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Regulus Arcturus Black. What do you think you're playing at, goblin?

You know, Father might have been a miserable sod who didn't think twice about using the dark arts, but bloody hell, Reg, there were limits to what he'd practise.

And now this? If I find out you've had anything to do with leaving that little girl 'orphaned,' so help me, Reg, I'll kill you myself.

Hideout unhinged

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From:

alt_sally_anne

Ron and Neville are you reading this?

I don't even know what to think.

From:

alt_sally_anne

I mean Black was right about the disease, and I don't believe for a minute he caused it. And the Ministry lied and lied and lied again.

But now Black's saying Luna's father never had the disease? How would he even know

From:

alt_ron

He couldn't know, could he?

From:

alt_sally_anne

I don't believe Black's anywhere in the Protectorate, or they'd have caught him by now, surely.

The only way he could possibly have information about what happened to Mr Lovegood is if there's someone here who knows something, who's telling him. He knew about the sickness really early, maybe he has a friend at St Mungo's.

If he DOES have a friend at St Mungo's, he might know for certain Mr Lovegood wasn't in the ward where they were keeping all the sick half-bloods.

I don't know how he'd be getting the information though. Can owls go to the continent? I thought they couldn't but maybe they have a way?

From:

alt_neville

I dunno. But it really makes you wonder.

He must have sources of information, you're right about that. I bet that there are a lot of people who are reading his Grim Truth posts who are secretly glad he's saying some of this stuff, and so if they find out anything dodgey that the Ministry's trying to keep secret, they'll send it to him so he can put it out in his next one. But as to how he's getting the news, I can't imagine. No one's sending owls now, and if he's really right about knowing how the epidemic started, surely he would have been doing everything he could not to get sick himself, right from the beginning. Even if he decides to take the chance that getting an owl won't make him fall sick, I'd think he might figure it'd still be too risky: since no one's sending owls anymore, receiving them might draw too much attention to himself. So I have to think he's getting his news someway other than using owls.

From:

alt_sally_anne

It's just Hogwarts that's not getting owls right now. Everyone else is using them.

You know something that I thought of last night. If Mr Lovegood committed treason perhaps someone pulled strings to say he died of the disease to protect Luna, so she wouldn't be sent to the camps.

From:

alt_neville

That's right, I guess I forgot other people are getting owls. We really are in our own little bubble here, aren't we?

Huh. That's a thought. About Mr Lovegood, I mean. Can't imagine how we could find out whether it's true or not.

I wish there was a way to truly know about things. Okay, I guess that's what Sirius Black says he's doing. Telling us stuff we need to know, that other people want to keep secret. But I do wish we had more ways to find out things, so we could, I dunno, sort of check them against each other. How can kids like us figure out who's really lying and why?

Although, thinking it over, I think I'm more likely to believe Sirius Black.

From:

alt_neville

And if Lovegood's dad didn't die of the disease, what did he die of? Sirius Black is making it sound like he was murdered. Why lie about it?

From:

alt_ron

He thinks his brother's done some really terrible stuff, doesn't he? But, I dunno. It doesn't seem he's the one that didn't anything to Mr Lovegood.

Do you think?