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alt_sinistra

So. Yeah. Rather a surprise.

Only there's places that weren't, too.

I'm glad I know now. Truly.

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alt_harry

Good. That's good.

I'm glad you know too.

I'm sorry I couldn't say anything sooner. To either of you. It's just

Anyways. You're here now, and that's a good thing. It really is.

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alt_sinistra

Not your secret to tell, yeah? I get that.

I never did tell him about Sarah. About a couple of other things. And he spent so long trying to figure out why you picked the people you picked, for training.

Got a lot to think through, really. And we'll have a lot to talk about, Saturday, right?

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alt_harry

Yeah. That's for certain.

I can come sooner than that if you need.

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alt_sinistra

Cedric's coming Wednesday if you can get free?

Mum's coming tonight. Remus swore her in, too, I just realised, I didn't mention at all. But she wants help sorting through who's who. And she made me promise her a summary of what's happened, because she doesn't have time to read back without Dad spotting.

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alt_harry

I'm done after four. I can stop by then?

That's brill about your mum.

Tell her I said hullo, and if she can keep track of all your cousins, she should do just fine.

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alt_sinistra

Please.

That will make her laugh. Though I think cousins are easier and mostly much less intimidating. Also, I'm pretty sure you are now getting your own care packages from her. Or will be.

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alt_cedric

Welcome. I'm very glad you took the plunge.

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alt_cedric

I didn't know when I told you about Sarah. All I knew was that Harry had "people". I wish I hadn't, but I had no way to know how far Harry's connections ran and how incredibly dangerous they were. It just shows how dangerous people with a little bit of knowledge can be.

You'll get back to it, but we saved Selwyn's kids as well.

Would you like me to come by some evening this week to talk? I found it helpful to read with someone talk to and yell at. I won't add my standard "don't read before bed, because you won't sleep" because well I know your schedule.

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alt_sinistra

It was a very odd conversation last night, because Remus wouldn't tell me the bits that would have made it easy to decide until after I took the oath.

Glad I did, though. Just. There is an awful lot there. I read back to May, and I think I need to start over and be systematic, really or it'll drive me up a wall. Arista and Hector. Discovering Draco's not actually dead.

Some evening this week would be good, please. Mum's coming tonight, because (as she says) I know a bunch of you better than she does, and she needs a map to sort out who's who, and at least I can do most of that for her? (And there's that very useful set of meeting minutes from a few weeks back, so I can at least figure out enough of the names, yeah?) Wednesday, maybe?

And well, no. The sleep. Sort of good you all decided now, really. No one's going to fuss if I'm keeping an odder than usual schedule at the moment.

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alt_cedric

They did tell you about "Brutka", I assume?

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alt_sinistra

Right. Done writing to very complicated people. (What do you think of the Longbottoms? Alice and Frank, I mean. I just. There's the history with Raz, and yet things before that, and I don't even know where to start.)

Um. What Remus told me.

Brutka, yes. Which makes a few things make rather a lot make more sense now. Alastor Moody (also that they've stopped giving him a veto on members, and I probably won't hear much from him anyway.) Draco, and how they made that work. Muggleborns. With wands. The names of the members still at school, so I'd be able to help if I had to there.

And he had rather a lot of questions about Tosha, which is complicated all over.

We left it at my going and reading things. Which I'm working on.

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alt_cedric

Alice is very sensible. She pulls back some the wilder and overly messy plans of others. I've liked working with her.

Frank. I've trained with Frank some, when I can make the time to get to Moddey Dhoo with the others who are out of school. What happened at Saltash messed him up emotionally as well as magically. I don't know how much, but enough that an outsider can tell. He talked a lot about training until you can instinctively make good choices in combat. How Auror's trained in the old days. He doesn't like talking about his combat experiences and he never talked directly about Raz. He let bits and pieces slip about old battles while talking about evaulating the terrain or making choice based on who you are fighting. ~~He reminds me a lot of Raz.~~

Working for Dolohov is very complicated. Has he said anything to you about what he does on Fridays?

Wednesday should work.

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alt_sinistra

Right. Alice was a prefect, in the sett. My first year, her last. So I knew her - and liked her, then. Just there's the time since then.

I can see that. Raz didn't much like talking about the war unless it had a purpose in teaching. I never have cared much for the people who bragged about what they did.

No, on the Fridays. Just, it's clear he really doesn't like it. And that he hasn't told me is - well, telling. Listening to the spaces.

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alt_sinistra

Being sensible, I promise. Mum's coming tonight to talk through things more. And I'm reading. A lot. Had to take a break for a walk. ~~And a cry~~

(Also, joining a treasonous resistance organisation seems to have been good for my appetite. Despite everything. I don't even. Writing that out, also very odd.)

Minerva. I had no idea. ~~What happened when~~. Am I right in sorting out that Arista and Hector Selwyn are alive and being cared for?

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alt_alice

Hello, Aurora. It's been a long while, hasn't it?

Welcome.

I know you have quite a lot to process, but I very much look forward to meeting with you once things have had a chance to settle.

Thank you for putting your trust in us.

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alt_frank

welcome to the order. good to have you on board.

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alt_frank

thank you for what you've done for our evie.

it's meant a lot to her.

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alt_sinistra

Some things are very simple for me, really. What kind of teacher would I be if I turned my back on someone who wanted to learn my field?

~~It must have been so hard for her. All through.~~

She does remind me of Alice. Rather a lot.

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alt_sinistra

Quite a lot, yes. But I trust you to be fair about it, and I guess you trust me to be fair about it, and we can sort things out from there, yes?

Might be a bit before I can apparate, still - Poppy hasn't cleared me for it yet.

And I suppose I should say, where people can see, I'm at a cottage on the Astronomy Guild's estate in Cornwall, not New London. Expect to be here till the last week of August, then back at Hogwarts.

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alt_alice

Yes. Of course.

Once you're cleared, I might bring you round to some of our safehouse locations and make some introductions.

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alt_sinistra

I'd appreciate that.

I understand from Cedric that Arista and Hector Selwyn are alive. Were rescued. Are they somewhere I could see them? If they wanted. I just keep thinking of Chloe.

Clearly, I should also work up a list of things I might be able to help with.

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alt_alice

I'm sure they'd love to see a familiar face. They absolutely go into raptures whenever Ron or Draco stop by, and once you're able to come on your own steam, as it were, you'd be more than welcome to come and visit as often as you'd like.

If you'd rather not wait to be cleared by Poppy, if it would help to have this in your pocket to hold onto while you're handling all these changes, I could meet you in London and take you there. Just say the word.

And Aurora, your willing wand and sharp mind is such a boon to us. We can talk further about specific things you might work on with us once you have a better idea of what we're up to, but regardless of specifics, we are so very fortunate to have you working with us.

I'll do the best I possibly can to make good use of what you've so generously offered to share with us, and will try my utmost to make sure that the Order is worthy of your decision.

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alt_sinistra

You're being so very fair. And welcoming. And I don't really know what to do with it, and there's a voice in my head saying I can't do what you think I can. And you being fair is ...

Right. Let me say this. It matters.

One of the reasons I could love Raz was that he treated your children fairly. Even them. Even with everything he'd lost. I had lots of other reasons, but that was one.

The rest, let me think about, please.

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alt_alice

Yes. We have have time enough for that.

I was most certainly keeping a close eye, and had my doubts when he first started, but yes, Rabastan was fair, and for that I am profoundly grateful.

Draco and Pansy both love Lucius Malfoy. They are two of the three people who love him most in the world, I think. And I know that Harry loved Raz deeply and fiercely, and that Molly loved her Percy, and Sirius loved Regulus so very much.

This business we're in is complicated beyond imagining, but know that I would never question the validity of their love, nor their loyalty.

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alt_pansy

We needed some good news.

Welcome, Professor Siz.

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alt_pansy

I just realised

If you're going to be reading back, there were some things that happened at the end of term. But I'm fine now. Mostly.

Anyways. If you have any questions, let me know. I very much hope I wasn't too tetchy with you.

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alt_sinistra

I saw some of it. I'm about to go back and be much more organised about reading. Clearly, I need to.

I did not notice you being particularly tetchy at me.

Though I am guessing there's some good explanation for why a whole mess of you were late to our winter exam that I haven't discovered yet. Thinking about the things I have actually been tetchy at you about this year.

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alt_pansy

Oh! We were reading Pure Victory aloud. The real one. And we were so close to being finished.

We had about half the school sitting in, actually. Harry pulled that one off. We all helped, of course, and I don't think it was his idea to start with, but he managed to get everyone organised and made sure they'd keep quiet.

Daphne did a magnificent job on the voices.

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alt_sinistra

Oh. Goodness.

Near half the school? I am startled. (The things staff clearly don't notice.) And I'm sure she did.

Poppy got me a copy of the real one - was it just a week and a half ago? Apparently. And of course I read it straight through. I really can't blame you all for wanting to try and finish, but it made me a little suspicious at the time.

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alt_bill

Welcome.

Welcome. I'm sure you understand that the Weasleys are all rather preoccupied for the moment. But we're glad to add you to our ranks.

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alt_sinistra

Draco, it helps such a great deal to hear you're alive.

Both of you, if I can do anything to help, you two in particular, please tell me.

Raz and I talked about a lot of things this spring, but what we'd settled on, more than anything, was figuring out how to help you two and Harry do something better. Better than we've managed the past fifteen years.

This isn't the form I expected at all, but I'm really certain about that. Wanting to do what I can.

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alt_hydra

I'm on the council now, so, - I really don't think there's anything anyone can do to help, there.

Be there for Harry, I suppose. Because I can't always, and neither can Draco, especially not now.

But at the same time, Harry needs to learn to stand on his own, so don't be there for him too much.

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alt_sinistra

I can't and won't argue with your logic.

There might be things I've heard that you haven't. Raz and I talked a lot about how things have changed, the past few years. And I know his opinions - and Tosha's, for that matter - are a bit different than your parents.

As to Harry, he's no child. None of you are. Or got to be.

We've been running more to time when no one needs to have complicated conversations than anything else, really. Though clearly we've got to talk a bit now.

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alt_sally_anne

Welcome, Professor Sinistra.

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alt_severus

I suppose I must welcome you to our conspiracy.

As is my standard hobbyhorse when someone new is sworn in, I will recommend that you begin training in Occlumency immediately. You do not recall a conversation we had some time ago — you will see reference to it if you choose to read back — but it was far too easy for me to read your thoughts, and the Dark Lord is significantly more powerful than I.

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alt_sinistra

I am the last person to argue with sensible security precautions.

My husband had begun working with me on Occlumency this spring, though of course he could not test me as thoroughly as he wished.

I am indeed reading back, but a date reference would be helpful for this or other specific things of that kind, please. There is rather a lot to read.

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alt_severus

Quite so.

This would have been — about a year and a half ago, or thereabouts. You were of some help in locating a site based upon the skies above it. (I ought add that the Obliviation afterward was entirely your idea.)

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alt_sinistra

I've read it now.

It's rather odd, reading your comments, and being able to figure out what I must have said at the time. And how I said it. Among other things.

It's good I could help then. And I guess I'm finding it reassuring that I did. And had enough sense to ask to be Obliviated. I would not have wanted - must not have wanted, clearly - to put Poppy and Pomona at any risk at all.

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alt_evelyn

Oh, Professor Siz.

I was hoping you'd say yes with all my heart.

I'm so very glad.

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alt_sinistra

Thank you.

And clearly, I should be sorting out some additional reading for you. I got a very brief summary last night, but I gather locational magics are very much on the agenda.

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alt_evelyn

Yes please. So much of what I've read so far, well, it's like everyone who knows about what the wards are doing also know that they can't talk about it, so there are just enormous gaps, and because I don't quite know enough about what's not being said, it's frustrating as anything.

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alt_sinistra

Most of the people who know much of it are in Mysteries, and they both don't talk and barely publish. It's very tedious for the rest of us. (I know a number of them, through my Guild.)

I lent you my NEWT paper, yes, the version that got published? I had to redo the measurements before it actually went to press, in 83, because the wards changed a whole lot of things. (And not always predictably, either.)

I do have some books from before then which might help with the gaps, but I need to sort out which ones I'd suggest, but of course no one had ever done anything quite so far reaching as warding off an entire rather large bit of land before.

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alt_jeremy

Welcome to the Order, professor. Good lot here.

Once you've got setttled in, you may want to look in on our ad-hoc group working on locational magics, ley lines, and the Oroborous stones. No rush, though. I'm new, too -- well, newish. So yeah, there's a lot to read at first.

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alt_sinistra

Thank you.

I've seen some references. Give me a bit to figure out all the other things everyone's been up to, and then I'd be quite willing to see about more specific things. (I am better on locational magics than the leys, I'll warn you now.)

If someone had a summary of your work so far, that'd likely be helpful, too. The references I've seen make it clear looking at the details is going to be necessary to make any sense of what you're doing.

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