Geoffrey Nott, DMLE

[Hexed to Death Eaters and supporters]

When I begin to question the severity of our methods, and wonder if something more efficient and quick could be done, I find reassurance in the improper gall some individuals choose to show, much less women at that. I believe this should be a decent reminder of what we must uphold. By no means do I wish my son and all of our future generations to live in a place where women like that exist - where women denounce their gentility and speak grossly out of turn, where they find it perfectly fine to live as the lowest dregs of society. They throw away what a gift being set apart from the common muggle is - the tradition of wizarding society. There are better ways to let your individual opinions show, more civilized ways.

And now I become long-winded, so I shall cut myself short.

I do hope she will learn her lesson. If attention is what she craves, then I do hope we will oblige her.

[Hexed private after some consideration]

In a sense, I can see both sides of the current sentiments thrown between certain individuals and certain couples. I find it absolutely useless to throw my own personal opinion at others, especially ones who have proven they do not take well to instruction and following basic rules of common sense. A waste of breath, I call that.

However, I can also see their side of the situation. In a way, I do wish I had been a little more rash and impulsive in finding a wife when I was younger. Not that I regret Demeter or Theodore, not at all - I simply sometimes wonder how things would have been if I had taken a wife when I was in my twenties rather than twice that age. Instead, I was far too involved in the workplace, and merely assumed an arranged marriage for the benefit of the publishing company would befall me as well.

I never really speak of this or think about it. Perhaps recent events have caused it.
[ / End hex]


I recently found a photograph of Demeter while cleaning out some of her old furniture still left around. I had never seen this one before.



Every day I hate myself for not taking more care in putting her wellness above the monetary security away from my father's money that we neede

Sometimes when I find things of hers that I must have missed, it seems like a present she left for me to purposely find. Hopefully Theodore will be able to feel the same emotions and bittersweet surprise when he unearths old trinkets of his mother's randomly one day.


[Added hastily, warded to Death Eaters and Supporters]

I politely will veer away from immersing myself within the discussion regarding societal values on marriage, as some of you may remember that Demeter and I had only been courting for five or six months before we were engaged to be married. It did not seem so rash and hasty back then - rather, it felt natural, the most natural thing in the world.

I suppose this is all I can contribute. I never felt the fatalist "carpe diem" sentiment sweeping over current generations, though I am not so proud that I will not admit to feeling that it was more efficient to act on a feeling I believed whole-heartedly in. I suppose only time will tell if your rashness will be a blessing or a curse.

[Hexed to Inner-Circle Death Eaters, highest priority to Rodolphus and Bellatrix Lestrange]

The Meadowes girl has offered to take Alastor Gumboil's place if we release him alive.

[Hexed to Inner Circle Death Eaters, high priority to Rodolphus]


I have Alastor Gumboil stunned and held in my cellar. Consider it a hunch I acted on. Further instruction would be appreciated.

I know the saying tragedy and loss come in threes, but apparently, this week has proven the opposite is true as well. Good news and congratulations also come in triples.

And now I shall not waste any more time, especially with said good news and congratulations being in order. The entire DMLE should be in high spirits for a very long time now.

[Hexed Strongly Private]

Call me old fashioned, but I do believe wedding days should be kept free from the possibility of duel wounds. Not that I need the mandatory training anyways, and not that I wish to take orders from such a woman in the first place.


[Hexed to Augustus Rookwood and Rosalind Jugson]

I am looking very much forward to the wedding, and I have not seen my mother happy in so many months. She will be accompanying me as my guest, as I would not trouble you bringing a baby to a wedding, though it would be sufficient exposure for Theodore to be around those he should strive to be when he grows up. I trust everything will turn out splendidly, and if you need any aid in last minute plans, as Demeter and I certainly did, do not hesitate to let me know.

[Hexed Strongly to First Generation Death Eaters]

If anyone can make a strong case as to why we need to involve such a monster into our cause, now would be a suitable time. You can at least attempt to explain. I cannot guarantee I will ever think it is a suitable idea, but I have been known to change my mind. With all of our power and influence we undoubtedly have, we're not making any use of it. We're having mere animals do our "dirty work," as it were, when we have the influence to not have to resort to dirty work.

There have to be better ways. Legislation, laws, Ministry input and the final, unwavering word, everything we've worked so hard to achieve, something more subtle than this.

I swear to Merlin, if that monster so much as speaks Theodore's na

Or just call it the overprotective fatherly influence getting the best of me. I used to be much stronger than this.

It is rather easy to neglect to remember you own one of these journals, especially with Ministry restructuring and interviews looming, having an estate to run and a child to raise, house elves to delegate, and an elderly mother to keep comfortable and away from the house elves. One grows so used to inter-office memos flying overhead and forgets about a whole network at their fingertips. Mine was underneath my desk with a sufficient layer of dust blanketing it. It is very surprising to realize that a one-time child's plaything is now a major method of communication in our world.

Hopefully, I will not grow as attached as many have. Policing the journals seems rather intrusive, even to an investigator.


[Death Eaters]

I would offer up an idea to perhaps blame the recent murders on them rather than ourselves, just for a change of pace, however I am assured all is going smoothly. I would hope.

And I will be policing the journals, at least those even if it lessens my faith in some of our own.

[ / End ward]

( I let them use you for their own ends. . . )