Order Only: Distributing Books

[alt_sirius]

It's a Hogsmeade weekend coming up, isn't it?

I hope so, because we've got about 50 copies of the original Pure Victory for you lot to start giving out.

We've been stockpiling them at Grimmauld. Miss Parkinson, if you're still able to ask Hitty to deliver them, that would probably be the least conspicuous method. Otherwise, someone will have to meet us in the cave outside the village this Saturday.

And it ought to be this Saturday, since we heard on the wireless that the replacement's coming out very soon. And Hogsmeade might be the best venue to give them out, if it comes to that.

Comments

[alt_sally_anne]

Well, you probably don't want her to pick them up until Saturday unless she's got somewhere better than Grimmauld to keep them. I mean, fifty copies of a totally forbidden banned book? Not something you want to leave lying around.

[alt_pansy]

Yeah, I'll tell her to swing by on Saturday.

[alt_sally_anne]

So who should get the fifty copies?

Did Ginny Weasley get her own copy back? Because if she did, she doesn't need one, but if she didn't, I think she should get one.

I don't think the rest really need to go to kids who were at the reading -- maybe one or two? But the people who came to the reading have read it already.

If we're doing distribution at Hogsmeade we can't give it to first and second years unless they're trustworthy enough that we can just hand it to them directly (in which case they were at the reading). Anyway. We can think it over and make a list to give Hitty.

Do the books list a publishing house? Like a made-up publishing house? Because if they DO list a publishing house, we could distribute other stuff later the same way, from the same 'house,' right?

[alt_pansy]

Yes, I think it ought to be given to people who weren't there. Definitely Padma and Lav. Anyone else in our year? Maybe Zabini and Smith? I don't know if boys would be the absolute best, though.

We ought to spread it out a bit, though. Try and hit up the 4th and 3rd years especially. Ev, Luna, Hydra, you probably know the younger years a bit better, maybe you could write up a list or something.

[alt_sally_anne]

Did Smith read them? Zabini did. We want people we KNOW read the first two. And I agree about spreading it out a bit. People from all four houses. All five years that'll be in Hogsmeade. I don't think we should leave out the 7th years, either, you know? If we're using this to recruit, they're the ones who are best placed to seek out the Order, right?

[alt_justin]

Hullo,

Smith hasn't read them. I've no idea about Zabini, what, but I could try to find out in our Noble Arts discussion group tomorrow. I say, if we have the lesson tomorrow. Does anyone know what prompted Professor Dolohov to cancel today's?

As for others who might enjoy getting the book, I should think Inglebee, Zimmerman, Effie Stevens and Rubens in Hydra's year, what, and Levingworth, Catchlove, Ross, Marks and Forney in third year. I imagine Daphne wouldn't mind if Astoria got a copy, do you? If not her, then Queenie, perhaps.

I say, I wonder what might happen if we gave a copy to Remy Jugson, or Malcolm Baddock.

-Justin

[alt_sally_anne]

I was thinking we need to be careful, trying to find out who's read the first two. You don't want someone like Zabini finding his copy and realising you had anything to do with this book that's from the Order of the Phoenix and Sirius effing Black.

But, the 'official' version is coming out too, really soon. So we could ask around about who's excited to read it now that it's finally being properly released? And see what people say. Maybe.

Anyway, Zabini DID read the first two, I remember he had them in the common room. Give it to Queenie, not Astoria. I don't know about Malcolm Baddock, what does Hydra think?