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Microfiction

A Not-So-Rough Wooing

Albus tries to surprise Minerva for Valentine’s Day. It doesn’t go quite as he expects.

A little bêtise for the Malbus February Fest 2026 on Tumblr and the feast of St Valentine.

Albus Dumbledore, Minerva McGonagall
Albus/Minerva
911 words
T/PG-13

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The first clue was the music.

She couldn’t quite make out what it was, but as she arrived at the top of the stairs, the unmistakable sound of music from a gramophone—her gramophone, to be precise, which Minerva always tried to be—swelled to fill the corridor.

She frowned.

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