damocles belby wants to domesticate werewolves

( Damocles Belby wants to domesticate werewolves )

I seem to have forgotten my nephew's birthday.

The things you forget when you get older.

[HOGWARTS]

Thanks, people -- we managed to bait one of them. She'll be waiting for me at the Shrieking Shack, and I'm going to bring the Wolfsbane darts with me. Doris, Sturgis -- mind going with me as back ups?

After what Lily Potter said about the Minister sending babies through owls, I won't be surprised if the Ministry actually feeds babies to werewolves once they see that they're all 'well-tamed'.

( Warded to the Order/Albion )



Frankly, I am sick and tired of werewolves beginning to have a place in our society and having to keep quiet about it. They are never going to change and the basic foundation of their existence is that they're animals -- savages, to be exact, whether or not they're in their form. They appear to be harmless when they look like us, but once the full moon comes, they'll only go back to killing innocent people they can find. The lot of them need to be rounded up and euthanized, in my opinion. Best way to get rid of them. Once an animal, always one, after all.

[WARDED TO DORIS, BETH AND LILY]

I know Moody said that Remus betrayed us, but it's difficult for me to believe it, even though I know I'm supposed to and Moody wouldn't lie about something like that. But Remus helped me -- he helped us all, really -- by undergoing those experiments with Wolfsbane.

He was always willing to help, even though he knew what the risks were and even if he did do it, I just want us to remember that he helped us.

I wouldn't have been able to make the potion work if he hadn't been there.

[WARDED TO THE ORDER]

This may or may not be a good idea, especially now, but I've been thinking about testing the potion on other werewolves for the next full moon. So far Remus has only been the only one who has ever tested it, and I think it would be worth it to see the effects on others.



If it's not too dangerous.

Is it too late to make resolutions? Because I've resolved to never procrastinate -- ever again.

[WARDED TO THE ORDER & DORIS]

I wasn't sure whether this is the right time to announce it, but last full moon, Remus and I tested the concentrated version of the potion I've been working on. I used magic to lace the tip of a dart with it, and, modifying the actual potion slightly, Remus was able to retain some consciousness and able inject himself with it. The result was that, while in werewolf form, Remus' strength decreased drastically and he was almost immobilized.

I know this isn't the best news we're getting and I know that there are lots of things we need to fix, but I hope this is going to be a breakthrough for what we're fighting for.

[WARDED TO DORIS]

And that is my explanation on what I've been working on during those late nights.

[WARDED TO REMUS]

Are we still going to do it tomorrow?

( Warded Private )

( Warded to Doris )

[WARDED TO REMUS]

Still feeling all right after taking that potion? No side effects or anything bad like your skin burning, right?

[WARDED TO REMUS]
Do you think you can come over today or tomorrow? I need your help.

[WARDED TO DORIS]
I'm sorry.

[WARDED TO BETH AND LILY]
I've figured out how to raise the potion's concentration -- explanation will come as soon as possible when I'm coherent enough because I haven't had a night's sleep.

( Warded to Beth and Lily )

( Warded to Doris )

[WARDED TO THE ORDER]

Since Sturgis has written about the ID cards (anyone who wants to help us figure out how to duplicate it would are high encouraged to do so; it'll especially help the Muggleborns and Elsie made a very good copy of a duplicated card before. Now that we're nearly solving the number patterns, I think there's a good chance we could put this into good use). I figured this would be a good time to bring up what I've been working on with Lily and Remus for the last couple of months.

I hope this is going to make sense because I have a bit of a hangover.

We've been working on something called Wolfsbane Potion for some time. At first I thought I was going to base it on how the Calming Draught is concocted, but later after several experiments, I realised that this was something more advanced than I thought it would be, especially after I used aconite. I've found more information about aconite besides the fact that werewolves are weak against it -- and since then have started experimenting the potion on Remus. It was a risk, I know, but we don't know any other werewolves and he was willing to do it. And we've been careful with the ingredients, too. I didn't think it was going to work very well, especially after the first attempt. Remus got very sick, though, to a degree, he didn't injure himself too much -- which meant that he had been somewhat aware of his surroundings. It's a breakthrough, considering werewolves lose control of themselves during full moon.

It was still a bit tricky to proceed to the 2nd attempt though; we didn't want to hurt Remus, so we began experimenting with less amount of bloodrot. Lily even added more armadillo bile in the potion, and we figured out a way to neutralize the poison without having to get rid of it (it's the best poison to use to calm and lower the heartbeat of the drinker): by adding more bitter orange. I thought it was useless but it started neutralizing the aconite and bloodrot combination. We also raised the amount of aconite in the potion.

The result was that Remus' strength and dexterity as a werewolf lowered (based on our observation). It was most definitely an improvement, though he still got a little ill (not as bad as before, but still; apologies for that, mate), but his transformation left him fewer scars, which means that the potion managed to remove the Dark Magic that comes with werewolf transformations.

There are still things I'm not sure about, such as how to not get Remus sick (it seems impossible to completely keep him healthy with aconite being one of the ingredients but we'll figure this out soon, Marlene) But I've been thinking for some time and I think we should make this useful for us. Clearly the Death Eaters have werewolves siding with them and we know that they're difficult to fight against, so why not use the potion? I don't know how we can make it work though because so far we've only figured out that this is only effective for drinkers and aconite would probably not work as good as it would be without full moon but what if we could somehow use another ingredient almost as strong as aconite, combine it together in one potion and


Sorry, got excited. But if the potion can be concentrated and strong enough then maybe it can be used on them when they're not in werewolf form as well? Lily, if we raise the amount of aconite slightly (maybe to 3 1/4 ounces) use another strong ingredient -- we can make it work. We'd have to neutralize it in a different way of course but I think it might be possible.

What do you think? Merlin's pink slippers I need something to eat.

Unsurprisingly, I miss working at Diagon Alley. The customers we got there are more diverse than the ones we get in Tinworth – not that there’s anything wrong with them. I’ve been trying to write down and describe what they’re like in this journal, but they’re not as colourful as the ones that used to come at Roland’s, regardless of how hysterical some of Roland’s customers were.

I guess change can both be a good and a bad thing. And sometimes, it doesn't do much at all.

( Warded to Doris )

( Warded to Lily )

( Warded to Remus )

( Warded to Sturgis )

[Warded to Doris Crockford]

I know it's been a while, but I might need your smuggling expertise for something. But only if you agree, of course.

[Warded to Ioan and Tabitha]

Sunday is Elsie's funeral. We're planning to keep it family-only, but I know she would've liked for both of you to be there after all you've done for her.

[Warded to the Order]

We're having a private funeral for Elsie this Sunday, but due to several reasons including the fact that my brother has been taking this badly my family have insisted that we keep it family only. But thank you again for all you've done. I appreciate it.

[Warded to Hogwarts' Refugees + Order]

Elsie's d gone.

I have to let our family know. And prepare a f fune prepare things for her. Thank you, everyone, for helping her before. We tri I c

( Warded to Hestia and Beth )

[Warded to Hogwarts Refugees]

Elsie       she won't wake up.

    I don't know what's


Someone please wake her up