THE GRIM TRUTH RETURNS
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alternityGreetings to the Protectorate! It is I, Sirius Black, speaking to you this time from a borrowed diary. The Lord Pretender's minions may bark and howl but they cannot reach the Dog Star to stop me!
I speak to you today about serious matters. Our ruler styles himself our 'Protector,' and surely if anyone has a right to protection from him and from ALL of us, it is the children of our nation. Our wizarding children, our precious next generation! Listen, and you will hear their cries for succor, their demands for justice!
The Headmistress of Hogwarts School has shown callous disregard for the well-being -- nay, the VERY LIVES of our precious children! So-called professors AMYCUS AND ALECTO CARROW are notorious for their cruelty both in the classroom and anywhere they might be found, and yet MINERVA MCGONAGALL offers them both shelter and continued employment! I submit to you the following known incidents:
AMYCUS CARROW has routinely cast the cruciatus curse on defenseless first year students. In one case this was punishment for the 'crime' of expressing curiosity about the spell.
AMYCUS CARROW is a habitual drunkard and is known by all to be violent and dangerous when intoxicated, even threatening students on occasion with both wand and makeshift weapons. His drunkenness has repeatedly caused him to fail in his classroom duties. Not that he is any use as a teacher even when present. Since HEADMISTRESS MCGONAGALL is also a notorious and wayward drunk, perhaps it is the sort of friendship found at the bottom of a bottle of firewhiskey that has given CARROW his secure position?
AMYCUS CARROW has made cruel and malicious attacks on a student who arrived at Hogwarts after mistakenly being consigned for years to the mudblood camps. On one occasion he set the boy ablaze, causing both injury to multiple students and serious damage to Hogwarts Castle. As punishment for this wanton behaviour his own servant was reassigned -- AND YET HE CONTINUES TO TEACH. How much more, one wonders, will HEADMISTRESS MCGONAGALL accept?
BOTH CARROWS routinely use the cruciatus curse as a disciplinary measure for trivial misbehaviour.
BOTH CARROWS instruct students in the darkest of Dark Arts and encourage them to act on their basest and most PERVERSE instincts in dealing with their peers.
BOTH CARROWS are known to have used the Imperius Curse to force others into dark and horrifying acts -- some merely humiliating, others that would shock the conscience of all who knew.
BOTH CARROWS are known to have devoured the roast flesh of murdered muggle infants, after cutting out their hearts and kidneys to use in Dark potions.
AND FINALLY, ALECTO CARROW attacked one of the school governors with the cruciatus curse, doing him grievous injury to the point that he was seen requiring a cane for support days after the incident.
AMYCUS AND ALECTO CARROW are cruel and unstable maniacs and a COLLECTIVE MENACE to the Hogwarts students. If MINERVA MCGONAGALL will not act, we call on the school governors, even the so-called LORD PROTECTOR HIMSELF to immediately remove them both from Hogwarts so that they will no longer have any contact with children!
I speak to you today about serious matters. Our ruler styles himself our 'Protector,' and surely if anyone has a right to protection from him and from ALL of us, it is the children of our nation. Our wizarding children, our precious next generation! Listen, and you will hear their cries for succor, their demands for justice!
The Headmistress of Hogwarts School has shown callous disregard for the well-being -- nay, the VERY LIVES of our precious children! So-called professors AMYCUS AND ALECTO CARROW are notorious for their cruelty both in the classroom and anywhere they might be found, and yet MINERVA MCGONAGALL offers them both shelter and continued employment! I submit to you the following known incidents:
AMYCUS CARROW has routinely cast the cruciatus curse on defenseless first year students. In one case this was punishment for the 'crime' of expressing curiosity about the spell.
AMYCUS CARROW is a habitual drunkard and is known by all to be violent and dangerous when intoxicated, even threatening students on occasion with both wand and makeshift weapons. His drunkenness has repeatedly caused him to fail in his classroom duties. Not that he is any use as a teacher even when present. Since HEADMISTRESS MCGONAGALL is also a notorious and wayward drunk, perhaps it is the sort of friendship found at the bottom of a bottle of firewhiskey that has given CARROW his secure position?
AMYCUS CARROW has made cruel and malicious attacks on a student who arrived at Hogwarts after mistakenly being consigned for years to the mudblood camps. On one occasion he set the boy ablaze, causing both injury to multiple students and serious damage to Hogwarts Castle. As punishment for this wanton behaviour his own servant was reassigned -- AND YET HE CONTINUES TO TEACH. How much more, one wonders, will HEADMISTRESS MCGONAGALL accept?
BOTH CARROWS routinely use the cruciatus curse as a disciplinary measure for trivial misbehaviour.
BOTH CARROWS instruct students in the darkest of Dark Arts and encourage them to act on their basest and most PERVERSE instincts in dealing with their peers.
BOTH CARROWS are known to have used the Imperius Curse to force others into dark and horrifying acts -- some merely humiliating, others that would shock the conscience of all who knew.
BOTH CARROWS are known to have devoured the roast flesh of murdered muggle infants, after cutting out their hearts and kidneys to use in Dark potions.
AND FINALLY, ALECTO CARROW attacked one of the school governors with the cruciatus curse, doing him grievous injury to the point that he was seen requiring a cane for support days after the incident.
AMYCUS AND ALECTO CARROW are cruel and unstable maniacs and a COLLECTIVE MENACE to the Hogwarts students. If MINERVA MCGONAGALL will not act, we call on the school governors, even the so-called LORD PROTECTOR HIMSELF to immediately remove them both from Hogwarts so that they will no longer have any contact with children!
I Solemnly Swear That I Am Up To No Good
Date: 2011-02-01 08:24 pm (UTC)Re: I Solemnly Swear That I Am Up To No Good
Date: 2011-02-01 08:31 pm (UTC)Re: I Solemnly Swear That I Am Up To No Good
Date: 2011-02-01 08:53 pm (UTC)Also that they're vicious awful people who cruciate students for no reason and who drink themselves senseless and who attacked Mr Malfoy but I knew all that already.
Re: I Solemnly Swear That I Am Up To No Good
Date: 2011-02-01 09:06 pm (UTC)Although. Actually.
You remember when the Protector came to hunt a unicorn in the Forest?
HarMarvolo was dead sure they served the Protector and everyone at the head table some of the unicorn for supper at the feast after. His father tried to make him eat some, and he wouldn't and all theDeatCouncil members who were there laughed at him and made him feel like an eejit, but he didn't eat it. There were loads of them there, too. Mrs Lestrange, for sure. I remember her laughing that night and how it gave me shivers.But you don't really believe they eat babies, right? I mean, unicorn, sure. And that's really bad, but come on.
Re: I Solemnly Swear That I Am Up To No Good
Date: 2011-02-01 10:10 pm (UTC)And if that's Sirius Black, I'll eat my shoe.
Re: I Solemnly Swear That I Am Up To No Good
Date: 2011-02-01 10:17 pm (UTC)I wouldn't put it past the Carrows to eat people, though.
Re: I Solemnly Swear That I Am Up To No Good
Date: 2011-02-01 10:17 pm (UTC)I thought the hunt was just for show. Patil definitely thought they let it go after.
Ugh. Poor thing.
Re: I Solemnly Swear That I Am Up To No Good
Date: 2011-02-02 02:39 pm (UTC)But there was a time, when I was with Master, that they joked about it all the time, trying to get a rise out of me. I was pretty young, and it took me a while to work out that they were joking. But I was really scared until I did.
I finally figured out that they'd rather have
mupeople work for them and be bullied by them than have them for food.Order Only
Date: 2011-02-01 08:29 pm (UTC)Re: Order Only
Date: 2011-02-01 08:43 pm (UTC)I've always wondered about being ginger.
Re: Order Only
Date: 2011-02-01 09:59 pm (UTC)It isn't right of whoever it is to lump Minerva in with those awful people, though.
Order Only: Private Message to Alice Longbottom
Date: 2011-02-01 10:24 pm (UTC)So, is it true that gingers are better in bed?
Re: Order Only: Private Message to Alice Longbottom
Date: 2011-02-01 11:00 pm (UTC)And wouldn't you like to know?
Seeing as how I've never been with one, I'm not the best judge. You'll just have to ask Frank.
Re: Order Only: Private Message to Alice Longbottom
Date: 2011-02-01 11:31 pm (UTC)And as much as I'd love to find out first-hand, love, you're flattering yourself. I meant me. If I'm now a redhead I want to know if I can expect to have an even better time of it.
But in all honesty, I hope this woman's merely had her journal taken and can prove she was well away from it when this was posted.
Re: Order Only: Private Message to Alice Longbottom
Date: 2011-02-02 03:22 pm (UTC)The polyjuice mistake did him a turn, though. I hope it doesn't make him second-guess himself too much. Caution is one thing, but when you walk into the camps, you've got to look like you know what you're doing.
And I hope so too. And that whoever took it is smart enough to keep his or her head down -- although I doubt that much.
Private message to Charlotte Smythe and Barty Crouch Jr
Date: 2011-02-04 02:39 am (UTC)Magical Law Enforcement arrested Margaret Wynn within hours of her ill-advised use of Charlotte Smythe's diary.
What happens to her now depends on you. If you return the journal to my office within two days, she will be sent to Azkaban. If you fail to return the journal, she will be handed over to Auror Bellatrix Lestrange. Auror Lestrange is perhaps the world's foremost expert on the cruciatus curse, and has personally developed a number of alternative spells and techniques that, while somewhat less excruciating, can be used for longer periods without causing permanent damage. That said, we have no further use for Meg -- so permanent damage is no longer something any of us are particularly concerned about.
You have two days, but the sooner you get us the diary the more quickly your Meg will be in Azkaban, rather than the MLE's interrogation dungeons. Her stay so far has not been particularly comfortable.