Private message to Bella and Lucius

[alt_antonin]

Inventory of note from Milland's office:

• Seven flasks Polyjuice;
  
• In false back behind cabinet containing cleaning supplies: 17 flasks with unidentified substances, numbered 4 through 25, excluding 7, 9, 12, 22, and 23, none identifiable by standard spells

Inventory of note from Milland's quarters:

• Nine flasks Polyjuice;
  
• Fourteen flasks standard medicinals, each labelled with contents, in Snape's handwriting; dust patterns &c indicate they have been there some time;
  
• Nine potions texts, most obscure, several containing handwritten marginalia (also in Snape's handwriting) and bookmarks;
  
• Handwritten journal (in Snape's handwriting) containing potions recipes, most of which appear to be variations on standard recipes.

No brewing equipment, no hair or other Polyjuice ingredients, no sign of Carolus Milland.

Comments

[alt_lucius]

And Snape claims to have my son.

Blast.

Narcissa's with Rodolphus. Believe they are making lists relevant to Razzer's funereal rites.


Will have to search the entire castle. The real Milland can't be far away if he had that much polyjuice.

Double blast.

How in the name of -

Fuck.

[alt_antonin]

We can begin the search in the morning; it is late, and it has been a very trying day. If Snape has been in a position to harm Draco for this long, and has not done so, he will not do so tonight, either.

I am so fucking sorry, Lyoushka.

[alt_lucius]

Спасибо, брат.

When I think of all we have gone through these past months, all that has transpired - and now for this, under our noses?

Not good, brother mine.

I am not in the mood for sleep. I am in the mood for justice.

[alt_antonin]

And I will help you in whatever ways I can; we will get him back safely, and we will make it exceptionally clear to Snape what happens when you evade Our Lord's justice.

But we will do so tomorrow. Nothing more will be accomplished tonight, and the stakes are high enough that the matter is best approached with a clear head.

[alt_lucius]

Fine.

Rod has occupied Razzer's old quarters to-night. We shall be in Minerva's.

On the morrow, then.

Private message to Antonin Dolohov

[alt_antonin]

O you who bring beneficiant souls into the house of Osiris, do you bring the souls of Rabastan and Minerva together with you into the house of Osiris, let them see as you see, let them hear as you hear, let them stand as you stand, and sit as you sit in the house of Osiris; O you who give bread and beer to beneficient souls in the house of Osiris, do you give bread and beer at the two periods to the souls of Rabastan and Minerva who are with you; O you who unclose the ways and open the roads to beneficient souls in the house of Osiris, unclose the ways and open the roads to the souls of Rabastan and Minerva who are with you. Let them enter boldly and come forth in peace at the house of Osiris, without hindrance and without repulse. Let them enter at their pleasure and go forth at their will, triumphantly with you, and let that be executed which they shall order in the house of Osiris.

May the Lord God grant their souls find rest where the righteous repose. I ask for the mercies of God, the kingdom of heaven, and the forgiveness of their sins from Christ our immortal King and God. May your memory be eternal, dear brother, for you are worthy of blessedness and everlasting memory. May your memory be eternal, dear sister, for you are worthy of blessedness and everlasting memory. With the saints give rest, O Christ, to the soul of Your servants Rabastan and Minerva, where there is no pain, nor sorrow, nor suffering, but life everlasting. Sanctus Deus, Sanctus Fortis, Sanctus Immortalis, miserere nobis. Ἅγιος ὁ Θεός, Ἅγιος ἰσχυρός, Ἅγιος ἀθάνατος, ἐλέησον ἡμᾶς. Holy God, Holy Almighty, Holy Immortal, have mercy on us, both now and ever and to the history of ages, amen.