Order Only: Private message to Justin

[alt_sally_anne]

I saw you wrote to Dolohov.

I wrote to him when I thought he was dead. I wasn't very

Did he write back to you? (I assume you actually had authorisation, unlike Evelyn. And me, but I really did think he was dead. They said he was dead!)

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[alt_justin]

He cultivated fondness, it's true. He counted on endearing people to him. Everything I've heard about Riddle, early on, was the same. Riddle also drew people to him and seduced them with the idea that they were essential.

The only prayers I said at the time were in thanks that he was gone. And those, it seems, were not received well.

I'm jolly well sorry it's complicated for you. I do understand the feeling you describe and I can't deny that I felt it, from time to time, when I was studying under him. I expected it, but it repulsed me at the same time.

Perhaps it's different because I was the only one of us who deliberately chose to use his own schemes against him.

-Justin

[alt_sally_anne]

Maybe it's because he wanted you to do things you found morally appalling.

I could have been a Healer for Death Eaters without much moral compromise. The oath says that I will never see any patient as anything but a fellow creature in pain. It doesn't say I have to be an idiot (Seamus Finnigan tried to get me to come heal Rosier during the May Battle and no, I wasn't going to go put myself at Finnigan's mercy) but even without a debt, if I were a Healer and Dolohov were my patient, I'd be required to help him.

He wasn't trying to turn you into a Healer, though. Far from. And you might be rather good at assassinating people but I can't imagine that's what you said you wanted to be when you grew up, back when you were six. (Not that I wanted to be a Healer when I was six, but you know what I mean.)

[alt_sally_anne]

And argh, speaking of being a Healer, I'm supposed to go in early tonight to do the Potions inventory before my shift starts. And I haven't eaten or anything. This night shift business is for the birds. The nocturnal sort of birds.

Anyway good luck baiting him. I think he'd be a lot harder to bait than B