Daddy

[alt_luna]

Portia and Celia have been very kind, but still...Ginny, I expect you've heard. The Headmistress called me into her office to tell me, but I suppose word spreads fast around here. I don't think I will want to come to dinner tonight, but I'd really like to see you, if you can come to the Ravenclaw common room. The Prefects said that they would watch for you and let me know when you're there, and we'll find a place to go away for awhile to talk.

I can't believe I'll never be able to go home again. And that I'll never see him again.

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[alt_sirius]

Come again? They're giving out he's dead but his remains are to go to some obscure and presumably experimental project?

No.

I cry foul. What's more, I'd wonder whether he's really dead, if that's the way they're playing it.

More likely they just wanted to keep him round as a play-toy for old Voldy-trousers. Well, they can just stuff it, that's all.

If we don't flay every one of them alive and then pour lemon juice over them and then grow all their skin back so we can do it again ....

Sorry. I know, that sinks us to their level. I know it.

Merlin, it would feel good, though.

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[alt_poppy]

I know exactly what you mean, Sirius, about wanting to put them through even a fragment of what they've done to their victims.

But, I truly do not know what to think about Lovegood. You're quite right, of course: their nonsense story means anything at all might have happened to him, including the possibility that he's not dead at all. And you're right that the timing makes little or no sense.

Unless they've killed him accidentally. I really do wonder if that's not it: all it would have taken was someone getting frustrated when he persisted in making no sense at all regardless of what torment or technique they applied. A moment's fury and piff! Dead.

I can think of all too many reasons they might not wish to release his corpse. You know that they had to open a new sanitarium last spring to cope with the number of irremediable injuries inflicted by Buckingham and the Ministry on persons in custody. The fortunate souls may be the ones who die.

I--

Yes, Sirius, it would feel good.

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[alt_bill]

Bloody hell.

I saw this and like Poppy and Minerva, I've been wringing every connection I have, trying to find out more. The analyst team has been being extremely careful, though, to not draw attention to our inquiries.

I can tell you this much: his death certificate hasn't been registered this week. It might mean nothing, though, depending on when he died, if he died. It could come with next week's report. If it does come in, I have someone who thinks she can grab a quick look and at least get an official cause of death. That'll give us the Ministry's story of what happened.

But I agree with you, Sirius, given what we know about how they made him disappear. Whatever they will tell us will be a lie. We just have to figure out how much of a lie.

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[alt_kingsley]

If he is alive, what would they do with him? Now that the cure's out and presumably they can't pretend to be stashing him in a contamination ward?

Azkaban?

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[alt_sirius]

That's why I'm afraid they might not actually be lying about it, Kingsley. I mean, it's possible that, especially after he was so damaged by the Cruciatus curse, he grew to be more valuable dead than alive, as it were.