Order Only: the Diadem
Apr. 30th, 2015 09:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alt_justinHello, everyone,
I say, we're one closer to our goal. Today, Ron, Harry and I destroyed Ravenclaw's diadem. (I say, sorry, Luna. Oh, and Charlie, I do apologise if it makes negotiations more difficult with the goblins. It did look goblin-made, what, but since it was decidedly another horcrux, perhaps they won't mind.)
I don't want anyone to panic, but we used Fiendfyre. It went better than I rather expected, what, though it was still--well, I say. We did it, anyway, and the secret room helped us keep the fire from spreading.
Ron sustained a few burns and Sally-Anne thought it best to take me to the Hospital Wing for mine. I'm back in my dormitory now. I've got a salve for the shoulder but it jolly well hurts, even with that. The hand.... Well, I can write, as you can see, though not as steadily as one might wish. But Healer Patil says I ought to see marked improvement by morning and if I continue with the ointment, it will be fully healed by next week. It seems I'll have a jolly handsome scar, which he was quick to assure me will make me quite fascinating. He was equally quick to tell us not to try this sort of spellwork again without proper supervision, however.
At any rate, no lasting harm was done and the diadem is well and truly gone now.
-Justin
I say, we're one closer to our goal. Today, Ron, Harry and I destroyed Ravenclaw's diadem. (I say, sorry, Luna. Oh, and Charlie, I do apologise if it makes negotiations more difficult with the goblins. It did look goblin-made, what, but since it was decidedly another horcrux, perhaps they won't mind.)
I don't want anyone to panic, but we used Fiendfyre. It went better than I rather expected, what, though it was still--well, I say. We did it, anyway, and the secret room helped us keep the fire from spreading.
Ron sustained a few burns and Sally-Anne thought it best to take me to the Hospital Wing for mine. I'm back in my dormitory now. I've got a salve for the shoulder but it jolly well hurts, even with that. The hand.... Well, I can write, as you can see, though not as steadily as one might wish. But Healer Patil says I ought to see marked improvement by morning and if I continue with the ointment, it will be fully healed by next week. It seems I'll have a jolly handsome scar, which he was quick to assure me will make me quite fascinating. He was equally quick to tell us not to try this sort of spellwork again without proper supervision, however.
At any rate, no lasting harm was done and the diadem is well and truly gone now.
-Justin
Re: Private Message to Justin and Harry
Date: 2015-05-01 03:20 am (UTC)You're dead right there!
Could've been amusing, watching you and Harry duel for it, though!
Re: Private Message to Justin and Harry
Date: 2015-05-01 03:41 am (UTC)And, by the way, I'm jolly well sorry to have been a wet blanket of late. I was rather losing sight of--of a number of things. In a way, I'm glad the horcrux blurted out all those secrets. I've been trying to think of a way to talk about them for ages, only it never seemed the right time or place, or someone else had more extensive troubles and it struck one as selfish to demand attention.
We never did all start talking on a regular basis, did we? We really should, it helps not to carry one's burdens alone. And to know that that is the right time and place to say whatever's on one's mind.
-Justin
Re: Private Message to Justin and Harry
Date: 2015-05-01 01:33 pm (UTC)And you're right we should talk more. I told Harry this morning he should tell Dovs he's going off-grounds this weekend again and taking us along. The trouble with that is that then Dovs could tell Crouch or Buckingham, and then you can guess there'll be spies looking out for us and watching where we go.
How's your hand this morning?
Re: Private Message to Justin and Harry
Date: 2015-05-01 02:16 pm (UTC)You do understand why I kept what we meant to do secret, at least until it was done.
It may have been dangerous but I don't mind saying, your point the other day about it being worth it to help has been repeating in my head all morning.
-J
Re: Private Message to Justin and Harry
Date: 2015-05-01 02:37 pm (UTC)You didn't hear any complaints from me about that, did you? I mean, you don't grow up at the bottom of a family like mine and have any doubts it's better to say sorry after than ask permission beforehand!
Yeah. Absolutely. Hope we get more chances to do things that're obviously right. Cause mostly it's stuff that's ugly or outright horrible, what we're meant to be doing is.
Re: Private Message to Justin and Harry
Date: 2015-05-01 02:59 pm (UTC)And that's just the sort of thing the horcrux could twist, isn't it. But it's all right, what. I don't know about you but it made me more cross than anything, when it started all that 'your souls are doomed' rot.
I should love to get out of the castle again, though truth be told, as much as I enjoy spending time with you, Harry and Draco, I'd rather spend it with my wife.
That's unlikely to be an option, however. I say, it's going to jolly well be bliss when we're no longer confined to Houses and lessons and bally old Professors who think they know better. And Sandoval-Pennifold, for you!
-J