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alt_seamusThanks for getting me into the Auror training. I like keeping busy.
I was thinking today, though. About Boot's message -- about the useful bits, I mean, not just him trying to twist the knife. He more or less told me he was an animagus, but he also told me Neville Longbottom died in the same rite as Harry Marvolo did. The Phoenix must have had someone else there, who got away and told them what happened, right? And it HAD to have been an animagus, because even if someone somehow got in under a disillusionment spell, Bellatrix would have known they were there.
And it couldn't have been Boot -- whatever he turns into, it's big enough to rip out a man's throat. Dog, I imagine, or wolf -- big cats, bears, they don't have to go for the throat, but in any case surely THAT would have been noticed.
Back last winter, Ron Weasley brought Sally-Anne Perks' rat back to our dorm room. Or at least, he said it was her rat. It didn't act especially rat-like. So now I'm wondering -- maybe it wasn't actually Perks' rat, but one of their lot had worked out how to do the transformation, but not how to get back? I've heard that's one of the dangers of trying to learn, that you can get stuck as an animal if you do it wrong. Anyway, it's possible a rat could have gone along and spied. And got away, after. I don't know who it was, though. No one was missed, though I don't know how much that matters, they might have had someone use polyjuice and pass themselves off as Weasley or Perks or whichever traitor was stuck being a rat that day.
I was thinking today, though. About Boot's message -- about the useful bits, I mean, not just him trying to twist the knife. He more or less told me he was an animagus, but he also told me Neville Longbottom died in the same rite as Harry Marvolo did. The Phoenix must have had someone else there, who got away and told them what happened, right? And it HAD to have been an animagus, because even if someone somehow got in under a disillusionment spell, Bellatrix would have known they were there.
And it couldn't have been Boot -- whatever he turns into, it's big enough to rip out a man's throat. Dog, I imagine, or wolf -- big cats, bears, they don't have to go for the throat, but in any case surely THAT would have been noticed.
Back last winter, Ron Weasley brought Sally-Anne Perks' rat back to our dorm room. Or at least, he said it was her rat. It didn't act especially rat-like. So now I'm wondering -- maybe it wasn't actually Perks' rat, but one of their lot had worked out how to do the transformation, but not how to get back? I've heard that's one of the dangers of trying to learn, that you can get stuck as an animal if you do it wrong. Anyway, it's possible a rat could have gone along and spied. And got away, after. I don't know who it was, though. No one was missed, though I don't know how much that matters, they might have had someone use polyjuice and pass themselves off as Weasley or Perks or whichever traitor was stuck being a rat that day.
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Date: 2015-06-14 06:36 pm (UTC)I suppose all of them could be working on becoming animagi even as I write this. Though it wouldn't be nearly so high priority now as it was a few months ago.
You said that a lot of the Phoenixes, like Malfoy, knew how to occlude, right? And that's not something everyone can learn. Some people just don't have the disposition for it.
So, your animagi are likely to be the people who couldn't master occlumency, but knew that they might have to cross paths with Lady Lestrange.
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Date: 2015-06-14 06:39 pm (UTC)He was applying for Auror training. Had that internship, all of it. He's got to be. I mean, unless he learned to occlude some other way.
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Date: 2015-06-14 06:56 pm (UTC)And no, I don't know how to occlude any more than an animagus does. Both of us seem to be naturally unreadable. I can swear to you that I don't turn into any kind of animal (except for the fun kind, when the situation requires it).
I've read up a bit on it, though. Occlusion is really hard to learn unless you have a willing legilimens to work with. Because how else will you know if you're actually doing it, right?
So all the Phoenixes who can occlude must have learnt it from Hydra Lestrange, or old Dumbledore. Possibly even Severus Snape, whom it's said mastered the legilimency spell even if he wasn't a natural at it.
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Date: 2015-06-14 07:03 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2015-06-14 07:09 pm (UTC)But now that you're thinking it, it's already out of your hands. Or will be, whenever you next run into Lady Lestrange.
She'd likely appreciate your pro-activeness.
But this is where occlusion would be useful, wouldn't it?
And yeah, 'course I'll help you. Though I've never taught anyone before, keep in mind.
There are probably ways to make the lessons interesting, though.
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Date: 2015-06-14 07:21 pm (UTC)Because you already know by now that when I say I'll make something "interesting" that it will involve sex?
I'm getting too predictable. Perhaps I already was.
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