Private Message to Seamus Finnigan
Jun. 5th, 2015 07:33 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alt_terryI see you've been writing to Draco Malfoy, Seamus. Don't know what it's about--he hasn't said anything about it in my hearing. Somehow, I don't think you're exchanging pleasant little reminiscences about Hogwarts. I notice that it's you writing to him, not the other way around.
I also know that Neville once took actions which ended up saving your life. Instead of honouring that life debt, you betrayed him.
There's something you should know, something of which you might not be aware.
Betraying a life debt has a huge magical cost.
Whatever you were trying to do when you betrayed Neville, it's backfired on you. There were two deaths that brought down your Lord Protector. Two deaths necessary for that rite they used that he hoped would give him eternal life but instead ended up killing him.
One was Harry's. But the other was Neville's.
So Harry and Neville between them set in motion the fall of the Protectorate. Draco put Harry there.
But you put Neville there.
Harry and Neville will long be remembered and revered for their bravery and their sacrifice. Draco did what he did at Harry's request, and for the sake of their friendship, and their goals were the same: to bring Voldemort down. And so he'll have honour from us, too.
You may have hoped for gratitude or perhaps notoriety from the people you wanted to impress when you turned against Neville, but you won't be so lucky. In fact, you'll never have luck again.
You will be forgot.
This is the curse that will fall upon you all the rest of your days. Let me be clear: I'm not doing it. You've done it to yourself:
Since you betrayed a man who saved you, a man a thousand times better than you, your own magic will punish you by betraying you.
All your choices from now will turn into weapons in your hands that will only cut youself.
You will always throw your lot in with the wrong people.
Whatever you hold most dear will fail (Rosier died in your arms in the battle, didn't he? Sally-Anne told us).
Even though I'm telling you this, and even if you try to change direction hoping to dodge this fate now that you know it, you will always, always choose wrong.
You can, of course, expect no mercy from us.
You will never have mercy from me.
Your own choices have condemned you to a miserable life from now on, Seamus.
It probably won't last much longer.
I bet, before the end, you'll wish it had been even shorter.
And if you're wondering why you should give a damn what I say, you should.
I'm Neville Longbottom's brother.
I'm also the man who killed Amycus Carrow by ripping out his throat with my own teeth.
You can write back if it makes you feel better, but I won't answer.
I have nothing else whatsoever to say to you.
Terry Boot Longbottom
I also know that Neville once took actions which ended up saving your life. Instead of honouring that life debt, you betrayed him.
There's something you should know, something of which you might not be aware.
Betraying a life debt has a huge magical cost.
Whatever you were trying to do when you betrayed Neville, it's backfired on you. There were two deaths that brought down your Lord Protector. Two deaths necessary for that rite they used that he hoped would give him eternal life but instead ended up killing him.
One was Harry's. But the other was Neville's.
So Harry and Neville between them set in motion the fall of the Protectorate. Draco put Harry there.
But you put Neville there.
Harry and Neville will long be remembered and revered for their bravery and their sacrifice. Draco did what he did at Harry's request, and for the sake of their friendship, and their goals were the same: to bring Voldemort down. And so he'll have honour from us, too.
You may have hoped for gratitude or perhaps notoriety from the people you wanted to impress when you turned against Neville, but you won't be so lucky. In fact, you'll never have luck again.
You will be forgot.
This is the curse that will fall upon you all the rest of your days. Let me be clear: I'm not doing it. You've done it to yourself:
Since you betrayed a man who saved you, a man a thousand times better than you, your own magic will punish you by betraying you.
All your choices from now will turn into weapons in your hands that will only cut youself.
You will always throw your lot in with the wrong people.
Whatever you hold most dear will fail (Rosier died in your arms in the battle, didn't he? Sally-Anne told us).
Even though I'm telling you this, and even if you try to change direction hoping to dodge this fate now that you know it, you will always, always choose wrong.
You can, of course, expect no mercy from us.
You will never have mercy from me.
Your own choices have condemned you to a miserable life from now on, Seamus.
It probably won't last much longer.
I bet, before the end, you'll wish it had been even shorter.
And if you're wondering why you should give a damn what I say, you should.
I'm Neville Longbottom's brother.
I'm also the man who killed Amycus Carrow by ripping out his throat with my own teeth.
You can write back if it makes you feel better, but I won't answer.
I have nothing else whatsoever to say to you.
Terry Boot Longbottom
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Date: 2015-06-05 03:44 pm (UTC)I hope you're forced to kill Alice Longbottom, so you can properly appreciate how grateful I felt, you vile bit of filth.