The Moons are dead. Linus's whole immediate family. Father, mother. Horace and Olivia (twins, they would have been fourth years, in Gryffindor). Vinca, who was only nine.
His owls kept coming back, and I gather he asked Ron to find out if anything was wrong. Thank you, Ron, for taking him seriously. And for how you told him. From what he said, it's clear it was Barty.
He's absolutely overset, but he is rather wanting to know if his sister Karo knows, or if we can pass it on.
If someone could tell Lavender, privately, that might also be a kindness. They appear to have broken things off, last night, from what he told me then.
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