Order Only: Frank, Alice
Jul. 24th, 2010 11:32 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alt_poppyFrank, Alice?
I've been thinking, and I'd very much like to know a bit more about what you've told your children. About yourselves. I know Alice said you didn't intend to tell them about the work you do with us. But-- Well, I wonder what your Neville knows and what he might piece together from what you've told him. He's a quiet boy, but he does a lot of thinking, I believe, about how things are. He's thoughtful in both senses. And if there are children capable of taking a bit of information and putting it together with other bits, like Sirius's Grim Truths--
Your Neville wrote back to him once or twice, didn't he? Sirius? Have I misremembered?
I'm only thinking that your son is one child with a special bit of information about two members of our group, and if children his age are capable of figuring out what's what, he may be as well. You--and we--should be prepared for him to have questions. Or suppositions, even. And sooner than later.
We ought to have a plan for what you could tell him and when.
This whole episode with Miss Granger's friends suggests to me that we've been a bit too laissez faire about the things your children and the Weasley children--now there's a caution!--might glean from things they hear and observe.
I've been thinking, and I'd very much like to know a bit more about what you've told your children. About yourselves. I know Alice said you didn't intend to tell them about the work you do with us. But-- Well, I wonder what your Neville knows and what he might piece together from what you've told him. He's a quiet boy, but he does a lot of thinking, I believe, about how things are. He's thoughtful in both senses. And if there are children capable of taking a bit of information and putting it together with other bits, like Sirius's Grim Truths--
Your Neville wrote back to him once or twice, didn't he? Sirius? Have I misremembered?
I'm only thinking that your son is one child with a special bit of information about two members of our group, and if children his age are capable of figuring out what's what, he may be as well. You--and we--should be prepared for him to have questions. Or suppositions, even. And sooner than later.
We ought to have a plan for what you could tell him and when.
This whole episode with Miss Granger's friends suggests to me that we've been a bit too laissez faire about the things your children and the Weasley children--now there's a caution!--might glean from things they hear and observe.
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Date: 2010-07-24 05:00 pm (UTC)You do realise that I'm not meaning to imply that the boy is untrustworthy? But we are, in effect, trusting a number of children already without any control over what they know or how they know what to do with the things they may be piecing together about us.
I suppose I'm thinking that we ought to discuss bringing certain children into the Order rather earlier than we would if we'd the luxury to wait. And I'm definitely thinking that we need to discuss what certain children already know, so thank you for reminding us of this, Remus.
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Date: 2010-07-24 06:57 pm (UTC)I quite agree with you, Poppy, that this is a very serious matter, and that we need to give due consideration to our next move. If we've been uncovered by a group of schoolchildren, are we really as safe from the Ministry as we might think?
No slight is intended against Neville, I know. He's a good boy, and I'm quite sure he'd do his parents proud, but I also know Bellatrix. If she wanted to get information from someone, even if that person were a child, she wouldn't hesitate to use every means at her disposal. Quite apart from exposing any child to such an awful experience, the risk to the Order is, I'm sure, obvious.
So yes, Poppy. I quite agree with you. But I'm unsure what we ought to do about it all. I've always been in favour of getting Hermione away from that place, as you know, and Terry too I suppose. But I know it's not possible yet, and we certainly can't steal away however many children make up this group of friends she's found.
Perhaps it just comes down to trusting Hermione's discretion in how much she shares with her friends, and how much she keeps to herself. We have precious little other choice that I can see.