WANNA BE ABLE TO LEAVE MORE KUDOS!!! I just loooooove fics but I can’t leave kudos at every single chapter and I’m bad at writing comments so I can’t show the author how much I love their work, I hate itttt 😭

7. Why there aren’t more fics about the Black family, and not just Sirius and Regulus, but Andromeda, Bellatrix and Narcissa as well like that would be so interesting and maybe like a deep dive into the Black family ideals and all that (if you have fic recs I’m all ears!!)

8. How jegulily is a pretty popular ship (which I LOVE) yet SO FEW people ship Regulus and Lily outside of it! They are a power couple and I love them and they don’t need James to work!!!

9. Why there isn’t more background Minnie x Poppy cause they are my mothers and I wanna see them moooooreeee

If you read all of this I love you 🥰 have an amazing day/night

[m00neroni]

are we sure that remus and sirius wouldn't name their daughter poppy or minerva at least as her second name?