Does anyone have an owl they can lend me?

[alt_luna]

All the school owls are gone because the Ministry is using them, and I don't have one of my own.

I really want to send an owl to my father.

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[alt_molly]

Oh, dear. I don't particularly want to get mixed up in the middle of this. But I'm sure she's wondering why I haven't gotten back to her about visiting her father. I don't know what on earth to say to her.

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[alt_molly]

Poppy . . . do advise me. Do you think we should tell her what we suspect? That Xeno's not sick, but possibly being held because of his editorial? I certainly can't tell her that through the journals, but perhaps you (or Minerva) could find some way to convey the news to her? I think either prospect (that he's sick with this disease OR possibly under arrest, or at least detained for the editorial) would distress her, but Luna has always seemed to me to prefer knowing the truth. She bore up quite bravely when Xeno got in all that hot water last year, when the Quibbler was reorganised, and he did make a point of keeping her entirely informed about what was going on at the time, as if she were quite a bit older.

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[alt_poppy]

I'm not in a position to speak with her unless I have Minerva's authorisation, and then I could not tell her anything I'm not officially in a position to know. I suppose I could tell her that things at St Mungo's are a bit topsy-turvy and that they are forced to take precautions that in other circumstances would seem unnecessary. I could suggest to her that they have, perhaps, over-reacted and quarantined him just to be extra, extra certain that no one leaves St Mungo's with the disease and blames the Healing staff there with insufficient caution. I don't wish to lie to her, but I really can't share my suspicions with her, either.

Perhaps Minerva will have a better suggestion.

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[alt_molly]

There's also the issue here that the Ministry is apparently trying to smear Xeno as a half-blood--a rumour that now the Head Girl is apparently working to spread further, I'm not pleased to see. Not that I consider half-blood status a smear, of course, but it may make things quite difficult for Luna with her housemates. How can such an errant lie be countered?

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[alt_mcgonagall]

I do believe that that will suffice. I cannot imagine telling the child more.