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alt_billNo sign of nor message from Corax Mulciber all day, which made work quite strange. Since I knew what was going on and was monitoring the journals, it was a tense day for me, but everyone else was oddly cheerful.
Alice, I'm desperately sorry about Stephen. And for the lost Sherwood fighters--I presume you've spoken with Turner and Davidson? As for the injured, especially Frank...well. I'll hope for the best.
I'm at Doughty Conduit now, retreating there when work was done. (It's quiet, and Jeremy and Ellie are holding down the fort. Jeremy seems to be doing all right, mostly, although he dropped and broke a glass a few minutes ago).
Wanted to report in on my conversation with my MLE contact, who fought at Saltash, too, but came in right before I left to look at some files about the camp. Spoke with her briefly.
Frank was definitely seen, and they're IDing him as the cause of one death, a fairly new Deatheater by the name of Rufus McLaggen. Sirius' 'imposter' has been spotted, too. She said that Corax Mulciber's been injured, badly enough that at least it's doubtful that he'll be back to work tomorrow. Implied it was his own fault, as he was busy, as she put it, 'entertaining himself with a Muggle.' I didn't ask for details, as I'm sure I wouldn't have the stomach for them.
I fished around a bit to see what MLE makes of whatever-it-was-that-Albus-did. They're utterly perplexed, by the sounds of it. She said that she'd give her wand arm to know how the bloody hell whoever they were fighting managed to cast something that looked like Fidelius in the middle of a firefight. Fortunately, so far, no one who has gone into the barrier has made it back out to report to MLE.
I asked her if she'd heard of anything like it before, or if her superiours had. She said wryly that they weren't exactly comparing notes from arcane texts at the time.
She said they're going to have to make it a no-go zone for anyone but MLE if they want to hush it up. And they will WANT to hush it up: ('Don't tell anyone I told you that.') No one will be allowed in once it's secured, except probably Unspeakables, to study it. Then she said in the next breath that the infuriating thing is that it really can't be secured, since 'they can get out, but we can't get in.' Whatever that means.
They were still rounding up Muggles and hoped to turn up another wizard to question, but hadn't succeeded by the time she was sent back. Oh, and Cadmus Mulciber is the lucky one who gets to deliver the news to the Lord Protector. 'Nobody wanted that job.'
Alice, I'm desperately sorry about Stephen. And for the lost Sherwood fighters--I presume you've spoken with Turner and Davidson? As for the injured, especially Frank...well. I'll hope for the best.
I'm at Doughty Conduit now, retreating there when work was done. (It's quiet, and Jeremy and Ellie are holding down the fort. Jeremy seems to be doing all right, mostly, although he dropped and broke a glass a few minutes ago).
Wanted to report in on my conversation with my MLE contact, who fought at Saltash, too, but came in right before I left to look at some files about the camp. Spoke with her briefly.
Frank was definitely seen, and they're IDing him as the cause of one death, a fairly new Deatheater by the name of Rufus McLaggen. Sirius' 'imposter' has been spotted, too. She said that Corax Mulciber's been injured, badly enough that at least it's doubtful that he'll be back to work tomorrow. Implied it was his own fault, as he was busy, as she put it, 'entertaining himself with a Muggle.' I didn't ask for details, as I'm sure I wouldn't have the stomach for them.
I fished around a bit to see what MLE makes of whatever-it-was-that-Albus-did. They're utterly perplexed, by the sounds of it. She said that she'd give her wand arm to know how the bloody hell whoever they were fighting managed to cast something that looked like Fidelius in the middle of a firefight. Fortunately, so far, no one who has gone into the barrier has made it back out to report to MLE.
I asked her if she'd heard of anything like it before, or if her superiours had. She said wryly that they weren't exactly comparing notes from arcane texts at the time.
She said they're going to have to make it a no-go zone for anyone but MLE if they want to hush it up. And they will WANT to hush it up: ('Don't tell anyone I told you that.') No one will be allowed in once it's secured, except probably Unspeakables, to study it. Then she said in the next breath that the infuriating thing is that it really can't be secured, since 'they can get out, but we can't get in.' Whatever that means.
They were still rounding up Muggles and hoped to turn up another wizard to question, but hadn't succeeded by the time she was sent back. Oh, and Cadmus Mulciber is the lucky one who gets to deliver the news to the Lord Protector. 'Nobody wanted that job.'
Private message to Bill and Charlie Weasley
Date: 2013-11-13 02:00 am (UTC)When he heard that your contact was at Saltash -- this is Rachel Lamont, I assume -- he said, 'I saw her there, that must have been her.'
She's the one who killed Stephen. In cold blood, he says -- Stephen had already been cut down, he was unconscious or petrified on the ground. Sirius knew it was the killing curse because he saw the green flash.
He told Alice -- she's here, of course. Alice knows. But -- be careful.
I know youRe: Private message to Bill and Charlie Weasley
Date: 2013-11-13 02:02 am (UTC)Is Sirius sure?
Re: Private message to Bill and Charlie Weasley
Date: 2013-11-13 02:02 am (UTC)Good god.
Re: Private message to Bill and Charlie Weasley
Date: 2013-11-13 02:03 am (UTC)Re: Private message to Bill and Charlie Weasley
Date: 2013-11-13 02:11 am (UTC)Re: Private message to Bill and Charlie Weasley
Date: 2013-11-13 02:15 am (UTC)That must be her. Yeah.
Re: Private message to Bill and Charlie Weasley
Date: 2013-11-13 02:16 am (UTC)Re: Private message to Bill and Charlie Weasley
Date: 2013-11-13 02:20 am (UTC)It's just that...I have to work with her tomorrow.
I mean, I have to work with Corax Mulciber, too. Or whenever he recovers.
This just seems different.
Re: Private message to Bill and Charlie Weasley
Date: 2013-11-13 02:20 am (UTC)FuckRe: Private message to Bill and Charlie Weasley
Date: 2013-11-13 02:26 am (UTC)She may think she's manipulating you into giving her information about your boss, and the information she gives you in trade is always just enough to keep you talking -- I'm not saying you shouldn't talk to her, mind you, because some of the information you've heard from her has been genuinely valuable. I'm just saying -- well. You don't need a lecture from me.
I'm sorry.
Re: Private message to Bill and Charlie Weasley
Date: 2013-11-13 02:12 am (UTC)Private message to Bill Weasley
Date: 2013-11-13 02:12 am (UTC)Re: Private message to Bill Weasley
Date: 2013-11-13 02:23 am (UTC)Private Message to Bill Weasley and Harry Marvolo
Date: 2013-11-13 03:56 am (UTC)Can you tell us anything else about the allegation that Mr Longbottom was responsible for killing McLaggen? It doesn't seem possible, what, especially if he was rendered unconscious when he cast the protective spell.
I...I say, I think it might help Neville and Evelyn to be able to reassure them he didn't kill anyone.
-Justin
Re: Private Message to Bill Weasley and Harry Marvolo
Date: 2013-11-13 04:11 am (UTC)Re: Private Message to Bill Weasley and Harry Marvolo
Date: 2013-11-13 04:12 am (UTC)Let me think for a moment.
Re: Private Message to Bill Weasley and Harry Marvolo
Date: 2013-11-13 04:14 am (UTC)Except I just realised, that doesn't make any sense.
Frank was evacuated early this morning, wasn't he? So he couldn't have done it.
Re: Private Message to Bill Weasley and Harry Marvolo
Date: 2013-11-13 04:17 am (UTC)That's bally well helpful, thanks.
-F-F
Private message to Bill
Date: 2013-11-14 02:07 am (UTC)Oh, Bill, I'm so sorry. I don't even know what to say. Disillusionment doesn't even enter into it, does it? It's one thing when you know she had to have done horrible things as part of her job, and another when it was against someone we knew and cared about.
Is there anything I can do?
Re: Private message to Bill
Date: 2013-11-14 07:05 pm (UTC)I'm grateful, but there isn't anything you can do. There isn't anything anyone can do. I've been probing at my feelings like a sore tooth, trying to understand them. Not quite guilt, because Merlin knows it wasn't me that raised a wand against Stephen. Not quite grief, because I didn't know her quite well enough to think I'd been personally betrayed. But it's close to both of them.
It's just hurts like blazes, whatever it is. And that makes the loneliness, that she kept at bay for awhile, feel worse than ever.
There's also--I just feel like such a bloody fool. Taking such a risk, for myself, for the Order, only to have this happen. I don't know how I'll ever be able to look Laura McGivern straight in the eye again.
Re: Private message to Bill
Date: 2013-11-14 07:50 pm (UTC)You'll look Laura in the eye same as you have the whole way, Bill. You said it yourself, it wasn't you who raised wand against Stephen, and if we were all judged by the actions of the company we keep, well, half the Order would have had to go a long time ago. Anything Auror Lamont does is on her, not you.
And at least her cutting down Stephen in cold blood saved him from being alive when the Death Eaters got him. You saw what Sirius said they were doing to people.
Re: Private message to Bill
Date: 2013-11-14 09:22 pm (UTC)God. What a nightmare, to think of Stephen in the hands of Bellatrix Lestrange. I mean, I hate like poison that he's dead but as it is...I wonder if he carried anything into battle just in case, to take an out the way Aloysius did. But he was petrified or unconscious, Sirius said. He couldn't have anyway.
As grim as today is, with this news, it could have been far, far worse, if they'd had him and cracked him open. Moddey's existence might have been revealed, and we'd all be running for our lives. And he would have died with the bitterness of knowing he'd betrayed us all.
At least he was spared that.
Cold comfort.
Re: Private message to Bill
Date: 2013-11-14 09:24 pm (UTC)Yeah.
No good choices all around. There haven't been for a while.