ORDER ONLY: Private Message to Sirius Black and Arthur Weasley

[alt_alice]

Sirius, love, Dudley's letter to Harry is winging its way to you. He's spent quite a while working on it. I haven't read it, of course, apart from the bits that he sought approval for that were about his current living situation, but he did ask a lot of questions before he sat down to write it -- he was concerned about how much he could say, and whether he could really trust Harry's note at face value, but Terry had some good things to say about Harry (especially how he treated our Hermione), and, of course, the letter came by way of a certain Sirius Black, so I believe he's worked through most of his concerns.

Arthur, the reason I'm also including you on all this is because another thing Dudley talked to me about for the first time was his parents. He believes Vernon Dursley is dead, but he is very uncertain about what happened to his mother, Harry's aunt. This entire time, he's been very quiet about it, and I'd assumed that she'd died, but his writing to Harry has apparently opened the floodgates as it were, and apparently it's still very much up in the air. He was separated from her when he was eight and put to work (eight, Arthur, goodness, my heart hurts), and he believes she was moved to another camp, only he didn't know which one, and hadn't heard from her at all since then.

Could you look further into it, to see if you can find Petunia?

Comments

[alt_arthur]

Alice:

I'm quite mortified that I didn't think to check for Dudley's family members previously. I checked for Terry; why didn't I check for him? At any rate, yes, of course I will do so. I hope that I will find something about his mother. I will let you know.

[alt_sirius]

Thanks, Allie. I'll send it along with a note explaining (again) that Dudley's struggled with it, so not to take anything amiss if it's short or not what Harry's expecting.

As for his parents .... Well, I do feel sorry for the kid but I have to say he's probably right about Vernon. Can't say I ever had the pleasure but from all I've heard about the man, I don't imagine he endeared himself to anyone in charge of relocating them to the camps.

But Petunia's another matter. She's a survivor, all right.

[alt_sirius]

Be careful about it, Arthur. She hated our kind before everything started and I'd imagine she hasn't changed her opinions for the better.

[alt_arthur]

Noted.

But she's certainly had years to come to terms with fact that the power's mostly on our side.

Unfortunately.

[alt_arthur]

Does Dudley remember what camp he was in when he was last with her, by any chance?

I suppose I can check his own record. It's probably a good idea to do so; I imagine his records are still under the Lincoln jurisdiction.

[alt_alice]

Well, I simply assumed that he didn't talk because she'd died. I think he needed sitting down and writing that letter in order to open up a bit more to the rest of us, and get up the courage to ask after her.

I've asked, and he says he was at Stevenage before he went to Lincoln.

[alt_sirius]

If he was at Stevenage then Terrie might have heard of Petunia.

If you wanted me to ask.

[alt_alice]

If it wouldn't

Yes, please.

[alt_arthur]

If she can get us anymore information to help with the search, I'd certainly appreciate it, Sirius.