Chapter 131: Someone's About to Jump [bonus]
The owl could have been one of Hogwarts's own, or borrowed from some wizard in Knockturn Alley.
The handwriting was deliberately stripped of personality, the content oblique, but the information it carried was sufficient. The approach was pure Slytherin.
But why anonymous?
Likely because the subject matter was sensitive enough to warrant it.
Open discussion of purging the unworthy already skirted dangerous territory. If someone intended to push that agenda in a semi-public venue like the Slytherin Common Room, deeper motives were at play.
It could be a test. It could be a declaration of alignment. Or it could be performance, staged for a specific audience.
The Burke and Black families had a cooperative bent. Lucretius had chosen to inform Regulus, but he didn't want to be dragged into whatever was coming.
So he'd sent the warning without leaving a trail.
Regulus continued eating breakfast while his mind worked.