Lucas Creevy was a milkman and Brenda Creevy was a hairdresser before they got sent to the camps.
Brenda was very ill when we came to fetch Dennis. She knew us already, we'd already taken her oldest son just the year before. She begged us to give her a little more time with Dennis, because she knew it would be the last chance she'd get to see him. She knew she was dying. He was such a tiny baby. When I saw him, he was six months old, but he looked almost half that.
So we waited.
She died a year later, and by the time we were able to come back for him, it was too late.
Lucas works at the dairy farms at Cheadle. At least that's what he did last time we were able to communicate at all. I know he's still alive because of Colin's ring, at least. And Colin's written him explaining what has happened, even though Merlin knows when we'll be able to get the letter to him.
So there's that, I suppose.
You will never read this. I hardly see the point in writing it down, really, except for the fact that it needs to be written somewhere, even if it's hidden. Dennis Creevy was not a house-elf. He was a human being who had a mother, a father, and a brother who all loved him very much. He was a little boy who spent most of his short life being ordered about, afraid and ashamed of his own magic, and kept apart from his family. You were the closest person he had to a family, really.
I hope you will think twice the next time your father gives you a new little slave that you can order around. And I hope to Merlin you feel half the guilt that I'm feeling.
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Brenda was very ill when we came to fetch Dennis. She knew us already, we'd already taken her oldest son just the year before. She begged us to give her a little more time with Dennis, because she knew it would be the last chance she'd get to see him. She knew she was dying. He was such a tiny baby. When I saw him, he was six months old, but he looked almost half that.
So we waited.
She died a year later, and by the time we were able to come back for him, it was too late.
Lucas works at the dairy farms at Cheadle. At least that's what he did last time we were able to communicate at all. I know he's still alive because of Colin's ring, at least. And Colin's written him explaining what has happened, even though Merlin knows when we'll be able to get the letter to him.
So there's that, I suppose.
You will never read this. I hardly see the point in writing it down, really, except for the fact that it needs to be written somewhere, even if it's hidden. Dennis Creevy was not a house-elf. He was a human being who had a mother, a father, and a brother who all loved him very much. He was a little boy who spent most of his short life being ordered about, afraid and ashamed of his own magic, and kept apart from his family. You were the closest person he had to a family, really.
I hope you will think twice the next time your father gives you a new little slave that you can order around. And I hope to Merlin you feel half the guilt that I'm feeling.