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Jan. 9th, 2015 08:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alt_harryThere was a galleon meeting last night. All the kids who weren't in the Order wanted to know what had happened with Neville, and those of us who are in the Order wanted to make sure they knew it wasn't Ron or Justin who'd turned him in. We didn't tell them what Hydra did, or that Neville had asked her to.
A lot of them wanted to know about the inferi. What were they, exactly, what were they for, how did Ron and Justin and Hydra manage to fight them. Justin and Hydra told us what Dolohov had told them, about how best to take out an inferi, and I suggested people ask their professors -- Desai, Dolohov, Sandoval, anyone -- for more information. There's nothing all that suspicious about wanting to know more about them, especially if we spread around the job of asking.
There was a lot of speculation about the inferi. Some of the students had heard the plan was to use them to kill all the remaining muggles. Someone else thought the wards were coming down, and the inferi were to protect us from invasion, or possibly Voldemort was going to use them to invade France, and someone else thought they were just to keep everyone in line, which I think is probably closest to the truth. Though the possibility about muggles -- I don't know if we'd know in time to do anything, anyway, is the thing.
We had Defence today with Desai and asked her about the inferi and she actually spent the whole class talking about them. She had Justin and Ron stand up and talk about fighting them (so, we heard some of the same tips again, but actually I don't think it's at all a bad thing if the people who aren't galleon holders hear it). She said she'd seen them used a few times during the first wizarding war, that they make a tremendous weapon but it's important to think of them that way, as weapons rather than fighters themselves, because wizards can improvise and respond to changes in conditions and inferi can't, they're puppets, basically, controlled by their creator. Except, I was sitting near Voldemort during the Triumph and he didn't seem to be doing anything, exactly. So it's not like they're puppets on strings, either.
After class, Linus Moon wanted to chat about analysing the exact fighting techniques that inferi use and what the best techniques are to use against them and I told him yeah, do it. He has some daft idea about publishing a paper, but I think I can convince him not to. Oh and there's some special parchment that's particularly good for whatever he does. I offered to get him some and he got all excited and said that made me his patron and ... anyway hopefully that'll be useful.
A lot of them wanted to know about the inferi. What were they, exactly, what were they for, how did Ron and Justin and Hydra manage to fight them. Justin and Hydra told us what Dolohov had told them, about how best to take out an inferi, and I suggested people ask their professors -- Desai, Dolohov, Sandoval, anyone -- for more information. There's nothing all that suspicious about wanting to know more about them, especially if we spread around the job of asking.
There was a lot of speculation about the inferi. Some of the students had heard the plan was to use them to kill all the remaining muggles. Someone else thought the wards were coming down, and the inferi were to protect us from invasion, or possibly Voldemort was going to use them to invade France, and someone else thought they were just to keep everyone in line, which I think is probably closest to the truth. Though the possibility about muggles -- I don't know if we'd know in time to do anything, anyway, is the thing.
We had Defence today with Desai and asked her about the inferi and she actually spent the whole class talking about them. She had Justin and Ron stand up and talk about fighting them (so, we heard some of the same tips again, but actually I don't think it's at all a bad thing if the people who aren't galleon holders hear it). She said she'd seen them used a few times during the first wizarding war, that they make a tremendous weapon but it's important to think of them that way, as weapons rather than fighters themselves, because wizards can improvise and respond to changes in conditions and inferi can't, they're puppets, basically, controlled by their creator. Except, I was sitting near Voldemort during the Triumph and he didn't seem to be doing anything, exactly. So it's not like they're puppets on strings, either.
After class, Linus Moon wanted to chat about analysing the exact fighting techniques that inferi use and what the best techniques are to use against them and I told him yeah, do it. He has some daft idea about publishing a paper, but I think I can convince him not to. Oh and there's some special parchment that's particularly good for whatever he does. I offered to get him some and he got all excited and said that made me his patron and ... anyway hopefully that'll be useful.
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Date: 2015-01-10 03:07 am (UTC)That's probably what he wants.
Private message to Evelyn
Date: 2015-01-10 03:09 am (UTC)Re: Private message to Evelyn
Date: 2015-01-10 03:15 am (UTC)'Miss Longbottom,
I've stopped by your house to bring by the next set of exercises I promised you, but your brother has let me know that you are out shopping and aren't available for enquiries. Will you be returning soon? I would be happy to wait.'
He'd given me work before hols, and there was enough to do that there was no way I'd be ready for more. He hadn't promised any additional exercises, and certainly hadn't talked about dropping anything off at my house.
So.
Yeah.
That was why I tried checking in with Nev.
Re: Private message to Evelyn
Date: 2015-01-10 03:20 am (UTC)Do you thinkI think he was trying to warn you. While making it look to Bellatrix like he was trying to lure you in.
Re: Private message to Evelyn
Date: 2015-01-10 03:22 am (UTC)He didn't need to write anything.
We would've just gone home.
We wouldn't have known anything was wrong at all.
Re: Private message to Evelyn
Date: 2015-01-10 03:23 am (UTC)But I'm the only one who would've known it.
Re: Private message to Evelyn
Date: 2015-01-10 04:19 am (UTC)He couldn't very well write to you and say, 'MLE's got your brother. Run.'
Re: Private message to Evelyn
Date: 2015-01-10 04:41 am (UTC)And he still
I don't think he's switching sides any time soon. And I don't think I ever want to chance running into him or something.
But.
Re: Private message to Evelyn
Date: 2015-01-10 04:59 am (UTC)But -- well, he let us go, too, that time in Mysteries. And, I think it was because he'd worked out we were there for Arista and Hector. (Though even so he almost killed me. I wouldn't want to have to do that again.)
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Date: 2015-01-10 03:20 am (UTC)I think it was because you were always so keen about it, Ev.
And Capper looked rather fierce at the meeting yesterday, didn't he?