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[alt_molly]

I was making breakfast this morning when Ginny suddenly shrieked so loudly that I jumped and dropped and broke my oval blue platter. I turned around and there was Percy standing there holding his broom, with mud all over his robes and leaves in his hair, looking white-faced and miserable. When I demanded to know where he had been, he told me he'd flown around for hours, and then spent the night in the treehouse in Cedric Diggory's backyard.

He went to find Arthur, and they're out in the orchard, talking it out now.

It was such a terrible night last night, not knowing where he was. I was in floods of tears all night, and I'm sure that Arthur and I barely got more than an hour of sleep. But he's home safe now.

We've still got to work out this...this thing. What he did. But I'm trying to hang on to that. He's home safe.

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[alt_bill]

Thank Merlin, Mum. Thanks for letting me know. I didn't sleep very well myself last night, and I was going to offer to come this morning to help look for him again if he hadn't shown up by noon.

Do you want me to come for dinner tonight?

[alt_molly]

Oh, please do come. It may be . . . well, it may be a little strained. I don't know if Percy and Arthur will manage to work it all out, but if not, maybe he would talk to you?

[alt_bill]

I'll be there around 5:00.

[alt_bill]

Dad, how did your talk with him go? What did you say to him?

[alt_arthur]

Well, I started out by telling him that if he really wanted to get 'Crucio' right, the one to go to would be Amycus Carrow. I told him Carrow'd probably be more than happy to lend Terry Boot to him as a test subject.

[alt_bill]

Ouch.

[alt_kingsley]

No kidding. Arthur, that's really hexing below the belt.

[alt_molly]

Oh, Arthur, you didn't.

[alt_arthur]

Well, it drove the point home rather well, Molly. He's faced Amycus Carrow waving a knife; he doesn't want to be like him.

[alt_molly]

That's true.

[alt_arthur]

I know. I was still very angry. But we talked it out, and he finally admitted to me that he couldn't do it because he doesn't want to do it. That was a rather big relief.

I told him that if he could take care of Amycus Carrow with just a stunning spell, he probably didn't need to resort to Crucio. I don't know if he'll change his mind, especially if they'll be, er, tutoring the Prefects in that cursed spell next week. But I hope I have him convinced.