Rachel Lamont

Tue, 01 Sep 2015 19:15:00 GMT

RACHEL BRODIE runs Albion MLE for several years, overseeing both the rebuilding of the department she imagined late one night with Sirius Black, and Albion more generally. She and Hydra discuss the possibility of hunting down Dolohov themselves -- but first they are too busy with more pressing concerns, and then, as things quiet down, they decide it's not worth it. Once things have fully stabilized, she gets bored with running the department and steps down, and then she and Bill spend several years having adventures -- skiing, mountain climbing, deep-sea diving, riding in George's aeroplane.

Lucius is kind of right about Rachel, though. She has a lot of trouble with monogamy. She eventually cheats on Bill; he finds out; they try to work things out; Bill offers her freedom as long as she's honest about it, but she can tell how much he hates that and starts keeping secrets again. The second time he catches her cheating, the marriage ends.

For a while, without Bill's stabilising influence, her risk-taking and thrill-seeking gets a bit more extreme, culminating in a climb up one of the Himalayas without her wand where she comes fairly close to dying on an ice shelf. But a few years after the divorce she gets the urge to have a child (something Bill always wanted, and she had always refused to do); she winds up with one daughter but no husband. Parenting tempers her risk-taking somewhat, since she realises that she doesn't want to leave her child an orphan. She names her daughter after the aunt who raised her, and Emma Brodie is Sorted into Slytherin, in the same class as Reece, creating all sorts of awkwardness on the King's Cross platform for years to come.

Rachel remains lifelong friends with Draco, Ron, and Hydra -- the surviving young Aurors from that first class of Albion MLE remain some of the most important people in her life.

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Order Only: Private message to Sirius Black

Mon, 31 Aug 2015 06:07:26 GMT

Well done, you magnificent bastard. You and Remus actually managed to kill Bellatrix fucking Lestrange.

Wish I'd met you a few years earlier.

I'm going to miss you.

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Order Only

Sun, 30 Aug 2015 04:46:57 GMT

I am very sorry to tell you that Colin Creevey died tonight in the battle at Penzance, killed by an explosive hex.

I am also grieved to report that Remus Lupin and Sirius Black died tonight in the act of killing Bellatrix Lestrange.

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Private message to Jason Montague

Sun, 30 Aug 2015 02:11:11 GMT

Can you get away and back to the castle?

Ron and Draco have Rigel. They need a legilimens. Someone Rigel can't influence.

They're in Draco's room. Ask the elves, they should be able to show you.

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Order Only: Private message to Justin

Sat, 29 Aug 2015 20:27:18 GMT

When I joined the Order I thought of you as a child.

But you know, I decided I was going to kill Antonin Dolohov when I was ten years old. So I wasn't in much of a position to judge.

And you were good at what you did. So good. Too good. Sirius had said before he wanted you (and the rest of the Juniors) further from the action. He didn't want to admit that Dolohov was right, you were incredibly talented. Putting you behind a desk would have been a waste of resources and we couldn't afford to waste resources, especially after we lost Severus and Kingsley and so many others.

If we hadn't been trying to protect you, would you have brought Sirius with you last night? Bellatrix would have killed him, instead. He'd have bought you the half second you needed, that you didn't have.

He'd have bought it so gladly.

As I would have. But instead, you saved my life and lost your own.

They didn't let me out of bed to go to your funeral but I heard the bells ringing.

I feel like I should say thank you, for saving my life, but I want to grab you by the shoulders and shake you, and tell you you're lucky you work for an MLE where we don't cruciate people for making stupid decisions and then give you a week of leave and a month of filing parchmentwork, instead, so you can think about what an idiot you were.

Dammit, Justin.

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Order Only: Private message to Bill

Sat, 29 Aug 2015 03:22:10 GMT

Going to Penzance.

Don't wait up.

~~Maybe this time he'll stay~~

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Order Only: Private message to Bill

Fri, 28 Aug 2015 05:22:28 GMT

I hope you're still awake.

I'm coming back to our room, I think. Soon, anyway.

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Order Only: Private message to Auror J Finch-Fletchley

Fri, 28 Aug 2015 04:57:03 GMT

Good work today.

Set the rest of the list aside for now. I'm not sending you back out right away.

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Order Only: Private message to Honoria Sandoval

Wed, 26 Aug 2015 00:20:00 GMT

You might send a discreet owl to your parents to let them know to watch their step around Lana. She's not in a terribly good mood at present, and telling her that it was your Uncle Eduardo who passed on the details of your father's first marriage might get him into hot water.

Let me know if she writes to you again.

Also, I did check the Hogwarts Book for Inés. She's not there. Probably she really was a squib. It's also possible that she's not listed simply because they left her in Spain, or because they did magic expelling her from the family, or some combination of things. I'm not planning on telling Lana that, though.

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Private message to Lana Sandoval

Tue, 25 Aug 2015 20:45:49 GMT

There are some significant downsides to strict blood purity, aren't there? You seem to have done well enough with the fertility -- did Rod mention Bella's miscarriages to you? -- but the squib risk must be keeping you up nights, especially given your own family history.

Oh, yes. Honoria told me. She told me about Inés -- the other older sister she should have had, if your family hadn't abandoned her in Spain. And the six others, the ones from your father's first wife, Valeria. Poor Valeria. I'd say Inés proved rather decisively that those six squibs weren't just her fault.

At least since they were left behind in Spain, your sister and half-siblings weren't handed over to the likes of Rookwood and Amycus Carrow for experimentation.

Does Rod know about the Sandoval squibs?

Unless you're one of the lucky parents whose baby shows magic early, you could be in for a long wait to know for sure. The minute I hear your baby's been born, I'll be able to check in the Hogwarts Book and see if there's a new Lestrange baby listed. No listing, no magic. I don't know how many people on your side knew about the Hogwarts Book -- Lucius did, and probably Antonin, since he was Headmaster. Of course, they never saw the real one, since the Order had the real one hidden for years. That's how we got hold of the muggleborn babies before your lot did.

It's back in the Head's office now, as it should be. I'm sure Vector would let me take a look, if I asked politely.

You might recall stories about Filius Flitwick being killed by Savitha Desai, because he crept into the Hogwarts Castle. That's what he was there to do: he created the false copy of the Hogwarts Book.

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Order Only: Private message to Auror J F-F

Tue, 25 Aug 2015 18:52:38 GMT

Ptolemy Baddock raped Ginny Weasley, while she was being held prisoner in New London.

I want him dead.

I'm not sure where he's hiding, but I'll see what I can find out.

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Order Only: Private message to Pansy Parkinson

Tue, 25 Aug 2015 18:38:01 GMT

I need to find Ptolemy Baddock.

Pansy, you were acquainted with his father for years. Do you know where the Baddocks would likely go to hide? (They're hiding both from our side, and their own. Ptolemy was the one guarding Ginny Weasley when Jason removed her back to us.)

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Order Only: Private message to Alice Longbottom, Remus Lupin, and Sirius Black

Sun, 23 Aug 2015 00:41:27 GMT

Bellatrix Lestrange sent me a box by owl containing Alfred Montague's eyes, tongue, ears, nose, and fingers, with a note saying, 'Your mole left this behind. See that he gets it.'

At least, I assumed they belonged to Alfred. Jason wasn't able to persuade him to leave, hadn't heard from him in several days, and was quite worried. We're having a Healer check, just to be sure. They'll be able to tell us if they were removed from his still-living body or a corpse, as well -- not sure whether Jason actually wants to know that detail or not. If they were removed while he was alive, there's at least the possibility he still is, and we should keep his parts in magical stasis for later re-attachment... I can't imagine he is, but you never know.

Anyway. I told Jason in person. He took it ... stoically.

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Private message to Albion MLE

Sat, 22 Aug 2015 23:00:22 GMT

New duty rosters are being posted tomorrow; please check yours. I've shuffled around who's working with whom, at least a bit. As always, feel free to let me know how things are going. If there's someone you can't stand working with, I'm not going to assign you to work together so long as I know.

If you've got friends in NL who are asking for help getting out, please let me know about that, too. We're trying to work out to what extent the conscripts into that new security organisation would like to break loose.

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Order Only: Private message to the Weasley family and Luna Lovegood

Wed, 19 Aug 2015 09:26:48 GMT

Ginny is in an Order safehouse.

I don't think any of you should go to see her quite yet -- possibly Ron and Luna, once she's gotten some sleep. The best way to help her recover is to give her time and patience. But she's safe, and I wanted you all to know.

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Order Only: Private message to Draco

Thu, 13 Aug 2015 22:35:47 GMT

Saw Dolohov wrote to you. What did he want?

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Private message to Reynard

Wed, 12 Aug 2015 21:06:11 GMT

If you bring us Ginny Weasley, alive and unharmed, the Albion government will extend full amnesty to Seamus Finnigan, contingent on him taking an Unbreakable Vow not to use the Cardinal curses or to cast any spell with lethal intent. He will also need to check in regularly with a security person chosen by Albion MLE, and you will need to make sure he doesn't re-join the other side before the end of the war, though I imagine that should be relatively straightforward given they've made it clear he's completely disposable.

We will protect your parents and brother regardless, of course, to the best of our abilities.

On an unrelated note -- Faust is working for me and would prefer to keep his relationship with you professional at the moment. Do not share that information with Finnigan. (I don't actually think you would, but Faust specifically wanted me to make that bit clear.)

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Order Only: Private message to Alice, Remus, and Sirius

Wed, 12 Aug 2015 15:26:49 GMT

Right, I have a couple of pieces of news regarding the Moons.

Karo's replied by owl. She wants to meet somewhere neutral to view the bodies. I think the ~~Order's~~ Albion coroner took them to the morgue we use, where they're being held with a stasis charm for the moment. I'm not sure if there's some morgue that would be a more obviously neutral location?

Meanwhile, apparently Ginny thinks our lot killed the Moons. Sounds like it's not entirely clear if she was told this explicitly or what. But I don't think we can expect them to act in good faith with us.

This got me wondering, though, assuming Evelyn was correct that Antonin Dolohov would truly like Crouch's body back...could we offer to trade it for Ginny? For Ginny ALIVE, I think we'd want to make that as clear as possible. Gathering up the remains at this point would be rather a significant risk, given the Centaurs, but if it got us Ginny back I think it would be worthwhile.

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Private message to Karoline Baddock

Wed, 12 Aug 2015 10:34:38 GMT

I am sorry to have to tell you that your parents as well as Horace, Olivia, and Vinca were all victims of Barty Crouch's rampage. He found them at their cottage in Torquay. Linus became concerned when they weren't replying to his owls, and asked one of our Aurors to go up and check on them, which is how we found out what had happened.

If you would like to come to Hogwarts to be with Linus and help him see to the funerals, please feel free to do so; we are open to whatever arrangements would allow you to feel safe among us during this difficult time.

I am so terribly sorry for your loss.

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Order Only

Mon, 10 Aug 2015 08:51:07 GMT

Reports suggest that the news of Antonin Dolohov's death may have been premature.

Use all caution.

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Order Only: Private message to Alice, Remus, and Sirius

Fri, 07 Aug 2015 16:27:25 GMT

Heard from my contact.

It sounds like Bellatrix is contemplating exit strategies. They're trying to lay hands on Cedric Diggory (apparently Ginny told them he's the secret keeper to Dover. He's not, is he? I'm pretty sure he's not. Serves them right for expecting good intel from someone they've cruciated repeatedly) to get them into Dover, and considering some maneuver involving sacrificing Seamus Finnigan because they think it'll bring the wards down.

So.

This is an opportunity. In several directions.

First off, I'm going to talk to my Aurors (the ones who are on their feet and not sitting vigil for anyone) about baiting a trap with someone PJ'd as Cedric. (Justin would be ideal for this, but he's a bit distracted at the moment.)

But here's the other thing to consider.

We could offer them exile. I know that's not what we'd prefer, especially for Bellatrix. But they're clearly ready to give up and let us have Albion. Certainly some of them, if they're willing to swear an oath never to return, we could just let them out.

And, the other thing to consider:

Aurora's in the process of taking down the wards. When she's done, they're going to scatter. So if we DO want any of them to see the inside of an Azkaban cell, we'd better act fast to get our hands on them.

Oh, and finally, just for the joy of sowing dissent within their ranks, I think we should have Haruman tell Padma Patil what they're planning with Seamus, and encourage her to write to him. He apparently agreed to this plan of theirs, but surely he's not happy about it! Given what happened to his mother, maybe he just desperately doesn't want someone else to die for him again.

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Order Only: Private message to Cedric Diggory and Aurora Sinistra

Fri, 07 Aug 2015 16:15:38 GMT

Cedric, where are you right now? If you're not within a Fidelius zone, get into one. (F, not Neo-F.) Apparently the DEMLE has been ordered to apprehend you because they think you're the Dover Secret Keeper.

I'm going to send Ron or one of the other Albion Aurors or Enforcers over to get some of your hair. We can certainly use their interest in you to bait a trap, but I'm not baiting it with real bait. Unless you really want to volunteer, in which case I'll come by and we can talk.

Aurora, the DEs think that they can bring down the wards by sacrificing Seamus Finnigan. Can they? Just how messy would the results be?

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Order Only

Wed, 05 Aug 2015 23:07:17 GMT

Everyone at Hogwarts -- Code Red.

Barty Crouch may be on his way to visit us.

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Mon, 03 Aug 2015 21:11:53 GMT

Those murders we've been hearing about are being committed by Barty Crouch.

One of his victims was my mum. (My aunt, actually, but she raised me after my parents were killed, and I called her mum.)

Her wards were breached, obviously. Her cat was also found dead. He'd marked the compass points in blood -- either Mum's, or the cat's -- put my mother with her her head to the east, and cut out her heart.

There was a galleon under her tongue, and her wand was snapped and in the rubbish bin.

Burned onto the floor next to her were the words, 'the dove always dies.'

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Order Only: Private message to Bill

Mon, 03 Aug 2015 20:05:37 GMT

I just got an owl from of mum's neighbors.

She's dead. So's her cat. Those murders

I'm going, I need to go right now. ~~I need to see what~~

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