Private message to Miss Minx

[alt_jason]

This protocol 13 business is getting tiresome. And I'm speaking for nearly everyone here, not just myself.

The Units are getting weary of having to try the forced-transformation on every mouse or rat that skitters across our path, and since they're getting weary, they're also getting sloppy and lazy. At least when Crouch isn't around.

That's good news for you, isn't it?

Though let's be honest, there's no way that your form is that of a mouse or rat.

Comments

[alt_rachel]

I doubt anyone would ever describe me as adorable as a human, however. Though 'prickly' is a possibility.

I wasn't ever called to Court, so I'm not sure when he'd have noticed he couldn't read me. Were you taken there by someone? I can't imagine your Marking was the first time you'd ever been in his presence.

[alt_jason]

Sarah's father took me to court twice before he died. I was doing impressive work in those days, apparently.

Anyway, it still came as a right shock. And so soon after what happened in Ireland, besides. I guessed that Crouch would see to it that I was out of a job, after that, and yet I got called in to take the Mark, instead.

Life's funny.

[alt_rachel]

If Crouch had been allowed to sack every person who hacked him off, the Auror department would have consisted of himself, Bellatrix Lestrange, and possibly Lana Sandoval but I think I'm just forgetting something.

I can see why the Mark came as a surprise, though.