ORDER ONLY: Private Message to Remus

[alt_alice]

Why must we always be the ones who are reasonable? The ones who compromise? The ones who have the basic fucking decency to return the dead to their families? Is the reason why they don't give us a single goddamn quarter because we're winning and they're desperate? Or is it because we're just that gullible?

Lucinda is an utter wreck. She kept saying over and over again that she'd thought the worst of it was over, that people'd been back and forth to the Ministry a dozen times without running into resistance, that she just didn't understand how he could've been killed doing such a simple task, and her rage could light a dozen fires.

She's far from the only one.

I am tired, and my heart aches, and I cannot

What we're building has to be based on principles of justice, not revenge.

I know that.

I also know that we can't have our fullest measure of justice, not if we want to move forward.

Merlin knows we can't lock up half the wizards in England.

I am just beyond furious that we must fight as fairly as we can and still work uphill against slander after slander, when they can go blithely skipping about murdering innocent people for public relations purposes, and that our mercy can be requested and assumed when our Lucinda had no body to bury, and you need to talk to Rachel about what we're going to do regarding Seamus fucking Finnigan, because I really cannot be objective right now, apparently.

Comments

[alt_alice]

I think he's hedging his bets on both ends. I think that means he's looking out for what's best for him, and that he's not particularly loyal to any side -- at least that's what I hope. That he sees where the wind is blowing.

If he does set a trap and we walk into it, that could be quite profitable for him in the short term, no mistaking, but he'd put all his eggs in one basket and assume his people will ultimately win, and I don't see him being that big of a gambler. And he told us about Finnigan, which might serve to put us at ease, and might be an utter lie, but I don't think it'd offer him any advantage to lie about it. So there's that.

I think as long as this arrangement remains in his best interests, we might be able to trust at least a little.

[alt_lupin]

That analysis makes sense. I think you're right, that he's hedging his bets.

[alt_alice]

Well, it's good to know I haven't lost all of my capacity for rational thought.