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Witch Weekly · March 10, 2019 – 5:41 AM

The Secret Life of Laverna Flint

On hearing the well-respected name of Flint, very few would think of Mrs. Laverna Flint, the widow of Titanus Flint and mother of debutante Lucille Flint. Since her husband's death the woman has been decidedly withdrawn, mostly remaining in her country estate in Dorset. She has shown no inclination to remarry despite having only one child, and was barely even a presence during the season up until the debut of her daughter in 1887. With such a withdrawn approach to society, it is little wonder that so few know of the role that she played in the spiral of the now notorious Anabelle Scrimgeour.

Sources close to the Scrimgeour family told our reporters that Mrs. Flint was always particularly invested in her niece and became withdrawn after her disappearance as an infant, even though this coincided roughly with the birth of her own daughter. Mrs. Flint seemed distracted more often than not and found it hard to engage with her own infant, Lucille. When the girl was rediscovered in her Hogwarts years, Mrs. Flint pressed her daughter to befriend her, even though the two were reportedly not particularly friendly during their Hogwarts years (and, most would say, the luminescence and social grace of Miss Lucille Flint mean she likely has very little in common with Annabelle Scrimgeour).

Following her disastrous debut, Mrs. Flint took Annabelle into her home, and this was where her downward spiral truly began.

Mrs. Flint convinced Annabelle's parents to allow her to take a career at the hospital and actively encouraged the interest, our sources say. She was also the girl's caretaker when she began to be spotted around town in increasingly inappropriate situations, including being seen drinking with Reuben Crouch during a festival. It was Mrs. Flint's lack of guidance that lead to Annabelle's father, Argus Scrimgeour, visiting the

house to try and discipline her — and which ultimately lead to his arrest, incarceration, and death.

Was the decline of Miss Scrimgeour's reputation a result of neglect or incompetence on behalf of her guardian, or was there something more sinister at play? Why would Mrs. Flint recommend allowing a supposedly well-bred, wealthy debutante to take a career, and why would she allow her niece to run wild across the country until her father had to intervene, with disastrous effect? The answer will shock you — and certainly explains her absence from society for all these years, as well!

Our reporters believe that Mrs. Flint is secretly a feminist. These radical politicos market ideas such as co-ownership of property, equal rights to work, and suffrage publicly, but their private opinions are often rooted in a deep hatred of men. Mrs. Flint would not remarry holding such ideals, and would likely have encouraged her daughter not to marry at all since she is already heiress to a sizeable estate. Luckily, Miss Lucille Flint seems unaffected by her mother's radical ideals — which lead to Mrs. Flint exporting them instead on to her niece, Annabelle Scrimgeour.

The notorious downfall of Miss Scrimgeour is the true face of this movement. Her wayward habits and insidious disregard for the rules of civilized society are the fruits born by the feminist tree. One can hope that Mrs. Flint would take note and cease to push this sort of lifestyle onto her daughter, but it seems unlikely, since so little of the feminist mindset takes anything from reality — it is a stance taken purely from emotion and which leads only to chaos.

Hopefully the young Miss Filnt can marry before her mother can cause the ruination of another delicate young flower.

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