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Twenty Questions - Kaatjie Spaans - September 1, 2024
September 2nd, 1894
Kaatjie was nervous. This would be the first letter she had ever sent to her father. But she'd been careful to try to remove any identifiers, and it was important that she knew this information — and it was not as if she could ask her uncle. (Besides — this was the first time she could send a letter without her mother, or her uncle and aunt, knowing.)So she would send him a letter. Just to check. And it didn't matter if this one was particularly impressive, because she was not going to tell him who she was in it.
(And Gryffindors were supposed to be brave, right? Everyone had told her that Gryffindors were brave.)
Mr. Don Juan Dempsey,
I am doing research on great writers and obviously decided to reach out to you. Can you send me the Hogwarts houses of yourself and your family, please?
X
Don Juan Dempsey Fortitude Greengrass
RE: Twenty Questions - Don Juan Dempsey - September 1, 2024
You meant Eamon Dempsey.
Not an auspicious start to your career as a researcher. I'll do you the favor of not forwarding him the letter, so you can make a better first impression if you write him.
Same address.
Don Juan Dempsey
Not an auspicious start to your career as a researcher. I'll do you the favor of not forwarding him the letter, so you can make a better first impression if you write him.
Same address.
RE: Twenty Questions - Kaatjie Spaans - September 4, 2024
September 4th, 1894
Kaatjie spent some amount of time staring at the letter, and then took another day to reply. Her mother had told her she was nothing if not tenacious. Ana would not have given up after one letter So neither could Kaatjie.
Mr. Don Juan Dempsey,
No, I definitely meant to write you. There is already a great deal of research on Mr. Eamon Dempsey.
X
(There wasn't, or it was written at a level that she had been unable to understand. But writing to another grandfather was daunting in and of itself, because she had had a grandfather who loved and spoiled her very much, and missed him dearly. What if Eamon Dempsey did not live up to the expectations set by Grandfather Spaans?
She'd never had a father — so there were no expectations.)
RE: Twenty Questions - Don Juan Dempsey - September 4, 2024
Are you from Witch Weekly, or is this Halloway's lousy attempt at being funny?
DJD
[Halloway - Don Juan's usual editor. She probably wouldn't be able to figure that out]
RE: Twenty Questions - Kaatjie Spaans - September 6, 2024
September 6th, 1894
This one was just as hard — she spent a while trying to decipher it before conjuring her response.Mr. Don Juan Dempsey,
I am not from Witch Weekly, and apologies, sir, but I do not know who Halloway is.
X
RE: Twenty Questions - Don Juan Dempsey - September 13, 2024
Gryffindor.
Are you recruiting for a secret society?
DJD
Are you recruiting for a secret society?
RE: Twenty Questions - Kaatjie Spaans - September 17, 2024
September 11th, 1894
Finally! Kaat was thrilled that her father was a Gryffindor like she was. Mr. Don Juan Dempsey,
No, I am doing research. Would you join a secret society?
X
RE: Twenty Questions - Don Juan Dempsey - September 17, 2024
Probably. Why does your research require a pseudonym?
DJD
RE: Twenty Questions - Kaatjie Spaans - September 22, 2024
September 16th, 1894
It took her several days to decide how to reply to this one.Mr. Don Juan Dempsey,
Because anonymous research is important.
X
RE: Twenty Questions - Don Juan Dempsey - September 22, 2024
No, it isn't.
No more letter questions. I'll answer whatever you like if you meet me in person. You tell me where.
DJD
No more letter questions. I'll answer whatever you like if you meet me in person. You tell me where.
RE: Twenty Questions - Kaatjie Spaans - September 22, 2024
September 18th, 1894
Oh, no.Mr. Don Juan Dempsey,
I'm busy until December.
X
RE: Twenty Questions - Don Juan Dempsey - September 22, 2024
No one was busy until December. Things that were more likely: she was in mourning and couldn't get to events until December, and had too firm a hold on propriety to suggest a more private venue. She was pregnant and planned to have finished the pregnancy by December. Possibly she was out of the country, possibly fleeing scandal — maybe fleeing the scandal of being pregnant. He did the math; November delivery less nine months was February. He couldn't remember what he'd been doing in February with any degree of specificity. Anything was possible, he supposed. Gross.
But the persistence of the letters had intrigued him. His past experiences — and to some extent his present ones, with Valencia — taught him it was better to be apprised of what others wanted from you than to be blissfully ignorant. So he ought to go, even if all December brought was an attempt to trap him.
It's a date.
Don Juan Dempsey
RE: Twenty Questions - Don Juan Dempsey - December 23, 2024
I apologize for what I said when we met. What I meant to say was this: your mother had many flaws, but she was always a good judge of character. And she did not want me anywhere near you.