Amycus

[lapin-agile.livejournal.com]

Okay. alt_amycus needs his own discussion: two posts in an evening. And, omg, I'm terrified for alt_terry!

What do you suppose Amycus's "new regimen" lists mean?

I.
4L x 3D
Tx30
CCx4
results marginal

pigeons

II.
4L x 2D
2 pair trousers
5 CC but scattered.

I thought the first one was some sort of list of punishments in code, but "2 pair trousers" doesn't seem to fit. Perhaps he's trying experimental pigeon extermination strategies? But again, "2 pair trousers"? Am I making this harder than it needs to be?

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[lapin-agile.livejournal.com]

And tangentially...

I've been dying to find a context in which to remark how ironic I found it sometime ago when Lucius said (to someone... McG, maybe?) that he and Narcissa had only ever aimed to parent one child, but they'd been graciously willing to step in on an ad hoc basis to help parent Pansy and Harry. Think of all the purebloods who have few or no children. The Malfoys self-proclaimedly by choice, and others (McG; both Carrows, presumably; Sprout, Pince, Pomfrey seem to be spinsters like McG; Slughorn, for all we know; Umbridge, it would seem; Bellatrix has one child in-game, but I don't think it's canonical; Dumbledore; Sirius & Regulus, for reasons other than choice, perhaps). So it seems a bit fey to be all paranoid about the threat of Muggleborns' supposed theft of pureblood children's magic when the purebloods seem to have adopted a preference for negative birth-rate. I'm not denying that the purebloods have a (reprehensible but logical) scheme for winning the population war through extermination of the Muggle excess, but I'd say that that policy does them no good if they don't take reasonable steps to at least replace their own population from generation to generation. (And don't tell me that the Malfoys think letting the Weasleys even the averages is a reasonable scheme!)

Okay, that was truly tangential. Back to Maggots. As you were, soldier.