Evelyn Mulciber (bestdefense) wrote in disorderic, @ 2017-11-19 19:43:00 |
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The problem was that she'd been arrogant. It wasn't a new trait for Evelyn Mulciber. When it worked, and it nearly always worked, she called it confidence and reveled in her victory. When it didn't, she dealt with the egg on her face and remembered herself. Perhaps it had been too long since the last misstep. Perhaps their victories everywhere let her confidence--arrogance--blossom past the point where she could spot her own mistakes. She should have killed the wolf the moment she unlocked its cage and been done with it. Instead, the creature was somehow still alive, down no more than a burnt-out safehouse and a cabin to transform, and she had nothing. Nothing about Potter, or Tonks, or the Order. She was wrong, and she paid for it. The Dark Lord, in his wisdom and grace, allowed her punishment to proceed in private. It would not stay a secret, not when the Malfoys and Lestranges could see her state when she was allowed to leave His presence in their manor, but then, perhaps she should serve as an example. An example of what would happen even to His most trusted when they let Him down. She spent so many years assured of her place at His side that she stopped being afraid -- no. That she stopped showing the proper deference for His power, and that was her real mistake. It was the mistake that led her to take a foolish risk that backfired and hurt them. It was not a mistake she would make again. Not after the promise and threat that it wouldn't be she who suffered next time: it would be her daughters. She could not allow that to happen. She would be better. |