Ghosts I Keep, by Tess (PG)

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Fandom: HARRY POTTER
Pairing: Gen
Author on LJ: tessfawcett
Author’s Website: Unknown
Why this must be read:

I liked Goblet of Fire, in part, because it added so many shades of grey to the HP universe. There was darkness in the book, and tragedy, and I teared up more than once upon each rereading. What happened to the Crouch and Longbottom families was especially striking, and Tess tackles those events from Crouch Sr.’s perspective, as he weighs familial loyalty and duty.

I've heard what they say about me.

Have they forgotten so easily what it was like? He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named rising, nearly ascendant, Death-Eaters everywhere you looked, the Dark Mark rising over homes and places all over the country?

I remember. I remember it very clearly. And I knew then, as I know now, that we had no choice. What can you do against people, highly trained Dark wizards, who are bent on murder and mayhem of all sorts? Sending the Aurors in with orders to capture, forbidden to kill, would hamper them to the point of imbecility. I remember when Tom and Rosie McKinnon were captured... We found their bodies a week later. One of the happiest days of my life was when I was able to send Anatoly Travers to Azkaban for it. I defy anyone to look at what remained of Tom and Rosie McKinnon and tell me that their colleagues and friends should not have had the right to kill the filth that had done this, rather than let the same thing happen to them.

Ghosts I Keep