Bellatrix Lestrange

This has been a trying time for all the good people of the Protectorate, but my own feelings are with my family right now, who have been through a trying time but - as always - come through the dark with their dignity and strength, as it will always be.

While I wish I could reply to all correspondance personally, please refer to all my public statements for my stance on the World Cup attack, the related investigation, and, of course, the "reapperance" of Sirius Black.

MLE has seen more than our share of photographs that claim to show Sirius Black alive, and all were carefully studied by experts and determined false. It's a pity that the Prophet is so easily fooled and apparently lacks any sort of investigative skills, even more the pity that they should fail during a time when our people are so ill at ease. On the journals, we have endured enough individuals claiming to be Sirius Black to no longer trust a single one. It is all too regretful that his journal was never found on his body, and that someone was able to recover it and act out a most insidious ruse.

As has already been stated, MLE does not currently feel there is enough evidence to warrant launching further investigation into the impossibility of traitor Black's return.

Rest assured that were he actually alive, we would have figured it out a long, long time ago.

This will be my final word on the matter.

Travers, Gupta, Yaxley.

Leave your post at Calais and find me at once. We're a few kilometres to the east - I've sent up a signal.

There's been an incident. Zuckerman is down and we need a full sweep.

Keep your books out, it's the fastest way to communicate.

We have less than twenty-four hours.

It's been quite some time since I last Apparated such a long distance. The thought of it leaves me a little dizzy. Or perhaps it's just the anticipation.

The parchments should be approved within the hour and then I'm off.

Vive La France.