Order Only: Private Message to Remus

[alt_sirius]

Have you packed in yet?

I think I've got a draft worth reading (finally). Unless you're too knackered? I'd like to finish it tonight if I can do.

It's not very fiery but I think it hits the strong points.

There's a section - I want to make sure it gets to what Alice and I were talking about, the manifesto of sorts.

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[alt_lupin]

I'm still up. I don't mind taking a look.

[alt_lupin]

(I find it hilarious that you don't want to be in the room while I read this thing you're planning to show to the entire Protectorate.)

Okay. I think this is really good. The one thing is, I keep thinking about how Aurora Sinistra immediately wanted to know if Pomona and Poppy were with Dogstar, because that's the one ORGANISATION she's actually heard of. I wonder if we should make up a name for the organisation -- I mean obviously you wouldn't want to say, 'I'm with the Order of the Phoenix,' but we could be the Siblinghood of East Chelsea in public if only that didn't lack for a certain gravitas.

You could say that these are the things the Siblinghood stands for. Rather than just you. It might be a good thing if people had a sense that there was a MOVEMENT out there. Of course, that means MLE would also have that sense...but surely it wouldn't tell them any more than they already know, provided you didn't go listing out our major projects. Because surely they suspect you have allies, but you could also just as easily be lying.

I suppose we should discuss that with the full Order before you go putting it in a Grim Truth, even under an assumed identity.

[alt_sirius]

Well, I've already got a mandate for that sort of thing. The impression that we're a bit more organised than the loose collection of baby-snatchers, wand-smugglers and (if we're honest) hand-wringers we are. I mean, that's just exactly what Alice wants me to go ahead and do.

You don't think 'those who join me' gets to that enough? Right. How about The Society for the Correction of Unwarranted Muggle-enslavement?

[alt_lupin]

I think that still has a gravitas problem.

Maybe we should ask Dora. She's the reason I figured it had better be 'Siblinghood' and not 'Brotherhood' (there was a Brotherhood of the Something Or Other in the comics we used to read, wasn't there?)

[alt_lupin]

And 'those who join me' suggests you're trying to form an organisation. I think it would be good to make it clear this organisation exists.

Maybe some play on the idea of a Council.

[alt_sirius]

Right. That still has the problem that getting input from the others takes time. Time we don't have if I want to strike while the bludger is in the air.


And the reason I don't like you being in the room is you always snatch the parchment away to scribble on it. This way I can scribble on my own copy and you can on yours.

[alt_lupin]

Well, if you don't think you can put that bit in without asking everyone else in the Order, then by all means leave it out.

I think you should get this up tonight, one way or the other (and then come to bed).

[alt_sirius]

Also - the rights. I do think I should add something about the right not to get blown up. Not sure how to phrase it with the proper 'gravitas' so that's on you, if you're so clever.

[alt_lupin]

'The right to go about one's business without fear of becoming the victim of random violence'

[alt_sirius]

Almost.

'...without fear of or resorting to random violence' - that makes it clearer that we're not the ones perpetrating the acts.

All right. I think that'll do.

[alt_lupin]

Society for the Restoration of Human Rights.
Organisation for Democracy
Organisation for Freedom and Equality

[alt_sirius]

Perhaps I can allude to an organisation without naming it for just now.

[alt_lupin]

Do you think the whole Order needs to agree to a false name? Or is it just that you don't like any of my ideas and want to get this posted so you can go to bed?

[alt_sirius]

I think if I go ahead and choose a name so I can get this posted, we'll wake up tomorrow hating it.

Or everyone else will do. And then we shall be stuck with it forever.

Can you imagine being stuck calling ourselves 'The Rebel Alliance' only to remember that's the name of the heroes in that film Lily made us all go see? Or that we'd decided on something Dora thinks is rubbish?

[alt_lupin]

I had completely forgotten that movie.

It's a shame, because 'The Rebel Alliance' wouldn't be half bad. But you raise a good point. Forget the name, put it up, and come to bed.

[alt_sirius]

Those all sound American, Moony.

[alt_lupin]

No they don't. It would be the 'OrganiZZZZZZZation for whatever' if it were American.

[alt_lupin]

Right, then, make it the People's Council. Then we'd sound Soviet.

Or wait, there aren't Soviets anymore, are there? That was one of the things that changed after the wards went up? It's remarkably hard to remember some of this.

[alt_lupin]

Liberty, Equality, Fraternity.

Then we'd sound French.

Doubtless your protege would approve.

[alt_sirius]

Hah-bloody-hah.

Actually the French are doing better than we are at the moment. Aleks mentioned that law proposal got voted down.

[alt_lupin]

Good for them.

Imagine if we'd had the chance to put any of this business to a vote.

[alt_sirius]

That's a whole other Grim Truth topic.