Order Only: Thanks

[alt_bill]

I'm better now.

Couldn't sleep last night until 4:30 am, but then Charlie and I managed to kip until the rooster woke us up at dawn. Staggered into the house, where Mum made us breakfast, and then I went to bed and slept like a rock until this evening.

So my days and nights are turned around, but the inside of my brain feels much more familiar. If still a bit soggy. Which is a huge relief.

Charlie extracted a copy of the memory last night as soon as I returned. Two versions: the whole thing, and then just an excerpt showing the view of the night sky at the beginning and the end. I hope we can borrow Dumbledore's pensieve at the Order meeting for anyone...anyone mad enough willing to view it, who thinks they might be able to shed any light on what this has to do with the wards.

I'm a bit stumped about what to do with the astronomical portion, though. We need to find an expert who can intrepret it accurately enough to pinpoint the site. And I'm firmly of the mind that we need to find that site. As much as I dread the thought of going back there to confirm the location. If we could do tests of the soil to help identify the, uh, fluids that were spilled, and examine any lingering magical signatures, that might be really crucial information.

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[alt_bill]

Would she be the best choice, do you think? Considering who her fiancé is? Could she be trusted to keep the request to herself? Because we don't want this to get back to the Council, that someone who was there is trying to find out the site of the rite. I'm afraid that suspicion would fall upon me immediately, as I may have been the only who came via side-along.

We would have to consider very carefully how to approach her. I think we should add this as an agenda item, to discuss at the Order meeting.

[alt_pomona]

That's the thing - and yes, perhaps best discussed at the meeting.

I want to trust her, so very much. But you're - she doesn't keep much from him. I'm not sure she could. And even asking if she'd keep something from him makes it so very clear that there's something serious at stake.

Do I trust her to answer the question "Who else could do this work?" and not tell him? Yes. I do. If someone she trusted asked it (that would be me or Poppy, I'd assume.)

Do I trust her to do the work herself and not tell Rabastan? I have no idea. If we could present it as a pure academic problem, a matter of curiousity, then perhaps. But if she got any hint there was more, then, well, I've no idea. Maybe Poppy might.

Or do we tell her and as Severus suggested (forgive me, Auri) Obliviate her afterwards? Or give her the choice, which is only slightly better.

And that's the risk. She's so very good at putting pieces together when she pays attention, and we've no way of knowing how much they've told her - if anything - about the whole mess.

I wish I knew how much she'd told Rabastan about the matters with Poppy and Snowdonia this summer. That would at least let us gauge. But one can't ask, really, without tipping one's hand.