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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_lee]

Snags is a word.

Some deaths, people who tried to get away and got caught. Sometimes the family they were with, sometimes the Watch. We're taking down whatever information we can, so we can tell the families, but it's real jumbled right now.

Some who are still there, but not really free to leave. I've got a list of what we know, and why we think they want to leave. I'll bring it this afternoon.

And then about three parts people who got out.

Some of them are real broken. Can't make decisions for themselves, without orders. Real scared anytime anyone with a wand comes near them. We're trying to put them in small groups in the farms we've Fideliused, where there's useful stuff they can do, but not all of them can manage a farm.

Some of them desperately want wands and to go fight eveyone who made their lives hell for years. Can't blame them, but they're really not in shape for it.

And some of them, we think they're mostly as okay as someone could be, but the people at Aldrich with experience think that that may not hold for about half of them. So we're going real gently.

[alt_alice]

Coordinate directly with Rachel regarding the Watch activity -- if they're being overly active in a given area, that needs tamping down immediately.

Might we arrange for a counterpart? Local Committees of Welfare and Safety or somesuch? Charlie, I know you have thoughts on this.

And as for the rest, yes. That will take some time. I'm so grateful that they can be with people who know what it's been like, and who've been free for long enough to give some guidance.

The camps will likewise be difficult -- if we are to succeed here, we must work with them rather than tell them what to do and how to do it, but it will be a rough transition for many, I'm afraid.

[alt_lee]

Local committees is good.

The Watch is fits and starts. We'll report things as we hear them.

I'll come by with notes, share information round with everyone in an hour or so.

[alt_charlie]

Yeah, I have a bundle of ideas, mostly about how we can make sure we're getting the right people and not the Watch repackaged. Let me think about it a bit tonight and get back to you. I think it'll involve starting with the barter network and going on from there, but.