Order Only - Miss Granger's punishment

[alt_mcgonagall]

As you may imagine, Miss Granger is not doing particularly well.

She has been punished with the Cruciatus curse; her ability to speak has been taken away for a week; and, furthermore, her journal is in Mr. Marvolo's care for that same week.

I am to ensure that he practises the Cruciatus on her regularly. I do not believe that I will be able to make him, though I must put on a show. He was quite clearly upset to have to punish her at all. Draco, too, is supposed to practise the Imperius curse on her -- although he is instructed merely to force her to write 'master' after every sentence, nothing more brutal.

I cannot believe that I find that to not be brutal. There are some days when I feel a thousand years old.

This morning I received a message from the Lord Protector: 'have you straightened him out yet?' 'No,' I wrote back, 'but I am endeavoring to do so.' He responded: 'do not fail.'

How can I straighten Harry Marvolo out? Miss Granger, forgive me. I don't know what I will be forced to order him to do.

Comments

[alt_poppy]

I take it that she was suffering rather badly last evening. Enough that it inspired one of the Marvolo's classmates to feign a need to see me in order to procure a palliative to ease the after effects of Cruciatus.

I don't know whether it has anything to do with Miss Granger's presence there or, for that matter, with Mr Marvolo's idiosyncrasies and peculiar rebellions, but I have seen some hopeful signs in that unlikeliest of Houses. Prime amongst the outliers there is Miss Perks, who has on more than one occasion risked my piecing together her connection not only with Miss Granger but also with Mr Boot.

[alt_hermione]

I'm all right, I mean Harry snuck my journal back to me, he doesn't know I can use it. But I can in an emergency.