Re: Regulus/Remus
"Lucifer. He wants to end the World's Pain because he thinks that will help him regain a place at God's side. Count Von Bek is a mercenary disillusioned with what the Muggles called the Thirty Years War and he figures, if God forgives Lucifer and they stop fighting over control of the world, maybe they'll leave Man alone to figure out his own existence instead of being pawns in their game." He gave a quiet huff. "That sounds about right. As long as it can be properly labelled and kept in a neat little box, it's fine. Going outside that box disrupts everything."
Remus opened the bag to show Regulus how he'd partitioned off the inside, each neatly labelled with an address. "I'm trying to keep everything from the same location together so it makes it easier to identify what belonged to whom and where we got things from in case we miss something and have to come back. But, having the house elves grab everything might be a better solution. You're right, we might miss a clue now because we don't know to look for it, while we might in the future after seeing preceding clues." Laughing softly, he added the photo to the section where he'd put the magazines. "Sirius knows better than to mess with my research. Ask him about being bored with OWL revisions sometime."
A quiet snort that escaped him as he closed the drawer. "I don't know if he's inclined to listen to any of us. Maybe Snape. He seemed to think Snape was worth listening to when we last spoke."
Looking around the room he nodded. "Having the house elves bring everything to the castle so we can sort and catalog definitely seems like a better idea." There was just so much left behind that would end up forgotten if they didn't try. "Sirius never did meet a rule he didn't try to at least bend just to prove he could," he said with equal parts chagrin and fondness. "I can't imagine what either of you went through, to be honest. My parents were very different. And, while I met other young werewolves whose parents had mistreated them, it was mostly after they were bitten and short-lived. Much easier to throw them out of the house and pretend they died than to deal with having a werewolf for a child. Greyback and his loyalists were the ones who inflicted pain and they weren't any sort of real parental figures no matter what they claimed."