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[alt_harry]

I got asked a lot of questions today.

It was mostly just sorting out what happened yesterday again, in more detail. And they asked a little bit about the boxes, and Draco, and Hermione, but not as much as I expected.

Hydra being there helped. A lot.

They made an announcement that they're planning on keeping some people around to ask them questions after everyone else leaves. It's mostly people in our year. Hydra, do you know, are you going to be in on those too? Because that'll make it loads easier than having to handle your mum or something.

We might try to get the galleon holders in our year together to clear up some things, just so no-one panics or something. Do you think they'll let us out of the common rooms tomorrow?

And.

We're going to have a problem with the journals.

They'd have to look back a ways, but if they got to the older stuff, before we joined the lock, and read the stuff Draco and Hermione and me wrote to each other it wouldn't be good. They can already see that we all wrote each other private messages and things, so they'd probably want to read them. All of them. And if they go back far enough they could tell I was in on it too.

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[alt_rachel]

Currently, the journals are monitored by a group of Aurors chosen for their discretion and loyalty (not merely to the Lord Protector, but to Lucius and Barty's faction.) They have a list of individuals whose private messages they are not to read, and Draco, Harry, and Hydra are on it. Also Narcissa Malfoy. There are a few others.

However, under the circumstances I think it's highly unlikely that Lucius will be able to keep people out of Draco's messages, even the ones to Harry. Just how compromising are these private messages? Are we talking about minor disloyalty, questioning things you're not supposed to question, genuine sedition, treason...?

[alt_hydra]

Well, I did call my mother a bitch in one of them.

[alt_rachel]

Do not lose sleep over that one.

[alt_hydra]

Oh, only that was to Justin, I suppose.

Not Harry or Draco.

But if they check any of my messages and look at the ones I exchanged with Justin, it could be very, very bad for him.

[alt_rachel]

You're on the same list as Draco. Even if they look at Draco's messages, if they don't suspect you...

Hmm.

Maybe we should just burn the whole archive. Quickly, before they start looking.

[alt_harry]

If they read between the lines, yeah. They'll see us talking to Hermione like she's an equal, and she never said anything daft like she had a wand and knew how to use it, but we did question things. A lot.

And we talked about Sirius. In code, but we figured no-one would look closely as long as we didn't use his name outright. So it wasn't very good code.

[alt_rachel]

You talked about Sirius?

What sorts of things did you say?

[alt_harry]

I'd have to look, okay? It would've been several years ago. I don't know.

It's enough. If they're looking for proof that we weren't loyal, it's enough.