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_poppy]

What? I don't follow what you are saying here at all.

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[alt_sirius]

It's all right, Poppy. You don't want to know.

That's part of the legacy of living with a family of dark wizards. Sometimes the brain goes places you'd rather not.

Suffice to say I think I know what Reg was doing on that 'project' he was working on for so long recently. And it requires corpses.

When I'm finished being sick I think I'll murder that little goblin.

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[alt_poppy]

I-

Corpses?

Some sort of necromancy, then. I suppose that makes sense with Voldemort behind it.

I do wish I knew what he was researching here. Irma said he had her pull out all the Darkest tomes and manuscripts in preparation for his visit, and then he insisted on going down into her vaults and tromping around them himself. He wanted to see all of Slytherin's papers, of course, but also a trolley-load of private journals kept by some of the early teachers--Sprenger and Grunnion, among them. Neither of them was strictly a necromancer, but she did say Viridian (Hogwarts' first and only vivisectionist, you know) was in his stack. The only other thing she could identify with certainty that he dragged out to read were the Piers of Chesterton scrolls. There was more, but he was careful to keep her from ever having a clear view.

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[alt_sirius]

Grunnion? Not the inventor of the dungbomb, I assume.

(Though I could use a few dungbombs lobbed over the Malfoy gate right about now ....)

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[alt_poppy]

No. Not the inventor of the dungbomb.

Although, I'm not sure you could say that this particular Grunnion--he was on staff here in the early years, a generation or three down from the founders, I'd guess--was any more respectable than his latter day descendant.


Dungbombs.

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[alt_bill]

Thanks, Poppy. I'll give that list to the analysts, see if they can make anything of it.

Kingsley, do those names suggest anything to you?

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[alt_kingsley]

Not really, but I'm not the expert on dark arts that Emmeline is. I'll ask her, and see if she has any ideas. If she does, I'll forward 'em on.

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[alt_kingsley]

Well, I want to know. So does Emmeline. Spell it out for us.

So to speak.

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[alt_sirius]

I can barely write it, it's that revolting.

Reg kept talking about the dead. Loads of them. What do you need to mass murder people for, Kingsley?

And having Kreacher to ferry the corpses?

I'm gonna be sick again.