Rachel Lamont

RACHEL BRODIE runs Albion MLE for several years, overseeing both the rebuilding of the department she imagined late one night with Sirius Black, and Albion more generally. She and Hydra discuss the possibility of hunting down Dolohov themselves -- but first they are too busy with more pressing concerns, and then, as things quiet down, they decide it's not worth it. Once things have fully stabilized, she gets bored with running the department and steps down, and then she and Bill spend several years having adventures -- skiing, mountain climbing, deep-sea diving, riding in George's aeroplane.

Lucius is kind of right about Rachel, though. She has a lot of trouble with monogamy. She eventually cheats on Bill; he finds out; they try to work things out; Bill offers her freedom as long as she's honest about it, but she can tell how much he hates that and starts keeping secrets again. The second time he catches her cheating, the marriage ends.

For a while, without Bill's stabilising influence, her risk-taking and thrill-seeking gets a bit more extreme, culminating in a climb up one of the Himalayas without her wand where she comes fairly close to dying on an ice shelf. But a few years after the divorce she gets the urge to have a child (something Bill always wanted, and she had always refused to do); she winds up with one daughter but no husband. Parenting tempers her risk-taking somewhat, since she realises that she doesn't want to leave her child an orphan. She names her daughter after the aunt who raised her, and Emma Brodie is Sorted into Slytherin, in the same class as Reece, creating all sorts of awkwardness on the King's Cross platform for years to come.

Rachel remains lifelong friends with Draco, Ron, and Hydra -- the surviving young Aurors from that first class of Albion MLE remain some of the most important people in her life.

I am very sorry to tell you that Colin Creevey died tonight in the battle at Penzance, killed by an explosive hex.

I am also grieved to report that Remus Lupin and Sirius Black died tonight in the act of killing Bellatrix Lestrange.

When I joined the Order I thought of you as a child.

But you know, I decided I was going to kill Antonin Dolohov when I was ten years old. So I wasn't in much of a position to judge.

And you were good at what you did. So good. Too good. Sirius had said before he wanted you (and the rest of the Juniors) further from the action. He didn't want to admit that Dolohov was right, you were incredibly talented. Putting you behind a desk would have been a waste of resources and we couldn't afford to waste resources, especially after we lost Severus and Kingsley and so many others.

If we hadn't been trying to protect you, would you have brought Sirius with you last night? Bellatrix would have killed him, instead. He'd have bought you the half second you needed, that you didn't have.

He'd have bought it so gladly.

As I would have. But instead, you saved my life and lost your own.

They didn't let me out of bed to go to your funeral but I heard the bells ringing.

I feel like I should say thank you, for saving my life, but I want to grab you by the shoulders and shake you, and tell you you're lucky you work for an MLE where we don't cruciate people for making stupid decisions and then give you a week of leave and a month of filing parchmentwork, instead, so you can think about what an idiot you were.

Dammit, Justin.

I hope you're still awake.

I'm coming back to our room, I think. Soon, anyway.

You might send a discreet owl to your parents to let them know to watch their step around Lana. She's not in a terribly good mood at present, and telling her that it was your Uncle Eduardo who passed on the details of your father's first marriage might get him into hot water.

Let me know if she writes to you again.

Also, I did check the Hogwarts Book for Inés. She's not there. Probably she really was a squib. It's also possible that she's not listed simply because they left her in Spain, or because they did magic expelling her from the family, or some combination of things. I'm not planning on telling Lana that, though.

Ptolemy Baddock raped Ginny Weasley, while she was being held prisoner in New London.

I want him dead.

I'm not sure where he's hiding, but I'll see what I can find out.

Bellatrix Lestrange sent me a box by owl containing Alfred Montague's eyes, tongue, ears, nose, and fingers, with a note saying, 'Your mole left this behind. See that he gets it.'

At least, I assumed they belonged to Alfred. Jason wasn't able to persuade him to leave, hadn't heard from him in several days, and was quite worried. We're having a Healer check, just to be sure. They'll be able to tell us if they were removed from his still-living body or a corpse, as well -- not sure whether Jason actually wants to know that detail or not. If they were removed while he was alive, there's at least the possibility he still is, and we should keep his parts in magical stasis for later re-attachment... I can't imagine he is, but you never know.

Anyway. I told Jason in person. He took it ... stoically.

Ginny is in an Order safehouse.

I don't think any of you should go to see her quite yet -- possibly Ron and Luna, once she's gotten some sleep. The best way to help her recover is to give her time and patience. But she's safe, and I wanted you all to know.

If you bring us Ginny Weasley, alive and unharmed, the Albion government will extend full amnesty to Seamus Finnigan, contingent on him taking an Unbreakable Vow not to use the Cardinal curses or to cast any spell with lethal intent. He will also need to check in regularly with a security person chosen by Albion MLE, and you will need to make sure he doesn't re-join the other side before the end of the war, though I imagine that should be relatively straightforward given they've made it clear he's completely disposable.

We will protect your parents and brother regardless, of course, to the best of our abilities.

On an unrelated note -- Faust is working for me and would prefer to keep his relationship with you professional at the moment. Do not share that information with Finnigan. (I don't actually think you would, but Faust specifically wanted me to make that bit clear.)

I am sorry to have to tell you that your parents as well as Horace, Olivia, and Vinca were all victims of Barty Crouch's rampage. He found them at their cottage in Torquay. Linus became concerned when they weren't replying to his owls, and asked one of our Aurors to go up and check on them, which is how we found out what had happened.

If you would like to come to Hogwarts to be with Linus and help him see to the funerals, please feel free to do so; we are open to whatever arrangements would allow you to feel safe among us during this difficult time.

I am so terribly sorry for your loss.