Private Message to Minerva McGonagall and Rodolphus Lestrange

[alt_lucius]

We've heard some interesting rumours today.

As well as some interesting facts.

Our Lord, you'll be happy to know, was not much affected by the news. Still, MLE were dispatched to Lincoln and found Carrow at the foot of the wall. Quite in pieces.

As to what happened to Alecto, Minerva, you surely have a better idea than anyone at Court. At least, as far as her final moments. Her deterioration, however, I am given to understand we owe to entirely different sources.

Unfortunately there's no sign of the mudblood. He might have been able to offer some account of how Carrow came to fall and was unable to Apparate to safety.

Curious, don't you agree?

Comments

[alt_mcgonagall]

I have told you all I know; Court knows my experience, apart, of course, from the internal heart-pounding misery of realizing that Alecto Carrow was truly and irreparably dead and would no longer brighten the halls of Hogwarts.

As for Carrow Male—I suppose it is impossible that he found life without his sister too desolate to contemplate?

[alt_rodolphus]

I can profess ignorance to the exact manner of Alecto's demise. Pity about her illness; some would say she brought it on herself - as did he.

I don't paint Amycus as one to shrivel up and die of sorrow, not for a minute. Not before taking out the ones he thought responsible first.

As for the young mudblood: curious, perhaps. But then what mudblood wouldn't turn tail from the one who sheltered them as soon as they happened upon the chance? Especially since the shelter Amycus provided was, no doubt, rough. Do we even know that Amycus didn't kill the wretch ages ago? Always seemed inevitable that he would.

Private Message to Rodolphus

[alt_lucius]

Naturally. Cannot but agree with Minerva that they fall short of mourners.

The mudblood wrote not five minutes after its master, so it was alive at least as of this morning. If Carrow had chosen to take the wretch with him, why is there no body?

Suppose there's little chance it can long survive on its own. Still. It points to a picture of circumstance that sets a poor precedent, were the news of it to travel.

But in any event, it is ironic that after all the years of protecting Carrow's mania and Alecto's sadism, Our Lord was little troubled by their demise. Had one known, we could have acted much more decisively and much sooner.

Although ... his raving about that plaque. It's the one that Narcissa's committee gave her, of course, isn't it? Has to be. So I suppose your handiwork is the reason she has been smiling all day?

Re: Private Message to Rodolphus

[alt_rodolphus]

I must have missed that. Confess I never noticed he had a journal at all. Surprised Amycus let him keep one.

It's becomes harder to predict what troubles Him, these days.

I wouldn't put much stock in Amycus' final ravings, Lucius; who can really know what it was he was on about, eh?

But do give your smiling wife my regards.