Anghraine

And sadly, it is not Austen and Lord of the Rings, though I once sort of vaguely shipped Faramir/Jane.  (The HMS Nice =/= Pushover.)  Awhile back, I stumbled on a rather interesting short story; the Mary Bennet/Percy Weasley pairing was uninspiring, but the concept - P&P taking place in the historical wizarding world - was, well, kind of awesome.  At least, it had potential for awesome. 

Well, the story doesn't go into a lot of detail about wizarding!P&P - it takes place afterwards, apparently assuming that everything happened more or less the same.  Which makes sense, and thankfully, it did drop a few tantalising details:  e.g., while the Bennet sisters are all magical, only Elizabeth marries a wizard.  There wasn't really much else - but enough that I got to thinking about how the premise would work out.  And I eventually got around to writing a drabble in time for HG's Break, Breaker, Broken challenge:

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