It never occured to me before that Mary MacDonald could be Mary Cattermole. Like imagine during the war there’s Lily, Dorcas, Marlene, Mary and the Marauders. During the war, 1981 ish, everyone is mostly in hiding and everyone is in the Order. First Dorcas dies, in the second half of 1981. Marlene is next. Lily and James have moved to Godric’s Hollow with Harry. Sirius and Peter are in hiding, one pretending to be the secret keeper, the other a traitor the actual secret keeper. Remus is in ‘the north of the country’ at this point. Mary is utterly on her own. Then James and Lily die. Sirius gets arrested. Peter becomes scabbers. Remus floats off, he hadn’t really kept in contact with Mary at the height of the war. Or anyone really. Mary is shattered and she meets quirky guys who are charming and handsome and maybe a little bit arrogant and it hurts her to see them because they remind her of James and Sirius, and she see’s girls roll their eyes at their antics but smile anyway and that’s like Lily and Marlene and Dorcas, and her too once upon a time. he see’s the chubby boy who follows them around, and she immediately thinks of Peter. She see’s quietly handsome, bookish men and thinks Remus. Everywhere she looks after the war she see’s painful reminders of all that she has lost. Where once she led a life full of fun and adventure and everything else that being friends with the Marauders entailed, now she just wants normal. Quiet. Different. She meets Reg Cattermole, just an ordinary bloke. They meet, it takes a little while for Mary to open up. She’s lost so much, she doesn’t want to lose more. But Reg is persistent, and he gets her to talk. She opens up about her friends and their deaths and he holds her while she cries. Mary thinks how nice it is to have a friend again. One day he works up the courage to ask her out. Mary is slightly nervous, she doesn’t want to ruin things, but eventually she smiles shyly and says yes, and he smiles back shyly and holds out his hand. She takes it. The years go by, they get married, they have three kids. Sirius and Remus re-enter Harry’s life, but neither know mary anymore. Sometimes they wonder what happen to her, they mostly assume that she’s moved on, maybe she died in the war. Mary always thought Sirius was the traitor, and she never ever knew the truth. She fled the country with her husband and kids, and lived to an old age. Reg was always by her side, holding her when she had nightmares, brushing away her tears with the pads of his thumb, and whispering how much he loves her. Mary was so shaken when she was being tried as a Muggleborn because she couldn’t bare to lose everything all over again.
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