Narcissa Malfoy (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
alt_narcissa) wrote2011-01-28 11:06 pm
alt_narcissa) wrote2011-01-28 11:06 pm
Private Message to Barty Crouch, Jr.
Well, I've heard the explanation, now, though I'm not sure I believe all of it. Parts are too extraordinary not to be true - and they've been corroborated by other sources. And other pieces seem...conveniently coincidental.
I suppose I should have waited longer to call on your assistance. But thank you. There was the distinct possibility that she'd used one of Bella's delayed curses or some other trick that he wasn't able or aware of needing to counteract. If he'd been alone at St James', for example, working....
But he says it was a simple, if maddening, matter of his journal being collected by Broome at Court, and then not being able to trace it back right away to the point where it went missing. I suppose it's plausible. I don't think he'd have deliberately ignored my post, not for so long, if he really hadn't mislaid the book. Easy enough to check whether his clerk really has been searching for it high and low.
At least he didn't bother to ask how you came to be at the Manor. I do feel foolish for asking you to come, now. And not a little ashamed of the way he sent you home - though of course we did need to talk privately, but he might have been more appreciative of your efforts and the intent behind them.
I hope I didn't ruin any plans you had for the evening. Or Travers, either.
I've other replies to make.
Have you given any thought to yesterday's conversation, by the way?
I suppose I should have waited longer to call on your assistance. But thank you. There was the distinct possibility that she'd used one of Bella's delayed curses or some other trick that he wasn't able or aware of needing to counteract. If he'd been alone at St James', for example, working....
But he says it was a simple, if maddening, matter of his journal being collected by Broome at Court, and then not being able to trace it back right away to the point where it went missing. I suppose it's plausible. I don't think he'd have deliberately ignored my post, not for so long, if he really hadn't mislaid the book. Easy enough to check whether his clerk really has been searching for it high and low.
At least he didn't bother to ask how you came to be at the Manor. I do feel foolish for asking you to come, now. And not a little ashamed of the way he sent you home - though of course we did need to talk privately, but he might have been more appreciative of your efforts and the intent behind them.
I hope I didn't ruin any plans you had for the evening. Or Travers, either.
I've other replies to make.
Have you given any thought to yesterday's conversation, by the way?