Sirius Black

To be honest, it's not MLE and the Council that worry me.

It's all those members of the Jr Aux who were at the Burrow.

Did you hear them all greet Pomona, Kingsley? Sounded like a primary school class.

I smelled Justin soon as he arrived; tried to get out of sight in a hurry but I can't be sure whether or not he saw me. The problem was that every time I moved away from him, I came near to being spotted by Pansy Parkinson.

And Kingsley, was it me or was Mac staring at the young woman who came with Justin, the one carrying the hamper? Poor girl looked like she hadn't an idea how best to make herself useful. I think she wound up in the kitchen most of the afternoon. Maybe we ought to ask what was so fascinating? Don't know if he'll take that as teasing about his tastes or what.

Alice, you and Frank had gone but you ought to know that Neville and Evelyn both came by Floo, mid-afternoon or so. Then all of them - Pansy, Justin, Hydra, Ron, Sally-Anne, your two - went up to Fred and George's room. Can't be good, whatever that means (though the twins were seen going up and down the stairs from time to time. Nicked a platter of sandwiches on their way back up, too).

Mordred, it's nearly time to go. Look, I know we said we'd let things alone and they can figure it out in their own time but .... I just think that time is coming much sooner than any of us planned.

Fred, George:

Remus, Dora and I spent most of the day combing through the rest of the library (well, as much as Bea would let us). We found two references that may give us a clue.

The first is in Grimoire Germanicus, which is rare, but not impossible Carrow's got a copy. Roughly translated it's a spell meant to kill one's lover at the moment the caster commits suicide. Why anyone would want such a spell I can't imagine, but then, it is a German grimoire. Anyway, it's the best we've found and most likely thing Carrow could have twisted to the purpose he indicated. I'm copying the original Latin/German pidgin as well as the best two translations we could work out.

The second is in the Saurian Compenidium, which makes this unlikely as it's intended as a manual on dragon-keeping. But nonetheless there it is: 'A Spell to Boile the Blude." I've copied that one out for you as well.