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[alt_hydra]

Rachel and the rest of MLE:

I'm not cleared for field duty, but you might want to send a patrol unit to the Forbidden Forest. If you still want Antonin Dolohov dead, that is.

Evelyn somehow passed it along to him that what's left of Barty is out there, so he may try to recover anything that remains in order to fulfill his superstitious methods and modes of worship.

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[alt_alice]

WH

Private Message to Evelyn

[alt_alice]

You sent him word?

Re: Private Message to Evelyn

[alt_evelyn]

yes.

Re: Private Message to Evelyn

[alt_alice]

What did you tell him?

How many times have you contacted him?

...Why, Evie?

I'd have thought that you of all people would've have the sense to

Re: Private Message to Evelyn

[alt_evelyn]

This is the first time I've made contact since I replied to the note he sent me about coming over to the house in December.

I told him where Mr Crouch fell. I told him that his body had been torn apart by an explosion, and that he'd died instantly. I told him we weren't in the forest, but to beware the centaurs.

I told him I knew what it was like to not have a body to bury.

It was one thing to leave Mr Crouch's body out there unburied when there wasn't anyone left to mourn him, it was awful and sad and wrong and I thought we were better than that, but now the one person who loved him is alive, and I couldn't. I couldn't let it lie.

Re: Private Message to Evelyn

[alt_evelyn]

I've fulfilled my obligation.

I don't plan on talking to him ever again.

Re: Private Message to Evelyn

[alt_alice]

I see.

Re: Private Message to Evelyn

[alt_alice]

I also see he wrote you.

Anything I need to be made aware of?

Re: Private Message to Evelyn

[alt_evelyn]

He was blaming me for leading him into a trap.

So it seems I've made an entire flotilla of people angry with me today, and that the trap was entirely ineffective, for what it's worth.

If you want me to read his message aloud to Auror Brodie, feel free to give me the order.

Re: Private Message to Evelyn

[alt_alice]

Evelyn.

Re: Private Message to Evelyn

[alt_evelyn]

You're right. That was uncalled for.

I know. We need to talk.

Only when I'm less bruised, please.

Re: Private Message to Evelyn

[alt_alice]

All right, Evie.

[alt_justin]

Dash it.

Private message to Justin

[alt_hydra]

Can one of us arrest her?

Private message to Evelyn

[alt_hydra]

Until you're one of those willing to put their life, humanity, and sanity out where it can all be snatched from you at any moment, I think you're better off staying in the tower and working on charts.

I don't care what debt you owed him, or if you think he saved your life.

You know who has really saved your life? Harry, Ron, Justin, Draco, Mr Snape, Sirius, RACHEL. Whose parents he killed. In addition to Mrs Weasley's brothers.

He fostered a devotion in Barty that was so powerful and blinding that Barty killed over fifty people in his name. He made Barty believe that the world wasn't worth a knut if they both couldn't be on it together. And for some reason there are people in this castle who feel echoes of that same devotion. That their lives are on some level lesser without him, even while they're surrounded by people who give them everything, everyday, and never ask for anything in return.

I swear I will hex it out of you if I have to.

Re: Private message to Evelyn

[alt_evelyn]

I appreciate what you've done and continue to do for all of us, Hydra.

You put your life on the line every day in a way that I don't.

So thank you for that.

And thank you for killing Mr Crouch. I think of all of us, you're the only one who could've managed it, and the world is a far better place without him.

I'll stick to my tower. I know where I'm best suited. But I stand by what I've done. If that warrants a hex from you, so be it.

Re: Private message to Evelyn

[alt_hydra]

What you've done demonstrates that you don't appreciate it at all, so save your words.

[alt_justin]

I've finished my assignment for the day and I'm coming back to the castle. It's imperative that the area near where Hydra and Crouch duelled is guarded but does not appear to be under surveillance. He'll suspect an ambush, even if the message came from Evelyn.

If he does come, it will likely require a group effort to kill him.

-Finch-Fletchley