Tis the Season

[alt_draco]

Splendid party at the Manor last night - Mother outdid herself, as ever. The winter garden was particularly festive, with an arrangement of lights, charms, and other delights. The band played until the sun came up, since everyone was loathe to stop dancing and celebrating, so you might say that the party didn't actually end until after breakfast.

Many of the usual faces in attendance, of course, and it was good to see all of you.

Of course, those who were unable to make it were, with a few exceptions, missed. Best wishes for a Happy Christmas to you and yours.

Comments

[alt_draco]

Glad you could make it, Finch-Fletchley, but sorry that you couldn't stay for the after-hours party. That was a rather exclusive group of the Malfoy's dearest and nearest, though - I'm sure you understand.

[alt_justin]

Not at all, old chap! The hospitality of the Malfoys is well-known but there's no reason to think you aren't entitled to a more intimate gathering.

I say, I hope your holidays are off to a good start, what?

-F-F

[alt_draco]

Well, they certainly appear to be anything but boring. So there's that, isn't there?

I'm sure that I'll see you again before we head back to school.

[alt_justin]

Oh, indeed! I shall look forward to it.

Have you any particular plans? You know I'm to spend some time at the Ministry; Smith has a hope of getting some of us lads together at a pub, probably after working hours. I've told him I'll try to go along.

-F-F

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[alt_justin]

I say, what happened when the others were all gone, then?

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[alt_draco]

Mother seemed particularly concerned that everything be as jolly as possible, with any potential aggression or adversarial behaviour diverted to something other than the curtains, so she arranged to have some "animals" hiding in the garden. It wasn't a planned hunt - just something set up for the fun of anyone who might stumble upon it.

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[alt_justin]

I say.

I take it some of them walked on two legs?

-J

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[alt_draco]

Of course.

Hydra wanted us to do something. Save them, or something. Though obviously there was very little that the two of us could do, given the company we were in.

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[alt_hydra]

Not save them, I'm not that foolish. But we couldn't let them all be killed, you know that.

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[alt_draco]

Of course I know that, why else would I have tried to stun so many?

I just don't know about letting everyone else in the Order know about this. The last thing I want is Black going on about how we could have done more, or raised the alarm, or some other rubbish like that.

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[alt_justin]

How ghastly.

Did you manage anything? What could you have done?

Do you know, Bill thought we ickle juniors couldn't stomach the idea of Maule's finger in a jar on Mulciber's desk, what; I wonder what he'd do if he knew we were routinely faced with situations in which we're expected to torture or hunt Muggles. Next to that, a finger's bally well nothing.

-J

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[alt_draco]

No one was really expected to hunt, fortunately. It was a lark, not a planned event. But I hadn't had anything to drink, nor any of the charmed food, so we were able to find a good deal of the muggles before the others did, and stun them.

I probably missed a few - they were trying to hide, after all. Hydra did better than I did because of her legilimency, and the fact that she's a girl and looks about as deadly as a sugarplum faerie.

The food must have had some kind of amiability charm in it, because no one seemed to terribly enraged that they didn't have much prey to prey on. After a while they all decided to fly over to Stroud and burn things.