Private message to Hydra and Rodolphus Lestrange

[alt_bellatrix]

A note intended to bring you both up to speed -

Hydra, despite your lack of response, I know that you must have received my owl regarding your journal entry. I shall succinctly repeat what I said yet again: such short, childish missives are nothing more than an attempt to clamour for attention. If you feel you have done something truly worthy of boasting, then by all means tell the world in less pitifully obscure language; otherwise, save your triumphant outbursts for your Father, as such a success is more down to his skill at playing the Knight than it is to your own efforts. (Though I should credit your ravenous sweet tooth as well, I suppose.)

Information not in the owl: Hydra, you are to report to Buckingham after breakfast tomorrow. I have petitioned our Lord and He has graciously allowed you the honour of spending the next week with Harry, seeing as Draco is busy with his parents and Harry's mudblood is in disgrace. Feel I have reasonably presented the case to Him that if Harry is to be in female company, better it not be the unclean sort. My hope is that you will take in the business and bustle of Buckingham and find yourself inspired into servitude for our Protectorate, so that you will at last find your calling and rise to fulfill it. If it happens that you remain uninspired, then at least this can be considered good practice for seeing to Harry's needs.

Rodolphus: Have managed to secure a delivery of three male camp prisoners for the re-creation exercise. None are as pure of blood as one would hope, but all match up quite well in height, weight and age. Exercise will commence on Tuesday, once they've been delivered. I don't need to emphasise how important this re-creation is; as such, please keep all interruptions to zero.

Comments

[alt_hydra]

I didn't mean to boast, only I wanted Daddy to know what I'd done, and I should have made it a private message but I wasn't thinking.

Well, going to Buckingham is nice, and I just saw Harry at the memorial gardens yesterday but he didn't seem to know anything about it. I guess his Father didn't tell him.

I'd like to find my calling and rise to it. But how to I see to his needs? Because his mudblood takes care of his belongings already, and I don't think I'd know how.

From,
Hydra

[alt_bellatrix]

Let us be forthright, Hydra: you wanted me to know what you had done. I think in these last almost-thirteen years I've come to know your passive machinations quite well. There's a reason Mummy's such a good Auror.

No, I don't mean take care of his belongings; that is, in fact, what the mudblood is for. But it does not do that she is, for all appearances, his closest confidante when Draco is unavailable, and his closest female companion at all. Be a sympathetic ear for him at all times - for trust me, there is nothing that men need more than a limpid, sympathetic ear. Only those built of the strongest stuff listen to their own hearts above all else and all others. We all certainly hope that Harry will grow into such a man, but should he not, then you will be there in times of doubt and loneliness. It may well be that your calling is simply to be a wife, in which case you should begin seeing yourself as such so that you can become the wife of the most important young man in the Protectorate.

[alt_hydra]

But I don't want to simply be a wife. It would be nice to be a wife and do something else, too, like you do.

From,
Hydra

[alt_bellatrix]

I am not yet convinced that you are prepared to do what I do.

Besides, there's nothing wrong with being simply a wife and Mother. That's what your Aunt Cissy does, and she's still very important and, indeed, admired by all. Naturally, since you are my daughter I had hoped for more, but fast approaches the time when we must call a fig a fig.

[alt_rodolphus]

Bloody erebus, Bella, can't
You need not emphasise at all. I will have my hands full, myself.

No interruptions.

[alt_bellatrix]

Imagine my relief.