Name: Remus Lupin
Format: Letter to Gideon Prewett
Date: Winter 1977
Relevance: Letter that prompted the meeting which led to Remus's induction into the Order of the Phoenix.

( Orderly Conduct )

Name: Rabastan Lestrange
Format: Pensieve Memory
Date: December 1977
Relevance: Evidence of Rabastan Lestrange's illegal activities, including the murder of C. Dearborn, the theft of Ministry property and the involvement of  L. Malfoy.

He straightened up, try not to look too closely at the body on the floor. He hadn't expected it would be such a ( Read more... )

Name: Dahlia Yaxley

Format: Pensieve memory and accompanying note

Date: November 1977

Relevance: Proof of subject’s trade in goods outside the boundaries of her licence and of her providing supplies to Death Eaters during the war.


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Name: Rabastan Lestrange
Date: November, 1977
Format: Letter
Relevance: This letter was discovered among papers left in the house of Miss Dahlia Yaxley after she fled to Germany circa the fall of Voldemort. It contains a list of ingredients which Mr. Lestrange wished to purchase. The ingredients are used primarily in polyjuice potion.

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Name: Rabastan Lestrange
Date: November, 1977
Format: Surveillance notes
Relevance: Documents discovered in Lestrange’s home detailing surveillance of many high-profile members of the ministry and the Order of the Phoenix. The subject of this collection of notes is believed to be Caradoc Dearborn who disappeared shortly afterwards. His body was ( Read more... )

Name: Augustus Rookwood
Date: Early Spring 1977
Format: Fragment of a manuscript; note
Relevance: This incomplete page from a restricted muggle manuscript of 1467 was found in Rookwood's lab, and dates his research into Inferi to early 1977, roughly around the time of his recruitment by the Death Eaters.

( large image and Badde Spelinge behind the cut! )

Name: Lucius A. Malfoy
Date: May 1977
Format: Letter
Notes: Although other evidence has been lost, this copy from the Daily Prophet records seems to show an attempt by Lucius Malfoy to buy out the other members on the Prophet’s Board of Directors, to add the publication to his portfolio (which at the time included WAND, a men's magazine, Country & ( Read more... )

Name: Rodolphus Lestrange
Date: 1 April 1977
Format: Photograph
Relevance: Challenge to (probably) Alastor Moody
Archivist's Notes: The handwriting on the photo has been identified as Lestrange's. Given the date, it is possible this was intended as a joke. However, given what we know of Auror Moody, it is unlikely in the extreme that he treated it ( Read more... )

Name: Gilderoy Lockhart
Format: Diary
Date: September 1977
Relevance: The start of a relationship that would lead Gilderoy to the Death Eaters in the first war.

( Dear Diary. )

The excited hounds bounced around the horse’s legs, getting in the way and some only just escaping the hooves of the unamused mounts. He had dismounted some time ago, and with reins in hand, led the chestnut Irish Hunter over the gently sloping ground, Rodolphus beside him, looking just as excited as some of the dogs.

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