Expressing Suspicions
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Post by Pansy Parkinson-Nott Sun Jun 01, 2014 4:01 pm

After the meeting had finished Pansy remained seated, waiting for the other death eaters to clear out of the room and return to their normal day-to-day lives. Some of them would have families, some jobs to get ready for whilst for others unemployment and a life of crime was calling them. Pansy had to wait for almost five or ten minutes for people to leave. The death eater meetings had a social aspect to them, it brought other death eaters together who felt the urge to catch up after every meeting making their departure from the main room slower.

Rising up from the table herself the reporter made her way across the room, checked that nobody was lingering in the hallway and closed the door behind her, turning the key in the lock as she did so.

'Professor Du Hunt.' Pansy began, 'Could I talk to you about something?' She asked, pouting her lips and making her way towards the head of the table where Katrina-Carlotta was still sat. Now was the time to express her concern, divulge all the information that she'd found to her leader. Hopefully she wouldn't be mad that Pansy hadn't spoken out before the meeting for they could possibly have addressed the issue then, although the reporter had a feeling that Du Hunt would maybe want to think a little before a plan of action was created.
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Post by Katrina-Carlotta Du Hunt Sun Jun 01, 2014 5:45 pm

"Please, you can drop the Professor," Katrina-Carlotta said with a slight smile, "I'm not, nor have I ever been, a teacher. If you must give me a title, use Headmistress." Well, that was something of a lie, she'd taught, just never in an official capacity. If plans went accordingly, that would be changing this coming school year. There were a few students she'd had her eye on during the past few terms, students who she would approach about the topic of private lessons. She wasn't trying to recruit children, no matter what people would think if they found out. Sure, if any of them wanted to join the Death eaters she wouldn't complain, but that was not her intention. She just wanted to see the teenagers reach their full potential. For their talents to remain unused or even unrealized was, in her opinion, the ultimate waste.  

"Take a seat," the European continued, face smoothing out into something more serious. Permission for the other witch to say whatever she wanted was implied. After all, Katrina-Carlotta may have been harsh, but she would always listen to any Death Eater who came to her. Furthermore, her Death Eaters were smart, and often had useful information. It would be idiotic of her not to listen when one asked to speak.

Sliding out of her seat, the witch strode towards the back wall, and opened a locked cabinet only to pull out a bottle of wine and two glasses. She wanted a drink, and it would be rude of her not to offer Pansy the same. Slipping back into her seat with the grace of a large feline, Katrina-Carlotta set one of the glasses down before the reporter. Removing the cork with a practiced twist of simple wandless magic, the woman poured wine into both glasses before leaning back in her seat and taking a sip of her own.
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Post by Pansy Parkinson-Nott Mon Jun 02, 2014 12:15 am

'Certainly.' Pansy replied with a slight smile taking a seat by her leader, who she still didn't know what to address her as. Katrina-Carlotta? Du Hunt? Madame Du Hunt? Miss Du Hunt? Lady Voldemort? The last one made Pansy shudder slightly but this was immediately brushed off as the reporter didn't want to waste any time in telling Katrina-Carlotta her thoughts.

'I interviewed Ana Levski for The Prophet about a month or so ago, although I decided not to publish the interview. During my expose with Khaat Lupin she told me that sometimes the power is in what we didn't say and she said things that felt were important to hold onto.'

'Anyway.' The death eater continued, waving a hand at the little background information that she'd just provided. 'During the interview I asked her who was behind the marriage law, who was the person forging the signatures and, well, this is whom she said.' Pansy finished, withdrawing a piece of parchment and pushing it across the table to Du Hunt:


Interview With Ana Levski. Questions And Answers wrote:
Q. Thank you for meeting with me today Mrs Levski. Now, I'm sure you know why I'm here today and what I'm here to ask. The marriage law. You were the person that got the ball rolling I believe? I was wondering if you could tell me, in as much detail as possible, about your research.
A. Yes, through my work in the Department of Mysteries, I created the basis for the law. While I did not, myself, write the law, I am charged with enforcing it, at least by way of the meetings. My research involved looking into the likelihood of illness based on blood status. It also included looking at the strength of magic based on ancestry and blood status. It proved that those with entirely pure bloodlines created weaker magical ability. Much like illness is more likely, magical ability is more likely to be diluted through the problems that arise from marrying between pureblooded families. Somewhere in their ancestry, the families have likely intermarried already. It's like when royalty marries other royalty that is likely related to them, they tend to have more problems. Because of this, I reached the conclusion that marrying those not of the same blood status would foster the potential for stronger magical ability and would hinder the likelihood of illness as devastating as the Welsh Green Itch, which passed around not too long ago.

Q. From your research it makes sense that marriages between different blood statuses would be preferred, but why does that mean it becomes a legal matter? Do people not have the right to choose their partners? No matter how diluted their children's abilities may become?
A. Without the law, it would be more or less impossible to convince those in the Pureblood community to realize that they were on a downward path, just as much as it would be unhelpful to state the findings and hope that people took it upon themselves to do something about their future. Those who aren't Pureblooded would likely not care enough to change their opinions of Purebloods, no matter how we phrased it. It is for the benefit of the next generation that we ensure the change will happen.

Q. Does that mean to say you are against upholding tradition? And even if you are against pure bloods following their ancestor's legacy does that mean you feel you have the right to arrange marriages, map out peoples lives and engineer a society to fit your ideologies?
A. Just because one part of society makes it a tradition does not make it right. This law Nd this research is not about me. It is about the safety of the next generation, and the one after that. The circumstances aren't perfect, but if it means that the Purebloods don't die out, wouldn't that be preferable? I don't think you want to see them turn into squibs.

Q. But it doesn't mean that it's wrong either. Your research is one piece of research. It's not very representative or reliable is it. Perhaps if more research was conducted there would be reasons to invite more pure blood marriages?
And even if it is, as you believe, not beneficial to the next generation, why do you feel you have the power to exert a law about the matter? What gives you that power?

A. You don't seem to be getting the point. This research is what I have been working on since I left the Auror office and joined the Department of Mysteries. This is not something I did in a few days and decided it would do. I've been in the Magic office for about six years, after spending six years in the Time office. Needless to say, my research is not inefficient nor insufficient.
As I have said repeatedly, I did not write the law. I merely showed my research to others in my department, who in turn decided we had to do something about it before people like you and your family continued to prevent sufficient magical ability for your children.
The power is not in my hands; No one said I claimed that it was. I often tell people in the meetings that I do not have enough power to get them out of the law, to help them petition it to marry their fiancé and the like. I did the research, learned about how badly the future could go for Purebloods, and took it upon myself to show my research - which is expected by my department - and the law was forged by another's hand.

Q. So if it wasn't you then who did come up with the law? Which coward doesn't have the guts to come forward and say they were the ones who brought about this law?
A. One of the attorneys at the Ministry is responsible, though I'm not disclosed to inform you who it was.

Pansy allowed Du Hunt time to read through the questions first, the final question being the most crucial. Initially Pansy had hoped to paint Ana out as the bad guy not expecting that she'd ever receive an answer for her final question, although it appeared Ana had pleasantly surprised her and it was that which held Pansy from publishing the interview.

'In the recent Daily Prophet article reporting Gideon Pierce being placed as the new Deputy Ministry the reporter mentioned that he used to be an attorney.' Pansy didn't really need to say anymore than that.
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