Well. If nothing else, I'm relieved there will be no need to experiment with whether the Order lock could be used successfully on a stolen journal--or what would become of us if it did not hold.

As for the manner in which they came by their journals. That is not relieving in the slightest. But then, we're all in possession of journals sent us mysteriously by the Ministry (though not under the hand of Bartemius Crouch, the elder, for mercy's sake), and we entrust our safety to them every day.


I'm sure I don't know what to hope for as the result of all this.