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Cousin, I owe you thanks once again for your many kindnesses, most especially your thoughtful Christmas gift, which continues to serve me and to serve Our Lord in endlessly ingenious ways.

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alt_alice

Oh dear. I just read this morning.

It does look like he's pulled through, at least.

I'm so very sorry, love.

How are you doing?

From:

alt_sirius

Well, I'm not doing as poorly as Reg, that's for sure.

Things have been quiet, but I don't like it. My hand is just about healed; I'm foraging for the ingredients to Poppy's tea business and then I'm planning to nip off somewhere anonymous.

From:

alt_alice

I don't like it either.

Be ready for anything. Even if it means showing your hand a little, I'd rather they knew you were an Animagus any day over having you in custody or worse.

Did you see what that... awful man wrote? For all his talk of how much he cares for children, he's not above using them for his purposes.

And even without that, she's a dangerous little thing, Sirius. For many reasons. You were never a thirteen year old girl, love, so you wouldn't quite understand. But it's worth a little extra caution on your part, I'd warrant.

From:

alt_sirius

What who wrote where?

Oh. I've just seen it. Yeah, what a prat. And daft, as well - who else would think my bit of fun last night was anything other than taking the piss?

Dangerous? How? Sorry, I don't follow.

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alt_alice

Oh, my darling man.

For starters, she's a person. Yes, she's still a young person, but she's got very real (and very powerful) emotions to sort out at her age, and if she's anything like every teenage girl I've ever known, she's got a whopping dose of self-doubt too, and those shouldn't be toyed with. Or exploited. Any more than they already have been, that is.

I know you love your brother, dearest, but regardless of his intentions, he's twisted that girl into knots, and I don't want you making it worse. You're better than that. And regardless of what Lucius Malfoy says, I do not want you getting her in trouble, which is a very real possibility given your current title and her tendency to be contrary.

And it's hard to sort out what she's thinking behind it all too, making her a potential liability. I don't want you to underestimate her, or assume you know her. From what I've seen of her, she seems quite good at getting people to do what she wants -- and if she really is in Lucius Malfoy's right hand pocket, you ought to watch how open you are with her.

From:

alt_sirius

Half a moment, do you mean to say you think she really does fancy Reg?

No. That's ... well, it's ....

Hm.

From:

alt_alice

I wouldn't say it's quite like that. Not in the way you think. And it's not quite that simple, either. But I wouldn't rule it out entirely.

Didn't you have someone totally out of your reach that you went a bit mad over when you were in school? Or is that just something girls do? Merlin, when I was only a year older than she was, I remember

Well, it's sort of embarrassing. But needless to say, I was very much wrapped up in it, and even though I wouldn't even say I fancied him, I certainly loved him very fiercely and deeply, in my way. It was all quite chaste, of course. But I ~~was~~ would have been just devastated if he'd come to harm, and I couldn't claim the familiarity that she can.

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alt_sirius

Course I had, Allie. Trouble is, she was a rather swotty prefect.

And then she went and married an Auror, if you please.

Anyway, it's a bit on the refreshing side to see someone else give a tinker's what happens to him. But I can't imagine she's sweet on him. You don't know Reg that well; he's got this way that keeps you from throttling him even when he soundly deserves it. I'm sure she's just interested in his jokes and such, and yeah, I guess I'm a connection to that. And if she's got Malfoy as wrapped round her wand as it looks, he'll not do more than grumble.

But I did see the bastard's comment, and it's got me to thinking, that perhaps they have some way of tracing comments back to the ones who make them. So if for no other reason than that, it's worth not encouraging her.

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alt_alice

You really are too sweet for your own good, sometimes.

From:

alt_alice

And there's more than one way to be twisted about. Even if it's not like that at all, it's caused her no small amount of pain to see him suffer as he has.

I just want you to think a little before you speak, love. And tread carefully.