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[alt_draco]

We've finished up the broadside that has my footage of the events at Ollerton. I've just dropped a big stack of them in the colocation box at the Hogsmeade safehouse.

Harry, if you grab them and distribute them while wearing your cloak, I reckon everyone should have seen the broadside - or at least heard about it - by the time supper's over.

Ron, sorry mate, but one of the images shows about half of you in profile, if only for a split second. We tried to edit it out but it would have buggered up the shot of Desai and those two kids. The brother and sister.

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[alt_harry]

If I go up now, I bet I can make sure everyone in the school's seen them by supper.

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[alt_draco]

I should mention that I've got the safehouse all kitted out. Cleaned up some of the furnishings, added some cosy touches, or whatever you want to call them. And there's a kettle and the one cabinet has some decent biscuits and tea. Plus the requisite bottle of firewhiskey. So if you and the lads ever want to meet up some night, we could do.

I've ended things with Sarah, so I've got more free time now than I did.

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[alt_harry]

That would be brilliant. To see you, I mean, not that you've ended things with Sarah. (Sorry.)

I don't know if we can get away without Dolohov knowing. Except, we've a Hogsmeade weekend coming up. I could meet you there instead of going to the Three Broomsticks.

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[alt_ron]

 
 
 
 
 
I don't remember which kids you mean.

That's-

Mordred.

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[alt_draco]

Do you mean you don't remember seeing them, or you've blocked it out?

Or that there were just a lot of kids?

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[alt_ron]

There were. A lot of them.

And I thought I'd remember all of it forever. I dream about it. I see bits of it

Nevermind.

But you said it like I should know, and I don't.


Expect I will when I see the pamphlet.

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[alt_draco]

Yeah, I suppose there were a lot of them.

I've viewed the footage several times, so it only makes sense that I'm remembering everything differently than you are. I was far away, too. The omniocular lense, they create a barrier, of sorts. It didn't feel like what I was seeing was quite real. Still doesn't.

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[alt_ron]

Didn't feel real up close, either. It just-

AK, it's just... done. One moment, they're alive and the next, they're not. Like petrificus, y'know, but without the jerking of freezing up. I mean, then they posed them or posed them first, so that was part of it, but not what I mean. It's just. You don't see them die, even. Not really. Not like if someone's bleeding out or screaming in pain and then they stop. Or unconscious and breathing and it slows and then stops. With this it's just Alive/Not. And-

It just felt like it should be easy to turn it back, but

you can't

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[alt_draco]

Yeah, it's seriously fucked. Who's the mad Ravenclaw who invented that one? And did they think they were coming up with some merciful way to kill people, instead of something that would become standard use by today's MLE?

When I killed Teddy I used one of Snape's spells. His body just split open and the life bled right out of him. Which is what he deserved.

You did kill those people. They're gone and there's no way around it. But we're all going to end up in the same boat when this is all said and done, and that boat's called the madhouse. But hey, at least the company will be alright?

Sorry.

You're probably in a bad space. I've been there. For different reasons, but yeah.

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[alt_ron]

Yeah.

We'll all just be dormitory mates in some madhouse. But maybe by then we won't mind.

[alt_ron]

S'okay.

[alt_harry]

I left them in every House, everywhere I could think of. (That I could get to.)

People are reading. I saw people looking at them on my way out of Hufflepuff.

[alt_luna]

They're all over Ravenclaw Tower--don't worry, I took care not to be seen, but Artie and I made sure they could be found in both the boys' and the girls' areas. And I made sure there are a good number scattered here and there throughout the library. I tucked some in the assigned books for this term for Noble Arts. I also put one right in the middle of the table where Ravenclaw Corner usually meets, when no one was there.

Daphne, what about making sure some are put in the Prefects' bathroom?

[alt_luna]

And I think they're very effective. The pamphlets. Draco, thank you for taking the pictures, even if it must have been difficult, and thank whoever designed the layout, too.

They're being distributed in other places than Hogwarts, aren't they?

[alt_daphne]

I'm sorry, but I can't risk being seen with those - unless I'm collecting them to be binned. If someone else wants to see that they get into the Prefects' bathroom that's fine.

[alt_luna]

Of course. I didn't mean that you should do it, because you're right. But I just wondered whether it might be an effective place to put them? Because I can imagine that all of the prefects will make a point of burning them or binning them, where they can be seen by other students. But if they have an opportunity for privacy in the Prefects' bathroom, might one or two take the opportunity to read it? Or if they don't feel safe to do it there, they might slip it into a book bag or their robe to peruse later?

[alt_luna]

Anyway, I hope one of the Prefects tries. If you think it might help.

[alt_ginny]

I'll do it.

[alt_ginny]

Plus I'm going to show one to Moon. Just so he knows what to look for, of course.

[alt_frank]

(I say, Draco, well done. We've been dropping them off in various locations all day. I blanketed my designated area of New London with them, and I know at least a dozen other people who are doing the same all over.)