[OOM: There was no Knockturn Alley...]

[OOM: When the bar door opened one afternoon, Barty found that his exit had been transformed into a grey, roaring vista...]

[ OOM: Barty, meet Mordred. And this? Totally happened on May Day.]

It's a warm day, and Barty is in a good mood. England have just won their opening game in the Quidditch European Championships.

Right now, he's lying under a tree, half-reading, half-doing-nothing.

Barty hasn't been in the bar much recently. He's mostly been alone or with Morgan.

But today, he's sitting by a window. He's come back in from a walk round the lake, glad that it's getting a bit warmer now.

He is, as usual, reading.

[OOM: Morgan senses something is wrong with Barty. He's adamant that nothing at all is wrong; in fact, everything is going right. They argue. He walks out, hurt and needing time alone.]

[OOM: Unable to cope with reconciling his mother's sacrifice with the new life he must lead, Barty forces himself to believe.]

[OOM: Cecilia Crouch goes to Azkaban, and never leaves.]

[OOM: Barty and Cecilia Crouch have been together all day, just talking.

The time for her to leave arrives.]

Barty leads his Mother into the bar.

[OOC: plot-locked!]

[OOM: In Room 202.

Barty knows. Morgan knows. Tom doesn't know, yet.

It's almost time.]