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

alt_pansy

See? It was fine.

No-one got shouty, and they're all sorting out how best to recruit Jeremy, just like we thought.

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From:

alt_sally_anne

Yeah you were right.

I just hate making mistakes, ever.

From:

alt_pansy

I know.

I don't think it was a mistake to have freed Maureen, though. And it means that Jeremy has something he can do too, which is a good thing.

From:

alt_sally_anne

No. It wasn't. ~~And~~ ~~But~~

I feel like I should have known he'd work it out, that doing it while I wasn't there wouldn't help in the slightest at least where Jeremy was concerned. So I could SAY, in the first place -- oh, well, whatever. He knows (kind of), and they're going to tell him the rest, probably, and if not...

well

I'll try not to worry about that for now.

From:

alt_pansy

You were caught unawares. That's all.

We can't plan for everything all the time.

And I think of anyone there, he's the only one you'll have to worry about at all. Gemma's far too young to make those sorts of leaps, and Mr and Mrs Stretton don't pay attention to that sort of thing. After all, they didn't even realise about Jeremy and Maureen.

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alt_sally_anne

True enough. They don't pay much attention to anything.

I kind of wish we COULD tell Gemma.

From:

alt_pansy

It's too bad she'll only be overlapping a year with us at school.

Maybe you could write her or something? Not about politics or anything, but just to keep her talking to someone who is not her parents or Megan Jones.

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alt_sally_anne

Oh, yeah. I owl Gemma sometimes. She can't WAIT to get a journal.

From:

alt_pansy

I can imagine, yeah.

From:

alt_sally_anne

I told Ron about this but I hadn't got round to telling you yet.

They're sending me to my father's house for half of winter hols. The other half I'll be with the Strettons. Mrs Stretton let me know she wants to be absolutely sure she has me for the FIRST half because that includes both the days before Christmas, and Boxing Day, and that's when she really wants me around.

From:

alt_pansy

Ugh.

Just think, though -- this is the last Christmas you ever have to worry about it.

Just this one more, and then you can spend it with whoever you want to.

From:

alt_pansy

Maybe if you can spend Christmas night, we can go off to Sherwood for an hour or two and visit with your mum?

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alt_sally_anne

Oh. That would be

hmm

I don't know if they'll let me. I asked Mrs Longbottom if I could visit Sherwood and see my mum there, last summer. And she never answered.

And since I can't apparate I wouldn't blame her if that's because the answer is 'no, don't be ridiculous.'

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alt_pansy

Well, that's not a no, then. So it might be worth asking again.

From:

alt_sally_anne

I don't think this is exactly the week for it.

From:

alt_pansy

Next week, then.

She didn't sound too hacked off. Or was she in the PM?

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alt_pansy

You weren't awake for it, but she was spitting nails when we came back from the Department of Mysteries. I mean, Mr Lupin was being shoutier, but she let us know what was on her mind. Hermione looked like she was about to cry after.

From:

alt_sally_anne

No, they've all been perfectly bloody kind to me and no one's called me an idiot.

I still don't want to ask for any favours right now.

From:

alt_pansy

You don't have to. We've got time before hols.

I just think you shouldn't assume that her not answering you over summer means it's a done deal.

From:

alt_pansy

She seems less likely to call you an idiot than she is Bill Weasley, at any rate. She doesn't seem to like much of his ideas lately.

And what is it with all those PMs he sends Mrs Longbottom and Charlie, anyways?

Are they fighting? Or planning something?

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alt_sally_anne

I don't know what to think about all those PMs.

I mean, Mrs Longbottom is officially the co-head of the Order but everyone knows she really runs everything and the Headmistress has very little to do with it.

So they could be planning something. It's not even necessarily something the rest of the Order doesn't know about it, might be something they just don't want US (the kids, I mean) to know about (or even, they don't want Ron to know -- it's his brothers, after all.)

I doubt it's fighting. I mean it's sort of odd that Bill and Charlie would fight in front of Mrs Longbottom, or that Bill and Mrs Longbottom would fight in front of Charlie, or whatever.

Maybe they're talking about Bill's job but I don't know what Charlie has to do with it, then.

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alt_pansy

Charlie sounded a bit sharpish the other day, when Bill volunteered to teach Imperius. Which was odd, and made me think they might be arguing about something.

But he does write them almost every time he talks about his job. Like there's something else he's reporting on. But yeah, I don't know why Charlie'd be involved.

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alt_sally_anne

Huh. You're right about that.

Okay. I went and looked at his posts.

I can tell you that his 'source' that he ever so diplomatically doesn't name is Auror Rachel Lamont. She's young and PMs Lana Sandoval a lot. (Also Auror Crouch and Mr Malfoy.)

Anyway, remember when he said he had to trade for information, and wanted to know where I'd hid my wand when Ron and I got waylaid by the criminals that time with the diviner's mint? Maybe he's doing that a LOT, and the PMs are to check on whether he can tell her the things he wants to tell her?

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alt_pansy

Maybe. Yeah, I can see that. But why would he have to check with Charlie about it?

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alt_sally_anne

Yeah, that's just weird. None of the ideas I've come up with really make sense to explain that.

From:

alt_pansy

And it'd be weird if they were planning something they didn't want us to know about.

Because the stuff they do tell us is pretty intense, you know? So it makes me wonder what else it could be.

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alt_sally_anne

Yeah.

They might keep it a secret if they were planning to assassinate Lucius Malfoy. From Draco and also you. I doubt that though, I mean they don't like him at all but they think he's better than Corax Mulciber and some of the others who might fill the vacancy if he suddenly fell over dead.

If they decided to kill Bellatrix Lestrange I hope they realise they ought to ask Hydra for advice.

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alt_pansy

I don't know why Bill and Charlie would be in on that sort of plot though. Sounds more like something she'd ask Sirius or Kingsley or Mr Longbottom to do.

Maybe it's something to do with the dragons?

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alt_pansy

Or Mrs Weasley. They might be really worried about Mrs Weasley, and don't want Ron or the twins to know.

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alt_sally_anne

OH.

Yeah, THAT would actually make sense.

She doesn't seem sick, though. I mean she's trying to start that business... I mean she has a lot of energy, you know?

From:

alt_pansy

Maybe it's something that's slow, or she's covering really well?

From:

alt_sally_anne

Maybe.

I would have thought they'd tell the Twins, though. I think they think of the Twins as actual grownups (and, well, they are at least of age).

From:

alt_pansy

Yes. They are.

Honestly, though, I've got no idea. And no-one else seems to think it's strange.

From:

alt_pansy

Or at least they don't say so.

Maybe Bill tells the twins things in person, and tells Charlie and Alice through PM?

From:

alt_pansy

Ugh. I don't want to think about that any more, and I'm sorry I thought of it in the first place.

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alt_sally_anne

I really DON'T think it's that Mrs Weasley is sick and they're keeping it a secret from Ron. That's just too farfetched, especially since mostly in these posts he talks about his job and THEN sends his PM to Charlie and Mrs Longbottom.