Private Message to Lucius Malfoy

[alt_crouch_jr]

St M's are cooperating. Penderyn's there now to see what if anything can be made of Hooper.

I expect it's useless. Too much to hope that he'll uncover a memory of Maule, as those will doubtless be the most recent and the most cleanly wiped. Still, if anyone can extract material from the shards of a mind, Penderyn's the one to do it.

He'll be shifted out to Hampstead afterwards, so you needn't worry he'll trouble you further. They say he's under some nasty progressive curses, anyway, and I gather he's not expected to last terribly long.

Comments

[alt_lucius]

Yes, I know all about the curses; if he hadn't gone and got himself tortured and Obliviated, he might have taken himself to St M's earlier and caught their effects in time to reverse them. Still, small loss - as he's made himself useless and lost us Maule in the bargain, I'm only too happy for the curse damage to be attributed to the same source as the memory charms.

Should have simply finished the job, though, with all this trouble he's caused. I'm certain it was he tipped Maule to MLE's impending visit; the man's not clever enough to have slipped our grasp any other way.

He actually threatened to bring charges in the Wizengamot for false arrest, did you know? As soon as Freedom Day is over we shall see him packing off for greener pastures, I'll warrant. Well, there's still hope Smethley will turn on him and claim they conceived the scheme together.