Private message to Barty
Apr. 12th, 2014 01:22 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alt_antoninI am entirely too awake for it being so late, and it occurred to me while I was going over my outstanding odds and ends: have you had a chance to inspect the package you picked up yesterday?
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Date: 2014-04-12 06:27 am (UTC)Hold that thought.
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Date: 2014-04-12 06:30 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-04-12 06:40 am (UTC)Contents are significant enough, but slender. Gist is:
Lines reopened with AB, but quietly. Tentative still.
SR favourable but still swaying. Not certain whether more pressure or more distance required.
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Date: 2014-04-12 06:45 am (UTC)You passed him the phials, yes? If I am to continue devoting myself to this farce, I do not want what little intelligence I have been able to coax out of that lot to be wasted.
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Date: 2014-04-12 06:53 am (UTC)Phials in perfect condition. Stasis charmed.
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Date: 2014-04-12 07:03 am (UTC)I hate this so much. Particularly with recent developments to knock at one's confidence. And yet, every time I am tempted to leave off the plan, I am able to pick up another tiny scrap -- SD would not be so candid with me if she thought my alliances were still firm, for instance.
Let us hope we do not need to keep up the pretence for much longer.
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Date: 2014-04-12 01:44 pm (UTC)I have forgone the pleasure of breakfast at the castle and supervising the merry departure, and am back home. Unsurprised you are not -- you are undoubtedly hard at work -- but I did find the photographs, and the notes on identification, that you left in the library. On the off chance it will be of use in your current work:
Item 0041: You are missing Dedalus Diggle (back left) and Edgar Bones (behind Black). I know that Bones is dead -- I was on that raid as well, in point of fact, though Lucius was commanding. (You were finishing your NEWTs.) I do not know what happened to Diggle.
I hadn't recognised Remus Lupin until you labelled him -- I had never looked twice at him until he came into Our Lord's service after that whole business with Pettigrew. (Though I suppose that decision must be suspect now.) I do recall Snape endlessly whinging about him, Black, and Potter, however. If he is still alive, what is the possibility he's with Black? (I'm sure you've thought of tracing Wolfsbane ingredients to see if they lead you anywhere; I mention it only to be completist.)
Hagrid's first name was ... oh, I had it on the tip of my quill before I began writing that sentence. Rufus? Something that began with an R, at least. I will look it up again when next I am back at Hogwarts.
Item 0042: The one next to the Prewett twins is Elphias Doge. Believe he was killed Halloween '82. The woman next to Lily Potter whom you recognised but whose name you could not remember is Marlene McKinnon, and yes, that was me, with Travers attending -- that was the night you could not slip free of your father, remember? You were cross about it for weeks.
Item 0043: The man next to Dumbledore is his brother Aberforth. I've no idea on the older woman in the hat with the handbag either.
Item 0044: All three unidentified people look exceptionally familiar, but I cannot place any of them immediately. I'll try again after I've had my coffee.
So, no immediate leads -- most of those I was able to identify are dead or missing -- but perhaps there will be some useful familial connections to tug upon.
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Date: 2014-04-12 04:37 pm (UTC)The fourth photo, the one with the blond hair that goes everywhere. I know I know him. I don't think we killed him, but -- I want to say that raid in Brixton, where we burned out the townhome of that woman who'd been writing editorials to the Prophet in support of Dumbledore. He was one of the ones who responded, wasn't he? Took a curse from Rookwood, and Gus was surprised it didn't kill him.
What was his name?