Private message to Lucius Malfoy

[alt_selwyn]

Are you and Narcissa going to that performance at Hogwarts? I got an invitation, I rather suppose more as a courtesy than anything else, and I hadn't intended to go but I left it lying out and Arista found it. Her nanny made the mistake of reading it to her and she is now positively DYING to go.

Will it be highly inappropriate for a six-year-old, filled with shocking violence and foul language? I suppose that's too much to hope for.

It's probably fairly short, at least. Your son's in it, isn't he? And your god-daughter? Or is she helping behind the scenes?

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[alt_lucius]

I think Ari would have been all too pleased to come if he were inspecting a prospective bride for Ptolemy.

Misplacing it - ingenious. That's what I ought to have done! (Unfortunately the cabinet Narcissa gave me last year has rather tidily removed that excuse from my repertoire. However, on the whole I should rather be able to find a thing when Hooper has misfiled it than have to remember to occasionally tell him to misfile it. Gryffindors.)

Later drafts may have changed from the one we received, but yes, her death is the note on which the first half closes.

As long as Alecto Carrow's representative is nowhere near Serena when she falls, I'll keep my suspicions about Ptolemy's goals to myself.