(Pretend I’m not a horrible person, and it was closer in the timeline to this.)[Private to the Order of the Phoenix]It has been confirmed that
His name is a taboo.
The emergency phone received a call from a Mr. Peakes, desperate to find his son who had grievously injured and taken from their home. I met with Mr. Peakes and his wife, to further understand what had happened.
Their son, Jimmy Peakes, is a fourteen year old muggleborn wizard who had been retracted from school by his parents when they learned about the dangers that potentially wait for a muggleborn wizard in these times. He had been explaining to them everything, begging them to let him return to Hogwarts when the name slipped from his lips and a woman came to take him away. Neither parent knows what happened yet, as they were rendered unconscious by the witch.
When the awoke there was nothing left of their son but a foot and a
lot of blood. He is, in the strictest sense, missing---but it’s unlikely he is still alive.
I wiped their mem They do not wish to be contacted by any more of us unless we find their son alive.
[Private to Alex Jones]I know it’s late, but I feel like I haven’t seen you. Come for coffee soon?
[Private to self]There is no point in wondering if you’ve made the right decision, Hestia. You’ve done it, and there is no point in undoing it. You’ve saved them the knowledge of unknowingly viewing the only remains of their son, knowing that he’s dead and that perhaps if they’d done things differently he wouldn’t be.
But oh, Merlin, if the ministry finds out...