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Sorry I didn't get back this morning. Seemed stupid to Apparate all the way up there to sleep for two hours and then have the long jump back to NL.

How're the plans for the move coming? Sorry I can't help at all. Well, actually not so very sorry. I'm sure you and Pans'll find us a perfect place.

Anywiz, I'm going to kip now for a bit.

Have a good day, you. See you on the far side.

Comments

[alt_sally_anne]

Did you not read your journal at all after you transformed back?

[alt_ron]

Mmph-

Uhn, no.



Sorry. Why?

[alt_ron]

Was sleeping, yeah?


What should I have read?

[alt_sally_anne]

Last night was really awful.

[alt_sally_anne]

I'm okay and so is Pansy and no one in your family wound up dead.

So there's that.

[alt_ron]

. . .

What's happened?

[alt_sally_anne]

Last night Justin thought Dolohov was going to escape from Penzance. Rachel went to fight him and he almost killed her. Justin went after Rachel and fought Dolohov and almost killed him, and then Bellatrix Lestrange showed up and cursed Justin.

Dolohov took himself and Justin back to Cottesmore and wrote to me and said that he'd give me Justin and the passwords to Buckingham and his word he'd leave Albion if I'd come and heal him enough that he wouldn't die.

He didn't tell me it wasn't him who'd cursed Justin.

Bellatrix used the Black Curse. I got Justin back to Hogwarts, he got to see Hydra, at least. Before he died.

Rachel almost died but Bill found her and she's going to make it.

But Justin's dead.

[alt_sally_anne]

And even if I could have saved him, he'd have traded dying if it meant killing Dolohov. And

and

[alt_ron]

Oh
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

[alt_ron]

Merlin.
 
 
 

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He didn't take anyone with him? Justin, I mean.

No need to answer that, really.

[alt_sally_anne]

No, he didn't. Neither did Rachel. She went without him and he followed. I don't know if they were in too much of a tearing hurry to find anyone, or

I don't know.

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I couldn't've gone if he'd asked me. He did the day before, y'know, but I was down here in NL then, too. Reckon he knew it'd be the same last night.

But he didn't ask Hydra to go? Or Peel or anyone.

Ugh.

I'd've done the same. Might as well admit that. Reckon I have done.

[alt_sally_anne]

yeah, you would have.

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This is mad, but y'know what I just thought?
 
 
 
 
 
It just leaves Malfoy now. Malfoy and me. And if there's really a god that controls fate? He's having a good long laugh about that.

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So...

Does this mean everything's changed for today, d'you know? I reported in this morning, but none of them've answered. Reckon Rachel can't, yeah? How badly hurt is she?

Not sure who to ask for orders at the moment.

[alt_sally_anne]

I have no idea what's planned for today.

Rachel's unconscious still. She's going to live but I don't know when they're expecting she'll wake up.

Sirius spent half the night as a dog trying to comfort Hydra and Mr Lupin's transforming tonight.

Ask Mrs Longbottom, I guess. I don't

I hope at least they don't waste the passwords

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Lupin and Wright are calling us in.

Which- whatever.

At least we'll be able to be at the funeral, but- Justin would be furious if he knew we were pitching in all this work. And Brodie's going to want Wright's head for it. Not just the work we've put in on the festival security, but on the Bham raid. And the opportunity we've got because the two things are happening at the same time? We've got a serious plan to take out Bellatrix Lestrange and we're going to just... not do it.

Mordred's balls.

I didn't ask if they're pulling back the units they sent to watch Penzance. Not sure I'd keep my gob shut if they told me they're just pulling the plug on everything.

[alt_sally_anne]

Ugh.

Ugh.

I don't even know what to say.

[alt_sally_anne]

Adults are IDIOTS.

[alt_sally_anne]

Someone did tell Honoria's parents, didn't they?

I mean

Justin's being buried today but I haven't heard anything about what's happening with Honoria, I don't know if the Sandovals are burying her quietly without us like Karo Moon did with Linus's family, or

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Oh, yeah. Brodie had a Floo call with Honoria's mum. I reckon it was a rough conversation to have. I was in there just after and she looked-

Anywiz, they sent for her body, and there's going to be a family rite sometime. Don't know. I expect I should write them. I mean, I know I have to do. Only-


Ugh. Sorry. I've got to get going. See you in an hour unless something unexpected happens.

By which I mean if you don't see me by 2:15 or hear I'm back in the castle, at least, then tell someone something unexpected's probably happened to units 1 and 4.

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Say. We're back. So you know, but I'm going to the loo and then taking a shower before I come find you.

Trust me. You'll be glad about that.