We wanted to raise an idea with you. Well, mostly with Dad, but the rest of you at Hogwarts might want to weigh in. It's about Nicholas Towler. (For the rest of you, he's one of Mark Towler's brothers--Mark was one of those killed at the Frost Faire. And so to make nice the Ministry had the bright idea to raise the remaining Towlers from half-blood to pureblood, remember?)
He's a Gryffindor like us, and we know him pretty well. He was a Chaser with us on the Quidditch team, and a Prefect, and we've played loads of chess with him over the years. Ron's played him, too.
Anyway. We had a long talk with him on the train on the way home. The thing is, he's always hoped for a job at the Ministry, but he's worried he won't get one. Because people won't think he's as good as a real pureblood. Or they even think he's bad luck. He tried to get a jump on things, applied for some jobs already by owl, but all he's received back so far are rejections. Some of them even a bit snippy, almost like, how could you think we'd ever consider someone like you?
Dad, do you think you might be able to put in a word for him, maybe? The thing is, we wonder if he might be a help to us. The Order we mean, in the future. You get a sense of a person after rubbing shoulders with him for six years. But more than that...well, he has a good sense of humour, and he knows how to have fun, but something's changed in him the past few months. Since February. Well of course what happened showed him a whole world of ugly, made him think about things. Maybe nobody else would have noticed it, but we know him so well.
We just have a sense that he might be a good candidate for recruitment in the future. Call it a gut feeling, but you know our intuition's good. What do you say?
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