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[alt_hydra]

Oh no

It seemed like such a brilliant idea...

This is what drunk people do, isn't it? They get mad ideas and they don't even realise that their ideas are mad.

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[alt_justin]

Hydra,

I don't think it's mad at all. Dangerous, yes, jolly well risky, certainly. But mad?

It's the only thing that has made sense for a long time.


I say, you don't regret it, do you?

-J

[alt_hydra]

Of course it's mad. But considering the madness we live in, perhaps that's only to be expected.

No, I don't regret it. I can't stop smiling. But we probably shouldn't tell anyone, should we?

[alt_justin]

No, not even Ron and Sally-Anne.

I still can't believe it, either.

And Professor Dolohov has invited me to Ouroboros on Sunday! I had better accept, what. Perhaps he's as dismayed by the thought of Patil as a Death Eater as the rest of us.

-J

[alt_hydra]

Professor Dolohov wants me to call him Antonin. However friendly he is, I know he's not my friend.

He might not like the idea of young people as Death Eaters at all, if he meant what he said about no more children dying under his watch.

We did that Obliviation spell right, didn't we? He seemed obliviated. Maybe I should go back and check.

[alt_justin]

It was right. If you go back you might have to do it all over again. Trust it. He went completely slack-jawed.

Though that's also how he looked when I told him you were the youngest witch ever to join the Council, what, and he had best obey your orders or learn firsthand what put you there.

But it worked, and we signed, and no one will even think to look in the register. And I have the parchment where no one will find it.

-J

[alt_hydra]

Alright. I mean, if it hadn't worked, we'd probably know by now.

We are really, really bad at breaking up, you know.

[alt_justin]

Yes, well, perhaps people should stop making us do it.

That's not fair, to them. I know it was bally well selfish, and reckless and we ought to tell Mrs L Remus and let them all shout at us about how selfish and reckless we've been. But it wouldn't change anything now, what, so I jolly well don't care. And we don't need to hear it.

If we do find a way to destroy all his horcruxes and kill him, then it won't matter. And if we don't, or if we die trying, then at least we can say we didn't wait for safety.

I say, I'd rather regret doing something selfish and reckless, and knowing in my heart that it was right, than regret having played it safe and waited, and losing the chance to call you 'Mrs Finch-Fletchley.'

(Or am I Mr Lestrange? I suppose people would think that, if they knew.)

-Justin

[alt_hydra]

Mrs Finch-Fletchley, please. I'm a modern witch but I'd not miss the name Letrange at all. And it doesn't suit you.

You know, they might be upset, and say we are selfish, but I'm the one who's joined the council to help all of us. If we ever are going to tell them, now would be one of the times they couldn't see fit to protest much.