Order Only: Lucius Bloody Malfoy's bloody holiday weekend

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Had dinner with Percy tonight. It was both pleasant and sickening, as he opened up a bit more than usual about Lucius Malfoy, some of which, Mum and Dad, you should know about. I'll talk with Dad about it tomorrow at lunch. But I did gain one critical tidbit of information that he let drop. Alice, Percy told me that Lucius, apparently not content with giving his wife a pair of diamond teardrop earrings for her 39th ++ birthday, decided to give her a bleeding yacht. And he has hit upon a marvelous way to break her in--the yacht, that is, rather than Narcissa.

They're going to have a lovely get-away holiday weekend (the one after this one) at the Isle of Man. At Castle Rushen which (I checked a map) is a mere twelve miles or so away from the Sanctuary.

That is what that patrol Alice saw must be about. An advance party to scope out the island. Alice, you had better cancel all boating or wanderings up and down the beach until Narcissa has received her bloody yacht and sailed away.

(Merlin. It's so tempting to daydream about sinking the thing.)