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[alt_alice]

Arthur, is there anything we can move forward here? If every major DE is out west, is there something we can take advantage of? I know Sirius has mentioned it, and we need to give it more thought. Can we move some people from the camps? Could we house and feed them until the solstice, or ask Sherwood to help shoulder the burden?

If we can't get them out, can we get anything in to them?

Or is there anything we can try to get our hands on? We could aim for wand core ingredients, or some more fluxweed.

Severus, Walden, do you have any thing you can think of?

I just

I don't want to sit back and ride this one out. Please give me something I can do.

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[alt_alice]

If you can't think of anything that needs doing, I might just take matters into my own hands and sink that damned yacht.

[alt_sirius]

Allie,

Yes, I think trying to mobilise some of the contacts Frank and Dora have been making would be good. There's something to be said for forcing them to fight two fronts.

Are you able to come to the mainland?

[alt_alice]

Yes.

I think at the very least, getting them word would be a good move.

And perhaps get some of their people out so we can take them to France in December.

But we need food if we're going to keep them for a month and a half, and papers if we're going to get into the camps at all.

Damn, we really need a better way to communicate with them.

[alt_sirius]

It's the food I'm thinking of, Allie.

We'd already left, actually, Dora and I. We were hoping to book a passage but there's no way, we're told.

However, we did hear about a transport with supplies heading for a central depot in Liverpool.

I think if we can get some of Beth's people or Davidson's, we can rob the train and use the supplies for any refugees we can free while we're in the area.

We've taken rooms at the Gwynt Ysbrydol for the evening. Join us when you can. Walden, if you're interested, could do with a few more hands.

[alt_alice]

Coming.

That sounds like a plan.

Arthur, we'll need papers for Manchester. Lorena Elliott was there. We could see if we could move people from there.

[alt_alice]

I've sent Stephen to talk to Sherwood to see if we can drum up a few more wands. I have a feeling that if they get a cut of the food, they'll be more than happy to help us out.

[alt_gredforge]

If you're thinking of robbing trains or taking any other swashbuckling actions, you really should think of bringing Fu along. He can plan. He has both the sort of deep background historical knowledge and twisty mind you need to plan guerrilla actions successfully. And, more importantly, how not to get caught doing it.

He might even have ideas on supplies the refugees. He studied warfare, and he's said to us that the success of an army depends on whether they can fill their stomachs. So we bet he's studied problems of logistics and supplies.

[alt_alice]

That's a rather good suggestion that I should have thought of as well. I'll owl Stephen to see if he can side-along Fu. At the very least, we might be able to test some of his non-lethal devices in the field.

[alt_bill]

Saw this and came to the Burrow to wake Dad. He's given me the information I need, and I'm off now to roust one of my best forgers out of bed so he can get started on the job.

(Sorry, I'm running on too little sleep. I was up all last night with one of my analysts last night. But we will get the papers by you late tomorrow, if all goes well.)

[alt_arthur]

Alice:

I'm sorry I missed your journal entry earlier, but Bill has brought me up to speed. I wasn't looking at my journal because I went in to the Ministry, to see if I could find anything out about who else in the Protector's inner circle who might have been sent to Ireland, but there is no there to ask there on a Saturday.

Anything else I can do at this point? Well, perhaps as to food: in the next week I might be able to manage the diversion of some supply shipments. If I tinker with the paperwork, I might be able to finesse things enough that they could be taken somewhere and then abandoned, which would leave them to be picked up quietly by Sherwood, without so much danger. It's a risk, and it could be tricky, but it might be worth trying it, if they're going to be coping with a big influx of people.

[alt_lee]

That's rather brilliant, Mr Weasley.

[alt_arthur]

If so, it'll probably be the first time a bureaucratic snafu was characterised as 'brilliant.'

[alt_alice]

Yes. Let's give that a try. Thank you, Arthur.

[alt_arthur]

Alice: I don't think I can set this up any earlier than about a week from now, however. If you want to do something now, to take advantage of the fact that we have so many Council members off to Ireland, I'm afraid direct action is better.

If it can be done safely. And perhaps Fu is your man to answer that.

[alt_alice]

We're working on plans right now for a controlled derailment. Or halting the train through debris on the tracks.

No worries, Arthur. We'll try to do this as safely as possible.

[alt_alice]

That's just fine, Bill. Thank you.

[alt_nymphadora]

When you get here, look for us in the pub. I'll be the little round grey-headed witch with the pea green shawl sitting near the back, hoping someone will come buy her a shot of harvest gold.

That'd be the little old witch with the scraggly-looking dog under her table, gnawing a soup bone. The dog is, I mean. Not the witch.

[alt_macnair]

How about a raid on Buckingham. Cut the head off while its hands are busy elsewhere.

Or at least come up with a plan along those lines for the next time Voldemort is alone on his throne.

I'm not much good any place where I'll be seen by people who still think me a fugitive. Sorry about that.

[alt_alice]

Tempting.

Very.

But there are far too many unknown factors, and that means we probably won't get far. So that means we need to sort out what those factors are so that we'd be ready to make that kind of move next time around, I agree.

[alt_alice]

Walden; I imagine we'll use glamours and hide our faces for the train raid, if you're up for a bit of robbery.

[alt_nymphadora]

If they did see you, well, it would give them something else to think about. Just now when they've got more to think about than they can manage. You'll be long gone before they could do anything about it, and you've got no connection with this part of the country, so would it really hurt?

If they did know you, I mean, and we'll do all we can to see they don't.

I know you're not usually of a mind to taunt them, but right now, that could be just the thing to do. Show them just how off balance they are.

[alt_macnair]

Don't mind the sounds of that. Count me in.

[alt_alice]

Good.

[alt_alice]

Fred, George, do you have any extra masks?

If you can send them by owl to Sirius, that would be very useful.

[alt_gredforge]

Yes! We do have extra masks. And we'll stay up late tonight and make a bunch more and owl them out to you in the morning. We think we can get you, uh, about fifteen or so. Hope that'll be enough to help?

[alt_lee]

I'll help, too. We'll get more out that way.

[alt_gredforge]

Great, that'll help.

[alt_alice]

Fifteen would be perfect.

Prvt msg Al

[alt_frank]

here.

Re: Prvt msg Al

[alt_alice]

Good.

Thank you.

I love you.

Re: Prvt msg Al

[alt_frank]

stay safe, general

love you back