Private message to Padma Patil

[alt_seamus]

Did you hear about the horrible thing that happened to Geoffrey Hooper's brother?

It's been in the papers, but they've been a bit cagey about the worst of it. He was tortured, and beaten, and obliviated, but they also put some sort of hideous progressive curse on him and St Mungo's says it's too late to do anything about it.

He's mostly stopped being able to talk -- at least anything that makes sense. And they say he's going to lose the ability to breathe, or swallow, and then it'll be over.

It's so, so horrid. I don't know why they wouldn't just use the killing curse, hadn't they tortured him enough?

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[alt_padma]

I did see that, in the papers. And I saw what Mrs Malfoy wrote, too - I reckon that whoever took him wanted him to make some horrible scene at their party at Kensington. It's just the sort of thing those awful Dogstar people would do, though, don't you think?

[alt_seamus]

Yes. I wouldn't put much of anything past them. They probably thought Black's Paralysis was just a BRILLIANT idea, too.

Geoff says his brother hasn't been quite right since he got sacked by Mr Malfoy. I wonder if he was being stalked by them -- you know, since he had been Mr Malfoy's clerk. Apparently their mum seemed to think it was afteraffects from cruciatus (Mr Malfoy was really cross with him. REALLY cross) and nagged him to go to St Mungo's days ago but he wouldn't do it.

[alt_padma]

Mr Malfoy Cruciated him? Whoa.

Does Weasley know that? Percy, I mean.

Of course, if they were stalking him and casting things on him to weaken him so they could capture him - well, that might explain why he was fouling up the works badly enough that Mr Malfoy would be that cross, too.

Rama, that's the sort of thing makes parents frightened to let kids out of doors.

Oh, by the way, thanks for running those courses the other day! I still think I could do better with moving targets - and holding aim on a broom is mad difficult but I'll get 6/10 if I have to go without sleep this week!

I just hope Porkinson isn't working this hard, either. Nor Perks.

Do you think Weasley will show up really knowing his arse from his elbow or what?

[alt_seamus]

I imagine if Percy knows he reckons Hooper deserved it. I don't know exactly what he did but Mr Malfoy was furious. He might well have been making mistakes because of what Dogstar was doing to him, but I imagine Mr Malfoy would say his staff are fully trained adult wizards who ought to be taking proper precautions.

As for CCF -- Weasley's not bad on a broom, at least when he has a broom that was made this century. I doubt he's working on the pull-ups or sit-ups, though. (My tutor got the list of things from CCF and is making sure I work on EVERYTHING. I'm a lot better at pull-ups now than I was.) As far as Parkinson and Perks -- it sounds like Perks is busy babysitting all summer for her foster sister, I doubt she's getting much practise time in, and can you imagine Porkinson running if she's not being chased and no one's MAKING her do it?