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[alt_terry]

Mrs Weasley, Fred and George are both alive, and we've found them. Kingsley was with them, too, although he's ducking in and out of the null field to keep engaging the inferi. I've snuck back out of the protected area and apparated away to write this report.

There are two men, Aurors, I guess, on the ground, bound up with ropes. They're being guarded by muggles with guns. I saw the look of horror on their faces when one the guards broke their wands over his knee, just like twigs.

Cedric and Ken Towler managed to get a few people outside the field and then flew them out by broom. Fred and George both have had bites, and a few burns--the muggles with them at the meeting were resorting to torches to fight the inferi. Fred called for Hitty to try to get out Fu and Colonel Davidson and the rest of the muggle leadership. She made two trips and took Fu and the Colonel. But Fred and George were fighting for all their lives and...and so they decided between themselves, somehow, and George cast the Neofidelius.

He's alive, but he's unconscious. I think Fred's in shock. Pansy and Frank are with them. Well, Pansy's staying with George and Fred, and Frank is organising litters to carry the wounded to a building within the neofidelius field. An old abandoned hospital.

But Hitty...Hitty was apparating back in just as the Neofidelius went up, and I reckon she was hit by the spell staight on and

She's dead. Hitty's dead.

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[alt_terry]

And there are inferi all scattered around the ground inside. Well, they were inferi.

Now they're just corpses. Some of them are awfully rotten, too.

[alt_susan]

Thanks for letting us know.

I'm sure you haven't much time before you have to go back through. Is there anything we can do?

[alt_terry]

They'll need medical supplies, if we can get them in to them. For burns and bites. But there are still inferi rampaging around outside the field.

I think I heard someone say they have a source of fresh water in there at least.

[alt_susan]

We're at Moddey prepping supplies of various sorts--Sally-Anne's got some people working on healing stuff and Fu Lee's got some of us helping him in the armory.

When do you think Auror Crouch & co are likely to be at their weakest? Dawn?

Private message to Pansy

[alt_sally_anne]

I am so sorry about Hitty.

After the meeting yesterday, when everyone was having cake, Charlie Weasley was talking about how Tonks and Mr Lupin dressed up as cleaning staff to steal the scepter, because no one ever looks twice at bog cleaners, and he said that when we build our victory monument after all this is over we should have a bucket and mop to remind everyone that wars aren't just won by aurors and soldiers but by all the people no one pays any mind to.

And, he's right. Hitty's one of those people. And we won't forget her, ever.