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Feb. 24th, 2010 09:33 pmI received the following today:
My dear friends,
If you are receiving this, it means that I am dead, likely by my own hand. I have never trusted in my own ability to withstand questioning by the likes of Bellatrix Lestrange -- sooner or later, I fear, I would tell them anything they asked -- so I made provisions that would provide me with a swift exit. A family heirloom passed down from my great-grandfather, my ring was first used for murder, then later to control an inconvenient spouse. It gave me a certain satisfaction to know I was using it instead to provide for my own escape, if it ever became necessary.
My greatest fear has never been the quiet release of death, you understand, but that I might betray others.
Please keep watch over my family. None of them ever knew of my work, and I hope their innocence will protect them.
Aloysius
It burned itself as I copied out the last few sentences; so I cannot guarantee that it is perfect.
I remember Aloysius well, and particularly his wife, who was a denizen of Gryffindor house. It is perfectly fitting that he should have the presence of mind to do - well, to do away with himself.
It does not, however, shed any more light on the circumstances of his death, or rather the circumstances that led to his death.
My dear friends,
If you are receiving this, it means that I am dead, likely by my own hand. I have never trusted in my own ability to withstand questioning by the likes of Bellatrix Lestrange -- sooner or later, I fear, I would tell them anything they asked -- so I made provisions that would provide me with a swift exit. A family heirloom passed down from my great-grandfather, my ring was first used for murder, then later to control an inconvenient spouse. It gave me a certain satisfaction to know I was using it instead to provide for my own escape, if it ever became necessary.
My greatest fear has never been the quiet release of death, you understand, but that I might betray others.
Please keep watch over my family. None of them ever knew of my work, and I hope their innocence will protect them.
Aloysius
It burned itself as I copied out the last few sentences; so I cannot guarantee that it is perfect.
I remember Aloysius well, and particularly his wife, who was a denizen of Gryffindor house. It is perfectly fitting that he should have the presence of mind to do - well, to do away with himself.
It does not, however, shed any more light on the circumstances of his death, or rather the circumstances that led to his death.
