Order Only: Percy

[alt_arthur]

Bill and I have gone into work. Reluctantly, but we feel we have no choice. It'll give us both a chance to quietly check our incineration spells at the office in case all is lost. We can thank Archer for teaching us that.

This is an extremely painful entry to write. Molly and I weren't willing to even think it, but Bill raised the point at 3:00 in the morning, and he's absolutely right, it has to be said.

We don't feel it's safe to bring Percy to Moddey Dhoo. He's angling for a summer internship in Lucius Malfoy's office, of all places! The paper came this morning, with that foul collection of lies about Sirius, and Percy said...well, never mind what he said. But it raised the danger of bringing him into the heart of our operations in stark relief.

What can we do? The boy is perfectly capable of apparating, after all.

Comments

[alt_kingsley]

Oh, Arthur. That's really hard, my friend.

I wonder if the people with Sherwood have any capability of holding him securely. I can check with Turner and Davidson.

[alt_molly]

Arthur? We've just had another complication.

I just had a Floo call from the Brown family, the ones who are Luna's foster family. They're sending Luna over here for the day. It seems that Lavender Brown is having a birthday party, and she doesn't want half-blood riff raff like Luna around to interfere with the festivities! 'I'm afraid Luna will feel rather in the way,' is the way Mrs Brown put it, the spiteful cat!

Well, of course I said we'd be delighted to have her come here and spend the day with Ginny. But oh, Arthur...what happens if the clock changes while she's here?!

[alt_frank]

that's a tough one, man.

hard as it is, I think if it comes time for you to go, you lay your cards on the table right then and there, and you give him the choice -- and make it a final one.

if he chooses to stay, he can plead ignorance and separate himself from you best as he can, and a quick verisatum will clear him right off. and if he chooses to go with you, it'll be of his own free will.

[alt_lupin]

It's for you and Molly to decide, of course, if and when the time comes, which I sincerely hope it won't, but for what it's worth, if it were me, I'd stun him, take his wand, bring him to Moddey Dhoo by force, and keep him locked up somewhere until he sees sense.

The risk he poses in the hands of the Ministry is surely greater than the risk he poses when he's within our control.