Order Only: Private message to Fred Weasley and Charlie Weasley

[alt_bill]

Fred, could you share this with George? And read it aloud to Ron, please? Charlie, I'm including you in on this, too.

I didn't expect for that information to come out last night about Dolohov's role in Gideon and Fabian's deaths. But thinking it over, I've come to agree that George and Fred were right, that you and the rest of the Institute need to know, Ron.

Yeah, Dad wanted to put the lid on that information, and he had good reasons behind his thinking, more than you're-just-kids. But things change, and so decisions need to be constantly re-evaluated. He couldn't have known how much his death would actually force our two groups closer together. I think the situation is escalating in a worrisome way at Hogwarts, too, given that bint in charge, and so you need the best information you can get as to who there can be trusted and who can't.

Anyway. I just wanted to say that.

I'll probably be dropping in this week, to help with some of the lessons in Runes. I'm looking forward for the chance to talk with some of the Institute members in more depth.

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[alt_gredforge]

Right. Well, they still think you're a git. Just so you know.

[alt_bill]

I would hope they think I'm a git, yeah, after my behaviour last December. I'd consider their judgement suspect if they didn't, actually. What I did was wrong and appalling and inexcusable, and I've told Ron so.

The point is, I'm trying to cease being a git.

Any tips you can offer would be welcome and helpful.

[alt_gredforge]

If that doesn't work, we can resort to more buckets of water over your head, too.

[alt_bill]

The last one certainly got my attention, yeah.

[alt_gredforge]

Right. Well, we'll relay your message. Can't promise any more than that.

[alt_gredforge]

Here's Ron's reply:

'If you let me join the Order, you could just write me directly.'

[alt_bill]

Right.

I think that the meeting the other night has brought that closer. But we're not there yet. Anyway, I hope that now that you know now about Gideon and Fabian, you have a little better understanding of what you're up against. Mum lost family members because of their work for the Order, and she desperately doesn't want to lose any more.

Ron, I dunno if you know what Mum's boggart is? I saw it a couple months ago. We were at 12 Grimmauld Place before one of the Order meetings, and one of those buggers was stuck in a cupboard and she went to clear it out. Remus and I came because we heard her crying. I was stunned when I came into the room: Mum was there, holding out a shaking wand. And I was lying there on the ground, apparently dead. She said, 'Riddikulus,' and suddenly Charlie was there, lying on the ground, blood trickling from his head. Dead. Every time she said it, the boggart changed into another one of our corpses, until she collapsed sobbing on the ground, absolutely shattered.

And of course, she'd just actually been through it, with Dad. She'd already lived through her worst fear, and the boggart was shoving in her face the fact that she could lose all the rest of us, too.

Remus had to get rid of the boggart for her.

[alt_charlie]

I'm going to try to catch Ron for a brothers' afternoon out tomorrow or Friday, see if I can get a better read on what's on his mind.