Private Message to Bella and Barty

[alt_narcissa]

Sister, dear, I am sure you are quite occupied with the implications of resurrecting Barty, so I'll be brief.

The body. I'll lay odds it's Norah. Barty, do you think that could be the case? She was so hysterical that day, about your safety. Oh, I don't suppose you've read my entry, not with all this going on.

It's just a thought. I'm sure you've already considered it. But if it's correct - Barty, I'm so sorry, if I'm right.

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[alt_narcissa]

I hope he was polite. Shocked, I daresay. But polite?

[alt_crouch_jr]

Shocked when I answered him. Certainly.

Not so polite as a mother might wish in the initial address.

[alt_narcissa]

Oh, dear.

I feared as much. As I said, we quarrelled, rather.

Then again, he did think you dead - and the cause, therefore, of my 'distress' - but I'll speak to him.

When I saw that he wrote you, I confess I thought he might have reason to know something I didn't. Silly, I know, but. It was tiresome, having to constantly defend my conviction.

[alt_crouch_jr]

Discipline is for you to decide, of course. No need to defend my honour or redress my wounded feelings. Those matters are settled.