Date: Friday, 8 June, 2001
Time: Just before 10am
Location: Special Room in the Werewolf Capture Unit areas of the Ministry of Magic Building
Characters Involved: Mandy Brocklehurst (NPCed), Remus Lupin, June Connors, Perry Derrick, Glamis (NPC), Zak Rollins (NPC), Severus Snape, Bill Weasley, Nymphadora Tonks, Dean Thomas, Jackson Bingley (NPC),
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In those days, it had been Greyback and often several of his pack, under the influence of Wolfsbane so they could watch and comprehend the proceedings, who had been forced to witness the execution of the disobedient. It had been Severus' hand, ever-steady despite the terror roaring through his veins, which had painstakingly skinned alive the unfortunate werewolf. If there were human relatives to lament the passing of their werewolf kin, they were also present, forced to watch the spectacle as a 'warning' - do Voldemort's bidding, or else...
The victims were magically restrained and muzzled, but they had to be alive to harvest the ( ... )
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Even as the pack was herded into the cold stone room, June couldn't get her mind around it. She didn't have Severus's experiences or even Remus's with the inevitability of death. Certainly she'd lost friends in the war, but that was different - it was sudden then, unexpected, there had been no hours of horrible anticipation, no looming feeling of inevitability. How could Mandy's death be unavoidable? How could they give up while she still lived??
She'd asked Remus exactly that, unable to contain her disbelief and anger, but he could only repeat (clearly no happier about it than she was) that they were out of options. Everything had been done that could be. Intellectually she knew that. But she couldn't bring herself to believe it - not when it still felt so much like abandonment. It was too bitter a draught to swallow ( ... )
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The new vitriol manifested itself in a savage sneer at the woman who dared to 'ask' him to do that which he was already doing, who dared to pretend to be concerned about the lives or safety of any of them after all she had said and done the preceding thirty-six hours ( ... )
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His breath was coming in great harsh gasps, forced through a chest so tight with suppressed grief it was a wonder he could move air at all. He would not give them - the Aurors and the WCU and her - the satisfaction of witnessing that which belonged to family alone.
Bill's offer was registered in his grief-stricken mind, and Severus felt a flair of gratitude that someone would tend to the... essentials. The gratitude was replaced by rage the moment the Metamorphmagus opened her mouth.
"NO!" he hissed, finally turning his head enough to snarl at her. "This is a family issue. YOU GET OUT!His voice was harsh and rough, like it often had been after he'd screamed himself hoarse under ( ... )
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