am_susan (am_susan) wrote in aftermath_rpg, @ 2008-10-05 22:44:00 |
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Entry tags: | * october 1999, - complete, susan bones |
RP: Susan reads a book
Date: 5 October 1999
Characters: Susan Bones
Location: Susan's flat, Diagon Alley
Warnings: Mentions of Cannon death
Summary: Susan reads her Aunt's Journal
Status: Complete
Open/Closed: Open to anyone who could conceivably floo call Susan.
Susan opened the leather bound book with trepidation and excitement and began to read. On the first page was Journal of Amelia Bones and a sketch of a crest. She would look at that later.
1 Sept 1976
So Mum gave me this journal today. Told me that I might want to write out what is going through my mind during my last year at school. I'll be blunt Marlene says it's a skill of mine. The world is getting tense. Something is happening though I'm not really sure what. Mum and Dad won't talk about it and Edwin is ignoring it. Only Edge looked me in the eye and told me to try not and worry about it. I mean honestly you'd think I was 11 instead of seventeen. But anyway I'm at Hogwarts now and the feast was brilliant as Usual. Though I have to wonder was I that small as a first year. The kids looked terrified.
Susan smiled and kept turning.
****
12 Dec 1976
Going home for Christmas Hols. I rather expect it will be the last time I see Edge and his family and Ed all in one place. Well I guess there's Easter but that's not a big a deal as Christmas and Edge is working a lot what with Lou being small and another one on the way. I mean I'll have a job in may and Ed will still be at Hogwarts. Anyway Why am I being so melancholy? Oh I know the teachers have decided to drown us in NEWT work. over Hols! Even owl years wasn't that bad. Da says it's time to decorate the tree--I'd better go.
26 Feb 1977
Parchment! I am drowning in parchment I think I'll stay here for Easter Hols.
****
18 Mar 1977
Edge wrote--he wants me to come visit for Easter Hols. Just me and not Ed so the later isn't speaking to me write now. Seriously boys! He and Kat have even offered to help me revise. With two Ravenclaws and former heads at that I might just stand a bloody chance at getting the NEWTs I need to be an Auror. I wonder why he wants to see me. Perhaps it's some sort of older sibling tradition he's starting or that existed, but that I was unaware of. I guess I'll find out.
Edge? That must be her Uncle Edgar. She didn't know him at all. Eagerly she kept going.
****
25 Apr 1977
Edge pulled me aside after Easter dinner and we went into his Den. He told me somethings... I don't even think I can write about them here. I can hardly believe them myself but he had proof and I trust him.....Holy Bloody Hippogriffs.
Susan stared at the book a moment willing it to supply her with answers. It didn't as she read the next few pages.
*****
23 May 1977
Gryffindor just lost the Quidditch cup to Ravenclaw 200-190. We caught the Snitch but really only four goals! Shacklebolt is a decent keeper, but honestly a third year? Our chases must have been off. And it looked like the Bludgers were everywhere. If I didn't know how utterly impossible it was I would accuse them of cheating. I think I'd give Ed a heart attack or he would curse me into nest week. As it is his gloating is going to be insufferable.
****
1 June 1977
Exams! I'm going to die! I'm never going to make it.
****
7 June 1977
It's over ! I am a free woman. There is nothing more to do except go out and gallivant around the grounds as Marlene said.
****
12 June 1977
It's weird I just had my last ride on the Hogwarts Express. I won't find out about Auror training until some time in late August or early September. But I finished my application and sent it off obviously minus my NEWT scores because I didn't want anyone to talk me out of it. Ed's been trying. I think he feels the tension too and I know he just doesn't want me to get hurt.
****
20 June 1977
Edge flooed today he quit his job at the Department of mysteries to do some independent work for a wealthy wizard. He said itt was because of the more flexible hours. Kat is due soon and he'll want to help with the kids, but I saw him and dad share a look. A look that said there was something else too.
****
5 July 1977
I've been so stupid. How could I have not heard about the rise in Dark Wizard activity. I just happened to glance at the paper today looking for the Quidditch scores and I say a couple inches on the rash of unexplained deaths and an apparently new occurrence, some sort of mark over the places where they found the body. IO cornered Edge and Dad in the Den after dinner. He and Kat had visited this time and demanded to know what was going on. Dad looked like he was about to tell me off but the He and Edge traded another one of those looks like the other day ( I hate how they communicate not using words it's not fair, but Mum says their so close because their so similar and there aren't many who can match wits with Dad besides her, Edge and Maybe Professor Dumbledore.
So then dad turns to me and asks me what I think is going on. I almost stomped my foot in frustration if I knew I wouldn't have to ask. Bloody Ravenclaws. Then I heardDa's voice from when I was little and wanted out of a punishment and I took a deep breath to order my thoughts. I went through what I had seen in the Prophet and how I thought there was more to Edge quitting his job, even the whispers at school that suddenly sprang to memory. I left out Edge and my conversation from the holidays for although I was sureDa knew the information I wasn't sure if he knew I knew, just from the way Edge had arranged to tell me.
Da nodded his acceptance of my logic, which was his way of granting my request--this time for information. He went on to speak of a man who was advocating for a return to an all purewizarding society. He first approached the Pureblood families and some feeling that magic should be an exclusive privilege had decided to join him. He hadn't asked Da of course, Bones was a Pureblood name, but Mum was a Muggleborn so they consider us blood traitors. I didn't see the problem I mean the stance was obviously insane, but most people couldn't believe such rubbish could they? At that pointDa sat back and rubbed his eyes and my heart sank. that was never a good sign. The people were a majority, but they were also ruthless, so they weren't afraid to coerce and bribe and kill to get what they want. And with the escalating amount of force they were willing to use they had the money to keep themselves out of trouble.
I looked at Edge and he nodded slightly. In that instant I knew... our conversation at Christmas, his new job, and this new trouble were all related and it had the potential to get very bad before it got better.
Susan stopped. Voldemort! her family had been active against Voldemort! No way, her parents would have told her, her Aunt would have told her. With a shaky hand she continued.
****
31 July 1977
I got my letter of acceptance to the Auror trainee program today. I'll be doing my concentration in interrogation and prosecution. But their not waiting until October first to start. There has been a rash of violence and public outcry. I'm due at St.Mungo's tomorrow for my Physical and then I'll head to Diagon Alley to shop. Edge and Kat live in Muggle London near the Ministry so I am going to live with them until I get my own place. Ed's gotten more and more quiet. it worries me.
***
12 Aug 1977
Ow my body is sore. My mind hurts more.
Susan laughed a bit mechanically, well at least she knew what to look forward to.
****
31 Aug 1977
I'm an Aunt again! Leila Jade Bones was born at 8:17 this morning. At least it is something bright to celebrate and I can see Mum andDa and Ed, one more time before he goes off for his 7th year at Hogwarts.
****
3 Nov 1977
I'm moving into my own place next week it's just a small flat above the bakery down the street but it's mine and it will give Edge and Kat more space, but a ready and available babysitter.
****
2 Feb 1978
Training is busy. They are trying to push us through as fast but as safely as possible. We've finished with the first year in 9monthes and they have us dueling and with and shadowing outr trainer on the more routine missions if there ever is such a thing.
****
15 Mar 1978
Edge came home badly hurt. Marlene was with me watching Lou and Leila and patched him right up as she is in training to be a healer. He won't tell me what he's been doing just tells me it's better if I didn't know. When Kat came home she seemed worried, but resigned
****
20 Dec 1978
I am now officially and Auror on call. I'll still be working with my trainer, but I'll be in and out at a moments notice and odd ours. Now I'm really glad I have my own flat. I agreed to swap Blake Johnson as he has a fiancee so I'll be working Christmas with his trainer Benji Fenwick. Mum and Da weren't too happy when i told them. Ed's already staying at school because of NEWTs and because it's probably safer. I didn't know that. Now I feel bad.
****
25 Dec 1978
They're dead....oh Merlin....
****
3 Jan 1979
Benji said it might help to write it down.
So...
The night was pretty quiet no one was really at the Ministry except the light Auror staff. Benji and I got the message and I didn't realise where we were going at first because we just had coordinate toapparate to and I didn't know the coordinates to my own house...my parents' house. I saw the Dark Mark and I heaved.. Benji caught me before I fell over but we had a job to do and I had to see... We went in and I almost lost it again. Leo and Lelia were dead, they looked peaceful if that is somehow possible. But Kat and Mum, they looked to be in excruciating pain. Obviously there had been some sort of fight but well Benji did a scan and there were at least 10 magical aura traces picked up. With two children and two older wizards, there was no way. When I looked again at the scan I noticed a hot spot and saw it over where edge was. His hand specifically. On his right hand the plain ring with the family crest. It's worn on the left until marriage and then transferred.
And I knew at that moment that this was not just a random killing, not even one due to us being an obstinate pureblood family. though I lead Benji and the others to believe that. No it had to do with the holiday conversation. It was my secret now. Mine to bear alone. I'll have to tell Ed. But he's been so quiet and angry and It's NEWTS soon that I don't want to burden him. In fact I'm ending this journal. Hopefully it will help me move on.
That was it. Numbly Susan pushed the journal away from her. The she sat there. She couldn't even think. No one had ever told her what it had been like. What if her Aunt had died the same way, in agonizing pain? And what of this secret? Had they dies for it? because they refused to reveal it. Was it worth it?
She didn't realise that tears had begun to roll down her face.
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