Interlude: The Liberator's Seventh Letter
February 17th, 1997
Dear Minister Scrimgeour:
Please forgive me for not writing in so long. It took me a long time to understand what had happened to me, and even longer to realize to what use it can be put. So. I will commit these words to parchment now, while my family is looking for political opportunities for the Light and not paying as much attention to me.
I began having strange dreams about Falco not long after I wrote my last letter to you. I put it down to nightmares at first, then to anxiety and worries. But soon I was dreaming of things I had never seen, and will never see, as I am a witch of only moderate power. He walked the paths of Dark and Light, and learned the disciplines of necromancy in a way that made me uneasy. He did not intend to commit to being a necromancer, but he is learning of death. And he is studying what Lord Voldemort did in his first rise, and his abbreviated second.
I fear that he is trying to become a Dark Lord. Why he should have changed his allegiance so spectacularly is still open to speculation. He speaks in the dreams, and I hear him, but I cannot read his mind.
I was at a loss, at first, how I came by this information. Then I realized that I had a scar on my hand that I did not remember having. I had paid no attention to it at first, since I often wake with scars that I do not remember having when I went to sleep, but this one throbbed when I dreamed of Falco.
I confronted my mother. She looked away from me, but at last she admitted that I had the scar from grasping at a mirror.
A mirror! The time I spent with the glass in which my parents could see Falco has affected me, I think. Why, who can say? My parents and my siblings are all more powerful than I am. Perhaps the glass connected with me as the weakest of the family. Perhaps it sensed my intense interest in Falco and grafted on to that. Perhaps it reacted to the less-than-perfect devotion to the Light I can sometimes feel in myself.
Whatever its reason, I have a connection to Falco through the dreams.
From these dreams, I can tell you that:
He is studying Lord Voldemort's tactics so closely that he may imitate them. I beg you, Minister, listen closely for reports of new Death Eaters, even if the reports seem false and self-contradictory at first.
He no longer appears as interested in the magic of time as he once was. He is now more fascinated with the magic of death. He has wrested secrets that only trained necromancers usually know, including the knowledge of raising spirits and sending them to possess the minds of the living.
He visits the coasts and other waterways in Britain often.
He does notunderstand the wild Dark. He often communes with it as if it were a pet, or a deeply stupid child. I am not sure if this can be used against him, since he seems intent on Declaring to the Dark anyway, but it may help.
I will pass on more information as it becomes certain, Minister. May the shadows shelter you.
Yours,
The Liberator.
