Alice Longbottom: Mum, Wife, Auror, & OotP member. (alvlong) wrote in 80smarauders_ic, @ 2017-07-17 00:08:00 |
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Entry tags: | !dropped, character: alice longbottom, character: frank longbottom, other: backstory, type: thread |
Who: Frank and Alice
What: Discussions about the war.
When: Ummmm, 1974. (This may change. It's late and Becky isn't good at math and figuring out years at the best of times. Will be updated if it does.)
Where: Auror Offices.
Why: Trying to solve a crime. tw: does discuss murder and death.
Alice very pointedly placed the cup of coffee purchased from Ministry Munchies in front of Frank before circling around to her cubicle and waving her wand at her desk chair to follow her back to Frank. Plopping down in it, she took a swig of her own coffee and rubbed her eyes. Tea and its' ability to solve all of the world's problems would have been a better choice but right now the two Aurors needed the caffeine effects of the coffee. Too many days run on too little sleep and there was no sign of Voldemort or his Death Eaters letting up any time soon. There had been an all night stakeout in St Andrews the night before that came up empty, an anonymous tip (Alice had her thoughts on that) that led to the Dark Mark floating above a Muggle house in Greenisland two nights before that, and a raid on Ye Olde Curiosity Shop which would have been better served by officers of the Magical Law Enforcement Patrol than Aurors. But when Crouch said jump, you asked how high.
Right now though, their attention was supposed to be on the Greenisland murders -- a husband and wife, age seventy and seventy two. Alice couldn't see any reason for Voldemort to go after them. The husband was a part time employee at Flimflam's Lanterns, the wife worked at Scribbulus Writing Implements and their only child died young of dragon pox. Of course, Voldemort could have ordered their murders for the sole purpose of putting even more fright into the wizarding population as a whole. It would fit what they knew of He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named.
"You having any luck?" she asked her partner.