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Terry are you sure no one can
Hullo Ron. Mrs Longbottom says that I can write to you this way and no one will be able to see it. Not even her because she's a grownup. Well and also its a private message.
She said I should tell you all about what I remember from the night you rescued me because it might be important. Even though I already told her about it. And also Tonks and Mr Lupin that night. And I don't think I left anything out.
But here's what happened. Mummy took us to this hotel where we'd gone on holiday once and there were men there with wands waiting for us and they petrified us and took Mummy's wand away and then they side-along apparated us to the Ministry and I threw up.
Wait I forgot something important. Before that Daddy came in at bedtime one night and he gave me a necklace with a tiny glass bottle on it and he said if I was ever in trouble but it should be REALLY BAD trouble like the WORST POSSIBLE trouble ever I should open the bottle and drink what was inside. And in the meantime I should always keep the necklace on even in the bath and when I slept and he said no one should notice it and I shouldn't tell anyone even Mummy and it was up to me to know when the right time was if I needed to use it.
Anyway I knew it was the Ministry because of the statues in the big room where we came in. And I screamed but no one did anything and then they took us down the lift and I was afraid they were taking us to MLE and we were all going to be crucioed forever until we went mad. (I'm not supposed to know they do that but I heard Mummy and Daddy talking a few times when they didn't know I was there. There's a bloke named Trunchon, did you know? You don't ever want to meet him.)
But, they didn't take us to MLE so at first I was relieved and that's why I didn't use my luck potion right away. (Well I didn't know that's what it was then. Now I do. Then I just knew Daddy said it was to be saved until I was in THE WORST trouble.) They had us in a room and it wasn't terrible. It was locked but we weren't in a dungeon. Though they didn't give us anything to eat. We were alone for a long time and Mummy told us stories to keep us from being scared.
Mr Strangeweale came in and I didn't know who he was but Mummy did which is how I heard his name. First she said he should let us go because we had friends on the Council who would be very angry at him if he didn't. And he laughed at that. And then she tried to offer him money and he laughed at that, too. And then she begged him not to hurt me and Hector. I mean she went on her knees and said she was begging him and he cast something on her to make her fall down on the floor and he said not to disgrace her blood with unseemliness and then he said that he had something very special in mind for me and Hector.
He said he and hiscolleges colleegs had been working on a procedure to extend life and restore youth and all that was required was someone who wouldn't be needing their own youth. And he said they'd perfected the procedure on mudbloods (I know I'm not supposed to say mudblood but HE said mudblood not muggelborn) but that of course a mudblood would be the wrong thing to offer to Our Lord but a pureblood child would be perfect and I was also just the right age.
Mummy said 'no no no not my little girl' and Mr Strangeweale said that of course since we were the children of a traitor our lives were forfite anyway and this way we would live on because it would turn our magic into something beautiful and it wouldn't hurt for long at least none of the mudbloods screamed for very long and he said it could be worse for all of us because what if Our Lord had given us to Bella (he meant Auror Lestrange) instead and then he put the Imperius on Mummy so she'd stand up and go with him and he didn't let her say goodbye. He said he was going to use her to calibrate things so they didn't have to waste even a drop of my blood and then he left me and Hector alone.
I knew THAT had to be the WORST possible trouble so as soon as he was gone I drank the potion and then I noticed that when Mr Strangeweale was there he'd left one drawer of the desk unlocked and inside was Daddy's diary and also a quill and ink. So I wrote to you. Do you need to know anything else?
Hullo Ron. Mrs Longbottom says that I can write to you this way and no one will be able to see it. Not even her because she's a grownup. Well and also its a private message.
She said I should tell you all about what I remember from the night you rescued me because it might be important. Even though I already told her about it. And also Tonks and Mr Lupin that night. And I don't think I left anything out.
But here's what happened. Mummy took us to this hotel where we'd gone on holiday once and there were men there with wands waiting for us and they petrified us and took Mummy's wand away and then they side-along apparated us to the Ministry and I threw up.
Wait I forgot something important. Before that Daddy came in at bedtime one night and he gave me a necklace with a tiny glass bottle on it and he said if I was ever in trouble but it should be REALLY BAD trouble like the WORST POSSIBLE trouble ever I should open the bottle and drink what was inside. And in the meantime I should always keep the necklace on even in the bath and when I slept and he said no one should notice it and I shouldn't tell anyone even Mummy and it was up to me to know when the right time was if I needed to use it.
Anyway I knew it was the Ministry because of the statues in the big room where we came in. And I screamed but no one did anything and then they took us down the lift and I was afraid they were taking us to MLE and we were all going to be crucioed forever until we went mad. (I'm not supposed to know they do that but I heard Mummy and Daddy talking a few times when they didn't know I was there. There's a bloke named Trunchon, did you know? You don't ever want to meet him.)
But, they didn't take us to MLE so at first I was relieved and that's why I didn't use my luck potion right away. (Well I didn't know that's what it was then. Now I do. Then I just knew Daddy said it was to be saved until I was in THE WORST trouble.) They had us in a room and it wasn't terrible. It was locked but we weren't in a dungeon. Though they didn't give us anything to eat. We were alone for a long time and Mummy told us stories to keep us from being scared.
Mr Strangeweale came in and I didn't know who he was but Mummy did which is how I heard his name. First she said he should let us go because we had friends on the Council who would be very angry at him if he didn't. And he laughed at that. And then she tried to offer him money and he laughed at that, too. And then she begged him not to hurt me and Hector. I mean she went on her knees and said she was begging him and he cast something on her to make her fall down on the floor and he said not to disgrace her blood with unseemliness and then he said that he had something very special in mind for me and Hector.
He said he and his
Mummy said 'no no no not my little girl' and Mr Strangeweale said that of course since we were the children of a traitor our lives were forfite anyway and this way we would live on because it would turn our magic into something beautiful and it wouldn't hurt for long at least none of the mudbloods screamed for very long and he said it could be worse for all of us because what if Our Lord had given us to Bella (he meant Auror Lestrange) instead and then he put the Imperius on Mummy so she'd stand up and go with him and he didn't let her say goodbye. He said he was going to use her to calibrate things so they didn't have to waste even a drop of my blood and then he left me and Hector alone.
I knew THAT had to be the WORST possible trouble so as soon as he was gone I drank the potion and then I noticed that when Mr Strangeweale was there he'd left one drawer of the desk unlocked and inside was Daddy's diary and also a quill and ink. So I wrote to you. Do you need to know anything else?
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Date: 2013-10-05 07:15 pm (UTC)I mean, I'm glad you wrote it all down. I'm sure it will help.
I do have some questions, yeah. What do you think Mr Strangewatsit meant when he said you were just the right age? Did he mean both you and Hector? Or just you? I mean, he said he was going to use both of you, but do you think there was something special about being nine (that's how old you are, right?) or... I don't know, something about being older than a baby but not yet ten. Or do you think he really meant you were going to be more useful than Hector because of how old you are?
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Date: 2013-10-05 07:24 pm (UTC)But young enough that you're still a kid.
I guess a lot of the muggleborns he used were older than me. Like fifteen or sixteen. But Hector was so little and that wasn't as good. He was still planning to use Hector but he said he might not make enough.
He said to Mummy that if she'd been a proper pureblood wife and had a dozen babies that would have been perfect.
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Date: 2013-10-05 07:34 pm (UTC)Wow. I'm sorry, Arista. Y'know I'm really glad you had that luck potion and that we found you and that you and Hector are safe now.
But I'm sorry about your mum and dad. And I'm really sorry Mr Strang
ewaweale is still doing this. But you're helping us figure out how to stop him.So... he was going to use your blood to make whatever he was making? Did he say anything about how his machine worked? B
esides hurAnd, um, he said what he was doing was meant for the Lord Protector? To make him live longer? What do you think he meant?
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Date: 2013-10-05 08:05 pm (UTC)He said it was a machine and there would be a tube that went down my throat and another that would go into my heart and if I was very good and quiet until he came for me he might use a pain-killing charm when he put them in.
He said it would make Our Lord young again. Stronger. All the wisdom of age but all the vigour of youth. He said energy is wasted on children because we're stupid.
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Date: 2013-10-05 08:06 pm (UTC)I think it would have been easier for her to bear it. All of it. If she'd known.
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Date: 2013-10-05 08:34 pm (UTC)I think your mum did know. Harry said. When he found her, she was still- she knew we'd come to help. To try, anyway.
He tried to help her. He and Malfoy did.
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Date: 2013-10-05 08:39 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-10-05 08:50 pm (UTC)But you know that Dolohov and Crouch turned up while we were looking for you, and I don't know what happened with Harry and your mum.
I'll tell you what he tells me, yeah?
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Date: 2013-10-05 08:53 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-10-05 08:07 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-10-05 08:41 pm (UTC)Do you know how long he'd been working on the machine? Did he say at all? Or how many muggleborns he'd used it on?
I wonder what he was doing with the potions he made from them. Since those weren't for the Protector.
Do you think Mr Strangeweale'd been drinking those potions himself?
I wish they'd poisoned him.
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Date: 2013-10-05 08:59 pm (UTC)It sounded like he'd used ALL the muggleborns but that can't be right because he didn't get Maureen, did he? he'd run out suitable mudbloods, was what he said. I think he said there were fifty-three of them but it took a lot of experiments and I think a lot of them just died and he didn't get any of the potion. Elixir. Whatever.
Mr Strangeweale did drink some of it himself. He gave some to others too but I guess some of them it didn't work properly and it made them older and sicker instead of younger and stronger.
And yeah its too bad that didn't happen with the elixir Mr Strangeweale drank.
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Date: 2013-10-05 08:59 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-10-05 09:00 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-10-07 02:46 am (UTC)I'm sorry. I didn't know how to answer you yesterday when you asked this. And maybe I still don't. I reckon they didn't know any muggleborns, maybe, so they didn't know they're just people like the rest of us. And that they can be as good witches and wizards as the rest of us. And as good people. Or bad. But they're not different from us, really, at all.
But if you didn't know any, you wouldn't know, would you? You'd just believe what other people told you. And even if you didn't believe it, it can be dangerous to say you don't. Especially if you're close to the Lord Protector like your dad was.
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Date: 2013-10-08 01:29 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-10-08 04:43 am (UTC)Did they ever talk about it? Going to school with Muggleborns, I mean.
I reckon, then, it might be like something one of my friends says about people who do things that they know are wrong and bad. She says once they done whatever it is, they've got a choice--either they go on with it, knowing that they'd did a terrible thing, or they talk themselves into thinking the person they did it to deserved it.
It could be like that with your dad and Muggleborns. He had to make decisions like that, and it would have made his job loads easier if he decided to really believe Muggles and Muggleborns aren't people or to think they're evil and deserve to be hurt.
I don't know about your mum. Only, if your dad thought that way, it'd be easier to be with him if she did, too.
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Date: 2013-10-08 04:51 am (UTC)Mummy and Daddy were in Slytherin and Sarah says there were never any muggleborns in Slytherin but she also says the Houses have classes together and also clubs.
I wish I could still have a House but I wouldn't want it to be Slytherin, I think I would want to be in Ravenclaw like Sarah was.