Order Only: Umbridge's House
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alt_hermioneDraco and I finally went to Dolores Umbridge's house to look for the diadem. That was an experience I don't think either of us wants to repeat--ever. It wasn't particularly dangerous--well, apart from one room that locked Draco in for a while, and I couldn't hear him calling--but anything you lot have been imagining about what her home must have been like, let me assure you, it was worse.
Only there weren't any cat or kitten things anywhere, which I thought was surprising. I mean, you know how when someone likes cats they often get given things with cats on, and she had nothing of the kind. And we still can't understand why she'd have a self-locking room with soundproofing spells, either, unless she shut herself in there from time to time to have screaming fits, and had some way of getting out that we couldn't duplicate.
In any case, we didn't find the diadem, obviously, or anything that even seemed like a horcrux. I did find all sorts of ledgers that were simply filled with notes on co-workers and professors and really almost anyone she knew, it looked like. Mainly she seemed to jot down ways in which she could do a better job. (Mr Snape, you'll be amused that one of the Hogwarts notebooks includes some observations on Milland's cleaning routines. Did she happen to ever suggest an alternative to Madam Skower's? Because it's in here. If you care, which I'm sure you don't, but there it is, anyway.)
By the way, I think she must have been raised by her father, because there were loads of photos of her as a girl and the same older wizard, but none of a mother.
Oh, and Sally-Anne, Draco was apparently looking for ways to get out of that bedroom and found the socks you knitted. We brought them back because we thought, you never know, they might make another excellent gift for someone. Professor Sandoval-Pennifold, maybe.
Only there weren't any cat or kitten things anywhere, which I thought was surprising. I mean, you know how when someone likes cats they often get given things with cats on, and she had nothing of the kind. And we still can't understand why she'd have a self-locking room with soundproofing spells, either, unless she shut herself in there from time to time to have screaming fits, and had some way of getting out that we couldn't duplicate.
In any case, we didn't find the diadem, obviously, or anything that even seemed like a horcrux. I did find all sorts of ledgers that were simply filled with notes on co-workers and professors and really almost anyone she knew, it looked like. Mainly she seemed to jot down ways in which she could do a better job. (Mr Snape, you'll be amused that one of the Hogwarts notebooks includes some observations on Milland's cleaning routines. Did she happen to ever suggest an alternative to Madam Skower's? Because it's in here. If you care, which I'm sure you don't, but there it is, anyway.)
By the way, I think she must have been raised by her father, because there were loads of photos of her as a girl and the same older wizard, but none of a mother.
Oh, and Sally-Anne, Draco was apparently looking for ways to get out of that bedroom and found the socks you knitted. We brought them back because we thought, you never know, they might make another excellent gift for someone. Professor Sandoval-Pennifold, maybe.
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Date: 2015-03-31 03:37 am (UTC)Sounds dreadful.
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Date: 2015-03-31 03:39 am (UTC)And the room.
She did take live kittens and turn them into plates, though. So maybe it wasn't that she liked them, but that she really, really didn't? Or the kittens from the neighbours were messing around in her garden or something?
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Date: 2015-03-31 03:52 am (UTC)I really hope it's not with her. Because that'd mean we'd have to de-plate her, and ugh.
Seriously, Mrs L, you do not want her in Saltash. Or really anywhere. Other than a plate.
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Date: 2015-03-31 04:33 am (UTC)Do we even know where the plate is? Headmistress McGonagall had it.
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Date: 2015-03-31 04:33 am (UTC)BUT, after Glozeman went to Dolohov about that coin, Dolohov called me in and we had this really pleasant chat where he didn't say, 'look, if something like this happens again, he might go to MLE instead of coming to me and you really don't want that, because even though I know you're capable of covering your tracks up to a point you probably couldn't cover them from a real expert, and Death Eaters have real experts on call. And even if you didn't put it there, you know perfectly well they'll blame it on you if they can. So please do us both a favour and don't let this happen again.'
I mean, he said lots of other entirely pleasant things and we both knew what he meant.
And as far as experts go, she's sleeping with Rodolphus Lestrange so she's definitely got experts handy. Oh plus Dolohov would recognise the socks. He's the one who put them in Umbridge's drawer, after all. (After I showed them to him, he asked for them and promised they wouldn't end up anywhere they shouldn't.)