Order Only: Private message to Alice Longbottom and Remus Lupin

[alt_bill]

Percy's dead.

It wasn't just the clock hand falling off.

Ginny said that they heard his voice. Calling for Mum, out in the yard. Mum opened the door and...and he was standing there, right on the steps, with a knife deep in the middle of his heart and a look of absolute horror on his face. Blood dripping through his hands. Merlin. Except that they didn't see right away that he was translucent, and when they reached out for him to help him, their hands went right through him. There wasn't time to say anything...he just disappeared. Faded away. The whole thing lasted maybe five seconds.

Then they discovered his hand had fallen off the clock.

We're all here now, so we've all been told. Mum went into shock, but Poppy is with her now.

We haven't even had official word yet.

Alice--can you tell the rest of the Order? Just, I guess that the clock hand has fallen off, and we have reason to believe it means there has been a fatal accident at Snowdonia.

Comments

[alt_alice]

Yes. Of course.

I'm sorry, Bill.

[alt_bill]

I mean, I don't mean to hoard information.

But I haven't asked Mum whether she's all right with people generally knowing that story. And she's in no fit state to be asked right now.

[alt_alice]

Oh, love, of course. Of course that's all right. I understand completely.

How very awful for both of them.

[alt_lupin]

Bill, that's horrifying.

I'm so sorry.