Order Only: Thinking of Selwyn, and the past few months

[alt_bill]

I've been mulling about Selwyn, especially ever since the Order meeting, when we got the pensieve report of what happened at that rite in the graveyard.

I suspect pretty strongly that Selwyn must have approached me with this coup idea. But something happened in the course of that conversation, something not quite right, and so they ended up obliviating me. Which means...Merlin. If I had joined him....

Bloody hell. Talk about REALLY being in Mortal Peril.

What did he want with me? How did he think I could help? Was there something he detected, some clue, that made him think I would go for something like this? Did he suspect anything else about me and my associations? Did he share them with his fellow conspirators?

I went back and re-read my journal carefully, and two things jumped out at me. One was a private message I sent to Charlie back in January. I'm going to copy it out as a comment to this post. It's about an encounter I had with Selwyn that puzzled me and troubled me quite a bit at the time, and it acquires a whole new significance in hindsight, knowing what we know now about what he was planning.

The second thing is something I asked Minerva about in a private message a few weeks ago, when the worry over the idea that Selwyn and Derrick had both imperiused and obliviated me was really eating away at me. She never replied to me. Back when it first happened, and I was so worried, she made some cryptic comments to Alice that at least she knew my loyalty wasn't being tested.

Look. I have to ask again.

Minerva...how do you know that? And what else did you know?

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[alt_mcgonagall]

I was at court this past Sunday, though not summoned specifically. Strangeweale was the victim then.

The Dark Lord can get nothing from my mind—or, He has not yet, and I am beginning to finally trust my mental barriers, if I am still alive after all these trials, after appearing there. I am certain he tried.

At worst, someday I shall be summoned and appear only to be killed. Well, what of it? At best I shall manage to claw my way back up the ranks. Or perhaps He has decided that my loyalty to Marvolo is as good as loyalty to him. Or perhaps he believes me to be a dupe, in which case He shall use me as long as He can. Intelligent dupes are rare.

Yes, I shall go to court whenever he summons me. He is capricious and cruel—but there is no getting around it.

[alt_lupin]

Do you know who else was in the conspiracy? Other than Selwyn, of course.

[alt_kingsley]

And what was your role in the operation supposed to be, Minerva?