Private Message to Aristotle Baddock
Aug. 26th, 2015 11:43 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alt_justinGood morning,
I'm writing because, after spending a good deal of time speaking with Miss Parkinson last night, I believe you may be a man of more sensibility than most who joined Voldemort's ranks. As such, perhaps you will receive what I have to tell you in the spirit in which it is meant.
We know that you've had to remove your family from New London. I say, on the whole I believe you're much better off outside of the madhouse run by Bellatrix Lestrange, what, but I think you knew that. The problem is that you're now running from her, and from the Order as well.
You might recall that Rachel Brodie (Lamont, as she was known to MLE) offered an opportunity for Aurors and Enforcers to turn themselves in, in exchange for clemency. We've been fair to everyone who has joined us, and indeed, extended rather more mercy than might strictly be called for upon occasion. Ask Seamus Finnigan, if you don't believe me, or your oldest friend, Lucius Malfoy. They're both free, when by rights they should have been punished much more severely.
Your family are blameless. Your daughters and sons have lost friends and roommates. Yet you've all survived. It's a miracle you've kept them all together and relatively safe, for so long.
I've some bad news for you, however: Ptolemy is not getting out of this alive. I'm terribly sorry but it's a foregone conclusion.
If you are not already aware of his crimes, then you ought to know he has violated a girl barely older than your daughter, taking advantage of her trust in the most reprehensible manner. Consider what you would do to a man who would rape Lucy, and then ask yourself if you can condone such behaviour in your own kin.
However, you've a chance to save yourself, your wife, your daughter-in-law and your remaining children. If you surrender, turn yourself in, I can promise no harm will come to them. You will have the opportunity to defend yourself in court, a venue to which you are accustomed, and may well escape the worst judgement.
For Ptolemy there will be no such quarter, but his actions have sadly determined his fate. If you, on the other hand, reject this chance, then I'm sorry to say you'll share his fortune.
As a man of reason, I implore you to do what is right. You have every grounds to accept.
If you believe you'll receive better at the hands of your erstwhile friends, allow me to describe Bellatrix Lestrange's treatment of Jason Montague's brother. You likely haven't heard that when Jason's family ran, Freddie elected to stay.
Our head of MLE received Freddie's eyes, nose, ears, tongue and fingers via owl post.
I say, he had been alive when they began the process of removing them.
I can promise you, at least, that no such brutality awaits you in Albion's hands.
Regards,
-Justin Finch-Fletchley, Auror
I'm writing because, after spending a good deal of time speaking with Miss Parkinson last night, I believe you may be a man of more sensibility than most who joined Voldemort's ranks. As such, perhaps you will receive what I have to tell you in the spirit in which it is meant.
We know that you've had to remove your family from New London. I say, on the whole I believe you're much better off outside of the madhouse run by Bellatrix Lestrange, what, but I think you knew that. The problem is that you're now running from her, and from the Order as well.
You might recall that Rachel Brodie (Lamont, as she was known to MLE) offered an opportunity for Aurors and Enforcers to turn themselves in, in exchange for clemency. We've been fair to everyone who has joined us, and indeed, extended rather more mercy than might strictly be called for upon occasion. Ask Seamus Finnigan, if you don't believe me, or your oldest friend, Lucius Malfoy. They're both free, when by rights they should have been punished much more severely.
Your family are blameless. Your daughters and sons have lost friends and roommates. Yet you've all survived. It's a miracle you've kept them all together and relatively safe, for so long.
I've some bad news for you, however: Ptolemy is not getting out of this alive. I'm terribly sorry but it's a foregone conclusion.
If you are not already aware of his crimes, then you ought to know he has violated a girl barely older than your daughter, taking advantage of her trust in the most reprehensible manner. Consider what you would do to a man who would rape Lucy, and then ask yourself if you can condone such behaviour in your own kin.
However, you've a chance to save yourself, your wife, your daughter-in-law and your remaining children. If you surrender, turn yourself in, I can promise no harm will come to them. You will have the opportunity to defend yourself in court, a venue to which you are accustomed, and may well escape the worst judgement.
For Ptolemy there will be no such quarter, but his actions have sadly determined his fate. If you, on the other hand, reject this chance, then I'm sorry to say you'll share his fortune.
As a man of reason, I implore you to do what is right. You have every grounds to accept.
If you believe you'll receive better at the hands of your erstwhile friends, allow me to describe Bellatrix Lestrange's treatment of Jason Montague's brother. You likely haven't heard that when Jason's family ran, Freddie elected to stay.
Our head of MLE received Freddie's eyes, nose, ears, tongue and fingers via owl post.
I say, he had been alive when they began the process of removing them.
I can promise you, at least, that no such brutality awaits you in Albion's hands.
Regards,
-Justin Finch-Fletchley, Auror
