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Poppy - I have news on Mr Jones for you. I haven't managed to speak to him myself, but Tonks tracked him down on one of the other wards last night and they had a bit of a chat. He's doing as well as can be expected. He was one of the earlier patients brought in apparently, so the sickness seems to have had a greater effect on him than it has on Tonks, but he's in good spirits and should make a reasonable recovery. He's worried for his job, as most of the patients are, but he seems to have made friends with everyone on his ward and all the staff. I believe he's due to be released some time next week, but that could change depending on his condition.
I don't know how much of that you can pass on, and Tonks didn't mention Professor Sinistra to him, of course, but hopefully she'll feel a little better knowing he's all right.
Tonks herself is doing very well, as her expedition to wards unknown demonstrates. She's on course to be released at the end of the week, all being well, and is pretty much counting down the hours, minutes and seconds.
I was flicking through an old Prophet while she was with the Healer today, I think it might have been yesterday's Sunday Prophet, and spotted an article buried well into the middle, page 13 or 14, about the bodies of two ten-year-old girls being found out at Bushey Heath on Saturday. It caught my eye only because there was some nonsense about it being werewolves, although thankfully the reporter retained enough sense to point out that it's in the middle of the lunar cycle so rather unlikely.
After all that business with the little Patil boy, it seems rather suspicious that two more young children have been killed in what sounds like a rather violent way, and that it's been buried so quietly in the Prophet, although I suppose the Ministry may simply be trying to avoid more public panic.
Has anyone else heard anything about that?
I don't know how much of that you can pass on, and Tonks didn't mention Professor Sinistra to him, of course, but hopefully she'll feel a little better knowing he's all right.
Tonks herself is doing very well, as her expedition to wards unknown demonstrates. She's on course to be released at the end of the week, all being well, and is pretty much counting down the hours, minutes and seconds.
I was flicking through an old Prophet while she was with the Healer today, I think it might have been yesterday's Sunday Prophet, and spotted an article buried well into the middle, page 13 or 14, about the bodies of two ten-year-old girls being found out at Bushey Heath on Saturday. It caught my eye only because there was some nonsense about it being werewolves, although thankfully the reporter retained enough sense to point out that it's in the middle of the lunar cycle so rather unlikely.
After all that business with the little Patil boy, it seems rather suspicious that two more young children have been killed in what sounds like a rather violent way, and that it's been buried so quietly in the Prophet, although I suppose the Ministry may simply be trying to avoid more public panic.
Has anyone else heard anything about that?
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I got the elves to bring yesterday's Prophet so I could take a look that article. I'm not sure what was more offensive, the fact that it was given so little space and buried so deeply or the smug way the reporter packaged it up with all the loopy theories of the countryfolk. 'It were Dick Turpin's ghost what did it. He's on the prowl every night, he is.' And if it wasn't the work of a highwayman's ghost, it was Sleepers prowling the heath after dark--unless it was werewolves. I'd say the reporter was under orders to obscure the story as much as possible, and a good job she made of it, too.
If you're reading this, Sirius, all we're really told is that the bodies were badly mangled and were found Saturday evening, lying alongside a footpath between Bushey and Elstree.
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I think you're right, the intention was definitely to obscure the facts, or lack of them. There was next to no information on the children themselves, who they were or where they came from. Either they don't know, or they don't want to tell.
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You're quite right about that. I hadn't even noticed: they don't name them. I suppose I simply assumed-
What if these aren't the same girls who were advertised missing last week? Surely they must be.