Private message to Lucius Malfoy and Rabastan Lestrange

[alt_selwyn]

I don't suppose either of you knows what exactly transpired at Hogwarts last night?

According to my sources, Dolores Umbridge tried to kill Cedric Diggory (or possibly DID actually kill him) and Harry Marvolo killed her, then used the floo to dump her body and claimed she'd taken off through the floo. Does that more or less cover it? What's the official story going to be? I got a sickeningly ingratiating missive from Peakes this morning, by owl, and another from Strangeweale; clearly her allies think her time has run out.

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[alt_rabastan]

Still working out the details, but it is true that Miss Madam Umbridge recently had work done on her floo, and it seems it was quite shoddy.

It will be interesting to see what they do now that they don't have her pink skirts to hide under.

[alt_lucius]

Spoke by fire to Draco this morning. Apparently Dolores had grown increasingly erratic, particularly over the last week. Saturday evening she became especially volatile over some imagined slight and attempted to curse Harry. Diggory had the sense to interpose himself, whereafter, according to Draco, Umbridge fled.

There are some ... inconsistencies in his account, on closer interrogation. However, there is nothing so far that seems to warrant probing further.