Rodolphus Nero Lestrange

{Private to Bella}

Come to Paris. Rabastan has decided there are a few streets here that could use to be cleared of the filth that fills them and we should help with this plan of his.

I trust I can expect you to arrive at the manor shortly?


{/Private}


Such a shame the way some things play out.

It seems that not even I am spared the rush of summer at its peak and the whispers of the fall coming and life returning to normal. The board members have got their knickers in a twist over some sort of rubbish that makes no sense to the logical mind but as all of them are over the age of 65 I am not so sure they remember what logic is any longer.

Any how I think I may make it a habit of taking this thing along to meetings more often. If nothing else the margins will provide a suitable distraction when Linell droans on for an hour and a half over abso-bloody-lutely nothing.


{Private to Lucius}

I am sorry to hear about the loss of the baby. Do you and Narcissa require anything?


{/Private}


{Private to Bella}

How is your sister faring?


{/Private}

{Private to Bella}

I trust, that since the elves did not have to clean blood out of the carpet and off of the walls that everything went well with the children?


{/Private}

{Private to Bella}


The new manor is Greece. Does it meet your approval? The beach is about a twenty minute walk from where the manor is situated.


( Cut for a large picture. )


{/Private.}

{Private to Bella}

Why is your cousin kissing our arses? His attempt at being subtle and cordial was anything but subtle or cordial. Whatever he wants, the answer is no.


{/Private}



Is this really necessary?

Trips like this should be taken more often. I feel much better then I have in the past few days. Perhaps now I'll be able to focus more and be able to make a dent in this never ending mountain of paperwork that has piled up on my desk.

{Private to Self}

Why do I even bother? Is it really necessary for me to associate with them? I am not a damnable baby sitter. I will not hold their hands and pat them on the heads and tell them that they've done well and give them shiny gold stars when they have done nothing more than prove time and time again that they are nothing more then children. I used to think that Alecto deserved some amount of respect as aside from Bella, she is the only other female to have ever been strong enough to be accepted into our ranks. And yet she is proving anything but with her whining and carrying on as she is.

There are days I wish our Lord would simply allow me to be rid of all of them and be done with it. Things would be so much simpler and easier if we did not have to constantly deal with them Alas I have not yet been granted with such a task so I shall just have to deal with what I have.

I wish I knew where Bella had gone off to. This is one time where I could use the stress release that comes with hunting with her.


{/Private}

I never quite realized just what my father put up with as head of our family but between the incompetent twits that work for the company, the family solicitors that never listen to a single word that passes my lips and the endless paper work that seems to go with it, I now have a new found respect for everything he did.

Bella and I will be remaining in France for a bit longer due to the funeral and other final arrangements that need to be made but home should become England once more quite soon.

Like hell I'm going to that farce of a wedding. I do not have the time or the patients, nor am I going to condone such a union.


( Private to Bella )

( Hexed Incredibly Private to Self. )


{A single drop of ink appears on the page as though he held his quill above it to write more, but no words appear with the drop of ink.}

{Private to Bellatrix}

Where are you?


{/Private}


{Private to Narcissa}

How are you holding up?

Is Bella with you?


{/Private}



Your condolences are appreciated, but I ask that no one owl the manor at this time. Any owls will be sent back unopened and unanswered.

( Hexed Incredibly Private to Bella )


Interesting.

( Hexed Private to Self )


Simpletons do not the world make.

Idle times lead to idle hands and that never bodes well for anyone.


( Private to Self )


( Private to Bella )

England....still as cold and dreadful as it was when I left.

Why must everyone insist on getting as pissed as they do on New Years? There are much better ways of spending it. Such as wrapped up in ones wife not caring what goes on around you so long as she keeps doing that thing with her nails.

Honestly, I hope several of the fools here who saw the need to do so last night and create as much noise as they did manages to drown themselves in the ocean as they wander around with their hangovers. I would be much happier if they did. It would be much more relaxing without having to wonder if their going to do it again.


( Private to Bella )

I don't know about anyone else, but I certainly enjoyed my holiday.


{Private to Death Eaters}

Have we made any final arrangements yet?

{/Private}

I have not vanished. No one bothered to check my study.

For the record, I do not give charitable handouts. We have investors in the Lestrange name to do that for me. If people continue to ask for my money, I will gut them. I hate this time year for that reason alone.

( Somewhere beyond happiness and sadness//I need to calculate//What creates my own madness//And I'm addicted to your punishment//And you're the master )