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Antonin's recent post, while fascinating, confused me quite a bit on my first readthrough.

Looks like, thanks to the ever confusing DoM organisation, he doesn't really know who was there, apart from (mainly) those he fired spells at.

The first line utterly confuses me. Help?

I'm reading the rest of the first paragraph as notation of which spells he hit them with (though could possibly be some reference to which rooms they were in? Probably not, but it's what I thought at first): Bonefire for Hydra looks pretty self-explanatory, given that she felt like her fingers were broken. Nihil sensorum (lit. nothing of having-been-perceived in Latin, so something causing lack of sensory function, I guess?) was what he hit Justin with, though why Justin was screaming I don't know. Just a particularly nasty side effect of the curse, I guess.

"w/B" is one thing where I have very little idea what it's meant to mean.

Infidi ("I have cut/ploughed a path into" seems like the most likely Latin translation) would be what he attacked Sally-Anne with. I'm guessing it has the same effect as stabbing someone with something sharp.

The next section looks fairly straightforward, though I'm quite amused with him thinking Linus Moon was helping. Those initials confused me a lot at first. (Especially since LM usually refers to Lucius Malfoy. The idea of him acting as distraction for them was rather odd.)

And of course, he is very confused as to the logistics of it. I don't think I want him investigating the destination of it all anymore than he has already. Fingers crossed.

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It is interesting--I guess I don't have a handle on how much Susan hung over with the ISS outside Teatime of the Strange? Especially with all of Umbridge's crazy rules this year.

It's also interesting that he DID consider Ginny. While Dolohov prides himself on his ability to read people--and is certainly quite good at it--he apparently hasn't read the relationship with Ginny and the other Weasleys all that closely or noticed that they really don't move in the same circles--and that Ginny has been quite vocal in the past year about feeling abandoned and has come to him with her naked ambition. Perhaps he believes too strongly that family/blood demands loyalty and that's blinding him? That could also be why the Weasley twins made it on.

Yeah, I suppose she hasn't. But he brought up Neville and Evelyn and the twins, who weren't and the wedding, and Susan was, and disappeared part way through, abet supposedly being sick, so... I wondered.
I suppose I should just be grateful he didn't even think to think about Hermione.

Ginny and Luna only made it on the list when he was considering who might have been the lookout, which was interesting (he brought up Evelyn again when he was thinking about who else might have been involved). I think, yeah, it was partly the family loyalty thing--he has--yeah.
I mean, he hasn't given Neville and Evelyn trouble over the possibility of them having loyalty to their parents--maybe because they mostly grew up away from them and haven't shown any signs of it?
The twins made sense (though I'm surprised Lee didn't make it on there with them, if they did). Ginny--I wonder if he though she might have been dissembling? Or just that this was the sort of thing she might get pulled into anyway? --or even if he was just brainstorming people with connections to the ones he knew?
(Speaking of Ginny, I'm kind of curious to see if she eventually gets drawn into that circle. She's shown signs recently of having the potential to work with them, but they don't seem to entirely trust her, for obvious reasons.)