Hello My Dear Bookworms,
When I’m bored, I like to play imaginary matchmaker. Fictional characters dance around in my head and I want them to be dancing with each other, see? Brace yourselves. There’s about to be a lot of plaid.
Today’s Bachelor is Murtagh Fitzgibbons Fraser from The Outlander
Today’s Bachelorette is Minerva McGonagall from The Harry Potter 
Date Takes Place on a moor in the Scottish Highlands
McGonagall: Good evening, Mr. Fraser.
Murtagh: (Startled) Oh. Aye. Where’d ye come from? I dinna see a horse…
McGonagall: I apparated, naturally. I’ve brought some firewhisky. Care for a dram?
Murtagh: Aye, a dram wouldna come amiss. Apparation, ye say?
McGonagall: It’s nice to see a man in a kilt. I’m surrounded by wizards in robes all day long, but so little tartan.
Murtagh: (Crosses Self) Are ye some sort of witch?!
McGonagall: Yes. Is that a problem for you? Actually, it’s a bit of a problem for me. I hope you don’t mind having your memory modified, but I could get into a lot of trouble if the ministry found out about our rendezvous.
Murtagh: Aye, well. I suppose it’s not the most outlandish thing I’ve ever heard. My godson went and married himself a time-travelling sassenach. That’s when he’s not trying to single-handedly take on an army of redcoats, mind. Wee bugger’s going to be the death of me.
McGonagall: Tell me about it. I have a student who continuously tries to take on the world’s most dangerous dark wizard on his own. Before Mr. Potter started at Hogwarts, I had significantly less gray hair.
Murtagh: (Lifting a glass) Aye. Here’s to our pair o’ trouble makers. May they live to an age older than this whisky! By the way, your hair’s bonnie. It suits you.
McGonagall: (Blushes) Sláinte!
Welcome to the weird Literary Love Connection universe, Minurtaugh! Snaponine and Scarcliff probably won’t be happy to see you, but I wouldn’t worry about it. They don’t like anybody.
My darling bookworms, I’m always open to character suggestions! Hit me up with characters you’d like to see go on fake dates!
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Sarah's Book Shelves
Ha – what a creative post idea! I haven’t read either of the picks, so can’t comment on these particular bachelors/ettes, but I love the concept!
Words For Worms
Thanks Sarah! I usually try to pick characters I think most of my readers will know and relate to, but it’s kind of a crap shoot. Still my favorite game, though :).
Heather
I love it!!! I can totally see the two of them sitting around a fire on the Scottish heath, talking about the ridiculous stuff that Harry and Jaime get into. I’m going to be thinking about this all day now….
Words For Worms
Seriously, the more I think about it the more I like it! Thanks for the inspiration, Murtagh was YOUR suggestion!
Ashley Z
This made my morning! My day! My week!
Words For Worms
I aim to please, my dear :).
Megan M.
What a great date! Get it, Minerva! And that Scottish dialect? You must be a hammer Katie because you NAILED IT.
Words For Worms
I’ve been bingeing on the Outlander audiobooks since, like, September. My inner monologue is currently full of “aye, dinna fash yourself” and the like. Of course, since you just called me a hammer, “Can’t Touch This” has temporarily taken over my brain wave. “Music hits me SO HARD makes me say, Oh my Lord!”
AMB
Awww, McGonagall deserves to find love!
Words For Worms
I don’t know if it’s JK approved or fan-fic I ran across, but assuming it’s legit, McGonagall DID find love with a muggle in the Scottish Highlands as a young woman, but he didn’t know she was a witch. She assumed she had to choose between forsaking her magic or forsaking her heart (thanks to her parents’ fraught mixed marriage.) I had to get her a date. HAD TO.
Heather
I’m pretty sure I read that somewhere on Pinterest.. it was a collection of “facts” that JK Rowling mentioned in interviews after the seventh book was complete. It also said that she gave up her nonmagical love, and ended up marrying her boss at the Ministry… he died, and she kept her maiden name.
Which, I feel makes her even MORE perfect for Murtaugh. Both of them giving certain people up…. sigh.
Elizabeth
“but so little tartan.” Ha! This is brilliant.
Christine @ The Moonlight Reader
Hahaha. This is all the win.
Words For Worms
LOL, thank you 🙂
Lillian Connelly
You could create your own fan fiction with this idea…it would be hilarious. Time to write a book!
Words For Worms
Oh gosh, I suppose this is a bit fan-fic-esque, though I didn’t really intend it that way. It’s just that the conversational format seemed to work better than my attempts to explain why the matches would be good…
ThatAshGirl
I’m thinking McGonagall would have made a comment about his grooming….or lack there of.
Words For Worms
Nonsense. You know McGonagall likes ’em scruffy 😉
Trish
LOLOLOL!!! Maybe if she’s pretty liberal with the firewhiskey…