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[alt_amycus]

Snug in my quarters. snappish for June, fire's welcome

Pigeons have flown. Not just here, of course

pleasant to sit with feet propped up on the hob, ice rattling in the Firewhiskey glass, thinking of them, in the cold and the dark

hair floating like seaweed, fish nibbling their fingers maybe. same way the ravenous maws sucked the fire from their souls

one though, he was a surprise. never a scream, gibber nor squeak.

only watched me with those stone cold black eyes, glittering over that giant beak of a nose

said nothing, but I could tell he still had the spark there. Surprising, after so many years.

don't figure he'll be easy to kill. wasn't before, apparently.

Even less easy to catch.

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[alt_sirius]

No way.

It can't be.

Can it?

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[alt_alice]

Who do you think he's talking about?

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[alt_sirius]

Black eyes and beaky nose? Who do you think? Snivellus.

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[alt_kingsley]

Who?

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[alt_alice]

A boy that used to fight tooth and nail with James Potter and Sirius at school. I had to take points away from Gryffindor and Slytherin for brawling more times than I care to remember.

Well, he wouldn't be a boy any more, though.

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[alt_alice]

Severus Snape?

Goodness.

We were just talking about him the other day. I thought he was dead -- that he died years and years ago. And if he wasn't, wasn't he in with the Death Eaters Apparent during school?

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[alt_sirius]

I thought he was dead, too. And there's a chance Carrow means someone else but ... well if anyone could survive in there, it's that cockroach.

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[alt_alice]

But if it is really him, why on earth would he be holed up in Azkaban all these years?

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[alt_sirius]

Probably because Voldemort got thoroughly disgusted with him and never wanted to see him again, and death was too good for him?

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[alt_alice]

Not helping, love.

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[alt_kingsley]

I vaguely remember the name. He'd be about your age then, Sirius? Yeah, he disappeared the year Voldemort rose to power. Was he ever actually declared dead?

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[alt_alice]

Well, none of us killed him that I know of.

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[alt_sirius]

I'd've liked the chance, though. Little greaseball.

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[alt_alice]

Oh, now, none of that.

If I recall, you certainly tried once, and very nearly succeeded too.

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[alt_sirius]

That wasn't deliberate! I wouldn't have - I didn't want him to go in there, not if it would have got Moony into trouble.

I meant in battle. Clean. Honourably.

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[alt_alice]

Well, fair enough.

I'm sure he had a different take on things, though.

I'm sorry, it's my inner Prefect, but honestly, you were all quite vicious to one another.

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[alt_sirius]

He gave as good as he got, believe me. And even Lily eventually had to admit he was a lost cause.

Never could understand what she saw there, anyway.

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[alt_alice]

They knew one another before school, didn't they?

I remember her telling me once that they lived in the same neighbourhood when they were kids.

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[alt_kingsley]

If he's been in Azkaban all that time, he must be--well, there couldn't be much left of his mind, would there?

Carrow sounds like he thinks this Snape is one of the ones who's escaped. I wonder he's heard something from the other Deatheaters, more than what's been printed in the paper.

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[alt_bill]

I can probably check to see whatever the official records say about him at least. Although knowing the Ministry, most of it would probably be lies, if he's been made to disappear.

If he IS one of the escapees and he manages to elude capture much longer, then we'll probably be hearing more about him. There's been enormous pressure from the press to release more information about the fugitives. The public's need to know for their own safety, etcetera.

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[alt_poppy]

It's in the Prophet this morning. Severus Snape.

There are three other fugitives remaining--they claim to have recaptured four and to have recovered three bodies. The fugitives include Walden Macnair, so I'm sure that explains why there was so much security attending the students departure from here on Saturday: obviously he poses a threat to the Protector and to young Mr Marvolo.

The other two prisoners who remain at large are merely mass murderers, and if the paper's report is anything to go by, MLE are altogether less concerned about them: one is a woman called Magaera Gudgeon, convicted in 1977 for fraud and for murdering her last eight husbands; the other is Vorenus Morgan Dippet. The Prophet did warn that he is believed to have disarmed and murdered three of the guards at the prison, so that leaves us with a serial murderer on the run, armed with a captured wand. And, though they pointedly omit to say so, it suggests that two of the others might be armed as well. Perhaps they assume that murderous lunatics would not help one another to wands.

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[alt_sirius]

I remember the Dippet capture: He was found with two women chained in his cellar. Gave me the shudders just to think about it. (Come to it, wasn't he one of the last ones Crouch put away for good? I thought he was supposed to get the Kiss, but maybe Voldemort's coup scuppered that plan.)

But we'll have to hope they catch him. I wonder if having a wand will do him any good at all; like Kingsley says, he's been in there long enough I'd expect even a simple 'Lumos' would strain him.

Macnair, though. And Snape. Bugger.

I've got to head back out; we agreed on a few of the details, but we're still haggling over the final price, so we'll meet the captain at a pub he frequents to try to seal things up today. Fingers crossed, I can get back into hiding in a day. (Though I don't mind saying it's been grand to sleep in a bed the last couple nights.)

I solemnly swear that I am up to no good

[alt_terry]

Wish they'd left him in Azkaban, too.

Wonder who he's talking about.