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?