I just don't know how much of a lie they're telling.
I've been trying to figure it out by watching the Headmistress. She's in the inside circle, see? I figure she'd be told the real truth, whatever it was.
The night the news came that he'd been captured was the night she sent me out of her office. She hardly ever does that. Like I said, she was talking with Madam Pomfrey when she sent me out, and I know they were talking about Sirius Black, because I heard one of them say the name, right before she sent me to wait on the staircase outside. When she called me back, she was watching the journals real close. She had me stay right beside her the next day and a half. I mean, she literally didn't want me to stray out of her line of sight. But she didn't tell me why.
There was all that news, that Mrs Lestrange had taken Sirius Black into custody, and then later that he escaped. And then waiting for twenty-four hours. Through it all, I watched her, closer than I've ever watched her before. Master's kind of easy to read usually, really. He doesn't see any point in bothering to hide his feelings from me, and when he's hacked off, he'll let you know it mighty quick. But the Headmistress, she'd make a good poker player. You can tell if she's tense (and she was. She was really tense), but you really can't tell what she's thinking. Well, unless she's been dr
I just couldn't tell. The only hint of feeling I got from her, when the twenty-four hours were up and they said that it meant he had to be dead, it seems like she was sort of...relieved. But I couldn't swear to it that that's what it was. She took some private floo calls, but I didn't hear who she was speaking to. Maybe she got some information then that convinced her he was dead, and that's why she seemed like a weight had been taken off her shoulders.
So I dunno. I'll just have to pin my hopes on the thought that somehow she's wrong, and he's still alive.
Re: I Solemnly Swear That I Am Up To No Good
I just don't know how much of a lie they're telling.
I've been trying to figure it out by watching the Headmistress. She's in the inside circle, see? I figure she'd be told the real truth, whatever it was.
The night the news came that he'd been captured was the night she sent me out of her office. She hardly ever does that. Like I said, she was talking with Madam Pomfrey when she sent me out, and I know they were talking about Sirius Black, because I heard one of them say the name, right before she sent me to wait on the staircase outside. When she called me back, she was watching the journals real close. She had me stay right beside her the next day and a half. I mean, she literally didn't want me to stray out of her line of sight. But she didn't tell me why.
There was all that news, that Mrs Lestrange had taken Sirius Black into custody, and then later that he escaped. And then waiting for twenty-four hours. Through it all, I watched her, closer than I've ever watched her before. Master's kind of easy to read usually, really. He doesn't see any point in bothering to hide his feelings from me, and when he's hacked off, he'll let you know it mighty quick. But the Headmistress, she'd make a good poker player. You can tell if she's tense (and she was. She was really tense), but you really can't tell what she's thinking.
Well, unless she's been drI just couldn't tell. The only hint of feeling I got from her, when the twenty-four hours were up and they said that it meant he had to be dead, it seems like she was sort of...relieved. But I couldn't swear to it that that's what it was. She took some private floo calls, but I didn't hear who she was speaking to. Maybe she got some information then that convinced her he was dead, and that's why she seemed like a weight had been taken off her shoulders.
So I dunno. I'll just have to pin my hopes on the thought that somehow she's wrong, and he's still alive.