Triumphant: logs, entries, media.

( Private. )

[MOONY, WORMTAIL]

I need you both with me tomorrow, in Oxford, for May Morning. Right after the choir.

Well, the full moon is over, and tomorrow is May Day! I'm pretty excited, for real. Apparently I'll be out and about in Oxford in the morning for some hard-boiled journalism, then I might have to poll everyone to see where the best place to spend the afternoon is. Hogsmeade usually has pretty good celebrations, it can be kind of crowded though. Not so great for us shorties. I'll have to be sure and wear something really brightly coloured so I don't get completely lost in the crowds (might even make Tilden piggy-back me, shh).

Kind of a pain when it happens on a Tuesday or Thursday though. Being in the office for one day with the weekend on one side and fun and excitement on the other? That's just cruel. I guess it would be worse if I got the whole day off, but even so, it doesn't really feel like work, does it?

( Warded Private )

I'm pretty sure I've never been this tired in my life. 5am comes very early when you've only just fallen asleep at 3:30.

[Sna
[Severu
[Snape]

So what's their plan?

Private
I suspect Bellatrix will accept nothing less than full commitment to her own cause. I no more want that than I want the status quo, I am not prepared to risk everything I have to fall in with such destructive ideology. Particularly one which advertises itself so vocally. The trouble though is that, if there is more subtle discontent, I do not know who wields it. I am certainly not going to contact Rosier or Lestrange.

Waiting, then. This cannot sustain itself forever, and if they are determined to attempt to unravel it a possible outcome is a return to conservative values. (Another, of course, is much greater radicalism, but that can only add greater strain.)
/Private

I am taking no chances with the full moon this month.

DMLE.
First full moon with Greyback in the country.


Rosalind.
Working tonight? Not sure I'll be able to sleep.

Needless to say, but --

tonight, I am otherwise engaged. Don't come by. But if you do, prepare to be shed upon. That's been known to, er, happen.

[Later, amended with a private ward to James Potter]

12 Grimmauld Place. That's him.

I just need you to know it, lest I give into temptation tonight and bring some friends

I went to get ink and a new quill at Flourish and Blotts this afternoon and determined there was no force on the planet that could make me go through with my intended activity. Such a crowd about the shop, I do not know what they found so thrilling, but their numbers did nothing to thrill me.

[Ward: Private]

I dislike the number of Death Eaters of old that are suddenly walking, speaking publicly, even boasting.

There is nothing good that can come of this.

At the same time, I wonder that there is any good of the current world the way it is. When I must tutor young Malfoy in secret what he should have learned from the best instructors of the Wizarding World because what will be taught in the classrooms he walks through is mere theory and useless talk - no action.

Still, the world the Death Eaters would build is no more interesting to me than the world that Dumbledore has built. I wish only to be left alone. Sometimes I wonder why I did not return to the Muggle world and simply stay there - ignoring the politics and machinations of this world where I have only ever partially belonged.

[Ward: Lupin]

I trust you found your Wolfsbane Potion effective?

Are there a lot of werewolves that do not go to the Ministry? Should we stay inside when the moon is full? What do we do if we see one?

To my friends at the Ministry of Magic: no, I do not intend on overrunning your premises whilst in my true form on the 28th.

[ Remus ]

Run with me tomorrow.

[ Dyrfinna ]

They are understandably nervous. Avoid urbanised areas tomorrow night.

It's good to breathe fresh air again.

Those of you who bear the Dark Lord's mark, those of you who yearned for such -- you, who have enjoyed fresh air for all the years that we have suffered the presence of Dementors and jumped-up, murderous Aurors, ought to ready yourselves for the summons. When it comes, will you?

[Dora, Sybill]
So, I'm a bit scared How would someone actually find out who all the Muggleborns are? Like, word of mouth or is there some kind of, I don't know, list?

I'm just sort of nervous about those guys still not being caught and Bellatrix Lestrange and Fenrir Greyback both turning up, I guess, and then she was specifically talking about getting rid of Muggleborns, and my dad  I mean, not that we can hide his blood because I mentioned it in my stupid book, but, like.

Yeah, I don't even know what I'm thinking actually. Mostly I just want Tilden to follow me around everywhere giving me hugs.

It does not matter how old one's children get, receiving mail from them is always a delight. My youngest daughter, particularly, lives in France with her great Aunt and I see her so infrequently, that an Owl is something treasured.

[Private]

Sometimes I wake and I do not recognize this world that has been brought upon us by Dumbledore's vanity and foolishness. We were right to fear him - he's essentially castrated our society and is slowly squeezing the lifeblood out of it.

Sometimes I fear that if we are not careful there will be nothing left of our history and our tradition, that we might well just go and live among Muggles for at least then we can learn their primitive ways of protecting themselves against threats perceived or real. Perhaps I ought to send Theodore elsewhere from Hogwarts.

What is the point of being magical if, when practising magic, you are incarcerated and find for it? Your government is making you no better than the Muggles to which they so richly cleave. And if you had ever worried that magic would flee Britain, you only need now see ... that it will.

And you have Albus Dumbledore to thank for that.

For making pathetic Muggles out of you.

Oh, dear! Oh, dear! I was contemplating recent events as I took tea this morning and naturally I simply had to read the leaves. Concentrating one's mind on a subject does give such clear readings. But oh dear, what terrible things I saw in the leaves! A deer being chased by a rat and a dog. Oh, how I shudder. Quarrels and disputes leading to treachery and adverse conditions. As terrible as the news has been so far, it will only get worse!

( Private )

[Bellatrix Lestrange]
Welcome back to Britain, Miss Black. I hope the winter has been kind to your horses.
[/Bellatrix]

There are days that call for a rather more in-depth spreads than the simple three-card that is my usual choice.

The Ministry cannot capture a werewolf literally within its own halls? I'm impressed.

[Regulus]

Come by some time. I'm sure your brother says differently. Ignore him as usual.

How can I assist in the investigation?

It is not worse to be turned than killed! Werewolves are still alive and powerful for everyone to be so scared and if you don't even have his body or know how he died how do you know it was so brutal and humans don't do as bad? Fenrir is right, wizards just think they are better than everyone. You're not. You treat werewolves so bad they can't even have jobs to buy food, why are you surprised we hate you? You are right to be scared that's all. This will change now we have that book.



Oops! I read in the newspaper about that man at the ministry being killed and it made me spill my ink. What an awful article.

Werewolf Breaks Into Ministry
Ministry Worker Dead; Fearsome Fenrir Greyback a Suspect

By Rita Skeeter, Daily Prophet Correspondent

LONDON - On Monday morning, the Ministry of Magic experienced a second blow to its security when a man -- or should I say beast? -- suspected to be the terrifying werewolf Fenrir Greyback allegedly broke into the venerable institution and stole the Werewolf Registry Book after killing Ministry Worker Ian Bassenthwaite, aged 33, and using the victim's wand to gain illegitimate access to the department.

When contacted for an official statement, the Ministry has refused to acknowledge my questions, stating that while a possible security breach has occurred, it was still too early in the investigation.

However, my reputable sources inside the Ministry say that the DMLE is treating Bassenthwaite's missing as a status. Why? While Bassenthwaite's body has yet to be found, a bag of human teeth were left at the scene of the crime. Forensics report the teeth as belonging to the victim. Investigators are calling the crime "horrifying" and "absolutely brutal and completely lacking in any humanity whatsoever."

As we all know, Greyback was the leader for You-Know-Who's Dark Army. During the war, Greyback led hundreds of dark magical creatures to attack muggle and magical villages across Great Britain. Men, women, and children were tortured, killed, and even eaten. Worse still were the ones who were turned and converted to the Dark Lord's purposes. Fenrir Greyback was able to evade capture at the end of the war, and until recently, his whereabouts were unknown. As for what Greyback will use the stolen Registry remains to be seen, but doubtless we can all make some very intelligent guesses.

Readers, this latest werewolf attack is one of the more brutal ones we've seen yet in an alarming trend of escalating werewolf violence. The fact that these events occurred in broad daylight -- forget the full moon -- begs the question: are werewolves really just murderous beasts camouflaged in human skin? Does the full moon merely reveal what these creatures truly are? Werewolf Rights activists would heartily protest such insinuations, but the fact of the matter is this: rarely have we seen this level of brutality in intelligent, morally conscious witches and wizards.

Furthermore, why isn't the Ministry doing more to protect us from these dangerous creatures?

A secretary at the Ministry who wished to remain anonymous reports that Werewolf sympathies may be originating from within. More specifically, this source points some of the blame at Aurors such as Benjamin Fenwick, a senior Auror whose kill rate would suggest a parallel affinity with the more violent werewolf methods. Fenwick is rumoured to be psychologically unstable and an alcoholic. Rumours also suggest Fenwick was heavily engaged in acts of uncondoned vigilantism and has had known associations with other werewolves such as Remus Lupin (a former associate of convicted murderer Sirius Black).

There are only two days left until the full moon, readers, and the wolves are howling at our door.

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