alt_gredforge | Order Only: Question and Answer session for the Institute

Order Only: Question and Answer session for the Institute

Fred, George, and Lee will be in the usual place we hold meetings, tomorrow afternoon after lunch. That should give you the chance to at least get started reading some stuff. We'll answer questions for you, if you like, or if you prefer, it'll just be a safe place where people can just talk about what they've read. We know it's a lot to absorb.

You won't be sorry you joined. Honest.

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Are any of you available tonight? Not to talk, just for company. Maybe to play chess.

Sure. Meet you down in the Common Room?

I don't know if I can stay in the dorm tonight. Maybe I'll sleep on one of the couches.

Why? What's the matter?

Evelyn and I were reading Mum and Dad's pages. We ran across the stuff about Ireland, and, well, that was upsetting. And so I started skipping around a bit, just jumping to different people's journals. And I found the bit that Bill wrote about the rite last December.

Merlin. I found out about Seamus.

It's like--I feel like I set him up for that.

Because I went to Dolohov.

That's why we figured people would probably need to talk. There's a lot of difficult stuff in there, hard choices and ugly things. Terry's right. It's hard stuff to read.

Sure, we'll keep you company tonight, Nev.

You okay, Pete?

I kept reading dad's entries after you left because if I stopped in Ireland, it was almost like he would still be there in my head, and I didn't want that.

And I think you ought to read what he wrote about in July. It might make you feel better?

It's no good. Whenever I close my eyes I see what happened to Mr Benjy and Ms Jacinda, only it's dad who's dying and mum's holding him and crying.

I'm glad he didn't die.

He sounded so sad, Pete.

That did make me feel better. In fact, it was dead amazing to read. And Terry! I had NO IDEA when I saw him at the Burrow at the vigil last December that it wasn't my first time seeing him since he left Hogwarts. That sly dog. Literally! That memory charm was really good.

You know, as awful as some of this information is, it's gotta be much easier for you and me and Ron to read than, say, Draco Malfoy. We're getting to know our parents in ways that just make us admire them more--except that Mr Weasley did have to do dreadful things to keep his job, so that he could help other people.

But Draco Malfoy? There's no up side for him to reading all this, unless it's more important for him to know the truth than keep his illusions about his dad.

I wonder if he's regretting joining at all now.

Being with Fred and George and Lee really did help. We made sort of an all night party of it and even though we couldn't talk about what I was reading--too public a space for that--it was comforting, really. They were good at talking about other things when I needed distraction, and quiet when I wanted to read.

I hope people come to the gathering this afternoon. That was a good idea.

How are you doing this morning? Did you end up sleeping at all? Yeah, the Irish stuff was hard to read, and so sad.

I'm pleased they elected Mum to take Mr Weasley's place. That shows good judgement, I reckon. It seems like she's doing a really good job of it, too.

I didn't sleep much, no. There was just too much floating around in my head.

I'll go to the meeting. Maybe that'll help.

And our mum is brilliant.

There's something else I need to say, Lindy.

In some ways, Moddey Dhoo sounds like a paradise. Well, it sounds like a paradise, but I bet Mum and Dad would admit that it has none of the comforts we're used to, living at home and at Hogwarts. For all I know, the drains are bad--if there are any at all--and maybe they don't always have enough to eat. But living there would mean being with Mum and Dad, and Kev, and doing work we believe in, and never having to pretend.

While it's tempting to say I'm done with my OWLs and that's good enough, and to ask if I can go to join them and live with them permanently, I'm not going to do that. For one thing, I couldn't leave you all alone here at Hogwarts, all by yourself with blood traitor taint. For another thing, it would never work. Once I disappeared, they'd probably figure that I went to join them, so what do you know? And they'd swoop down on you and take apart your mind with veritaserum or legilimancy.

The other thing is this: they're our parents, and they made their decision years ago about what would be the best thing for us. And they thought that was to live with Gran and get a Hogwarts education. They sacrificed a lot to give us that. It was a good decision, made with the best of facts they had at the time, they have the authority to make it, and I trust their judgement. Especially after spending the last day reading old journal entries. I'm just glad I have parents to make decisions about our welfare.

I figured you might be afraid to ask, so I thought I'd set your mind at ease.

I'm staying.

(Unless Mum and Dad for some reason decide otherwise and bring all of us AND Gran to live at Moddey Dhoo. But in a way, having us join the Order so we can talk to each other is going to make our present arrangement a lot easier anyway.)

Thank you.

I can see how we'd do good there, but I can also see how we'd do good here. How we've been doing good already. And how we'd have more choices if we stayed.

I still want to visit, though.

Oh, I do too, absolutely. I wonder if we'll be given the chance this summer?

Maybe it'll help Pansy and Draco think twice about joining up with them. The Council, I mean. Even if they'd be doing it to help.

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