Order Only: Private Message to Moony and Dora

[alt_sirius]

Well?

You wanted to see it.

Let's have it. I mean, I see I've been a right git, as she says (well, from her side) but what now?

Is it good or bad that no matter what she quotes (and Dora, that's Uriah Heap, that last bit), all I can hear whenever she starts on lyrics is 'Go Ask Alice' - and no, not just because Allie's usually my first line of defence when it comes to girls. Because I wish it had been on one of the albums she'd nicked. Perhaps I'll send her a copy of Lewis Carroll, as well.

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[alt_nymphadora]

And I think it would make you feel better, luv. Which we'd all like.

[alt_sirius]

Suck out the poison, you mean?

Right.

[alt_nymphadora]

That's the very model of an unsavoury metaphor, innit?

[alt_lupin]

I don't like that analogy. It suggests there's something poisonous about this girl, and frankly, she's faithfully kept secrets that would, if discovered, probably get her sent to the camps in spite of her connections.

If Lucius Malfoy found out she'd been protecting the secret of two muggleborns with wands, do you think he'd protect her? His fondness has its limits, I'm sure.

[alt_sirius]

I meant my own poison but you've got a point, Remus.

Allie's always doubted her motives. And I have to say her other letters have come at some incredibly inconvenient times while nonetheless pretty much demanding answers I don't have. So what else could I do besides drop her hints or wink in her direction and hope she'd keep digging on her own? You know as well as I that the answers she wants can't be given, they have to be found.

[alt_lupin]

Well, does Allie have a theory for why she's kept all these things secret, then?

I don't think -- well, maybe she DOES expect answers on a plate. Maybe. But I think if you just -- you could say, in a letter to her, 'I can't give you these answers; I found them on my own, some things you just have to find on your own,' and I think that would be okay, really, because Dora's right. More than answers she wants to feel that she's part of your pack. She wants you to care about her, enough to write.