Order Only: Private message to Ron

[alt_harry]

To the one who now calls himself Harry Potter:

You belong to me, and always have. This has always been your purpose. This has always been your destiny. Accept it - embrace it.

Come to me and you need never know pain or fear again. Come to me willingly, and you can end this pointless conflict now and forever. Come to me before midnight in two days' time, and no one else need die because of your cowardice. Submit to my will, and understand. It's time, Harry.

Your schoolmates' lives depend on you obeying my command.


If you needed to get away from the school and come here.

Just you.

Could you?

I had an idea. No one else likes it.

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[alt_harry]

So if you come, you should know that your job would be to turn into a snake, steal the last horcrux from Eton, and do whatever you have to do to destroy it.

You might not come back alive. And I definitely won't come back alive.

But if it works, Voldemort will be dead and the last horcrux will be gone.

I'd be letting Voldemort have me. But I want Draco to cast the Black Curse on me, first, so that Voldemort dies with my body.

You can see why no one likes this idea.

[alt_ron]

I'm in.

I told you that. Whatever you need.

[alt_ron]

And, yeah, I could get out. How soon?

[alt_ron]

Some things I need to think through:

* whether it will make things immediately worse for the rest of them here in the Great Hall if I do a runner. Not sure about that one.
* whether there might be a way to get one of the others to replace me, so we don't lose the fact that I'm one with a wand and, y'know, one the enforcers think they're working with, because that could still be dead useful.

[alt_harry]

I haven't actually convinced Draco to go along with this. And the deadline's not until Saturday midnight. So -- not right now, I guess is what I'd say.

I got about 20 doses of polyjuice from Mrs Longbottom right before this all started, and unless someone used it for some reason it's all still at the school. So maybe someone could replace you. You'll need your wand, though.

[alt_harry]

You're not going to try to talk me out of it?

[alt_ron]

Do you want me to?

[alt_harry]

No.

[alt_ron]

Alright, then.

I'm working on my side of it. You work yours.