ORDER ONLY. Messrs. Macnair and Snape.

[alt_albus]

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.)

Comments

[alt_sirius]

What return? When?

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

[alt_albus]

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

[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?

[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.

[alt_sirius]

....

[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 --

[alt_frank]

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

[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.

[alt_sirius]

This is such a bad idea.

[alt_bill]

Yes, but the Order lock, too?

Merlin, Professor.