Remus Lupin

Should we have a funeral this afternoon?

Or wait until tomorrow?

Just so long as it's not after sundown tonight

I could -- arrange things.

For those who have not heard, I am grieved to report that Justin Finch-Fletchley died last night.

His funeral will be held today at 3 p.m. at the Hogwarts Memorial Grounds, where he'll be laid to rest with the fallen from the May Battle.

All who wish to remember Justin and say goodbye may attend. I've told Headmistress Vector so that she can let Justin's classmates who are here but not Order members know.

Jason -- I saw you wrote to Rachel. She's been badly injured. Any chance you could stop by and be brought up to speed verbally? In the meantime -- whatever you're asking her or telling her, she's not going to answer yet. You can talk to me or Alice, or Campanella Wright if you'd prefer.

Poison?

POISON?

Look into Hydra's eyes and say you're poison because of who your parents were. Or Draco's. Or Pansy's.

We fought a goddamn war to say finally that magical blood is magical blood regardless of who your parents were. Good people are also good people regardless of what their last name is, whether they got added to some dusty moth-eaten tapestry when they were born, whether their parents fought to create this clusterfuck or fought to eliminate it. You don't carry some taint because you're a Black, any more than Hydra does, or Draco. We are the people our choices make us. You've chosen to be the person I LOVE, Sirius Black, you've chosen to be the person who holds me at night and stays with me when I transform, the person I waited most of my life to find. You've chosen to fight people like Bellatrix, to risk everything you have to make a better world. DO NOT TELL ME THAT YOU ARE POISON.

There aren't any guarantees. None of us were promised a happy ending. Not Minerva or Severus, not Kingsley or Benjy, not Harry, not Justin, that doesn't make it all somehow your fault when things go wrong, you egotistical jackass. WHERE ARE YOU?




yes, I found your FUCKING note. just like obviously you found mine.