A Letter to Andromeda Tonks
Title: "Letter to Andromeda" - Owl post
Game date: August 2, 1998
Time of day: 9:30pm
Characters featured: Narcissa Malfoy, writing to Andromeda Tonks; mentions of Lucius and Draco Malfoy and Nymphadora Lupin.
Location: DMLE detention cell, Ministry of Magic
Status (mood): Depressed, resigned, shocked, anxious
Brief summary: Narcissa and her family are in jail, but a family funeral needs to be arranged.
Completion: Completed
Unwarded by Narcissa; standard privacy warding provided by DMLE.
Dear Andromeda,
I have just been told by the guards here that Nymphadora is dead. I have been living with the fear of losing my child for the past twelve months and more, and now I find that you are living with the reality of it.
I don't know what to say, Andromeda. Any words of comfort I might offer would surely ring falsely in your ears. I never visited Nymphadora in life; why should I fuss and fret over her or you in death?
I don't know how you bear it, yet I do know--You bear it because you have no other choice. Yet I think, if I had lost Draco sometime over the past year, I would have become completely unhinged and done something murderous--and probably gotten myself and Lucius killed in the process.
There comes a point at which prejudices must fade. It's just a child who was raised and loved and is now gone, and the goneness leaves an empty, torn feeling inside.
I might not be able to write again or receive a reply, if you reply. If I'm permitted out of here, I will help you in any way I can.
Cissy
* * *
Narcissa folded the letter and passed it to the guard, who had been kind enough to accept it. It would be read and pored over by Ministry eyes, of course, but at least she had some hope that it might be sent.
Narcissa wilted on the bunk bed in her cell, completely drained, and sighed. She absolutely could not burden Andromeda with the headache of Bellatrix' funeral on top of her own daughter's. No, she would just have to make the arrangements, herself. But how could she do that from a detention cell?
Game date: August 2, 1998
Time of day: 9:30pm
Characters featured: Narcissa Malfoy, writing to Andromeda Tonks; mentions of Lucius and Draco Malfoy and Nymphadora Lupin.
Location: DMLE detention cell, Ministry of Magic
Status (mood): Depressed, resigned, shocked, anxious
Brief summary: Narcissa and her family are in jail, but a family funeral needs to be arranged.
Completion: Completed
Unwarded by Narcissa; standard privacy warding provided by DMLE.
Dear Andromeda,
I have just been told by the guards here that Nymphadora is dead. I have been living with the fear of losing my child for the past twelve months and more, and now I find that you are living with the reality of it.
I don't know what to say, Andromeda. Any words of comfort I might offer would surely ring falsely in your ears. I never visited Nymphadora in life; why should I fuss and fret over her or you in death?
I don't know how you bear it, yet I do know--You bear it because you have no other choice. Yet I think, if I had lost Draco sometime over the past year, I would have become completely unhinged and done something murderous--and probably gotten myself and Lucius killed in the process.
There comes a point at which prejudices must fade. It's just a child who was raised and loved and is now gone, and the goneness leaves an empty, torn feeling inside.
I might not be able to write again or receive a reply, if you reply. If I'm permitted out of here, I will help you in any way I can.
Cissy
* * *
Narcissa folded the letter and passed it to the guard, who had been kind enough to accept it. It would be read and pored over by Ministry eyes, of course, but at least she had some hope that it might be sent.
Narcissa wilted on the bunk bed in her cell, completely drained, and sighed. She absolutely could not burden Andromeda with the headache of Bellatrix' funeral on top of her own daughter's. No, she would just have to make the arrangements, herself. But how could she do that from a detention cell?