1974 September
It took a week for Pandora to reveal the reason for the dress and, as Petunia suspected, it was a wedding dress. Considering the decade she was in, it was normal to get married young, and the girls were very interested in hearing how Xenophilius proposed to Pandora.
— "Actually, there was no proposal, and..."
— "What? Are you pregnant?" — These were the girls' responses when they heard it. And Petunia remained silent.
— "Don't interrupt me, we were both talking and we decided that we want to get married, and I'm not pregnant, it would be irresponsible to get pregnant at school."
— "That wasn't romantic." — Said Eloise.
— "You two are a practical couple." — Said Gwen.
— "When and where will the wedding be?" — Asked Petunia.
— "Well, it will be as soon as possible after our graduation and you will come, right?" — The three of them agreed. — "And Petunia, can you bring your siblings to the wedding too?"
— "Pandora, do you want to see the design of your wedding dress?" — That excited the three girls immediately, Petunia already had Pandora's measurements so she had already made the dress and was embroidering on it at the moment she already had the final idea of the product.
Getting married early is not the norm in the wizarding world. Most wait until their early twenties, and many only get married in their thirties or forties.
You should know that I will probably be at the wedding since my father and Lovegood's father are friends.
It would be nice to dance with you. I can introduce you to my brothers as my girlfriend. It will be a magical night.
Tell me the color of the dress you will wear, so we can match our clothes.
How are your studies going? Any interesting gossip from the castle? Or any new information? One of my coworkers thinks you don't exist. Can you believe it?
Olivia tried to hit on me, but I didn't reciprocate, and the girl's ego was hurt. Luckily, we work in different departments.
And she's leaving for her country in a few weeks. I know I don't usually complain about this in letters, but this woman got on my nerves.
She wanted to give me Amortentia, and she wasn't even punished for it. She wanted to give me a potion that would make me fall in love with her.
I knew as soon as I saw the candy she wanted to give me. You don't need to worry about it. I just needed to talk to you about it.
I sent you guava paste since it's a candy that's hard to find in England.
Can you believe that there are guava plantations in Egypt? There are several cool places to visit.
With love and longing, Aster.
Guava paste was her favorite candy, but it was so hard to find in this country, and Aster sent her a whole box! If she ate it in moderation, it would last until May. Aster was such a good future husband.
Amortentia was a complicated subject. Many didn't take it seriously, while others were terrified of it. It was so easy to control someone and that scared her.
It was quick to sew with magic, so Pandora's dress was ready before Christmas break. What took the longest was having to make a crinoline (a frame used under a dress that gives the skirt a balloon shape). It had an off-the-shoulder neckline and small butterflies placed all over the dress, from the sleeves to the tulle skirt, which would give a beautiful effect when dancing. It was a beautiful dress.
Petunia didn't come back for Christmas break since she had to study for her NEWTs. She was studying, yes, but not all the time, since unfortunately she couldn't study continuously for more than three hours. So she took breaks where she played some games with Severus and dedicated herself to teaching the boy how to dance the waltz. He was excited since he had never been to a wedding and somehow he was kind of a friend to Xenophilius. How this happened, she had no idea.
Gwen and Eloise also ordered dresses and she charged two galleons for each one, it was good to be able to sew to occupy her mind she was looking forward to the exams and finally graduating, leaving her parents' house and leaving this country at war and stop lying.
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Lily came back strange from the Christmas fairs but the girl seemed to want not to talk about it. Petunia tried to insist but it wasn't worth disagreeing just to know the reason for an argument.
Lily subtly tried to ask her opinion about Margaret and Robert. It didn't take long for Petunia to find out, the two had let their guard down and Lily discovered their true opinion of her, Lily wrote fewer letters to them and seemed slightly hurt whenever their names came up, Petunia knew this would eventually happen but it didn't so soon well if the two had a bad fight Lily had all her school supplies and uniforms, she could stay at school all year and Petunia could take care of her in the summer but she hoped things wouldn't get that bad between them.
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