Private Message to Siz & Justin

[alt_cedric]

There are a few of us who worked closely with Antonin. We saw the good he did along with his murderous hatred.

I'm actually sleeping at the castle tonight. I'll be in the gardens at dawn if you wish to join me. If his beliefs are true for his soul, maybe we can help him be those better parts and purify away his many horrors. We can't forget those horrors, or we risk falling down his path, but he changed Hogwarts in many good ways.

Siz, do you think Evelyn or Sally-Anne would want to be invited? I know their relationships with him were even more fraught than ours.

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[alt_sinistra]

Sorry, finally took a potion last night, only just saw this.

Are you still around? I told Remus I'd look at the Head's office once I'd slept, but I'd much rather have help.

I said the prayers for him yesterday. As much as I could remember, anyway. Because yes. So many horrible things, but he saved your life and Evelyn's, and mine, and other people's, too.

Private message to Cedric

[alt_sinistra]

Sorry, still rather a mess.

I killed Rookwood.

He apparated into the middle of the ritual design at Barra, I'd just finished a round of running the charms. And everything Raz practiced with me, and everything Tosha taught me, it just flowed out of me, like it never has before.

Because I couldn't let him

He'd have killed me, or killed Evelyn, or killed someone else. I could see it. Broken the ritual, certainly. And it's not like the Ireland rite was easy, without that. I'm not sure it would have worked without someone dying

I couldn't stop thinking about the compromises we choose, to win. Last night. Before the potion. That, and missing Tosha. Or the Tosha I knew, anyway.