alt_albus | ORDER ONLY. Messrs. Macnair and Snape.

It would, all things considered, be advisable to trust Messrs. Macnair & Snape. Many people, after all, have hidden depths.

I shall look forward to conversing with them upon my return. (And, of course, to seeing the rest of you all.)

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alt_sirius

What return? When?

You can't mean to say you want Minerva to swear them into the Order? That's madness.

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alt_albus

Dear boy, you must have a very limited view of the possibilities of 'madness.'

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alt_sirius

Don't get cute with me, Professor. I've seen enough of madness to recognise the warning signs.

Are you truly ordering us to let them into the Order? To let them read messages behind the Lock? To include them in our plans?

Or are you simply telling us to trust they won't give away what they already know, and we can let Frank and Kingsley stop sitting on them?

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alt_albus

Allow them in.

Take it as an opportunity to develop your character. You have many excellent qualities, but a forgiving nature is not one of them. One of the few ways in which you are like your cousin Bellatrix, I must say.

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alt_sirius

....

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alt_sirius

They're Death Eaters, Albus. They didn't go and take the Mark to keep Hogwarts safe like Minerva. They joined on their own.

Macnair's killed for Voldemort. And --

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alt_frank

and for all his talk about changing colours, he tried his level best to kill harry.

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alt_sirius

Oh, but he's thought better of that, hasn't he? Buggering Snape made him think different.

Morgana. I just don't understand what Albus is thinking.

Not like he'd tell us.

And what's this 'return' he's talking about? When's that going to happen? And what does he expect us to do when he decides to provide his leadership again, hm? If it's more orders like this - well.

I just hope he really knows what he's doing.

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alt_sirius

This is such a bad idea.

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alt_bill

Yes, but the Order lock, too?

Merlin, Professor.

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alt_mcgonagall

Truly, Albus?

I suppose it must be as you say.

I wish you would tell us your plans. Or where you are. Or any thing.

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alt_kingsley

I'll second that.

Albus, it would relieve my mind if you have any further information about the two of them that would help us accept your advice.

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alt_frank

that's all we get? after three years, that's all we get?

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alt_frank

okay. I get snape. you have a history. I'll give you that much, but why macnair? what reason do you have to trust him, sight unseen?

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alt_frank

and what about the prophecy, then?

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alt_sirius

Apparently they both have hidden depths.

Depths of what, I'm not sure.

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alt_frank

dammit, he knows exactly what this means, how dangerous it could be, but he just swans in and expects us to jump to and merlin forbid we ask questions and get them answered.

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alt_frank

I don't expect any answers.

the man is impossible.

and he writes us after so many years away, so many years we've been trying to get by without his leadership

and he gives us so damn little to work with.

it just makes me so fucking steamed.

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alt_frank

where was he last year when you nearly died, and we were all facing merlin knows what?

was he reading when our hermione had to go under cruciatus? or when her parents were sent to be bitten by werewolves?

could've used a bit of goddamn leadership then.

at least minerva answers back.

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alt_sirius

Sometimes I think he still thinks we're at school and he's headmaster.

Still. No room for argument, is there?

Wonder what he'd do if we decided not to take his word for it?

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alt_frank

I know how you mean, mate.

and I doubt he'd really do anything. but then again, I don't doubt that we will end up doing what he says.

might be unhappy about it, and frustrated as hell, but the man has more than a little weight to throw around, and he's thrown it.

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alt_bill

Bloody hell. What?!

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alt_bill

He's got to be kidding.

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alt_arthur

He wouldn't kid about something like this, son.

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alt_bill

Seriously, though. How do you expect us to accept them on your say-so? Have you interviewed them, maybe dropping in them while they've been on the run?!

You're in America!

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alt_arthur

That's enough, Bill. Stubble it.

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alt_bill

Dad, you can't be serious, either! He has no way to know that they can be trusted!

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alt_arthur

No, I don't believe that's true, son.

He created the Order. He is not going to set us upon a course that will destroy it. And he has powers that are so beyond anything that any of the rest of us have.

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alt_bill

But he's telling us to let them in to the Order Lock, Dad! The lock that I created!

Merlin, that's one of the few, true advantages we have.

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alt_arthur

What, are you afraid that they're going to go back to Voldemort then and blab about it?

Son, they've been on the run from the Ministry for months. They'd fall in a hail of Avada Kedavras if they tried. According to Dumbledore, they won't try.

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alt_bill

According to Dumbledore. But if he's wrong....don't you realise what will happen to all of us?

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alt_arthur

Son, I've never seen him be wrong. About anything.

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alt_sirius

He's not.

He may be completely round the twist, but he's not joking.

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alt_alice

I'm glad to see you're alive, Albus.

This is more than a little unexpected. I know you have your reasons, and I wish you'd share more with us about what they are -- if we're to take this big of a risk, and so soon, it would be best to know where you're coming from.

Thank you for your advice.

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alt_frank

bloody hell, al.

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alt_alice

I know you, Frank Longbottom.

And I know that you're letting your anger towards Dumbledore cloud your ability to listen to what he is saying.

Yes, he's left us to our own devices for a long while. Yes, sometimes, his methods are difficult for us to understand.

But you know as well as I that you are Dumbledore's man through and through, even though you're spitting nails right now.

We've been struggling about what to do with Snape and Macnair, and now we have an answer. I can see how you and Sirius are unhappy about it, but weren't you saying just the other day how much you believed their intentions to be sincere? How dependent they were on us? What are we to do with them? Dump them off at Sherwood?

They've been of real use to us. And could continue to be of real use.

You've spent days talking with these men. You of all people know what they are capable of, and where they are coming from.

And you, of all people, can inform us whether this is possible and safe.

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alt_frank

damn it all.

can't say I'm happy about it, about any of it, but you're right.

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alt_frank

I can see you're back to making sense again.

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alt_alice

Yes, well, a good night's rest can do wonders.

And one of us must keep our head about us. We seem to take it in shifts. It'll be my turn again soon enough.

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alt_sirius

Kiss-arse.

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alt_sirius

And I mean that in the kindest possible way, of course.

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alt_alice

Oh, naturally.

You are just jealous that I happen to be better at negotiating than you lot of hot-heads.

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alt_alice

Hush, love.

I know this is not the sort of message you'd like to get from him, and that there's no love lost between you and Snape.

I think at this point, it all comes down to trust. And whereas we might not entirely trust Snape and Macnair, not yet, I do know that Dumbledore wouldn't speak up unless this was important, unless he was absolutely sure.

So if we can't trust Snape and Macnair entirely, we must decide whether we can trust Dumbledore.

And I do.

And thus far, in all your dealings with both of them, they have both attempted to tell us everything they know that could be of use, and have made every effort to show their trustworthiness to us. I know, I know, there could be hidden motives there, but that's something, isn't it?

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alt_alice

And we could all use a bit of good news. And hearing from Dumbledore, as frustrating as it can be, is good news.

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alt_sirius

Dumbledore wants to think the best of people.

But some people just don't have a best in them.

I don't like the idea of letting them in any further while we still have to watch our backs, either.

Cutting them loose I could understand but ... this?

Do I trust him?

Yes. I suppose I do.

Do I think he's right?

I don't know.

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alt_poppy

Well. Albus. A timely surprise.

I've something I've wished and wished I could ask you, and now here you are and of a mind to offer recommendations.

Would you, all things considered, think it a wise investment towards my retirement to put money in a scheme being offered me by the persistent Messrs Forke & Shovelle? They offer to bring me in as a silent partner in their redevelopment of Milton Keynes as a new spa and resort, and they say the potential for future returns is simply vast.

I'm not certain it's a wise investment, given the past uses of the properties in question and their current state of, well, considerable disrepair.

What would you advise?

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