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[alt_alice]

Easter hols are fast approaching, and I'm hoping we'll be able to take advantage of this time with extra training, meetings, and for those of you who can be spared, some additional ley-mapping and camps visits. I'll see if we can't get us all together for an Order-wide meeting at some point. Harry, Draco, Hydra, let us know when you'd be available for your tea meeting. Pansy, Ron, I'm hoping you'd be able to attend that as well, and I hope I'm right to assume that your schedules will be a bit easier to work with.

If something should come up suddenly regarding the contest, we'll see what we can do to work around it.

Luna, love, consider us all at your disposal if you need to work over a particular topic over hols that we could help with. And Luna, Evelyn, and Hydra, you all have yet to master Apparation, which could be a possible goal for you to work towards as well. (Hydra, I know you might have trouble getting away -- perhaps you could convince your parents to hire a tutor so that you won't be at a disadvantage for the contest?)

Charlie, Hagrid might be able to help out with some of our octoboros work, so just make sure you coordinate with him so that you can both be available at the same time if you're going to be working further with the centaurs.

Poppy, Pomona, Severus, I'm wondering if we might be able to sneak a peek at the book before hols, just to cover our bases.

Lee, let us know once Dr Harris's pamphlets are printed and ready for distribution in the camps. We'll package them with our nutritional supplements.

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Re: Private Message to Ron and Sally-Anne

[alt_ron]

Course, if we do that, we can't make it obvious to Avery that I don't give a fig about getting selected. Only that we'd be willing to help one or two others as allies (or, anywiz, give them some help even if we don't let them know we're helping--I don't think it'd be a good idea to out and out ally with Crabbe. Nothing good could come out of that.

Re: Private Message to Ron and Sally-Anne

[alt_sally_anne]

Well, I don't think we'd want to tell Crabbe we'd help him. But he's awfully thick. We could help him out without him noticing.

Re: Private Message to Ron and Sally-Anne

[alt_ron]

Yeah, exactly.

I don't think we'd want anyone else to realise we were helping Crabbe, either, though, so we would want to be careful.

Re: Private Message to Ron and Sally-Anne

[alt_alice]

That's an intriguing possibility.

I think you'd have to tread very carefully so as to not give the impression of defiance, and hope he'll chalk it up to the power of love and Gryffindor stubbornness. If he'd made any of his requests in a more public venue, we'd be in a different situation where he'd have to get satisfaction just to save face. Making it appear as though you owe him a favour and bowing and scraping a bit is certainly preferable to burning bridges.

Staying together publicly would hurt your chances of success in the Auror programme, but we can talk about that over hols, perhaps.

I don't believe Pansy to be in immediate danger from Avery. The threat is generally troubling in its larger implications about Luicus's fragile position within the council, however, and I do worry about her safety should someone want to hurt Lucius in some way. It did not sit well with me at all to have her described as expendable, and I hope we can all sit down and work through this further over hols.

That being said, I don't think your staying together would change her fortunes dramatically, especially if you work to mitigate some of the sting to Avery's pride.

I would suggest talking over this option further with Severus. Subtlety is his strength, not mine.