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[alt_hydra]

All right. I saw Rachel's post. What you don't know is that before she killed Mafalda Hopkirk, my mother killed my grandmother's long-time lover, Pascoal. She was trying to find out if he'd ever stolen her hair, and apparently he thought about it, once, because someone made him an offer, and that alone was enough to get him killed.

Aunt Narcissa called me over to the Manor to tell me all of this, and to go call on Nanella. She was terrified of what my mother would do next. They spoke in the journals earlier and Mummy made it sound as if she might go after me next. She said I was a traitor and a failure as a council witch, and she made it clear that she was suspicious of Aunt Narcissa, too.

Trust me when I say that I'm quite certain my mother has no evidence that I'm a traitor. This has more to do with what happened when we went in front of Voldemort than anything else. She has to turn me into her enemy to make sense of what's happened.

My mother can't legilimise me, either, so there's no danger there. She can, however, legilimise Aunt Narcissa, who can occlude but won't be able to withstand my mother's style of interrogation.

In short, Narcissa strongly suspects that I'm involved with the Order now, and she's hoping that I'll confirm it. I've not done so just yet. She wants to cast Fidelius on the manor and keep me here with her, to protect me. Which is unnecessary, honestly, but I do think we need to act in order to keep her out of my mother's range, and Fidelius may be the best and only way to do that. It would also give us another safe house.

I don't want to act without your input.

Comments

[alt_alice]

How certain is she of your affiliation?

This puts Rachel indirectly in harm's way as well -- seeing as how we have insurance in the form of Lucius, there is less harm in bringing her in than having her stay out.

What on earth will she say to others, though? Will she just disappear, and leave it at that? Is she prepared to cut off all communication with Crouch and Dolohov?

[alt_rachel]

I'm certainly in harm's way if Bellatrix legilimises her, successfully, so I'd favor Fidelius as a solution here. Can Narcissa cast it, or does she need someone from the Order to come do it?

[alt_hydra]

She already cast Fidelius on Blackmoor Park, just to protect my Grandmother. She's planning to publicly announce that she was forced to use Fidelius because my mother has gone mad and is killing members of the family with no good reason.

[alt_alice]

And you are reasonably assured that were you to confirm your membership, she would keep that particular secret secure, yes?

[alt_hydra]

We still have Lucius as insurance, as you said. And considering she did all this to protect me, more or less, I don't know why she'd decide not to later.

[alt_sirius]

How soon do you have to agree? I mean to say, you'd probably better get back with a yes or no, but it sounds like we may as well.

In for a knut, in for a Galleon, hey?

Private message to Padfoot

[alt_lupin]

I bet you a galleon that by midsummer she's asked us to swear her into the Order. (Narcissa will ask, I mean.)

Re: Private message to Padfoot

[alt_sirius]

I'll take that bet.

If anyone ever told us we'd be harbouring the entire Malfoy family ....

Merlin, our bedfellows in this war keep getting stranger and stranger.