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[alt_sirius]

Frank, Arthur, we're ready to go for another child if we're needed. (I think Remus particularly would like the chance now he's recovered from the full moon.)

Meanwhile, though ... Minerva, you've not replied to my note. I'm guessing it's because you're as stymied about our Hermione's problem as I've been. We don't want her Cruciated; we don't want Harry to have to do it; Harry himself doesn't want to do it and isn't sure he can even if he tries (which I take as a good sign at least); there's no good reason to insist that she stay to be tortured.

Hermione, I know you have your reasons for staying but say the word and you can leave. None of us will think any less of you if you opt out, either.


Oh, and Kingsley: We've had a chat and think a witch would be a better choice, at least for now, for Laszlo to get in the way of help. So, anyone else in the camps, if there are suggestions, or else we'll just put in an application and rely on Arthur to help us screen the candidates.

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[alt_hermione]

I asked her not to reply until I decided what to say.

I don't want to leave, it's the kind of thing where I have to do it, and it will be fine. If I go then Harry won't have anybody around to listen to him every day. I mean he'll have Draco but that isn't the same. You can't do everything for him and anyway I think that someday, I mean, he might be the kind of person who could help us ever so much.

I've been Cruciated before.

It's bad. But it isn't going to kill me.

[alt_arthur]

I was originally going to have you and Remus try for Jason Baker, but I'm not sure I've pinpointed his position correctly; it could be the lead I have on his parents is a mistake, another baby with a similar name. So I'm sending you two the parchmentwork for Jane Briden for now.

Kingsley and I will go for Tavis MacNichol tomorrow.

[alt_lupin]

We got the owl. Dora and I are going to go this afternoon.

[alt_kingsley]

All right, I've talked to folks here and have a few names to suggest. All of them are muggles

Jessie Bigg, in her early fifties. Before the Protectorate, she had built a career as a banker, quite a high-powered one, actually, but she's spent the past eight years in one of the camps working as a laundress, if you can believe it. I've met Jessie and I like her, and I think you would, too. She's personable, with a wry sense of humour.

Rosemary Roche. Much younger, seventeen years old, which might mean she has more energy, but she's quieter, more withdrawn. A willing worker, though.

Leila Shawe. Thirty years old. Davidson remarked that she's remarkably proactive about finding things to do: if she doesn't have a task assigned, she'll probably rearrange all of your shelving to make the organisation easier, or strip peeling paint off a table and repaint it.

Let me know if you want to talk to any (or all) of them.

[alt_lupin]

Kingsley, mate, I think we miscommunicated somewhere.

The servant won't be a secret; she needs to be someone who's currently in the camps, not someone who's escaped, since we might be subject to inspections. We were hoping someone in Davidson's group might know of a muggleborn in the camps that we could request -- by qualification, if not by name. (A muggleborn would work better for this, because there aren't nearly as many of them.)

(Sorry, I know you've got a lot on your plate at the moment!)

[alt_kingsley]

Of course; sorry, my friend. My apologies for the mix up. I'll speak with the people here and try to come up with some more names for you. Muggleborns this time.