Private message to Antosha Dolohov

[alt_bellatrix]

Quickly:

Anything noteworthy on the Longbottom's son that was included in your report.

Also - Simmering Solutions, a potions book, but not one I've heard of. Is it in fact extant?

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[alt_antonin]

Not one that I know, but Potions is not my forte.

Longbottom -- quiet, stubborn, a bit thick. One of Sprout's favourites. There ought be a report on your desk somewhere about my interviews of the children that includes more detail on him.

[alt_antonin]

Is there something I can help you with?

[alt_bellatrix]

In the future, send all reports to me directly. The department staff obviously cannot be trusted to prioritise parchmentwork appropriately, because I'm searching my desk and it is not here.

I've been interrogating him for the last hour. Someone's taught him to occlude effectively, but I have managed to extract enough information to suggest that he has been in contact with his parents (mental image presented them as aged; fantasy tends to reveal idealisation). The book that Rosier's ward brought to us also had a note: "check S.S." Subject's mental response to questions about S.S. provided me with a glimpse of Severus Snape - possibly imagined - but verbal response was to insist that S.S. was a book called Simmering Solutions.

[alt_antonin]

I see. What book did Seamus bring you? And what else was in it? I laid claim to Snape's notes from before he went to Azkaban -- if you let me know the context, I can search for anything that matches.

Snape was in the castle for quite some time; it's possible Longbottom could have seen him then.

Do you want another pair of hands?

[alt_bellatrix]

A notebook on herbology and gardening, which apparently garnered attention due to its heavy warding. "Check S.S." was written next to a list of ingredients, including ahool feather, graphorn horn, and - ah, lobalug venom, I believe. Hydra did not recognise it as anything from her Potions lessons.

We are well-appointed here. Hydra is in I-14 practising on him.

Yes, Snape was in the castle for quite some time, wasn't he? And so were all those others. So many others.

[alt_antonin]

That's the Cruciatus palliative, yes. Snape's version. Damn it

I'll take it you'll want to question the rest of the family next; did you pick them up as well when you picked up Longbottom?

[alt_bellatrix]

This small one was the only one at home - said the others were out at the shops. They'll return home soon enough; I have enforcers standing by.

[alt_antonin]

If anyone saw you bring him in, they might have tipped off the rest of the family. And the longer they're out, the greater the chance for someone to blab.

The girl has been studying Arabic with me on an extracurricular basis; I'd intended to send her her next set of exercises in the next few days. I'll write her and tell her that I've brought them by the house and ask her to meet me there.

[alt_bellatrix]

Ah. If you insist.