Order Only Private Message to Draco Malfoy and Pansy Parkinson

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Either of you seen Hydra? (Can't turn up F-F, either, so maybe it's as simple as that.) Only, I saw she wrote you last night, Malfoy. She say she which direction she was going today? I thought she was done with the project Brodie gave her.

Anywiz. Thing is, I've been looking at the reports that've come in about the murder scenes, and there are some interesting bits. I know she's not trained for criminal profile analysis, but I reckon she knows some things the rest of us don't really, about how different kinds of people think. And at the very least, she knows Crouch better than the rest of us.

If you see her, tell her I'm looking for her?

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[alt_draco]

Don't think I'll be seeing her, mate. She wrote to me to ask for my broom and my omniculars. Said she was going to try to find Crouch and stop him, and claimed that the "dove always dies" nonsense was a message to her.

Anyway, I refused to help her. I've had enough of people just - maybe I've had enough of people, full stop.

She found me and we had a row about it.

She won, and now she's gone.

I thought about writing everyone to let them know, but what's the point? There's already enough to be worrying about, and Hydra's of age and an Auror, so - there it is.

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Er. You alright, then? Need anything?

Bruise salve? Help to the hospital wing? Shot of whiskey?


Guess I won't be running this stuff by her, then. Merlin. I hope she-

I'd've liked to know whether she thinks there's any pattern. But, of course, we're not necessarily hearing about them in order. This morning there's a report from Folkestone of a family found in their flat above the cafe they ran, that'd been dead since Sunday, probably. And money left on the cafe counter beside a plate and soup bowl.

Wonder if he ate before or after he killed their cat and cut out their hearts?

[alt_draco]

No whiskey. I've got Russell's job to attend to at 3pm.

And anyway, I've recovered.

You can run it by her. Who knows, maybe it'll be useful? My guess is that she's gone to look at the crime scenes herself, since she asked to see the one involving Rachel's mother.

I suppose it's small favours that he didn't actually eat the cat or the hearts.

[alt_ron]

Reckon we don't know that he didn't. Eat the hearts. The reports that've said anything about them say they were taken from the scene.

But you're right. If he ate them, he probably wouldn't have wanted the soup. And if he'd had the meal first, he might not have had room for three people's hearts.

One of them was a toddler, though. Reckon that heart's smaller.


Sorry.

Working this is getting to me.

Want to swap for the day? I think making martinis and neat whiskies sounds good.

[alt_draco]

He could have kept them as trophies. Though I suppose if you eat your trophies then they become a part of you forever, in a way.

If any of us ever have children we'll have to be really careful, you know that? Because we're just messed up people now, that's a given.

I keep hoping that Crouch decides to come into the club and wet his whistle before his next slaughter. That'd be handy, wouldn't it? I'll just poison his drink and be done with it.

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Damn. Another 'Urgent Update' on the wireless.

Two more in NL. Well, four bodies, two sites.

One of them's Bobolis. The bloke who publishes Londinarium. Published. Found in his flat at the Horseguards. (Nice address!)

The other three are Drumgooles. Um, hang on...

Huh. Two adults in a flat in Hatton Gardens. Eva and Aislin Drumgoole. Thirty-five. Twin sisters. One of them waits tables at White's and is a poet and performer. (Think that means she sings? Or is a polite way of explaining what she really does at White's?) The other's an associate editor at The Prophet. (Reckon it's properly gloomy there this week.) Oh. And the third body was a kid's. No more details for that one.

[alt_draco]

Bloody nightshade. He's obviously going after people he has some kind of personal connection to, or felt personally slighted by, at one point or another. The New London press has been both good and bad to him in equal measure, I reckon.

I wonder how closely related the Drumgoole twins are to Maebh (oh, and I think it's Aoife, not Eva. Irish, you know). Or maybe it's just the fact that one worked for the Prophet.

Hard to imagine how toddlers and kids could have personally slighted him, but maybe they were just in the wrong place at the wrong time.

As for White's, I don't know how it works there, but at the Elysian we don't provide those kinds of "services." But from what the chef says that hasn't stopped Tamsin and Felicia from providing them when the prospects are good.

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Are you listening to this?

They just broke in to the programme again with an announcement that Crouch is armed, dangerous and a POI in the case. Pretty sure it called him 'former Auror Crouch'. Bet you'll hear some talk about that!

If they air it again, I'll set the Dictaquill on it.

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Oh, another thing.

Charlie answered. He's alright.

Says we're not allowed to sacrifice anyone trying to get him back. Knight's gambit. He means we should play him for advantage if we can. But not throw away advantage to protect him.

I haven't written him back yet.