alt_amycus | How dare you! How DARE you!!

Jealous, eh? She found it and told me, and I see it all now. Seethed with envious ire, didn't you, dazzled by a purity that you couldn't hope to match!

The Crup dragged in muddy bones and buried them in the dead of night, hoping to sicken her with the putrefying stench.

The Wasp sank a cruel, paralysing sting, planting an egg of darkness. Hoped to hatch a monster of tenebrosity that would devour her sweet flesh from within.

Well, she has uncovered your little handiwork now, blast you. Your bloody foul plaque. Found it and destroyed it, and your scheme is now uncovered to stink to heaven! Blast you and damn you--you presumed to try to co-opt her sign of purity to try to strike her down! You dared to raise your foul, stinking hands against her. You DARED!!

YOU HAVE FAILED. And I SWEAR to you by His vengeful hand itself, YOU SHALL SUFFER FOR THIS. HEX YOU DAMN YOU CURSE YOU BLAST YOU

You will WRITHE. You will CRAWL. You will BEG AND WHINE AND PLEAD AND SNIVEL for mercy, but there will be NONE!!

YOU SHALL NOT ESCAPE MY VENGEANCE!!!

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Date: 2012-06-17 08:59 pm (UTC)

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alt_frank

ORDER ONLY

minerva? what's going on?

Date: 2012-06-17 09:10 pm (UTC)

alt_bill

Re: ORDER ONLY

Yeah, just what I was going to ask. Is this just his usual ravings? Or something more?

Date: 2012-06-17 09:11 pm (UTC)

alt_gredforge

Order Only

Cor, blimey. Tell us what you're really thinking, you git.

On second thought, maybe not.

What plaque is he nattering on about?

Date: 2012-06-17 09:13 pm (UTC)

Re: Order Only

And who's this wasp, anyway? And the crup?

What a nutter.

Date: 2012-06-17 09:27 pm (UTC)

he's not talking about min. he calls her the bat.

must've sorted out who was poisoning her. and how.

Date: 2012-06-17 09:43 pm (UTC)

A plaque.

We looked back over some his old entries. He wrote something back in January about her getting some kind of honour. Do you reckon it was a plaque? And she's just figured it out, because she's packing everything up to move back to Lincoln Castle?

So that's how they did it. Whoever did it.

Date: 2012-06-17 09:53 pm (UTC)

alt_arthur

Could that be it, Frank? Or Remus? A Dark object? Could it make her sick like that?

Date: 2012-06-17 09:57 pm (UTC)

it'd be a lot harder to detect than outright poison. wouldn't show in the blood at all, if it was done right.

and it was slow-acting.

I'd say there's a fairly good chance.

any idea who he's talking about? wasps and crups?

Date: 2012-06-17 10:00 pm (UTC)

alt_lupin

A Dark object could certainly make her sick, and would have been a great deal harder for Poppy to track down than poison or any straight-up hexes would have.

And if the plaque was presented as part of an honour -- well. Ordinarily I would expect Alecto Carrow to be rather suspicious of gifts. There are quite a few spells to detect curses on objects, but one does have to think to use them.

Date: 2012-06-17 10:03 pm (UTC)

and it could've been layered with spells that make the possessor put it aside and forget about it, preventing her looking too closely at it. all sorts of ways that could play out, especially given the state of her office.

Date: 2012-06-17 10:10 pm (UTC)

alt_macnair

If it's a dark object it's a highly complex one, to work slowly and avoid detection for so long - especially from Alecto, who knows her dark arts.

I'd put galleons on Lestrange.

Date: 2012-06-17 10:11 pm (UTC)

I wouldn't bet against you. He has motive as well as means.

Date: 2012-06-18 01:09 am (UTC)

Word's filtered back to us from our sources: Terry thinks the git means the 'wasp' and the 'crup' are the Lestrange brothers.

Date: 2012-06-17 09:28 pm (UTC)

alt_sally_anne

I Solemnly Swear That I Am Up To No Good

Does anyone know who he's talking about? It's not the Headmistress or Madam Pomfrey.

Terry I know there's no real point in telling you to be careful, OF COURSE you're being careful, you're ALWAYS careful, but I'm going to tell you to be careful anyway because there's nothing else I can do ~~and I'm worried~~

Date: 2012-06-17 09:38 pm (UTC)

alt_terry

Re: I Solemnly Swear That I Am Up To No Good

The crup and the wasp. He uses nicknames. I think...I think he's talking about the Lestranges. Your Professor Lestrange, and his brother.

I'm keeping away from him. So far, it's all right. He's raving, flinging stuff around in his quarters, but he hasn't yelled for me yet. But I'll probably have to clean up some broken glass tonight.

Date: 2012-06-17 09:40 pm (UTC)

He's expecting her tomorrow. I hope that'll calm him down.

Date: 2012-06-17 09:51 pm (UTC)

Oh.

OH.

I think he thinks that the Razzer and his brother are the ones who made Alecto sick. And they might have been. They certainly have every reason to hate her. And he's talking about a plaque, and cursed objects are Hydra's father's specialty, I think. We talked about it once.

Date: 2012-06-17 09:55 pm (UTC)

alt_pansy

After what he did to Raz and Hydra last year, I'm not surprised.

alt_selwyn

Private message to Lucius Malfoy

Do you know who he's talking about? I've sorted out some of the nicknames he uses but only enough to know it's not you or Minerva he's on about this time.

I gather -- I think -- he's worked out what was making Alecto ill? I wonder if that means she'll elect to stay at Hogwarts after all? That would save the BoG the trouble of recruiting a new teacher for Dark Arts, but she's an unstable and unpredictable individual, and frankly I'd just as soon keep her far away from the school. ~~As Arista's gotten older I've~~

Date: 2012-06-18 12:29 am (UTC)

alt_lucius

Re: Private message to Lucius Malfoy

Dominic,

We're just arriving back at the Manor with the boys. Did see Carrow's rant earlier but had not seen this message.

Believe you have half your answer in Rod's exchange below. Confess my primary reaction extended only so far as to express disappointment she might recover.