I know what we decided, but I keep thinking of her sitting over tea with Delilah Mytens and that Campanella Wright, mulling over whatever exactly she did see and hear last evening--and while I would honestly trust Aurora in most every situation, I do wonder if she might not say something to those friends of hers that could have repercussions.
I trust the patronus reached Charlie, but I wonder if I really oughtn't to tell the rest of the Order what the danger might be.
But then I think whether it makes any sense to upset Molly if nothing comes of it.
Consider, Poppy, my dear, what an alarum would mean.
Chaos, argument, quite likely some foolish plan to intercept her at her cafe, the discussion distracting those students who are sitting exams this week, and Godric knows what else.
Her husband and Antonin Dolohov worry me rather more, in terms of her mulling over what she saw. But they are also likely to notice her responding oddly.
If Aurora were the sort to denounce you immediately, we would not now be having this conversation. If she were sure she would in the future, I do not think she would have warned you that she overheard your conversation.
We risk as much by being hasty or causing others to worry over her behaviour as we do by trusting, I think, and we know she thinks well of you. And while she is one of Helga's own, she has learned a little subtlety over the years.
I am also minded both of her comments eighteen months ago, and of conversations with Alice in more recent months about how we must reach out to others about our cause.
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Private Message to Albus
Date: 2014-06-03 10:40 pm (UTC)I trust the patronus reached Charlie, but I wonder if I really oughtn't to tell the rest of the Order what the danger might be.
But then I think whether it makes any sense to upset Molly if nothing comes of it.
Re: Private Message to Albus
Date: 2014-06-03 10:50 pm (UTC)Chaos, argument, quite likely some foolish plan to intercept her at her cafe, the discussion distracting those students who are sitting exams this week, and Godric knows what else.
Her husband and Antonin Dolohov worry me rather more, in terms of her mulling over what she saw. But they are also likely to notice her responding oddly.
We might just try trust.
Re: Private Message to Albus
Date: 2014-06-03 11:01 pm (UTC)It's funny: that's just what I hoped you'd tell me, and yet I find your other reflections leave me rather less relieved than I'd expected.
At any rate, if your intuition says that she's to be trusted and mine partly does, then trusting seems a sound course to follow.
In the matter of trust, there is no one who commands so much from me as you do, Albus. I mean that quite sincerely.
Re: Private Message to Albus
Date: 2014-06-03 11:13 pm (UTC)I am not trusting purely to intuition, mind.
If Aurora were the sort to denounce you immediately, we would not now be having this conversation. If she were sure she would in the future, I do not think she would have warned you that she overheard your conversation.
We risk as much by being hasty or causing others to worry over her behaviour as we do by trusting, I think, and we know she thinks well of you. And while she is one of Helga's own, she has learned a little subtlety over the years.
I am also minded both of her comments eighteen months ago, and of conversations with Alice in more recent months about how we must reach out to others about our cause.