ORDER ONLY: Help with wands

[alt_hermione]

I've been trying and trying to put this off, because I've been afraid of what you all will say, but I simply have to tell you, now that everyone's going home - 

Terry and I have a few friends who are helping us hide our wands. They're in these little braided bracelets and they come out when we need them. We couldn't have done the charms work ourselves. But we promised them we'd never tell anyone who they are so I can't tell you! I mean, they think that someone must have given us the wands, but they don't know who or how, or how many of you, so they're really afraid that you'll get caught and tell someone that they helped us, so I can't tell.

I hope it's all right. I don't see how else things would possibly have worked. But you must understand that I simply can't tell who they are, I can't, they trust me not to...

Comments

[alt_poppy]

I'm not certain how I feel about what you say here, but I will take your word that you have not compromised our secret in this. I do appreciate how difficult your situation is, and it is heartening to think you have friends beyond the Order.

But, Miss Granger, what you say is also worrying. I take it that these friends are students. In fact, I'd be alarmed if that is not what you mean. But I must ask you, please, to consider showing your bracelet to the Headmistress before you leave school tomorrow. While I know that some of our students are very accomplished, I should not feel at all comfortable trusting your safety to the soundness of the spellwork you describe. You know what peril it would be to reveal to the Lord Protector that you have a wand in your possession, and you know how penetrating his scrutiny can be. Trust me when I say that he can pierce the deflecting magic of even very accomplished spells with a casual glance. I also know that you have felt in the past that He does not pay you any mind, but you must not count on that always being so. It would take only a moment of his attention and all might be lost.

This is my request, then: please make time to see the Headmistress before you leave school tomorrow. I'm sure we can arrange something to cover for that visit. Allow Professor McGonagall to examine the enchantments on your bracelet, and if she believes them to be sound, I will accept her judgement. Otherwise, I urge you not to take the wand with you to Buckingham: the result could be calamity for you and for us all.

[alt_frank]

good advice Poppy.

[alt_hermione]

All right.

Only I don't think that I can get Terry to do it without tipping him off that the Headmistress is in on it! I mean, he's got one too, and even if mine's faulty his might be, and I know it's not so bad for him because he doesn't have to go to Buckingham but I'd still be worried. I mean he might run into anyone too, it's not as though the Lord Protector never comes to Hogwarts, and he'd be doubly at risk if I was discovered, wouldn't he?

[alt_frank]

you're right -- yours is more important to check of the two. and if the same spells are on his, and yours passes muster, that should be good enough.