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[alt_sirius]

Bugger all. I've been working on this bloody Grim Truth all day and I'm fucking nowhere.

All I've got is, 'What in Merlin's name is WRONG with you all?' and that's no good.

Maybe Mac's right and these posts are useless. It's not like I can give people a blueprint, 'Here's how to throw off the yoke of oppression' - MLE will simply stop them in their tracks.

And I've had another letter from Justin. Hydra Lestrange is going to get that lad killed if he's not careful.

Can you let Dora close up alone? I need a fresh bottle.

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[alt_lupin]

Yeah, the place is really quiet for a Friday -- lots of people at the Frost Faire. Hopefully not to watch Muggles get eaten by gryphons. Anyway, I'll be there in a bit.

I'm trying to think of some choice phrases for you but 'what in Merlin's name is WRONG with you?' covers most of it.

[alt_sirius]

Super. That's brilliantly eloquent.

I think they're all too relieved that the wizards' duels aren't to the death. Oh you've replied again.

[alt_lupin]

'How would you lot like it if YOU got fed to a gryphon? "Wizard" should not be a synonym for "homicidal barbarian."'
'And you call the MUGGLES a bunch of savages? They gave up this sort of thing over a thousand years ago.'
'Maybe for afters, you could roast kittens on a spit, and then eat them? because that would actually be an improvement over treating murder as entertainment.'

[alt_sirius]

What did Minerva always say to us? I'm a wizard not a babbling baboon or something like that?

The problem is I'm afraid some people would say that kittens are much more lovable than Muggles.

[alt_lupin]

'Not a baboon waving a stick,' I think it might have been.

How many people does that arena hold? I know that not every wizard in England is the sort of vicious murderous bastard who'd actually stand in line to watch muggles murder each other, but it's things like this that make me feel utterly hopeless. It's no wonder you can't come up with the words for a Grim Truth. You're not writing for the people who'd actually want to see this sort of thing, but...

Yeah.

[alt_sirius]

Exactly. Everything I think of is either too subtle or too over-dramatic. Or both. I keep writing out lists of massacres and vicious acts of mass murder and then tacking 'Frost Faire 1995' onto the end like it's some twisted publicity campaign.

Oh, Morgana's wand, this is bollocks. At this rate the only thing that would make me feel less effective is to go turn round Father's portrait and let him have a go.

Actually, you could tell Dora to come home early and I'll give her a chance to meet the old bastard sod.

[alt_lupin]

What would your father have thought of this business?

[alt_sirius]

He'd have thought it pretty disgraceful, actually. But then I think he'd have thought letting Voldemort seize this much power and control pretty disgraceful in the first place. And he wouldn't think it wrong for the reasons we do. Still.

I suppose we could ask him.

I'd need another drink first, though. And perhaps a pair of earmuffs. Wouldn't say no to another wand to back me up, either. But ... that might not go too well.

I don't know. I just want to be able to DO something about all this idiocy! Instead of sitting back on our heels and waiting.

[alt_lupin]

I'll be there soon. With firewhiskey.

[alt_sirius]

Ta, love.