Order Only Private Message to Alice and Remus

[alt_cedric]

I've met with Tyche Jenkins and Heph Bobolis a couple of times this summer since talking about recruitment. Sadly at this time, Tyche is undraftable. She seems to have completely and uncritically accepted the Protectorate's policies. I get the feeling she just wants to follow along and not make waves. Unless things change I don't think she could be moved to actively support (or for that matter oppose) a revolution.

Heph is more complicated. He's nervous about the future (but what NEWT student isn't?), isn't sure his family can protect him anymore (because of the Challenge) and sort of just angry about life. He doesn't have a focus for his upset or know what he wants to have happen. In particular he's very unhappy about the Council Challenge where he had to denounce his uncle Seyton Urquhart for his serial philandering. I got him drunk. Well we both got pissed he was just more pissed than me. He's gotten the cold shoulder from extended family over the summer and there's talk of a stakeholder revolt at the Wanderers to toss him out because of the sorts of women Heph implied he was interested in. I'm not sure if we should try to recruit him now or not. His ties to his family have been so tight and given their positions in the realm I don't know which way he'd choose to fly. Protect his family's position or work to make things better and hope that his family will find it's way in the new order? I just really don't know. Unless things change he certainly wouldn't actively oppose change, but I'm not confident that he's ready to work with the likes of "the Traitors Sirius Black and the Longbottoms"

Is there something I could talk to him about doing that wouldn't involve him in full blown treason, but might pave the way for future action?

Comments

[alt_alice]

It's certainly worth thinking about, yes.

Not everyone would be ready for such a radical leap all in one go, but a person who is angry and disillusioned tends to be open to new ideas, and I'd rather we worked with him than Dogstar. And it does seem like he would take to a bit of direction. We also might need to have a similar approach with some of the other Galleon members, depending.

The question is what we might do to get him started down this path without sending him running to MLE.

Any ideas, Remus?

[alt_alice]

Just thinking off the top of my head, we could have Harry groom him to be his eyes and ears in Buckingham, for instance. It'd get him a job and a certain degree of standing, he wouldn't even necessarily have to do anything terribly revolutionary and could still be fairly useful, and Harry tends to be rather good at getting people to trust him, not to mention getting them to do highly illegal things and keep quiet about it.

I'm still boggled at how they managed to pull off reading Pure Victory to nearly half the school.

It'd have to be carefully done, mind, but Harry has far fewer allies in his immediate circle than he used to, and having a person working for his agenda might be worth his while too.

[alt_cedric]

He's bit at loose ends waiting for his NEWTS results. I'm sure I could come up with a reason to get together with him and Harry to see what we might be able to work out. I'll talk to Harry about ideas on the way to Siz's for dinner.

Oh one small piece I've been able to pick up, I think that Dolohov's "Friday" project is on the direct orders of His Lord and that Barty is helping him, at least informally. He's still unhappy about it and it still isn't going well.