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alt_aliceColin is such a brave boy. I’m sure he’d be sorted into Gryffindor in a heartbeat. He’s one of our oldest here, and sometimes I forget that he’s so very young still, and would only be a first-year at Hogwarts. We’ve spent a lot of time together this past week, and he’s much quieter and sadder than the Colin I’m used to. He used to talk about what it would be like when he and Dennis could be together again. He often told me that he kept at his studies so diligently because Dennis couldn’t, so he had to learn for the both of them.
One thing we’ve decided to do is that this spring, once the ground has thawed enough, we’re all going to make a memorial garden of sorts. Colin’s been drawing up plans for it ever since we started talking about it. We’ll have benches, and possibly a fountain – perhaps we’ll have the older children work on it with Danny as a project – and we’ll plant trees. One for each person that wants to remember someone they’ve lost. Benjy has kindly volunteered to teach the children how to carve names into stone so that we can have little plaques at the base of each tree. Colin will have a tree for Dennis, and Felicia will have one for her mum and little sister, and a tree for Matthew Fawcett’s mum, and Judith and Freddy for Freddy’s father, and Victor for his wife (not Arabella, of course, but the woman he was married to before), and Danny for his parents, and Alec and John for their parents, and Frank and I will plant a tree for all our close friends and family we lost during the war.
And it’s not just for Moddey Dhoo, it’s for all of us, so if there’s anyone that you want to plant a tree for, we will. We’ve all of us suffered many losses over the years. Too many, really. And it’s a bitter potion to swallow each and every time. But I’m hoping that a peaceful green place where we can remember happier times might help. It certainly can’t hurt.
The news of the Panacea project is truly frightful. I don’t think I’ve ever seen Stephen quite that angry, nor Jacinda that grim. It’s horrid, and perfectly ridiculous that they’re trying to blame it all on you, Sirius. I know it must be hard for you sometimes to put yourself out there so publicly, darling, but your message is getting heard. And I’m so proud of you.
One thing we’ve decided to do is that this spring, once the ground has thawed enough, we’re all going to make a memorial garden of sorts. Colin’s been drawing up plans for it ever since we started talking about it. We’ll have benches, and possibly a fountain – perhaps we’ll have the older children work on it with Danny as a project – and we’ll plant trees. One for each person that wants to remember someone they’ve lost. Benjy has kindly volunteered to teach the children how to carve names into stone so that we can have little plaques at the base of each tree. Colin will have a tree for Dennis, and Felicia will have one for her mum and little sister, and a tree for Matthew Fawcett’s mum, and Judith and Freddy for Freddy’s father, and Victor for his wife (not Arabella, of course, but the woman he was married to before), and Danny for his parents, and Alec and John for their parents, and Frank and I will plant a tree for all our close friends and family we lost during the war.
And it’s not just for Moddey Dhoo, it’s for all of us, so if there’s anyone that you want to plant a tree for, we will. We’ve all of us suffered many losses over the years. Too many, really. And it’s a bitter potion to swallow each and every time. But I’m hoping that a peaceful green place where we can remember happier times might help. It certainly can’t hurt.
The news of the Panacea project is truly frightful. I don’t think I’ve ever seen Stephen quite that angry, nor Jacinda that grim. It’s horrid, and perfectly ridiculous that they’re trying to blame it all on you, Sirius. I know it must be hard for you sometimes to put yourself out there so publicly, darling, but your message is getting heard. And I’m so proud of you.
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Date: 2010-02-25 03:23 am (UTC)Oh dear
And now I’ve had a chance to read about Bill. I didn’t know
I wouldn’t have written about the garden if I’d known
Oh dear
Arthur, Molly, Bill, my heart goes out to all of you tonight, and I hope with every fibre of my being that you are able to ride this out. I don’t think I could bear it if
I just hope everything’s alright. You know there’s a place for you here if you need it, although I hope to Merlin you don’t have to take advantage because
I’m sorry to hear about Mr Archer, Bill. It’s awful.
I’m so, so very sorry
this is all too
frank?
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Date: 2010-02-25 04:01 am (UTC)I don't mind them blaming me for everything, so much, really. It's a bit of a joke when you know what's really going on. And I'm sure it'll come back to bite them sorry, it'll backfire on them all the worse, in the end, when people really figure out that the Death Eaters have been manipulating them so atrociously all this time.
Them finding Archer was bad luck, but you're an Auror, you know the risks involved in covert work as well as anyone.
I'm grateful that he had the strength to make sure he couldn't betray us, if the thought of it worried him so much. I'm just sorry it had to come to that.
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Date: 2010-02-25 06:48 pm (UTC)Oh dear, sometimes I feel as if my heart's going to burst.
I'm sorry. I'm not myself today.
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Date: 2010-02-25 03:40 pm (UTC)I knew this could happen when I joined the Order. I knew it was only a matter of time. But he's the first I've lost, the first one where I feel responsible.
I knew it, but now that it's actually happened....
Oh, bloody hell.
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Date: 2010-02-25 06:53 pm (UTC)He's the first of us we've lost in a while. In the Order, I mean. It's easy to forget how risky everything really is when you have to live it every single day.
I'm sorry I didn't get a chance to know him.
He'll have a spot waiting for him.
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Date: 2010-02-26 05:00 pm (UTC)It's up to Hermione, of course, but perhaps we might plant a tree in memory of her father?
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Date: 2010-02-28 12:29 am (UTC)And thank you, Remus.
It was just extremely poorly timed on my part. Goodness, what terrible news.