louis harper.

Twenty five days from now, I will be a married man on my honeymoon. The last six months have gone by incredibly fast.

Warded to Cecily:

Not much longer. Are you excited?

Moira would like to know what we want for a wedding gift. I told her I'd talk to you and get back to her.

Warded to Narcissa Malfoy:

Thank you for your invitation to Draco's birthday party. We will, unfortunately, be unable to attend, as Cecily and I will be on our honeymoon, however I would like to send a gift for the birthday boy. Is there anything in particular he needs, or is interested in? I'm afraid my knowledge of one-year-olds is limited.

Warded Private:

It is still difficult to imagine what it will be like without Alice there.

I wonder if she ever considered this when she made her choice.

Warded Private: [posted sometime after this]

I knew it would come to this sooner or later. Alice has always had a mind of her own, and there was never going to be anything our parents, Moira or I could have said that would make her stop. I knew this was inevitable. That one day, she would make her choice and there would be nothing more I could do. That one day she would walk out of our lives instead of attempt to stay in them. It would be easy to blame Longbottom for all of this, but I suppose I've always known that if it weren't him, it would have been someone else. That's just who Alice is. Her real family never was Moira and I. It was always going to be someone else.

I suppose we don't have to struggle with the seating chart anymore.

Even though I expected it, I always hoped it would not come to this. I hoped she'd realise the error of her ways and realise she wanted to be a part of our lives. I was wrong.

Everything I tried to do to keep this family together for so long... it was a complete waste of time. I should have never bothered.

Warded to Nicholas & Isolde Mulciber, Cecily Mulciber:

Cecily informed me of the good news. Congratulations to the both of you. I know we're both very much looking forward to meeting the newest member of the family. Do let us know if there's anything we can do for either of you.

Warded Private:

I hope that's sufficient.

I hope Cecily's mother does not fly off the handle when she discovers the news. I hope none of them make a big fuss about it at the wedding. I hope none of the guests do, or I swear to Salazar I'm going to make them leave, no matter who they are. I will not have scandal or dramatics hanging over our heads on our day.

I'm glad Moira seems to have gotten over our earlier disagreement, as it were, regarding Prewett. There would have been no winning for her, since she (along with many others, I suspect) have been blinded to a better way of handling situations like those.

Warded to Cecily Mulciber:

I've been advised that I should talk to you about Fabian Prewett, and instead of giving me a straight answer, my sister insisted I just talk to you instead. She has rather intense feelings about the man, which isn't much of a surprise.

Warded to Cecily Mulciber:

Are your hands feeling any better?

Warded to Rabastan Lestrange, Jamie Gibbon, Augustus Rookwood:

While I'm certain there was some sort of larger purpose behind the Inferi attack and feel as thought I ought not to complain, if it hadn't happened and if she hadn't been there to be injured, Cecily and I would have had a much different evening than the one we ended up having. It has been a very long few years, if you catch my meaning.

At least there are just over two months left until my own wedding.

I missed saying this publicly earlier, but it is never too late: a very happy congratulations to my youngest sister and her new husband. Thank you for allowing us to celebrate with you, and I know I'm not alone in wishing you both all of the happiness in the world in your lives together.

I fear I cannot thank you for taking away our mother's main distraction, however, since it means she has focused entirely on me over the last few days. I imagine it would be that much more intense if I were not already engaged to be married.

I think I have finally recovered from the weekend. I miss when I could stay up until the early morning hours with few repercussions.

Warded to Alice & Moira:

I hope the two of you will be able to put your dif find time for lunch or dinner with Mother on Sunday?

Warded to the Salazar Society:

Rabastan brought to my attention that we haven't had a gathering of late, and that we are long overdue. He and I can both be available on Friday evening, but of course, as we would like as many of you to be present as possible, I thought it best to open it up to the floor.

We would also need someone to offer their home, but I would be more than happy to have any number of you over should no one else be available to host. I expect we all need an evening to relax and enjoy a card game or two among like-minded individuals. Let us know when is best for all of you. I'm sure we'll be able to work something out, provided the hardworking members of the DMLE among us do not have any further emergencies to tend to.

Warded to Moira:

I expect by now you've see what Alice wrote? Don't be rash.

Warded Private:

These girls give me a headache. For as grateful as I was that they were not so publicly troublesome as the Nott girls, it appears I was too quick to assume that we would find a way to make this arrangement work. Alice made her bed some years ago, and I have done all I can to keep our own relationship intact, but the longer this goes on, the more difficult that becomes.

I can't even be grateful that Alice didn't spew nonsense about bloodlines, because she's made those feelings clear already.

You can't have it both ways, Alice, and that is not all our doing. I dislike the position you've both put me in.

While I applaud the Ministry's attempt to forge a more unified environment, I hope the sensitivity training will not stand in the way of the important job that those among us, particularly our Aurors and Hitwizards, have to do. In light of last night's tragedy, it is more important than ever that we do not give anyone a reason to neglect their jobs in any way.

Warded Private:

I fail to see how reading a story about a Mudblood, written by a Mudblood, will solve any of our problems. Perhaps if everyone would keep their mouths shut about their personal lives and politics while at work, they would not feel the need to argue and they would be more productive.

Warded Private:

Although the paper did not give us more details as to how the Muggles were killed or how their bodies came to be marked with names, the presence of Fiendfyre makes me feel quite certain that there was more magic involved. I find myself wondering what point there is to giving Muggles even the slightest amount of time it would take to kill them. Whether it was meant as a message or as an attempt to frame certain individuals, I'm not certain, but regardless, I fail to see the point in even bothering to waste time with Muggles at all. All it would take is one Muggle to be missed by our Obliviators, and even though they might not be believed, is that a risk we ought to take?

I suppose the end goal would to be hold dominion over the Muggle population so that we no longer need to hide, but we have enough trouble here to deal with for the meantime without degrading ourselves to using Muggle children to send a message.

Yes, now I feel quite secure knowing that a violent terrorist organisation is by my side. I can sleep easier at night now, knowing that this group of vigilantes will continue to break the law in a misguided effort to protect us. Thank you. I needed that reassurance more than I realised.

Warded to Jamie Gibbon:

I will say this: the most recent broadcast has me wishing I worked in another field, so that I might be working overtime and thus avoid having lunch with my mother.

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