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alt_lupin at 12:06am on 02/06/2013
alt_lupin at 12:06am on 02/06/2013Right, so I imagine after Hermione's latest everyone wants an update.
Apparently Arista Selwyn wrote to Ron from her father's diary earlier this evening, telling him that she was being held prisoner somewhere in the Ministry. Ron promptly rounded up the bulk of the Institute from Aurora Sinistra and Rabastan Lestrange's wedding, and after a cursory attempt at finding an Order member (there were several present; apparently every single one was either hiding in the loo, or deep in conversation with Death Eaters) they decided this couldn't possibly wait and took off en masse by floo to break in to the Department of Mysteries. Disguised with masks left over from the Halloween party at Hogwarts last autumn.
It's worth noting that at some point in the last few weeks, Dominic Selwyn gave Arista a necklace with a tiny bottle and instructions to drink the contents if she were to find herself 'in the very worst possible trouble.' I think we can safely assume, both from those instructions and the results, that the bottle contained Felix Felicis.
In any case, after successfully breaking in, they were pursued by Antonin Dolohov and Barty Crouch, who -- doubtless due to the benevolent influence of Arista's potion -- focused on subduing the miscreants rather than killing or permanently maiming them (though Sally-Anne Perks came rather close to one or the other. Poppy expects her to recover.)
Having subdued all but a handful that managed to remain hidden, Crouch and Dolohov killed Chloe Selwyn and then inexplicably left, at which point our young friends bolted for the floo, where they took the precaution of flooing to a nearby corner and not straight here.
Hermione, does that basically cover it? I suppose I could list out precisely who went and precisely what Dolohov cast on each, if anyone's wondering.
Arista Selwyn, age nine, and Hector Selwyn, age three, are now in the custody of the Order. We're going to take them to 12GP for the night, rather than rousing Arabella. I don't expect anyone will object to bringing them to Moddey, despite -- well. Yes. They are innocent children, and deserve as much protection and care as any other.
Apparently Arista Selwyn wrote to Ron from her father's diary earlier this evening, telling him that she was being held prisoner somewhere in the Ministry. Ron promptly rounded up the bulk of the Institute from Aurora Sinistra and Rabastan Lestrange's wedding, and after a cursory attempt at finding an Order member (there were several present; apparently every single one was either hiding in the loo, or deep in conversation with Death Eaters) they decided this couldn't possibly wait and took off en masse by floo to break in to the Department of Mysteries. Disguised with masks left over from the Halloween party at Hogwarts last autumn.
It's worth noting that at some point in the last few weeks, Dominic Selwyn gave Arista a necklace with a tiny bottle and instructions to drink the contents if she were to find herself 'in the very worst possible trouble.' I think we can safely assume, both from those instructions and the results, that the bottle contained Felix Felicis.
In any case, after successfully breaking in, they were pursued by Antonin Dolohov and Barty Crouch, who -- doubtless due to the benevolent influence of Arista's potion -- focused on subduing the miscreants rather than killing or permanently maiming them (though Sally-Anne Perks came rather close to one or the other. Poppy expects her to recover.)
Having subdued all but a handful that managed to remain hidden, Crouch and Dolohov killed Chloe Selwyn and then inexplicably left, at which point our young friends bolted for the floo, where they took the precaution of flooing to a nearby corner and not straight here.
Hermione, does that basically cover it? I suppose I could list out precisely who went and precisely what Dolohov cast on each, if anyone's wondering.
Arista Selwyn, age nine, and Hector Selwyn, age three, are now in the custody of the Order. We're going to take them to 12GP for the night, rather than rousing Arabella. I don't expect anyone will object to bringing them to Moddey, despite -- well. Yes. They are innocent children, and deserve as much protection and care as any other.
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Is Harry all right? Will they all be at Grimmauld or are they going back to school tonight?
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I have no doubt that had Arista not used the Felix, we would be having a very different conversation.
They're going back to school tonight.
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From what you've said, if they hadn't lifted the spells... and even then, no word?
This is a severe misjudgment on your part, and I expected better of you.
And I want to know more about this machine, and everything you know about Strangeweale. Which you should have passed along when you first discovered it.
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Harry is uninjured but I think it may be starting to sink in just how badly this particular project might have gone wrong. And how serious the consequences would have been for his friends.
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But yes, he ought to have contacted us. To help.
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They went charging into the Ministry with no idea of where she actually was. She might have been in an MLE dungeon, and THEN what? She had a bracelet that let them track her. Which they conscientiously left behind, because THAT is the sort of thing they will think of every time EVEN IF IT DOESN'T OCCUR TO THEM TO CALL THE ORDER.
Did they think we would just leave her there?
Did HERMIONE think we would just leave her there? Arista Selwyn, I mean. Because she was the child of our enemy? A nine-year-old girl?
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VERY detailed.
Thank goodness there was not any, er, mortems, post, though. So to speak.
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Arista Selwyn is drinking hot cocoa at the 12GP kitchen table at the moment, just so you know, and talking to me and Dora.
She says that the reason she was down there is that Strangeweal and some butchers who work for him have been building an apparatus designed to create, apparently, a potion of youth.
It works by killing children. Magical children. Distilling their magic into an essence that can be drunk.
So that's what the Institute saved Arista and Hector from.
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Oh, those poor children...losing both their parents so brutally.
And oh, my goodness. Dominic Selwyn was--well, he was what he was. But because Arthur saved him, he was nothing but kind to our family.
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Because I'm done in but if I come home and Harry's still there, well.
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Arista and Hector are sharing a bedroom tonight. Alice is staying with them.
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Merlin, what a long few days this has been.
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