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alt_justinGood morning,
I say, terribly sorry to have worried everyone. I'll be all right.
I'm back at the Jugsons' and Harry, I apologise but I shan't be able to go flying on Friday. Or any other Friday this summer, I'm afraid. Nor Tea Appreciation, what.
But everything's really, quite fine, apart from that.
-Justin
I say, terribly sorry to have worried everyone. I'll be all right.
I'm back at the Jugsons' and Harry, I apologise but I shan't be able to go flying on Friday. Or any other Friday this summer, I'm afraid. Nor Tea Appreciation, what.
But everything's really, quite fine, apart from that.
-Justin
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Date: 2013-08-06 03:27 pm (UTC)No, I'm not hurt. I've a cold and I can't say my stay in the Lestrange dungeon improved my opinions on rats, what, but that's a minor complaint.
-Justin
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Date: 2013-08-06 03:32 pm (UTC)I can't tell whether you're telling us straight or keeping the worst back. Can't see behind all that stiff upper lip business.
Private message to Ron
Date: 2013-08-06 04:06 pm (UTC)Re: Private message to Ron
Date: 2013-08-06 04:29 pm (UTC)Only, I don't think it's that extreme. I mean to say, I think he's got his bits still attached. Not sure he's not hurt at all, though.
Ugh.
What are you up to today? It's your day for the perimeter check, isn't it? I could come fly it with you if you wanted.
Re: Private message to Ron
Date: 2013-08-06 04:30 pm (UTC)And please, yes, come.
Re: Private message to Ron
Date: 2013-08-06 04:44 pm (UTC)I'll be there as soon as I finish with the goat pen. And the weeding.
I think that's all Mum's got on my list today.
Private Message to Ron
Date: 2013-08-06 04:08 pm (UTC)I don't wish to worry anyone more than necessary, least of all Hydra. All right?
I'll be fine. Let's say that I can attest that putting the poison in rings was a good thought. That and my bead bracelet were all I had for...oh, I guess about eight hours, I expect. Also, now I've an insight to Mr Lestrange's unorthodox interrogative and duelling tactics I'm not eager to revisit.
I didn't fight back, you see. I defended as best I could, shielding and so on, but that wasn't foolproof. He, er, kept saying that if I swore I'd never see Hydra again, he'd stop. Naturally, I refused.
I suppose he eventually tired...or perhaps he realised he could continue forever with no different result. At any rate, he decided he'd had enough. He offered me a brandy and said that he'd seen wizards with purer pedigrees comport themselves much more shamefully, what.
He said he hoped I'd be more aggressive if it came to protecting Hydra. I told him that I rather thought attacking him would only have made my situation worse but that if someone were hurting Hydra no power on earth could stop me protecting her.
I.... We talked for a while longer and came to an agreement. We've three years--until Hydra completes her N.E.W.T.s--in which to convince Auror Lestrange that I'm a better match than Harry. Until then, Mr Lestrange is content to consider us engaged, what. Provided we see each other only under the supervision of chaperones.
It's the best outcome we could have hoped to achieve, what. And for that, I'd endure a great deal more torturous circumstances.
-Justin
Re: Private Message to Ron
Date: 2013-08-06 04:26 pm (UTC)Only, I can see why you wouldn't want anyone to know. If he did. But then, you'd want to get a healer to see if whatever... could be healed... or anyway be sure it's not something Dark that'll get worse if you don't get it seen to.
Sorry. Just worried for you, I guess.
But the brandy. That's a good sign. And that you've got an agreement. Only the bit about the chaperone. That's awful. Who's that going to be? I mean, is he sending a nanny to school with her, then, or what?
At least Harry doesn't seem to want to challenge you for Hydra, so there's that. But convincing Auror Lestrange. That seems like the impossible part, doesn't it? I guess a lot could happen in three years, though. To her. And everything else.
Do you want me to see if I can get in touch with Madam Pomfrey for you? Or I could ask Charlie if he knows anyone that specialises in wizardly problems. Dragonhandlers seem to know those sorts of things and he wouldn't think anything of it if I asked.
Re: Private Message to Ron
Date: 2013-08-06 04:39 pm (UTC)I'm not saying I'm unharmed, old man, but--well, I know how lucky I am to have escaped with, er, everything intact.
-Justin
Re: Private Message to Ron
Date: 2013-08-06 04:42 pm (UTC)A few nightmares, maybe, then. But that's nothing to the kind of nightmare the other sort of thing could cause, yeah?