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[alt_alice]

I know all of you are exhausted, and heart-weary. Please be good to one another in the coming days. Sleep if you can. Don't forget to eat. We'll see what we can do to have a small memorial of sorts over the weekend, barring any new chaos that may come our way.

There are still a significant number of people out there who will try their best to interfere with what we have planned, and I've no doubt they will fight us every step of the way. Be prepared to mobilize should we need it -- the ongoing threat our remaining enemies pose to us is a top priority.

Remus and I have been talking, and for the time being, Hogwarts seems the most obvious place to use as a seat for our transitional government. It is defendable, and yet still accessible for those who will need to come to treat with us. We will continue our attempts to move the Board to sack Dolohov, and make the castle as secure as possible. Are there any objections? Might we move the colocation box to a more convenient location while we're at it? I've no objections to the students and staff who are currently here staying as long as they chose, and we can anticipate moving to a more permanent location once things settle, optimistically, well before the term would begin.

Thank you all of you who've been helping to track down the last of the missing students, and for everyone who has been helping to escort parents.

Some specifics we identified for tomorrow (or, rather, later today -- it is late) follow below, and I'm sure we're missing things -- feel free to add to our ever-growing list.

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[alt_alice]

Pansy, Jeremy (again), Jack, Ken, Arca, and Molly (once you're feeling better, of course, dear); please put your brilliant heads together and let us know what you need in order to take full advantage of the seeds of your network you've built, post-haste. You can coordinate with the camps, too -- they'll have a surplus they'd no doubt be willing to sell. Our train and fleet of trucks are at your immediate disposal, and we might look into acquiring more should they prove useful. The camps will also have methods of transport available to them. Tim is our working liason with the button network, and can help coordinate if need be.

[alt_jeremy]

Right. We'll be on it.

[alt_pansy]

So very on it.

[alt_molly]

I'm stuck in bed in the Hospital Wing for the moment, because this combination of hexes that hit me means that Poppy is determined to pour a ghastly potion down my throat every hour for the next few days at least.

Jeremy and Pansy, I can give you a letter to take to Rose Stuben, who runs the barter network centered at Ottery St. Catchpole (it's actually quite widespread), and I know she's in contact with other barter networks throughout the old Protectorate. She'll be able to give you a number of contacts. I can't help but think they'll be eager to work with us rather than Protectorate people, if only because WE won't be forbidding all but purebloods from receiving goods.

Private message to Alice and Remus

[alt_molly]

Speaking of which: is there any consensus forming of a name to call what we used to call 'The Protectorate'? Will we go back to the old country names, or something else?

Kingsley always used to say that after we overthrew the Protectorate we could call the land 'Albion.'

Well, it's probably not the most pressing question at the moment. But it might be helpful to chose something so we can be consistent in all statements and media reports, to distinguish ourselves from the other.

Re: Private message to Alice and Remus

[alt_alice]

You're right. We do need to get out in front with messaging.

We'll see what we can hammer out, and soon. I'd want our non-magical leaders in on that sort of decision regardless.