About Hydra Lestrange: we don't really know her at all. But we do know some people who know her better. That'll have to wait until we get back to school, though. (We'll be careful about what we ask, don't worry.)
Really though, maybe Hermione would know more? After all, she's around the Slytherin Common Room, and might see her there.
We have more information about Terry. Some reassurance, but some other stuff that's worried us a lot more. This is what we've pulled together from the notes we got:
He's really not acting normal. He's still reverting to 'boot,' particularly if something upsets him. There's a kind of confusion, or indirectness in his thinking. And maybe a touch of paranoia. He reports he's been sick for a couple days, but he doesn't think he's been poisoned. (Since this is a conversation that's contantly being conducted second and third hand, we didn't pass along the explanation that we wondered if the purpose of the blood spell was to remove poison from Alecto Carrow).
He says he's been sick for the past couple days: nausea, weakness, chills, vomiting. Oh, and he had a nosebleed. It feels worse if Carrow's farther away. Here's what he said about the ritual: they mixed his blood with a potion, cut his forearms and poured the mess over it, and it burned like 'cold fire.' There were some words said at this point, and he caught some reference to 'binding,' and there was more said, too, but he was in too much pain, maybe, to catch it. Then the other half of the blood/potion mixture got burned up in a silver cauldron.
He did think the bezoar was a good idea. But--this is weird: he willingly sent that sample of his blood to us before, the last time they did the binding spell; in fact, it was his idea. And this time, he mentioned they broke the vial afterwards so he couldn't save it. But when the suggestion was passed along that he send us a sample of his blood, suddenly he sounded afraid, maybe, or disgusted. Maybe both. Bugger, we didn't even think of that, but we can maybe see why. For years, Carrow's treated Terry like his blood's sort of his own personal ink well, to use for whatever purpose he likes. Guess for us to ask for the blood was somehow more threatening than him offering it.
So he was asked some more questions, and he wouldn't quite answer them, not directly. But then he said something strange, a real non sequitur about another kid there at the castle, a muggle about his own age. We think they were starting to be friends. He said: 'Dudley's still alive.' Like there was some doubt in his mind for awhile that it was true.
So one of us came up with what we think was a pretty shrewd guess: that the Carrows somehow forced Terry into hurting this other kid. Somehow, that hit him too close to the bone. He got really upset, turned into 'boot the mudblood,' said we shouldn't talk to him, and then disappeared.
Does that information about the ritual give you lot any better idea of what's going on?
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Date: 2012-04-09 01:19 am (UTC)Really though, maybe Hermione would know more? After all, she's around the Slytherin Common Room, and might see her there.
We have more information about Terry. Some reassurance, but some other stuff that's worried us a lot more. This is what we've pulled together from the notes we got:
He's really not acting normal. He's still reverting to 'boot,' particularly if something upsets him. There's a kind of confusion, or indirectness in his thinking. And maybe a touch of paranoia. He reports he's been sick for a couple days, but he doesn't think he's been poisoned. (Since this is a conversation that's contantly being conducted second and third hand, we didn't pass along the explanation that we wondered if the purpose of the blood spell was to remove poison from Alecto Carrow).
He says he's been sick for the past couple days: nausea, weakness, chills, vomiting. Oh, and he had a nosebleed. It feels worse if Carrow's farther away. Here's what he said about the ritual: they mixed his blood with a potion, cut his forearms and poured the mess over it, and it burned like 'cold fire.' There were some words said at this point, and he caught some reference to 'binding,' and there was more said, too, but he was in too much pain, maybe, to catch it. Then the other half of the blood/potion mixture got burned up in a silver cauldron.
He did think the bezoar was a good idea. But--this is weird: he willingly sent that sample of his blood to us before, the last time they did the binding spell; in fact, it was his idea. And this time, he mentioned they broke the vial afterwards so he couldn't save it. But when the suggestion was passed along that he send us a sample of his blood, suddenly he sounded afraid, maybe, or disgusted. Maybe both. Bugger, we didn't even think of that, but we can maybe see why. For years, Carrow's treated Terry like his blood's sort of his own personal ink well, to use for whatever purpose he likes. Guess for us to ask for the blood was somehow more threatening than him offering it.
So he was asked some more questions, and he wouldn't quite answer them, not directly. But then he said something strange, a real non sequitur about another kid there at the castle, a muggle about his own age. We think they were starting to be friends. He said: 'Dudley's still alive.' Like there was some doubt in his mind for awhile that it was true.
So one of us came up with what we think was a pretty shrewd guess: that the Carrows somehow forced Terry into hurting this other kid. Somehow, that hit him too close to the bone. He got really upset, turned into 'boot the mudblood,' said we shouldn't talk to him, and then disappeared.
Does that information about the ritual give you lot any better idea of what's going on?