Fletcher Avery

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[Warded to Severus and Max]

I hate this.

Where are the answers? Where is the public condemnation for an Auror using a Killing Curse? It's been what? A month? Maybe longer? Everyone was so horrified and appalled that they were going to be able to use them when it was first announced but now it's okay? If ever I wanted proof that the so-called 'good people' are just a bunch of raging hypocrites, this is it.

Everyone's acting as if Max never existed. It's wrong.

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Ferdinand climbed up my father's trouser leg the other night. I never knew Dad could swear like that. It was very impressive and kind of hilarious.

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[Warded to Temperance]

Did you want to do something this weekend? I realised I've been neglecting you terribly.

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HAH!

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When will you learn not to challenge me to do things, Severus! His name is Ferdinand, he doesn't like it when I wake him up to take a photo (as you can see) and you can come by any time to meet him for real. Severus, that is. And Max. And any of my other friends. Not everyone.

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[Warded to the Inner Circle]

Not to rain on your parade any further but I thought I should let you know that I had a meeting with Barty Crouch Sr yesterday afternoon. I've been asked to begin a discrete investigation into the Ministry. Mr Crouch Sr is of the opinion that there is someone, or more than one person, leaking information to the vigilantes.

Obviously this type of investigation is not one that occurs quickly or overtly so there is ample time for you and our Lord to consider what you wish to do. I don't anticipate Mr Crouch seeking any updates in the next few weeks. If I come across any information that identifies anyone with the Order I will let you know immediately.

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[Warded Private]

Oooh, a secret meeting to discuss an investigation he doesn't want the DMLE to know about. Colour me intrigued! Best I clean up my office if the illustrious Barty Crouch, Sr is coming down. Wouldn't do to look anything other than professional. If I do well in this then it can only be good for my career!

I wonder what it's about? And whether it's something the Death Eaters ought to know about? Curiosity might have killed the cat but it's going to eat me alive between now and Thursday afternoon!

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All this waving around of photos of pets makes me want to get one. But I can't get a dog because Max has one and I can't get a cat because Severus has a kitten who absolutely is not cute and fuzzy and adorable. I'm tempted to get a ferret but that might not go down too well with my mother. Though I suppose if I initially tell her I'm getting a tarantula, she might be only too happy to let me have a ferret in the house.

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[Warded to Temperance]

Temperance! My sweetest, most favourite sister! Could I beg you for a favour?

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Boy, do I work with some phlegmatic people. Scary voices offering threats in their minds and they look up, raise an eyebrow then go back to work. I wish I could have done that. I'm still as jumpy as a frog on a hotplate!

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All this sensitivity training and now team building has been causing the most amusing ructions in my department. Intelligence analysts are not really the sensitive type and apparently they're not really interested in building the team beyond the analysts. There's been a great deal of grumbling about any part of it that they can't skive out of. Though the food week went down well. I thought it was all very funny until I had the stray thought about whether I'm going to end up a grouchy, strange old man like my supervisor, communicating in grunts and snorts and glares and hand waves. Then I wasn't sure if that was funny or disturbing.

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[Warded to Severus & Max]

I'm thinking of doing some practice with my Imperius curse on some Muggles, did you two want to join me? I need to find a good place as I don't want to alert anyone in the DMLE so it would be in the next week or two, not right away. Unless either of you know some place good?

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I think I’m rather glad to go back to work after all the turmoil this weekend. The office will be quiet and peaceful unless one of the usual arguments starts up again. Probably not though. There seems to be a pattern forming there – the quieter the weekend, the more likely an argument will start and vice versa. So, tumultuous weekend probably equals quiet office on Monday.

It does seem shocking though that the Death Eaters would dare to take over our fine media institutions in such a terrible manner and I sincerely hope that everyone who was injured gets better as quickly as possible. Interruptions from clandestine vigilante groups aside, freedom of the press is really rather important.

Sundays are really quite dull. The lying in, reading and having breakfast in bed are fun but once you decide to get up and get dressed, Sunday does tend to take quite the nosedive into boredom. I suppose the easy answer to that would be to just not get up but that just feels quite lazy and decadent and really when you think about it, it's hard to get into the spirit of going to bed if you've never actually gotten up in the first place.

I could always amuse myself by pestering my sister but the last time I did that I was reminded that I wasn't twelve anymore and I shouldn't be pestering my sister as though I was. Damn. Growing up does suck quite a lot of the fun out of life. Responsibility is very boring. Almost as boring as Sundays.

As you can tell, my life is so terribly difficult. If it gets any worse, I'm sure I'll have to throw myself off a cliff or something suitably melodramatic.

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The best part about my job? The people who work here aren't the demonstrative or emotional sort. Makes for a wonderfully Valentine free workplace.

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[Warded to Hazel]

Everything okay? Sorry, I take that back. It was a stupid question. I'm sure only the tip of a very ugly iceberg was visible in your step-mother's entry so I expect everything's not okay. Are you alright? Do you need anything? Is Tamsin alright?

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Hug a Muggleborn sounds like a fine sentiment but isn't it a little bit, well, overly personal? What if the Muggleborn in question doesn't want to be hugged? Would hugging them under those circumstances be something akin to minor assault? What if I'm not really a hugging kind of person? Can I offer a handshake and a pat on the shoulder instead? And isn't it a bit discriminatory to just be hugging Muggleborns? In the spirit of unity, shouldn't we just hug everyone without bothering to find out if they're a Muggleborn or not?

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Is it normal for mothers to look horrified and upset when you suggest that you might be thinking about considering the idea that getting your own apartment could be a good idea? I'm not sure if I really do want to move out but I've been reading a lot of Sherlock Holmes lately and I do like the idea of a place where I can lounge on a chaise and shoot patriotic symbols into the wall with my wand and generally live a bohemian lifestyle without my mother telling me to get my shoes off the couch and to stop slouching around the house. It sounds like a lot of fun.

[Warded to 78 DEs]

Ladies and gentlemen! Well, gentlemen. If we had ladies with us, this next bit might be a bit awkward. Also the presence of ladies would excite my mother in directions I'd rather she didn't think of in association with me for at least another couple of years.

But I digress.

Gentlemen of the highest order. It comes to my attention that we have not seen each other since before Christmas and that this is an appalling state of affairs. It also comes to my attention (Thank you, Severus, for your timely reminder) that we are in need of practising our defences, such as they are, against the Unforgivables.

So I propose that this weekend everyone comes over to mine in the afternoon and we can practise and when we're done, we can drink and eat and talk as men do. My father has given me the old gardener's cottage to use as a practise room at home so we don't have to worry about Mother or Temperance walking in on us.

So is Saturday or Sunday best for you?

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