Transcript from the 11th of August 1978
James: Listen, could you all come and sit in the lounge, Sirius and I have to talk to you…
Dani: James! Are you two engaged too?
Sirius: Dani? Please, We need to talk.
Dani: What is it? Are you alright?
James: We want to tell you all together, please just come in here.
Remus: What is it?
James: I think that you'd better sit down.
Sirius: It's not good news…
James: Sirius and I, we went to Cassandra's house today. We had to get her to come here, and stay at headquarters so that she was safe.
Remus: No…
James: Sorry Remus. We couldn't do anything. The Dark Mark was cast over her home. We found her inside, but it was too late…
Ella: Oh sweetie.
Remus: It's fine, she was old.
James: Remus, don't, we know what she meant to you.
Remus: I'm fine!
Lily: Remus-
Remus: Please! I'm going for a walk.
James: Remus you cant-
Remus: I know, I know, around the backyard…
Remus exits. There is silence
Lily: Wow. I only met her once, but she was so nice…
James: She was. I'll miss her. I wish that Remus wouldn't be like that though…
Ella: Maybe we were all too much for him. We should leave him, he'll be ok, once the shock wears off.
Dani: Sirius, are you all right?
Sirius: Mmmm
James: It was just weird, seeing her lying there. She was always so bouncy, and then she…well, she wasn't…
Ella: I cant leave him alone out there, I have to go and talk to him.
Lily: What happened to giving him space?
Ella: I cant! I need to help him! Even if he doesn't want my help!
Ella Exits
Lily: James, are you aright? You want to talk, or anything?
James: Is it all right if I just go downstairs? I think that I had better write up a report.
Sirius: Mate, I can do it-
James: No, I'm fine, I'll write it down. It's been helping, actually. I think that I need to get it out, and this seems to be the best way.
Lily: Ok, I'll be down later. I'll go and tell Cardoc what happened, so that he knows why we're all not being little rays of sunshine.
Dani: good idea, I'll tell Margaret when she gets back from down at the store.
Sirius: Thanks, after seeing the look of Remus' face I don't want to tell anyone again.
Dani: And Peter? Is there any way that we can tell him? He knew her…
Sirius: He's off with his family, and we have no way of contacting him…
Dani: What about Dumbledore?
Sirius: He knows. He says to let yourself in today Lily, he's talking to the ministry officials all day, and organising things, trying to work out why she was targeted. She was a pureblood, of course, so I don't know how he's going to figure that all out…
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Report given by James Potter, On the 11th August 1978 by James Potter.
Well, Sirius and I went to Cassandra's house at around nine in the morning, we apparated to the end of her street and it was very quiet, I don't think that anyone who was on that block had woken up yet, because they hadn't seen the Mark. Then again, lots of people wouldn't set off the alarm because they would be scared that they would get on the wrong side of Voldermort. So the street was still quiet, as a result, which was kind of eerie. The Mark was at the end of the street, hanging there in the air, really scary and green, haunting in a way that the graffiti in Chestervalle couldn't, and when I saw it there it sent my stomach dropping through a bottomless pit that I didn't know existed, the horror that that stupid sign brought up in me was stupid. It was just a symbol, but it's what the symbol represents that is what makes it so terrifying.
Sirius began to move before me. He had seen this before, when he and Dani had gone on their mission, so I suppose that he knew what was going on, and came back to earth faster than I did. Sort of stood there, white faced and gapping for a moment, before following him, running into the house.
And Cass was lying there, on the floor of her living room, wand in her hand, her eyes open and glassy. The house was trashed, and nothing seemed to be stolen, though all the magical objects that were on that wall of hers were lying on the ground, shattered and broken.
It was so strange. Even before looking down and seeing her there, I new that she was gone. And I don't think that it had anything to do with the Dark Mark. When she was alive her whole aura filled the house, and made it seem to dance with her cheerfulness, and humorous sarcasm. The house dies with her, and I know that I will never be able to go back there. She helped us so much, and she helped so many other people too. She used to be a healer.
Sirius ran to Cass's side, and began to feel for a pulse. There was nothing. He shook his head at me sadly, and I sent a message off to Dumbledore, using my patronus. Then we lifted her body onto the couch, and covered her with a blanket that was lying at the end of it. There was a piece of paper on the ground. At first I thought that it was a note, or something, left by the attacker, but I was wrong. It was blank, and I threw it back onto the ground bitterly. Blank like the expression on Cassandra's face. Blank like the hollow of Sirius' eyes as he tried to blink back tears, so that I couldn't see them. The only thing that didn't seem to be blank was the bubbling horror that built inside me at the thought of breaking the news to the others, especially Remus.
After that nothing much matters. Dumbledore arrived, and so did an auror and some ministry officials. Dumbledore will organise the funeral, he said. He would like our help, but she has no other family than Remus. We left, and came back here, just as the journalists from the Daily Prophet were turning up.
The only thing is, I don't know why Voldermort would ever bother to go after Cass. And even if there was a reason to get rid of her, why couldn't it wait until the attack on Hogsmeade? Two birds with one stone? It just doesn't make sense at all.
I feel bad for Remus. He still hasn't come back. Ella has. She couldn't get him to say anything than say I'm fine' and we know that he's not, so she considers the whole attempt to get him to talk a prize failure. She's sitting in the corner, on her bed, crying silently. She's not talking. She's not even making a sound. Just has tears streaming down her face. I sort of wish that she would just scream. I wish that someone would scream. This place is so quiet…
Report made by Lily Evans 11th August, 1978.
I went to Dumbledore's office today. He sent a message that he wouldn't be there at the start, he was dealing with lots of thinks, organising investigations on Cass, trying to work out what really happened and why. He was out there talking to the ministry.
I had two memories to visit today. They seemed to be grimly related, though one wasn't a memory that Dumbledore had wanted me to visit. Not that he didn't want me to visit it, but he didn't leave a note for me, or a bottled memory.
The first memory was Dani's. Or Sirius', I'm not sure. They were both there. It's recorded in the book, but the bottle was sitting next to the pensive, so I suppose that I was meant to go through it. Anyway, it was extremely sad, and I cant believe that you two had to go through that, even though you didn't know them…and I cant believe that James and Sirius had to go through it with Cass either. Poor Sirius. He really does get pulled through a lot, doesn't he?
The second memory was one that I wanted to go to, even though I didn't have to. It was the memory where Sirius and James and I stayed at Cassandra's house for the night. She was so certain that James and I were going to get together. She healed my leg right up, and sent us all off t bed…didn't bother to give us a telling off for being out of school at that time of night.
She was such a kind old woman, and so nice to Remus. I'm going to is her.
The next part of my day comes when Dumbledore came back that afternoon, looking tired, and solemn, but encouraging and grateful at my mission just the same. I don't want to be the one to write this down, but I know that he will find out some time, so I suppose that it's best I record it.
Dumbledore worked out the reason why Cass was murdered. There was a note, bewitched for him to find. It was meant to e read by two people, and only two people. I'm glad that it was Dumbledore and not Remus who found the note.
It read; werewolves don't have people that they care about. Neither do death eaters.
They killed her to get at Remus, to try and bring him over. He's a powerful wizard, as well as his fury little problem. But I fear for the time when they stop harming the people that he cares about and just come after him.
Remus will be horrified when he learns of this. When he knows that it was because of him. I shouldn't put it that way…that just made it sound as though it was his fault. It's not. Far from it, but that's how Remus will think, and he wont be able to live with himself.
Dumbledore told me to have the rest of the afternoon off then. He thought that I would be needed here, to comfort everyone, and be with James. I don't. James is in a sort of state of shock, and I know that he wants to be left alone, it doesn't take a legilimens to surmise that much. And everyone else is in his or her own little world of grief, especially Remus, who is still out the back, and I can't get him to come in. Ella can't either, though I know that she has been trying all day.
Now she's given up, and is staring at the wall, crying. I wish that he would come in. She's getting so upset.
Margaret didn't know who she was, and I think that she feels guilty that the rest of us are upset and she isn't. I know that she isn't, she doesn't have a clue who Cass was, but she understands that we all loved her, and she's upstairs cooking tea for us, and a cake, which I can smell, coming wafting down the staircase to where we sleep. Cardoc knew her to say hello to, but he's gone now, to help Dumbledore. I don't know what they're doing.
Dani didn't know her that well either, but she's comforting Sirius, who is moping around, sadly, thinking a lot. She follows him, and one moment he'll want her to leave and the next I see him grab her by the shoulders, pull her into a hug and almost sob into her shoulders. Not that he does sob. I hardly ever se him cry, he tries to be all tough like that. I know that he's not. I think that everyone know that he's not, and they're just not game enough to say anything.