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[alt_neville]

The Lord Protector Really. Does. Not. Like. Gryffindors.

As soon as he came in, he vanished our House's table and benches, and we weren't allowed to eat. All the Gryffindors had to prostrate ourselves on the floor while he ranted on about Professor McGonagall, and all the other traitorous Gryffindors. Um, Sirius, your name came up.

Harry tried to intervene, but it was like Voldemort didn't even hear him. Professor Dolohov tried using tact to redirect him, but he wasn't listening to anyone.

The students are all right. I mean, none of us were hurt, but everyone's shaken up, and a lot of the younger ones are crying. A few of them spewed, right on the floor, because he...tortured and killed Professor Hooch, right in front of us all. Then he said he was disbanding the Gryffindor Quidditch team(!), and he stormed out.

He was just...raving.

No one's dared touch her body. Merlin, are they just going to leave her there all night?!

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[alt_alice]

Oh, Merlin, son.

How very awful.

Private message to Mum

[alt_neville]

I thought

We thought

Well, we thought we were goners. But he just ignored us, and went for Hooch.

Re: Private message to Mum

[alt_alice]

Oh, love.

I'm so very grateful that you weren't, and so deeply sorry that you had to face that possibility at all.

You are such a brave person, my dearest heart.

Re: Private message to Mum

[alt_neville]

Well, I sure didn't feel brave. Nor look it, groveling on the floor like that.

I suppose that's one reason he did it. To make us feel like our Gryffindor courage wasn't worth a...a bucket of spit.

Re: Private message to Mum

[alt_alice]

You're right. He works in humiliation and fear. It's what has let him gain a stranglehold on our country, and he is very good at it.

And my dearest, there is such a difference between doing what one must to live and fight another day, and doing what one is told because one knows no other option.