Loving the contrast between George and Molly’s descriptions, with George so tall and well-dressed, while Molly is hesitant and some tiny little Pokémon thing, or something. And yet Molly is the one stuck carrying the bag! I love that this foreshadows George’s lack of regard for others, and that his kicking rocks off the street foreshadows his controlling nature. He literally can’t “let things lie,” can he? And I’m fascinated by the idea that you introduced us to this character at the very end of his story, only to see this plan of his, which he's presumably been planning and working towards for weeks, if not longer, end in literal fatal failure! (Because I assume that entity couldn’t have ended George prematurely, any more than George could have unended anyone else’s?) He was a jerk, that much is clear from even this small story, and he took it for granted that he was only limited by what he could do, not what he should do. And here’s the downfall! It’s quite an impactful story! (I’m also headcanoning that in that certain other timeline, George is one of the PPC staff who pushed for the Department of Efficiency to rise to power! He fits right in!) Man . . . imagine escaping from being an Auror in the Potterverse, which features villains obsessed with overpowering death itself, only to wind up deleted from reality because you became obsessed with outsmarting death! I guess he interrogated one too many Death Eaters or something . . .

Poor Molly, I’m glad she got away, but it’s not right for her to be blamed for something she didn’t do. Hopefully her next partner will be a little more down-to-earth, although the Fig’s line about a partner “who lasts longer than a month with you” makes me wonder if she regularly winds up stuck with partners who make choices and get themselves deleted from existence?

—doctorlit eats the death everyday for breakfiss

And it does explain something I never really thought about before, so ... good stuff!

Read it folks! It's good!

-Ls