Order Only: Gareth Archer

We noticed Ron was just about drooling into his soup at lunch, he was so tired, so we asked him about it. He told us he was up most of the night with Gareth Archer. Guess Archer woke up with a nightmare, and the shouting carried all the way up to Ron's room and woke him, too. So the two of them went down to the Common Room, playing chess and talking. Sounds like the poor bloke had some stuff he needed to get off his chest.

Of course we couldn't say it to Ron, but we saw it when we went back and read the Order Only posts. His dad died for the Order, didn't he? So we figure...we owe him. The Order does. And he's having a hard time of it. That Charlotte-whosit's journal raving like that stirred up a lot of stinking stuff for him, sounds like. It's eating away at him, according to Ron. Thinking his Dad was a traitor.

Dunno. Just wanted to put it out there. Don't know what anyone can do about it. (Ron says he suggested that Archer could maybe go see Madam Pomfrey, but he hexed that idea down flat.)

We'll look out for him, maybe try to get him to play with chess us, too. Get him to open up a bit more, if we can. At least that's something.

Maybe N

We just thought you lot should know.