I always knew

[alt_padma]

there was something dodgy about you, Longbottom.

But I guess this morning's paper explains everything. It must be really terrible to live with that kind of shame in the family, even if you thought they were dead just like everyone else. I'm sorry you have to go through all this, really. It's so much to have to overcome.

I guess my question is, if everyone they knew thought they were dead, what did they want to go sending out a birth announcement for? And who else got it? I mean, it seems like an awful lot of trouble to go to just to send one to Sirius Black and no one else.

How d'you figure they knew him, anyway? I mean, the article gives some facts about them and I thought Black was much younger than that. D'you reckon they were mates at school or did they hold a big meeting one day for traitors and they all came to it?

Anyway, Longbottom, I can't really imagine what you must be feeling now, but it must be awful.

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[alt_draco]

But the people who were fighting against the Lord Protector's ascension weren't traitors, not back then anyway. I mean, it was always a subject of debate, wasn't it? The mudblood issue, I mean. And for ages and ages we just kept ourselves separate from them but then in this century the muggles had so many technologies and horrible wars and the separation got harder to maintain and most people got worried about the future of wizardkind and they liked the Lord Protector's message, but some people didn't.

The might've thought they were doing him a favour by being dead. I mean, look how many people wrote about it in their journals today.

Personally, I don't plan to say a thing about it to him at all.

[alt_zacharias]

Not even to tell him how sorry you are about it? Crikey.

[alt_draco]

Sometimes people don't like everyone to tell them how sorry they are for them.

[alt_padma]

I guess that's true.

D'you think I ought to apologise to Longbottom for telling him I'm sorry?

[alt_draco]

I suppose you can if you want, but I probably wouldn't.