Order Only: Private message to Auror H Finch-Fletchley

[alt_rachel]

If you get a minute to stop by my office this afternoon, please do.

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[alt_hydra]

All right.

Ron already told me about my mother's offer, though.

[alt_rachel]

Oh, did he? Good. Does Alice need to reassure you we're not planning to bundle you off to your mad mum, or do you trust us not to stab you in the back?

[alt_rachel]

I also wanted to ask if you'd had any thoughts about Rigel.

And what rumours you're hearing around the castle. Either with your ears or your legilimency.

[alt_hydra]

No, I trust you.

I'd say accept her offer so we can turn it into a trap, but I know that Mummy will already have planned for that.

Everyone in the Order could read Madam P's entry, so they know Ginny and Honoria needed to be rescued, and they know that Honoria's back and Ginny's not. And they saw that my mother wrote Alice and the Weasleys.

So mostly people think she's not long for this world.

The problem with Rigel is that he's probably in the palace most of the time, and if we could get in there then we could get Ginny.

But I know my mother doesn't control him the same way she controlled me. She can't legilimise him without falling under his spell, so she has to bribe him. Or give him things he wants, then take them away until he does something she needs him to do.

I don't think he's afraid of her yet, either.

So all I can think of is luring him away from her, somehow. But I don't know with what.

[alt_rachel]

I've been thinking about ways to turn it into a trap. We could send someone who's used polyjuice, but it would have to be one of the natural occlumens, which means me, Ron, Sirius, or Terry. Ron would probably do it, but I can't imagine successfully turning it into an ambush.

I've been trying to work out whether we could use their expectation of a rescue attempt against them, and try for Rigel. And wondering whether I'm being overly cautious, and regretting not telling my spy this afternoon that Ginny knew his name.

[alt_hydra]

While I'm sure my mother is prepared for all counter-actions we might take, I don't think she expects us to mount a rescue or accept her offer.

I think she expects us to do nothing, and feel helpless, while she does to Ginny whatever she has planned.

I realise that's an unhelpful thing to say, though.

[alt_rachel]

You're probably right about what she expects.