Triumphant: logs, entries, media.

That was a voice I thought would never be heard again. Just as annoying as ever, too. I had flashbacks to my sixth year at Hogwarts.

I don't know about the rest of you but I rather liked the speech, especially the bits about Albus being a twat.

( 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.

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[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.

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?

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!

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?

Is part of the intern hiring qualifications "please be as absolutely useless as possible"? Because mission bloody accomplished.

[Hitwizards. And Aurors because the Deputy Head is making her.]

The Missing Person's from this morning has been ruled a homicide. There is a 99.9% chance that the only dark magic involved employed the use of teeth as a murder weapon, but apparently that's enough of a reason to keep the Aurors from feeling unincluded.

• Forensics was able to identify the bag of teeth found where the Werewolf Registry was kept as belonging to Ian Bassenthwaite, Registry Clerk.


• No sign of the body, nor of the book.


• Suspect appears to be a tall, light haired, white male in his 50s. Was last seen wearing glasses, a clean, blu grey blue light colored shirt with a dark tie, and trousers featuring a large dark-roast coffee stain in the area between the bottom of his shirt and his knees.


• Suspect is possibly Fenrir Greyback.


• DoMT is in the process of tracing the last known Floo Deposit made by Fireplace 64.


• He is also in possession of Bassenthwaite's wand. Registration has observation ready to track its use.

Strange, I think, the way one's home soil can act as a tonic. Strange to think that my magic is ever stronger when I am rooted in English soil and tied to the legacy of my forebears. Strange to think that you - that any of you - might think to take it away from me, or from mine, ever again.

[BENJY FENWICK]

( NSFWesque talk )

I'm putting in a new rule - anything that gets left behind in my pub and isn't claimed within 24 hours becomes my property. Not sure what I'm going to do with a pair of frilly knickers but this ring should fetch a pretty knut or three.

Such fuss.

Oh, bollocks, there goes another pair of robes. Bloody hell, I -- Public service announcement: fire burns. Obviously.