Order Only: Private Message to Frank Longbottom and Arthur Weasley

[alt_poppy]

Well.

The two of you have just made your tasks far simpler in future, haven't you? No need to fuss with the parents after this. You can just pop in and snatch babies from their mothers' arms and justify it as 'best for the babies'.

Because a fourteen year old has told you that's what she'd do.

Very ethical of you.

Congratulations.

What, may I ask, did you do to the parents? Did you wipe their minds clean of any remembrance of the child and of their lives for the past several months? Perhaps that's a pattern for future missions: you could make the camp population feel much better by wiping their minds of any recollection of what they've suffered. Because Merlin knows you know better than they what's good for them.

Comments

[alt_arthur]

Meaning that a fourteen year old isn't capable of making that decision, Poppy? No one had any greater right than she did.

Kingsley's right. All our alternatives were terrible. This one was the least.

[alt_arthur]

Your ethical guidelines are easy in comparison to mine, Poppy: 'First, do no harm.' You have no idea how much I envy you. You seem to forget that I continue for one of the most evil governments of all time, and I am forced to make soul-sickening decisions every single day.

[alt_frank]

if you think that she was the only reason we did what we did

that she was the deciding factor in all of this



merlin poppy.

first off, you dont think shed have anything of value to contribute? second, if we thought that baby would have been safe in that home we would have left her there regardless of what hermione thought. Ive done it before. it ripped my heart out to do it but Ive done it.

if you think that we depended on her, that shes giving us a clean conscience because she said we could, you couldnt be more wrong. you must think arthur and me are right idiots that cant think for ourselves or make informed decisions. oh, wait, were also hamfisted too. after all its not like we have any experience or training.

and you know what? yeah, I feel right shitty about what I had to do today. made me feel sick. I hate that she will never have parents who will love her or care about her or get her christmas cards. Im the one thats there with them every day. Im the one that will have to answer to her about what we did and why, and one day when this shit is all over and done I will answer to her parents about it too.