Come Autumn, Sae Pensive (novel)

Come Autumn, Sae Pensive is a novel by Squibstress. It is the fourth story from the author's Epithalamium series chronicling the life of Minerva McGonagall.

The title is taken from the 1794 song, "My Nanie's Awa" by Scottish poet Robert Burns:

Now in her green mantle blythe Nature arrays,
And listens the lambkins that bleat o'er her braes;
While birds warble welcomes in ilka green shaw,
But to me it's delightless-my Nanie's awa.

The snawdrap and primrose our woodlands adorn,
And violetes bathe in the weet o' the morn;
They pain my sad bosom, sae sweetly they blaw,
They mind me o' Nanie- and Nanie's awa.

Thou lav'rock that springs frae the dews of the lawn,
The shepherd to warn o' the grey-breaking dawn,
And thou mellow mavis that hails the night-fa',
Give over for pity-my Nanie's awa.

Come Autumn, sae pensive, in yellow and grey,
And soothe me wi' tidings o' Nature's decay:
The dark, dreary Winter, and wild-driving snaw
Alane can delight me-now Nanie's awa.

Summary

Set 1967, the story follows Minerva McGonagall and Albus Dumbledore through an unexpected pregnancy and subsequent illness, which has surprising consequences.

Canon characters

• Minerva McGonagall
• Albus Dumbledore
• Poppy Pomfrey
• Molly Weasley (née Prewett)
• Pomona Sprout
• Amos Diggory
• Filius Flitwick
• Cuthbert Binns
• Arthur Weasley

Original characters

• Thorfinn McGonagall (Minerva McGonagall's father)
• Jean-Baptiste Martel (French Healer; friend of Poppy Pomfrey)
• Nigella Starsgaard (later Diggory) (Gryffindor, 1963-1970; later wife of Amos Diggory and mother of Cedric Diggory)
• Cressida Burgess (St Mungo'sHealer; old friend of Albus Dumbledore)
• Galeneus Pye (St Mungo's Healer; father of Augustus Pye)
• Diophantus Lemmas (Hogwarts Arithmancy professor; Head of Gryffindor House, 1956-1977)
• Ian Robinson (Gryffindor, 1963-1970)
• Deirdre Rattigan (Gryffindor, 1962-1969)
• Charity Anne Burbage (Hogwarts Muggle Studies professor; grandmother of canon Charity Burbage)
• Dorcas Diggle (St Mungo's mediwitch; mother of Dedalus Diggle)

Story chapters

1. Chapter 1
2. Chapter 2
3. Chapter 3
4. Chapter 4
5. Chapter 5
6. Chapter 6
7. Chapter 7
8. Chapter 8
9. Chapter 9
10. Chapter 10
11. Chapter 11
12. Chapter 12
13. Chapter 13
14. Chapter 14
15. Chapter 15
16. Chapter 16
17. Chapter 17
18. Chapter 18
19. Chapter 19

External links

• Family Echo genealogy page for characters in the Epithalamium series universe