Order Only: Private Message to Hermione and Harry

[alt_sirius]

Hermione,

Did my birthday present get through to Harry? I know it was a bit of a risk, sending something, but I figured he gets so many unsolicited gifts it might have slipped his guards' notice.

Anyway. It was just a little thing, nothing significant at all. But if it did get intercepted, I didn't want him to think I would ignore his birthday.

Even if everyone else treats it like a national holiday.

Comments

[alt_hermione]

It did, and they asked me about it! But I told them that he has a friend at school who signs things with a paw print as a joke, and they didn't think anything else about it, I don't think, because they let him have it and they didn't seem to care and went on to ask about the next thing that seemed suspicious. Which wasn't suspicious at all and was really from a school friend, it was just not the smartest political thing to send, but there we are, what can you expect from boys?

[alt_sirius]

Excellent. Perhaps that means I can send things a little more regularly, if they've an explanation for the signature.

Hope he enjoys the assortment. Tell him those trick quills are particularly devilish if they get wet.

And tell him to write me once in a while, too, and let me know how he's doing.

[alt_hermione]

I will. I think he's been antsy because of everything. Well you know. His Father would scare anyone.

[alt_sirius]

No, I don't know, Hermione. What's going on, then?

[alt_hermione]

He's just stranger than ever, that's all. You don't really notice it if you see him every day but he is getting stranger. I mean we knew that last year but it hasn't stopped, he looks worse and worse and when Harry came back from school he barely paid attention to him at all, that's not like it used to be, I mean when Harry was very little he used to spend all of his time focussed on him, and then even when I was first serving Harry it was like he was important, but now it's as though he's just a pawn, like now that he's grown up it doesn't matter. And I think he's, Harry's father I mean, using darker and darker magics, because he looks worse and worse, like he never sleeps and he's not all the way there. Only of course we can't say anything, Harry can't either. So I don't know.