Order Only Private Message to Harry Potter and Justin Finch-Fletchley

[alt_ron]

Thanks.

For not talking.

Being out there.

For the brandy, too. Only reason we're not frozen, I guess.

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[alt_ron]

It's not the Order that's making us do any of it, though.

I mean-

That's too twisty to think out after a third of a bottle of brandy. Sorry.

[alt_harry]

No, I know.

Only, you wouldn't have kissed up to the Aurors if it weren't for the Order. You wouldn't have been in that position, if it weren't for the Order.

[alt_ron]

Well. I'm doing it because I think if I get on the inside, I can make a difference. Get a message out at the right moment to change some outcome or give everyone else a better shot at winning.

Only-

I admit I thought I'd be able to stand up and say I wouldn't hurt people for no reason. That I'd be better than that.

I think I was totally wrong about that part.

[alt_harry]

It wouldn't have mattered to the people who died. Someone else would have killed them.

It would have mattered to you.

But then you wouldn't have been able to be an Auror. And we'd have lost that.

[alt_ron]

That's the thing.

I can't be an Auror who doesn't train and doesn't follow protocol and doesn't... do the off-book things they all do. If I want to be inside, I have to actually be that.

I guess, the thing is, I really think it's important to do it. Whatever it means I have to do. Because if we can win, then it can stop. We can change the laws and purge MLE and put people in front of the Wizengamot for what they've done. Including me, maybe. But we can change it all. And Charlie's kid won't have to live-

Sorry. That's-

Y'know?

[alt_harry]

Yeah, I know.

[alt_harry]

I'll be damned if you're ever in front of the Wizengamot for any reason other than receiving the Order of Merlin, though.

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[alt_ron]

. . .

Thanks.

[alt_justin]

Exactly, Ron. They're not asking us to do it, but what alternatives are there?

I did think of something that might help us all to cope, though. I suggested it to Hydra, that we meet regularly to chat and stay up to date on each other's--well, each other's progress, if you follow me.

Muggles have programmes for addicts, where they sit round and confess things to one another. Ways they've strayed off their path, or desires they have to behave poorly. They encourage each other to stay the course, and remind one another of their goals to keep away from drugs or stealing or whatever it is that plagues them.

We could arrange something of that sort, what. Where we talk to one another, in person, once a week or so. Without judging one another, but to remind each other of the people we want to be, and not the people we're becoming.

-Justin

[alt_harry]

Are you thinking just you, Ron, and Hydra? Or a larger group?

[alt_justin]

All the Order Juniors here at Hogwarts. All of us who are still under cover, as it were.

-Justin

[alt_ron]

Well it's not as if we'll be giving up doing anything.

Really, they sit around and confess stuff to each other?

[alt_justin]

There's rather more to it than that, I think, but it's not as if I've been to anything like it. I've seen a few films with depictions, what.

-J

[alt_harry]

Well, sure, we could do that. If you think it would help you, and Hydra, especially.

We could meet in the Secret Room.