[HPforGrownups] Re: TBAY: A new room (was: MD and theories)

[alicit at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 49233

A crackle comes from the fireplace, and Scheherazade pokes her head in for a 
quick chat.

> "Involuntary vow of silence I guess," Melody sniffed, "But I was
> wondering why Mrs. Longbottum had to be insane in your theory?  Why
> must she also have the same fate?"
> 
> "Well, that is why I was asking for a mast and sail.  I don't really
> know.  Or rather, the canon is still vague on that part," Annemehr
> frowned as she sat on her bed.
> 
> "I guess most assume the DE's think Frank told his wife secrets and
> things that could damage them, but that is not like spies or secret
> agents to do that.  They want to protect their family, right?  So I
> wonder why torture her in the first place on the off chance that she
> would know something.  That seems rather odd to me," Melody said
> sliding her back down the doorframe so she could sit down comfortably.
> 
> Annemehr let her eyes glaze over a bit.  "Well they are DE's.  They
> *like* torturing people.  

"Well, dears," Annemehr and Melody whipped around to look at the uninvited 
party to the conversation, "I would think that, if the DE's could not get any 
information out of Frank by torturing him physically, that they would also 
torture his wife, to get him to confess... maybe, if he hadn't gone mad, they 
might have started in on dear little Neville..."

Was that a FEATHERBOA peeking from the collor of Scheherazade's brand new 
silk shirt? No, it must have been a trick of the light
-scheherazade


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