Saw the body

[alt_neville]

My gran took me to see the traitor's body. The queue was huge, and we had to wait hours and hours. People were mostly quiet, talking a bit amongst themselves, but not too loudly. Solemn.

I expect most people will have seen it before we get back to school, so I don't need to describe it. I guess it's enough to say that it's a fitting lesson to see what happens to Enemies of the Protectorate.

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[alt_neville]

We shuffled past the glass case, and I looked at Gran, and her face was like stone as she said in a loud voice, 'Look at him, Neville, and look well. That's what happens to traitors. Don't you forget it.' And I looked, but I didn't feel anything, not really. I'd read the descriptions and I knew it looked awful. So I just cast my eyes over it, as if it were nothing more than a plate or a cauldron or something, nothing that was human once, and we went past and then we left again. Neither of us said much after we Floo'd home.

Gran and I didn't bring Evelyn, because Gran thought she'd likely have nightmares. So I went for both of us.

It never occurred that it would give me a nightmare. But it did. A terrible one.

I dreamed about my parents and my little brother. They looked like that picture that was published in the Daily Prophet. They looked over at smiled at me, and everything was normal, but then it was as if time speeded up, and their skin cracked and split open and started sloughing up and I could see their teeth through the cracks. Their flesh shriveled up and they had this agonised look on their faces, just like they were burning up or something. And my brother started screaming as his flesh fell off, and then I started screaming myself, and then...and then I woke up.

Didn't get to sleep for the rest of the night.

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[alt_sally_anne]

You did a good job. I hope your nightmares go away soon.

Don't listen to Carrow. They won't catch your parents.

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[alt_neville]

Yeah.

I--

Yeah.

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[alt_ron]

Gosh, Nev. I'm sorry.

Fred and George said you'd written, so I've just come in to see.

I don't look forward to going, but Dad says we'll have to go when we get back. Did you hear they're going question people who haven't been? Well, no one wants that, do they? So I expect we'll go Saturday.

I'd heard the queues were getting shorter, but I guess now people are saying the Ministry's going to come down on people who haven't been that loads of people who weren't planning to go are going now.

I suppose Mum will make us get there extra early on Saturday so we're sure of getting in.

[alt_amycus]

Used to put traitors heads on pikes on London Bridge, they did, for the pigeons to peck out their eyes.

Maybe they'll do that to the next ones they catch.

You know who.

[alt_neville]

I expect I do, sir.

[alt_amycus]

Well, well. I'm surprised. Maybe you are capable of learning.

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[alt_gredforge]

EAT DUNG.

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[alt_gredforge]

Well done, bro.

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[alt_gredforge]

Anytime, Fred.

Maybe we should make a point to write that anytime he mouths off to one of us in one of our journals.

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[alt_lee]

Nice.

It'd get pretty repetitive though.

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[alt_gredforge]

True.

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[alt_sally_anne]

Nah.

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[alt_neville]

Merlin.

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[alt_frank]

looks like someones feeling a bit more chipper

and he's one to talk about not learning lessons.

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[alt_sirius]

Well. We did choose not to end him then and there.

And there was a better-than-even chance he'd come back worse than before. I'll be back at Hogwarts in a day or two, though. I could make sure the bastard isn't doing any more than talking a brave game.

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[alt_poppy]

By which you mean what, exactly?

Listen to me, Sirius Black: there will be no more folly where Amycus Carrow is concerned.


Or I will make you exceedingly sorry.

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[alt_sirius]

Er ....

I was thinking of the ghosts, actually. Keeping an eye on him. Maybe Peeves, if the Baron could convince him to get involved. But at least they'd be able to alert you or Minerva if Carrow tried anything concrete.

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[alt_poppy]

Well, all right, then.


Carry on.

[alt_hannah]

I noticed that, too, that the crowds are ever so quiet.

[alt_padma]

Sandoval says that's because they're being fully appreciative of Black's violent death and that it's important to bear witness to Our Lord's victory. I think it means people are respectful of His prowess, don't you?

[alt_hannah]

Oh, definitely.