I Solemnly Swear That I Am Up To No Good

[alt_sally_anne]

So okay Professor Brutkadore swore me in this afternoon and I spent most of this afternoon reading stuff. Things I've found out:

1. Headmistress McGonagall was involved in the conspiracy with Mr Selwyn to kill the Lord Protector. Also it sounds like she quit drinking, which is good. I found some old minutes where they seemed to think we shouldn't join the Order because we'd find out about the drinking and pfft, as if we hadn't noticed, she was sometimes soused at dinner in the Great Hall. (Or maybe no one else noticed? I noticed.)

2. Mr Selwyn tried to recruit Bill Weasley, I guess because he helped develop the journals and oh you know, when they said their secret method of communication was 'designed by a Weasley' that must mean he made the Order lock, just like the Twins made our lock. Clearly if you want a journal system without secret back doors, don't let Weasleys anywhere near it.

3. Mr Lupin DOES take minutes like mine. Like Hermione said.

4. They are totally not actually planning a revolution, Draco's right, they can't even take advantage of opportunities handed to them, although at least they seem to know that's a problem. Argh.

5. There were British royalty at that hideous dark rite Harry saw even though I have SEEN pictures from Freedom Day and they were ALL KILLED. There were BODIES.

Maybe they were polyjuiced bodies.

6. They explain horcruxes a little better. A horcrux is what you get if you put part of your soul into an object; this makes you immortal, unless people can find the object and destroy it. Frankly that suggests that we SHOULD take Dark Arts, given that Professor Dolohov specifically mentioned 'cursed and magic-infused objects (the making, safe handling, and disposal thereof)' as part of the curriculum.

7. It was Sarah Fawcett's BROTHER who cursed Diggory. By accident. He wanted to kill Umbridge and I guess his aim is terrible? He's a member of the Crimson Company and now he's working for the Order but he's not a member.

So what have the rest of you found?

This is going to take weeks to get through. Or months. Maybe we should split it up. I don't think we want to assume they'll TELL us everything important. We could each take an Order member, read back for the last five years of entries, and then tell everyone about the interesting bits.

Comments

[alt_evelyn]

Nev and me are already reading up on mum and dad, so we can fill you in on them once we're done if you like.

[alt_sally_anne]

8. That muggle camp that the foreign students toured, along with a few students from Hogwarts -- Pansy went, I think, she said it looked a little like Ottery St Catchpole. Anyway, it was cute and quaint because it was a complete fake. Mr Weasley was in charge of making it look nice.

Which

I can't quite believe they bothered. They COULD have told the foreign students no. I guess in some ways they do care how other countries see them?

[alt_pansy]

9. They were totally planning to kill Umbridge. Only we plated her first.

10. Ireland is going to give me rather bad dreams, I think.

11. Mrs Longbottom's entries are really, really long.

[alt_sally_anne]

12. Aurelia Archer's uncle was in the Order. He used his ring to kill himself when MLE came to arrest him.

[alt_susan]

Oh. I didn't see that.

I can't t

Private Message to Sally-Anne

[alt_pansy]

...Case in point.

What do you think? About the farms? And the Strettons?

[alt_sally_anne]

It's really weird to see them talking about us.

It's especially weird to see them talking about ME.

[alt_sally_anne]

I mean not that they do all that often. But it's often enough to be weird.

Private message to Pansy

[alt_sally_anne]

Have you read anything from last December?

From right after Mr Weasley died. Bill Weasley's posts especially.

Re: Private message to Pansy

[alt_pansy]

Oh.

...Oh.

Re: Private message to Pansy

[alt_sally_anne]

Yeah.

They made Seamus Finnigan kill his own mum.

I kind of understand why they wanted to keep that a secret from us. That's just

Well you'll note I sent a PM instead of pointing it out to everyone.

AND they had Bill Weasley come watch it happen. I guess it makes slightly more sense why he fell apart when Ron asked if he could join the Order.








And it was Dolohov.

Re: Private message to Pansy

[alt_pansy]

Yes.

it was.