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Did you lot see that Zabini's fa  step-father was found dead? It's about four pages back in the Prophet. Bundy saw it.

It says he was found in Cardiff yesterday and MLE are investigating, so it must've been suspicious. I mean, I guess I'll say something to him if I get a chance at lunch or in Potions this afternoon, because that's awful. I don't expect he cares much what I say, but still.

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[alt_sally_anne]

He's lost other stepfathers. I mean -- this definitely wasn't the first, he's had five or six others or maybe even more, I'm not going to ask him considering it's a slightly sensitive subject.

That reminds me, though. Did you see Demelza's sister was sent to Azkaban?

[alt_ron]

Yeah, I knew there were some others. That many, though? Huh. I mean, his mum-

Oh, yeah. People are being really quiet about that in Gryffindor, though.

[alt_hermione]

Yes, and there's a notice that the Ministry are hiring for a number of 'choice positions' in a number of departments, as well. I think one of them's her job but it mentions Protectorate Affairs as well.

[alt_sally_anne]

Yeah, with Blaise's mum, it's one of those things that everyone knows but nobody says.

[alt_sally_anne]

I had rather got the impression she liked this one, though. Better than Blaise did, anyway. But presumably she liked all of them for a while....

[alt_draco]

Daphne and I discussed it this morning, as the news had her singularly perturbed. She wondered if Blaise's mother was involved, but the more we talked about it the more she seemed to entertain the idea that it was Blaise himself who was responsible. She wouldn't really reveal why she came to suspect such a thing, but she did tell me that his latest challenge was to do something to demonstrate that his family was worthy of Voldemort's favour.

[alt_draco]

Tsk, what a shame.

[alt_harry]

I guess I'll find out if he tells me in his report.

[alt_pansy]

I wonder if it was political, or if she actually killed someone.

[alt_ron]

She thinks he'd actually do that?

That would pretty well mean we were wasting our time yesterday, trying to keep murder out of this.

[alt_draco]

Not with his own wand. Arrangements of another kind, no doubt.

[alt_ron]

She's meant to have killed one of the Glendowers, yeah?

I mean, I heard he was her lover, but that could've just been talk.

[alt_ron]

Hm.

Well, that's sort of his approach. In the contest, I mean.

But I wouldn't have picked him for being the first of us to kill someone. Would you?

[alt_ron]

Do you think he'd tell?

I mean... If he did admit it, or take credit for it, would MLE go after him for it?

[alt_draco]

I don't know if it's safe to say that he's the first. You came pretty close

[alt_harry]

I don't know. He wouldn't get credit for it unless he told someone, but I can see how he'd tell his sponsor but not me.

Still. If he trusts his sponsor to not use that information as blackmail further down the line, he's barmy.