Narcissa (Black) Malfoy, artefacts, April 1974

[blackdasphodele]

Name: Narcissa (Black) Malfoy
Format: artefacts
Date: April 1974
Relevance: Potential evidence of murder of a Muggle by N. Malfoy.

Comments

[viridigitus]

*raises an eyebrow*
I wouldn't have pegged you for a tea leaf, Narcissa.

[blackdasphodele]

*raises her eyebrows back*
Whatever do you mean, Dahlia?

[viridigitus]

Stealing some Muggle's belongings. Not exactly something one would expect of a girl from such a good family.
*look of distaste*
And such... common things too. I hope there was a good reason for it.

I don't know whether you'd know the colloquialism but tea leaf = thief in Cockney rhyming slang although it's spread a bit further into everyday language than that.

[blackdasphodele]

*shakes her head, politely confused*
I didn't steal them, Dahlia. I found them when Rodolphus and I were out. But there was no address so I couldn't return them.

Ahah! Thank you! *files away*
I really doubt Cissa would know that regardless. :P

[viridigitus]

*folds her arms, disbelieving*
Hmm, I'm sure.
A souvenir then? I suppose it's slightly less tacky than t-shirts and snowglobes.

[blackdasphodele]

*calmly*
As you should be. If I were a theif, I would have taken his money, but it is still there in hopes that I can see it returned to the boy.

*wrinkles her nose* Muggle clothing and trinkets? Hardly of interest.

[viridigitus]

And what use would you have for pounds and pence? Although granted that was a fair amount he had in there. Couldn't you have just dropped it off at one of those police stations?

Hmph, and a pilfered wallet was?

[blackdasphodele]

Gringotts does perform currency exchange, Dahlia, if I were the theiving sort.
*wrinkles her nose* Certainly not. I will not deal with Muggle police any more than I would tutor Gryffindor first years.

Not pilfered. Found. My memories of the filth of Muggle London is more than enough of a souveiner and certainly to something I wish to treasure.

[viridigitus]

There are other reasons for theft than monetary gain, Narcissa, not that you'd need it anyway being from such a well-off family.
*raises an eyebrow in amusement*
Yet you'd quite happily trapse around the less reputable parts of that city and pick up things off the street? How... odd.

*look of distaste*
Treasure? That place? Are we even talking about the same city?

[blackdasphodele]

Oh? Do tell me then, Dahlia. *waits attentively*

*eyebrows raise back at her*
Now why would you think I was in the less reputable parts of London?

*primly* There is value in education. A woman of my station needs to understand how to move through the Muggle society for political reasons.

*slaps fingers* that "to" was meant as "not".

[viridigitus]

*ticks off on her fingers*
The need for something not quite legal, the rush of adrenaline at getting away with it, practice for stealth, hate for the recipient and the wish for their loss *smiles* or the memorial of some significant event.

*shrugs*
It was Muggle, therefore disreputable. Besides, a wallet of tape containg things like bus passes and such like is something you'd hardly find in the upper class parts.

*shakes head*
You forget; we're very much the same sort of 'station', Narcissa, and I truly doubt politics had anything to do with that trip.

Ah, okay.

[blackdasphodele]

*Blandly* Terribly fascinating. You have quite the study of the criminal mind. Is there a particular reason for that?

Yes well there are some places, museums and theatres for example, that do not restrict their patrons to only the upper class. A pity really.

*quiet humourless laugh* You may be wealthy, yes. But you are not a Black so not precisely the same station. *reasonably* But you couldn't expect that myself- or you- to finish at Hogwarts without understanding what Muggles have and use, so we may know why we are truly better, now could you?

[viridigitus]

I dealt with seven years worth of pretentious Gryffindors, overly-curious Ravenclaws, 'concerned' Hufflepuffs and power-hungry Slytherins. They all fell into at least one of the previous categories at some point. Not that you'd have noticed, universally loved as you are.

Nothing that you couldn't really see anywhere else, I prefer Oxford for museums and Birmingham for theatres myself.

*flat look*
You're mistaken there. Not wealthy but certainly near as old and well-documented as the Blacks. In fact, some of us even were Blacks, or do you forget Great-Aunt Lysandra?
Of course not, but I don't have 'souvenirs' lying around either.