Order Only: Private Message to Harry Potter

[alt_ron]

Say.

I've been writing to Arista Selwyn, and she's been trying to remember everything she can about what happened to her in the Department of Mysteries. She remembers quite a lot, actually. But it's made her think about what happened to her mum, and she wants to know if her mum was still alive when you found her. And, y'know. If she said anything. Or, well- whatever you could tell her, I think. She just wants to know.

What she hopes is that her mum knew we'd come to help and that she thought Arista and Hector were going to be safe.

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[alt_harry]

When we saw her the first time, hooked up to that machine

she was still alive. She was looking right at us. And she didn't recognise us. I think she thought we were the people who'd put her there in the first place, because she was scared, you could tell. But when we called her Mrs Selwyn and asked if she was okay, she started crying a little and said Arista and Hector's names.

And we told her we were there to rescue them.

And I think she understood me.

She was sort of out of it, I mean, I don't know if she ever sorted out who we were, and we were only in there for a little before Crouch started blasting away at us, we didn't have time

we didn't have time to really help her at all. When I was helping Draco, I heard her screaming. A lot. More than I thought she could. And when I came back the next time, she was dead.

Don't tell Arista that last part.

[alt_ron]

Thanks, mate.

I think we did a fair job remembering what we saw in there, y'know. All of us working on it together.

I hadn't really thought... how much I didn't want to think back to it. Glad it was all of us.

[alt_harry]

Yeah. I know what you mean.

[alt_harry]

I hate sitting here pretending everything's okay and waiting for something to happen.

[alt_ron]

Yeah. I know. If there's anything that comes up that we can do--even if it means slipping out of school--I'm in, you know? You can count on me.

[alt_harry]

Okay.