Anastasio Attanasio, alias Ricky, was the youngest of five children, each born a few years after the other. Some had left home and rarely returned; and when the youngest, Maria Alba Caterina (or Ketty), boarded the Zeppelin for Beauxbatons, there was nobody to keep an eye on him when his father was at work.
Inevitably, what followed was a week of highly surprising and different homecomings.( Read more... )
While re-reading BJH's rather wonderful fic A Fairy Tale Ending (http://www.fictionalley.org/authors/bjh/AFTE01a.html), I was bitten by a strange plot bunny. I thought of a particular character's grim and lonely death at the hands of the Death Eaters, which was as near as possible unknown, only being revealed by chance; and I thought of all the people who had died in hideous circumstances in the twentieth century, and how few of them would even be remembered. The fic pretty much wrote itself.