persephone jugson is a sociopath in a corset (porcelainic) wrote in find_horcruxes, @ 2009-07-03 01:48:00 |
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Entry tags: | !backhistory, persephone jugson |
backstory narrative
Who: Persephone Wolfe Jugson, npc!Alexander Wolfe, npc!Tobias Jugson
What: Plotting and muuuuurder
When: July / August 1977
Where: Diagon Alley, London; Wolfe Manor, Lancaster, England; Loch Lomond, Scotland
Why: Who knows? Those Wolfes are just crazy.
Rating: A light R for brief violence and blood.
Unfortunately, there was little time for planning. The engagement was announced as soon as Persephone returned home from the end of her seventh year at Hogwarts. Persephone did not actually meet her betrothed until a week later, and she was utterly dismayed and appalled by the arrangement. He was old! Nineteen years her senior, more than twice her own age. His posture was atrocious, and he looked as though he spent far too long sitting in dark places and drinking wine. He also looked as though he would expect her to be the perfect pureblood wife, doing nothing more than ordering about house elves and planning functions. She would be lucky if she was ever allowed in the same room as a cauldron ever again, or books that held anything interesting. But as always, Alexander was ready to help her. Although he had been the one to officially arrange the marriage, he agreed that Tobias Jugson simply would not do. He would, however, be an excellent way to improve Persephone's social standing, and if he happened to tragically die shortly after the wedding, then she could enjoy not only the better social standing but also the relative freedom that came from being a widow. The main problem, of course, would be planning a murder that could not be traced back to either of them. Potions would certainly be out; anyone would be able to find out that she had certainly scored an O on her N.E.W.T. in Potions, and Professor Slughorn would certainly brag about her skills. Not to mention the fact that her family owned an apothecary. The best thing to do would be to use Tobias' own wand against him, so that both Persephone's and Alexander's (not that he would be a suspect, hopefully) would come back clean without having to deal with the mess of stealing someone else's wand -- which would be doable, but not preferable. It was Alex who had the brilliant idea of using polyjuice. In early July, while they were still working out their plan -- they had to plot quickly, as the wedding was set for 18 August -- Alex stole into muggle London under the cover of darkness. He found a muggle bum, ripped out a considerable handful of his hair, then murdered him and dumped his body in the river. This was perhaps the easiest part of the entire plan. Alex mixed some of the bum's hair in with a dose of polyjuice and drank it, then changed into a set of highly disreputable robes. He apparated to Diagon Alley, where the herbologist's shoppe was located. They already knew Tobias' schedule and knew that not only would he would be in, but the insipid shoppe girl would be in, too. Alex (as the bum) proceeded to order (very loudly and in quite a drunken manner) a particular plant. Tobias promised that it would be ready within five days. A week later, Alex again used the polyjuice potion to return to the shoppe in order to pick up the plant. He threw the pot past Tobias' head, smashing it against the wall, and began raging drunkenly about how it wasn't the right thing, swearing that Tobias would pay for it. Alex disapparated before hitwizards could arrive, but they took down Tobias' and the shoppe girl's statements about the crazy man, along with a physical description. Despite the short span of time to plan the wedding, it was a fancy and elegant one. Alex quietly made sure that the newspapers would print not only news of the wedding, but that the happy couple planned to spend the first few days of their honeymoon in a quaint bed & breakfast at Loch Lomond before travelling to France and Spain. Persephone was perfectly composed throughout the wedding and reception, appearing to all the world, even those who knew her best, that she was thrilled to be doing her duty as a young pureblood woman: marrying a pureblood man with whom she would ideally have enough children to carry on his family's name. After the reception, the newly proclaimed Mr and Mrs Jugson apparated to Loch Lomond, where they checked into their room. Thanks to the copious amounts of wine that Persephone had ensured Tobias drink at the reception, as well as the half-dozen glasses she plied him with once they were alone, he fell fast asleep before he could act upon whatever urges he might have. In the morning, they made their appearance for the 'breakfast' part of the bed & breakfast, then retired quickly to their room, which left the staff nudging and winking among themselves and making quiet comments about newlyweds. Less than an hour later, there was a crashing sound from the honeymooners' room, punctuated by a female's scream. The staff rushed up to the room and threw open the door just in time to see an intruder -- Alexander, under the cover of a third dose of the polyjuice -- standing in front of the destroyed window. He used Tobias' own wand to cast a nonverbal spell that eviscerated Tobias before disapparating. In the middle of it all was a mussed, shocked Persephone who had taught herself to cry on cue. Tears streamed down her face as she played the role of the terrified and shocked newlywed: she rushed to her collapsed husband's side and screamed his name, trying desperately to stem the bleeding and only succeeding in becoming drenched in the blood herself. The staff watched the scene, shocked into stillness and feeling pity over the poor young girl. Finally, one of them came to his senses and called in the Aurors. Immediate suspicion turned toward Persephone -- the wedding had been rushed, after all, and he was so much older than she was -- but the staff of the bed & breakfast were quick to give descriptions of the intruder, which would be found to match up with those given by Tobias and the shoppe assistant weeks before. Persephone played the role of grieving widow flawlessly, affecting many of the symptoms that she had seen her own mother display when her father had died two and a half years before. The strange intruder was never found, and neither was the muggle bum's body. Finally, for lack of evidence or leads (the address given by the intruder at Tobias' shoppe had turned up an abandoned warehouse in muggle London, and the name was a dead end), the case was declared unsolveable and shelved. |