Re: I Solemnly Swear That I Am Up To No Good: Private Message to Sally-Anne Perks

[alt_pansy]

Right.

If we're going to do it, we need to do it today before I completely lose my nerve. We can ask Professor Brutka to see it after dinner, maybe, so we don't have to show up and look normal?

We could stop by Madame P's to pick up some dreamless sleep ahead of time, just in case.

You don't have to come along if you don't want to. But I need

I ought to see it. And if Harry and Draco and Hermione can get through it, I can too.

Comments

[alt_sally_anne]

I don't think you, or Draco, or Harry, or anyone we know should try to get on the Council.

[alt_pansy]

yes.

I think you're right in that I probably am not quite Council material.

And for all his talk about how he wants to know everything, and he wants to learn what he has to

I don't want Draco to have to do those sorts of things.

He would, you know, if he thought it'd serve a purpose.

If he thought it was necessary.

[alt_sally_anne]

Really? He'd cut out a man's heart, a stranger's heart, if the Lord Protector told him to?

What if it were a friend's heart? Because Auror Crouch and Professor Dolohov were the ones who brought Mr Selwyn to be tortured and killed. And he was a friend of theirs.

The Lord Protector makes his closest followers do TERRIBLE THINGS. Sometimes to muggles, sometimes to 'traitors,' sometimes to EACH OTHER.

[alt_pansy]

I don't know. I really don't.

I just don't want him to feel like it's what he'd have to do.

Like we were talking about. Finding other ways we could be of use.

[alt_sally_anne]

Well.

They HAVE a spy on the Council, as it happens. Headmistress McGonagall.

What they really need is someone in the Department of Mysteries.

[alt_pansy]

Right.

[alt_pansy]

And Mr Selwyn is right.

The Council isn't safe. They get used up and thrown away, just like Regulus was. He doesn't care about any of them. He just cares about keeping his power and staying alive forever.

[alt_sally_anne]

Yes.

I was trying to decide whether any of the Councilwizards there were listening.

[alt_pansy]

They're sort of trapped, aren't they?

Even if they wanted to leave, there's only two ways that would happen. Either they die, or he does.

[alt_sally_anne]

Yeah.

That's probably what Selwyn pointed out to the people he recruited to help him.