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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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From:

alt_evelyn

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.

From:

alt_neville

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.)

From:

alt_evelyn

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.