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alt_selwynLucius, good news and bad news.
The good news is, we've definitely found our girl. Margaret Wynn, age twenty, worked as a tea-trolley witch at St Mungo's, which is how she knew Charlotte Smythe had been brought in. She apparated to Smythe's house and broke in specifically to get the journal -- we think she'd probably planned on this for a while, and had been watching for a patient who met certain criteria (Smythe lived alone, had no close neighbors, would be laid up for at least two days, and didn't use her journal much).
Miss Wynn was quite forthcoming under interrogation -- but she'd been careful to avoid learning anything of true use to us. She says she's part of an organised group but doesn't actually know any names because they always used code names. Moreover, they always kept their faces partly covered so she can't give us any detailed descriptions though she did give us a lengthy description of the scar on the hand of one of the men she met with, so we have that much. I believe some of Barty's people are continuing to question her but no one really believes she's holding out on us, not at this point. For the last hour or two she's been throwing out every scrap of detail she can think of in the hopes it will satisfy the interrogators.
The worst of it -- the truly unfortunate news -- is that as soon as she made that entry, she left the journal at a drop site. She told us the location, and it's clearly a spot that could be used to conceal something like a journal, but of course it's not there now. Barty's arranged surveillance but any group paranoid enough to use code names is unlikely to send people back to a compromised drop site. So they still have the journal. There's no way to switch them off, or Black's babblings would have been rather less of a problem.
Which reminds me, I hesitate to mention this but she insists -- insists -- that Sirius Black is alive. That he was seen in-country, no less, and that 'everyone' knows the body displayed was a fake. She doesn't claim to have seen him herself, and she's now gone back on the claim and says that she's sure we're right, she'd believed lies, etc, but then that's to be expected under the circumstances. I wonder if perhaps there's an individual with a close enough resemblance to be impersonating him?
The good news is, we've definitely found our girl. Margaret Wynn, age twenty, worked as a tea-trolley witch at St Mungo's, which is how she knew Charlotte Smythe had been brought in. She apparated to Smythe's house and broke in specifically to get the journal -- we think she'd probably planned on this for a while, and had been watching for a patient who met certain criteria (Smythe lived alone, had no close neighbors, would be laid up for at least two days, and didn't use her journal much).
Miss Wynn was quite forthcoming under interrogation -- but she'd been careful to avoid learning anything of true use to us. She says she's part of an organised group but doesn't actually know any names because they always used code names. Moreover, they always kept their faces partly covered so she can't give us any detailed descriptions though she did give us a lengthy description of the scar on the hand of one of the men she met with, so we have that much. I believe some of Barty's people are continuing to question her but no one really believes she's holding out on us, not at this point. For the last hour or two she's been throwing out every scrap of detail she can think of in the hopes it will satisfy the interrogators.
The worst of it -- the truly unfortunate news -- is that as soon as she made that entry, she left the journal at a drop site. She told us the location, and it's clearly a spot that could be used to conceal something like a journal, but of course it's not there now. Barty's arranged surveillance but any group paranoid enough to use code names is unlikely to send people back to a compromised drop site. So they still have the journal. There's no way to switch them off, or Black's babblings would have been rather less of a problem.
Which reminds me, I hesitate to mention this but she insists -- insists -- that Sirius Black is alive. That he was seen in-country, no less, and that 'everyone' knows the body displayed was a fake. She doesn't claim to have seen him herself, and she's now gone back on the claim and says that she's sure we're right, she'd believed lies, etc, but then that's to be expected under the circumstances. I wonder if perhaps there's an individual with a close enough resemblance to be impersonating him?
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Date: 2011-02-03 03:32 am (UTC)I'm not sure that her statement would gain anything - there are merits, of course, but flaws as well. We wouldn't want anyone to gain sympathy for her.
May be simpler to have her sign something we can issue out. That would expedite her transfer to Azkaban, if we've learned all we're likely to learn.
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Date: 2011-02-03 03:37 am (UTC)She'll sign whatever we put in front of her, and you're likely correct. A weeping twenty-year-old lass is a rather pitiful sight, no matter how misguided she started out.