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[alt_nymphadora]

I'm at Grimmauld

I'm safe

Where's everyone else?

Charlie. Charlie, don't come to the beer garden.

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[alt_charlie]

Missed the warning, thank Merlin I came in at the corner instead of right outside. I'm in the curry takeaway instead.

There's --

There's a Dark Mark over the shop. And one of the Aurors has Remus.

[alt_nymphadora]

Oh.

[alt_charlie]

I was watching as much as I could but the Auror took Remus around the corner to the Apparition point and I couldn't see.

I"m trying to look like I'm just waiting for a takeaway.

[alt_nymphadora]

Don't let them get eyes on you. Be careful.

[alt_charlie]

No, I'm all right. I got enough warning.

I'll be at Grimmauld as soon as my takeaway is ready. (Had to order something, I was getting funny looks.)

[alt_molly]

A Dark Mark? But -- but they haven't used those in years!

Oh, Charlie.

Right now the clock says we're all safe. Those of us in the family. I'll keep watch.

Private message to Charlie, Alice, and Tonks

[alt_rachel]

I'm heading into the office.

You do realise I won't be able to save him. At best, I'll -- well. No guarantees of anything, really.

[alt_rachel]

Right.

Truncheon's off-site. I don't know where. He might actually be at Doughty Conduit, or possibly they're conducting the interrogations elsewhere, which isn't unheard of.

I can't be too obviously about lingering. And there's no telling when they'll bring him in.

[alt_lupin]

Oh, Merlin, I'm sorry you saw that. I didn't think --

Sirius used polyjuice. That was Sirius taking me out.

Worked a treat.

If I'd seen you I'd have written sooner. Sirius got sick, and he'd been hexed -- and Terrie wanted explanations. But we're all right. Neither of us was captured.

Bellatrix apparently doesn't want Sirius alive anyway.

[alt_poppy]

Thank goodness.

[alt_charlie]

Well, you tell Sirius from me that his Auror impersonation is damn convincing from a distance!

Tonks and I are here at Grimmauld. She's all right, a bit shaken up but hearing you were both all right helped.

[alt_lupin]

It was damn convincing up close, too. My arm's still sore from the way he twisted it back.

It needed to be convincing, though. It was our only chance of getting out.

[alt_bill]

Thank Merlin. Thank bloody Merlin. What a sweet trick. Well done.

Private Message to Remus and Sirius

[alt_poppy]

I've just had a moment to re-read. You say Sirius was hexed? In your own message you said he was indisposed, and I assumed it was Apparition sickness.

What sort of hex? Have you been able to care for him? to reverse it?

Re: Private Message to Remus and Sirius

[alt_lupin]

I don't know what it's called exactly, it causes stinging and gets worse over time. He was able to shrug it off while we were getting away, but once we were safe -- and on top of him getting sick -- you can imagine.

I know how to reverse it, though, just not how it's cast. He'll be all right. I'm not taking him anywhere else tonight, though, not even back to 12GP.

Re: Private Message to Remus and Sirius

[alt_poppy]

A wise choice, I'd say.

It wasn't Bellatrix who cast the hex, then? Even so, do keep an eye out for any sign it was more than a common hex.

Re: Private Message to Remus and Sirius

[alt_sirius]

No, she concentrated on the Killing Curse.

Which I ought to have used on her, when I had the chance, Mordred curse me. I was turning, there were too many people in the way .... I had her down. I could have ended it if I'd been a bit quicker. But then Crouch was closing and - Ellie - I knew Remus was still inside. We only had moments to escape.

If I'd stayed, I'd have had to duel Crouch with 20 odd bystanders right there.

Re: Private Message to Remus and Sirius

[alt_lupin]

There were too many people, lots of them were our friends, several were in the way. Could you live with yourself if you'd tried to hit Bella with the killing curse and hit Jill Hibbering?

And you were not going to be able to duel Crouch. Not with that many Aurors. You'd have made yourself a gift to the lot of them.