Order Only: Private message to Madam Pomfrey and Mrs Longbottom

[alt_sally_anne]

I was talking a little while ago with Ernie Macmillan. He's very upset that Megan Jones' guardian didn't claim her body; he wanted to know if I knew how you arrange to have someone buried and how much it costs.

I don't actually know. But I went down to the room where we're keeping them all -- the bodies that haven't been claimed -- with the stasis spells, and it's not just Megan. There's Adelheid Zimmerman as well, Marlon Strangeweale, Isabella Rowle, Giselle Drumgoole. There's also Professor Desai and Professor Glozeman and a whole lot of the Enforcers, I know they weren't terribly nice people but we might as well bury them respectfully, you know? If we mark the graves and their families want to move them later they can do it.

I guess what I'm saying is I think we should set up a graveyard somewhere on the Hogwarts grounds, for the people who died here who don't have anywhere else to go.

And Harry. I know we don't have his body but I was thinking we could bury the pin. You know, the last horcrux. Ron brought it back.

Comments

[alt_sally_anne]

We could have Macmillan figure it out, maybe. I know I don't really have time. Where, and markers, and all the rest. He doesn't want to go home but he really wants something useful to do.

[alt_poppy]

That's a fine thought, my dear. And yes, of course, Mr Macmillan's time might be well used on that task. Tell him, would you?

[alt_alice]

Agreed. Thank you for bringing it to our attention.

Molly might be a good person for him to check with, make sure it's properly done. And Colin as well, he's had some experience with memorials.

[alt_sally_anne]

Dolohov is sending his elf to get the bodies of the dead Councilwizards. And Isabella.

So it'll just be ours, in the graveyard, I think.

He says he can't send Harry's body, or Neville's, because they were cremated before he woke the next day, and their ashes were scattered. I'm sorry.

[alt_alice]

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yes.

I see.