Order Only: Private message to Sirius Black and Severus Snape

[alt_lupin]

I spent about an hour last night chatting with Lucius.

I shouldn't find him infuriating, at this point. Dangerous, sure, but infuriating? the man's our prisoner. But -- he kept asking me what we wanted from him. And everything about the way he asked made me think he was grasping for any scrap of power he could, because if we wanted something from him, he could hold it over us.

That said, of course we want things from him. Information. I'm not sure specifically what; I don't know what specifically he knows that would be of use to us. And, of course, we can hardly ask him if he has any thoughts on things Voldemort might have turned into horcruxes without explaining the whole business with horcruxes to him -- not that it's going to be news to him that Voldemort can come back from the dead, given that he was actually there when it happened.

What do you think I should be asking him? The next time I go talk to him, that is. Which will probably be at Saltash.

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[alt_severus]

If you did not find Lucius infuriating, I should think Azkaban had broken him completely.

Asking about the Horcruxes is probably our best bet to gain something useful from him. You are correct that we may need to resort to Legilimency; I will give it a try.

[alt_lupin]

It occurs to me that if we do want to legilimise him we won't be able to do it at Saltash.

I still think it's the best place to hold him, though.

[alt_severus]

Undoubtedly, yes. And I had not thought of that.

When is the transfer scheduled?

[alt_lupin]

Currently Monday. We could talk to Alice about putting it off again. The risk, of course, is that he'll get his hands on someone's wand. (No one's giving him pepper with his eggs, at least.) At the moment, he's so weak and drained from Azkaban I doubt he'd be able to manage an apparition even if he did get a wand -- I also pointed out to him that if he returned to Voldemort, he'd be legilimised, and Narcissa's role in the Azkaban breakout would be revealed.

We've currently got him under a spell that slows him down. Movement, reflexes, all of it. So if he did make a grab for a wand, it shouldn't be hard to dodge.

[alt_severus]

I shall endeavour to visit him tomorrow, then.