Order Only: Adur and Charles Bawsley
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alt_billI received a firecall from my boss last night ordering me to show up at Adur camp immediately. My source in MLE had revealed that they were honing in on several in the camp administration personnel there who had been caught in pecuniary offences. Raiding the camp's funds for personal gain, fudging on expense reports, that sort of thing. Apparently, camp management is rotten to the core.
You may remember the name of one of them, Charles Bawsley, the Camp Administrator. Dad ran across him a few years ago, when Bawsley was the Assistant Camp Administrator, and Dad wrote one of his Order Only journal entries about him. Dad described him as a 'thug,' which sounds accurate. Bawsley killed a muggleborn because the poor sod tried to use wandless magic to defend a woman Bawsley was cruciating. She was...less then accommodating when Bawsley tried to rape her.
Anyway. Bawlsey has been apparently been cooperating with the investigation, maybe hoping for leniency for himself, I don't know. But Corax Mulciber must have received a tip Bawsley was about to be arrested, now that the investigation was winding up--from his brother in MLE, I suspect. So the two of us showed up at the camp, as best as I can tell, to make the point that Bawsley was his meat--he would magnanimously allow MLE to take the man into custody, but only when Mulciber was finished with him.
The Auror on duty was obviously not happy with the decision that Bawlsey should get cruciated. She protested that this was 'extremely unhelpful; we need him to be able to answer questions.' Mulciber just ignored her. As a last flourish, he cursed, uh, Bawsley's private parts. He'd told me on the way in that he'd learned that Bawsley had 'a taste for bestiality' (meaning, I guess, that he'd learned of Bawsley's penchant for raping muggle women, too). It wasn't that he sympathised with the women in any way, mind you. Rather, it offended his rigid standards of blood purity.
The Auror who'd protested eventually hauled Bawlsey off, whimpering, to St. Mungo's. Mulciber ordered me to stay to help the assistant Auror on the investigation go through the camp records (which are apparently in a total shambles) to look for any possible escapees. He then left.
I don't believe any of the kids at Moddey Dhoo are from that camp, which is fortunate, because the records are now drawing such scrutiny, but I'm afraid that the assistant searching with me flagged cards of some of the people who ended up in Sherwood.
I stayed until shortly before dawn when the senior Auror returned from overseeing Bawsley's transfer to MLE custody. She sent us both home.
You may remember the name of one of them, Charles Bawsley, the Camp Administrator. Dad ran across him a few years ago, when Bawsley was the Assistant Camp Administrator, and Dad wrote one of his Order Only journal entries about him. Dad described him as a 'thug,' which sounds accurate. Bawsley killed a muggleborn because the poor sod tried to use wandless magic to defend a woman Bawsley was cruciating. She was...less then accommodating when Bawsley tried to rape her.
Anyway. Bawlsey has been apparently been cooperating with the investigation, maybe hoping for leniency for himself, I don't know. But Corax Mulciber must have received a tip Bawsley was about to be arrested, now that the investigation was winding up--from his brother in MLE, I suspect. So the two of us showed up at the camp, as best as I can tell, to make the point that Bawsley was his meat--he would magnanimously allow MLE to take the man into custody, but only when Mulciber was finished with him.
The Auror on duty was obviously not happy with the decision that Bawlsey should get cruciated. She protested that this was 'extremely unhelpful; we need him to be able to answer questions.' Mulciber just ignored her. As a last flourish, he cursed, uh, Bawsley's private parts. He'd told me on the way in that he'd learned that Bawsley had 'a taste for bestiality' (meaning, I guess, that he'd learned of Bawsley's penchant for raping muggle women, too). It wasn't that he sympathised with the women in any way, mind you. Rather, it offended his rigid standards of blood purity.
The Auror who'd protested eventually hauled Bawlsey off, whimpering, to St. Mungo's. Mulciber ordered me to stay to help the assistant Auror on the investigation go through the camp records (which are apparently in a total shambles) to look for any possible escapees. He then left.
I don't believe any of the kids at Moddey Dhoo are from that camp, which is fortunate, because the records are now drawing such scrutiny, but I'm afraid that the assistant searching with me flagged cards of some of the people who ended up in Sherwood.
I stayed until shortly before dawn when the senior Auror returned from overseeing Bawsley's transfer to MLE custody. She sent us both home.
Private message to Alice Longbottom and Charlie Weasley
Date: 2013-09-16 12:03 am (UTC)Mulciber started out his private entertainment by ordering me to Cruciate Bawsley. He didn't tell me how long I should do it.
I chose to hold the curse for twenty seconds. It was less time than what I was ordered to do last time (thirty seconds) but more than the ten second least-possible burst that he calls a 'taste.' I knew Mulciber wanted to cruciate Bawsley, too. When I finished, to forestall any protests that I hadn't held it long enough, I turned to Mulciber and said, 'Your turn,' as coldly as I could. He eyed me for a moment and then he started and held it for--I don't know. Maybe two minutes. I wasn't counting the seconds in my head. Just trying to block out the screams.
I'd hoped that would be it, but Mulciber ordered me to do it again, the bastard. So I did it for another twenty seconds. Mulciber went again, about as long as the first time, and then unleashed his special curse. He looked rather savagely pleased when he was done.
Full disclosure: the curse was different this time. For me. I knew about Bawsley. I remembered Dad's journal entry about him, when Mulciber was going on about bestiality. I think it made a difference that I didn't feel as though I was cursing someone totally innocent.
I made a mistake, and I'm afraid it was a big one. I forgot, maybe because I was flustered since Mulciber was watching. But I didn't use the trigger phrase for the Curse the Order needs me to do this that I've used earlier. Instead, I thought: he deserves this.
Perhaps that's why the curse came so much more easily.
I felt differently afterward, too. I mean, I kept it together as long as I was at Adur. Playing it as cold as possible while I was going through the records. But when I got home, I wasn't sad or sick so much as furious. Angry at Mulciber for making me his personal bully boy.
I don't know how to conjure up any empathy for Bawsley. I'm doing some of the cleansing rituals Severus and Terry suggested tonight.
Don't know if it'll be enough. But it's all I have.
Re: Private message to Charlie Weasley
Date: 2013-09-16 12:16 am (UTC)George heard me. The twins sent me a message asking if I want to talk. I think I'm going to take them up on it, tonight.
I think I have to decide whether I should tell Mum. It's obvious this is going to continue. It'll be like a kick in the gut to her, but I won't be able to hide if from her forever. Especially if I, well, start to show any effects. You know how she can sense when things aren't right, yeah? She'll be gutted if she finds out without me telling her, or if it goes on for months before I admit it. She's clever enough to know that I would tell Dad right away.
Merlin, Charlie, I want to quit this job so badly.
Re: Private message to Alice Longbottom and Charlie Weasley
Date: 2013-09-16 04:19 am (UTC)Sirius and Severus are continuing their work, and seem to be making progress. There is nothing concrete, and no definite timeline, but they aren't giving up on it, and believe it still is possible. And seeing as one of them is very decidedly not an optimist and neither tend to overstate their chances of success, I'm inclined to believe them.
I know you're struggling with this, Bill. We've all had our demons, some fiercer than others, but know that the fact that you're recognising it and giving it a name is important, and necessary, and takes a great deal of inner strength.
Hold on to that strength, love.
Re: Private message to Alice Longbottom and Charlie Weasley
Date: 2013-09-16 08:35 pm (UTC)I think I was a little too proud to
begask for reassurance directly. Which makes me all the more grateful to receive it anyway.Please also thank Severus and Sirius for their efforts on my behalf.
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Date: 2013-09-16 04:08 am (UTC)If you're working closely with the Auror you mentioned, it might not be possible. I trust your judgement to be careful. But it's a thought.
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Date: 2013-09-16 06:23 pm (UTC)I thought of trying to palm some of the record cards the night I was there, but I was parked right next to that assistant Auror, elbow to elbow. In my best judgement, it would have been too dangerous to try.