Order Only: Muggleborns

[alt_hermione]

Professor McGonagall gave me the names in the book. There are nine--that's rather a lot since July, isn't it?

Anyway, here they are:

Dorothy Harris, New London
Emma Jenkins, Dartford, Kent
Richard Marshall, Hartlepool, Durham
George McCalman, Armitage, Staffordshire
Ifan Powys, Llanfyllin, Powys
Curtis Reinman, Ely, Cambridgeshire
Gavenia Selvaratnam, Galashiels, Scottish Borders
Arthur Tanisbee, New London
Anita Williams, Manchester


Something must have upset her about this, too--because she didn't want to post about it herself. I think it's because of the Tansibee baby. Arthur. I remembered that Mr Weasley had to bring Jane Tanisbee back to the camps because she'd been assaulted by the son of the family she worked for. But then I thought, isn't that impossible, for it to be the same Tanisbee? Because Mr Weasley made it so she wouldn't have any babies for ten years and--well, it's only been six years.

Still. It doesn't seem like it'd be coincidence, the baby being named Arthur like that. Does it?

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[alt_sally_anne]

Two more babies in New London.

You didn't ever find the last one, did you? Alice Sinclair?

[alt_hermione]

Alise Sinclair. No, no one's said that they've found her. There was a Laurel Sinclair that the Order tried to find a while ago. I think Alise might be her sister. It's a fairly common name, Sinclair, but muggleborns tend to run in families.

Oh, half a moment! Harris. Wasn't there a Harris in the past, too?

[alt_sally_anne]

Yeah, there was.

Somewhere. I can't remember who mentioned a Harris. Maybe it was Mr Weasley?

[alt_sirius]

Jeanne Harris.

She and Laurel were the other choices besides Ellie - the ones Davidson's people recommended we try to rescue.

And they're about the same age as Jane Tanisbee, too.

[alt_sally_anne]

Right

I have a guess of what might be going on but it's pretty horrid.

Hermione are you thinking what I'm thinking?

[alt_frank]

wonder if that fits in with copeland's intel. about the pair of wizards asking a bunch of questions about past pregnancies in Llanfyllin.

[alt_hermione]

Someone's opened a new kind of brothel with muggleborns?

Or someone wants them to be having babies. Those are the only things I can think that would explain it.

Only I think if a muggleborn brothel had opened in New London, someone would have mentioned it. I mean, in certain circles. The Council wouldn't care for that sort of thing at all. And whoever did it would have had to bribe the camps pretty heavily to get the muggleborns out for that sort of thing.

But it's possible. They told Mrs Stretton there was a shortage, didn't they?

[alt_evelyn]

So... they're getting a bunch of muggle born girls and making them get pregnant to get more muggle borns?

[alt_hermione]

It looks that way, yes.

In New London.

[alt_sally_anne]

Oh, a brothel! That's less horrid than

The thing is they'd have used contraceptive charms, surely. Or potions or something. Because they could get in loads of trouble and babies are a good way to get noticed what's going on, you know?

[alt_hermione]

Well, I'm only saying it's possible. It's possible they don't care about giving them contraceptives.

I think the other thing is more likely. But I'm not sure why. Unless they want to have a whole load of

[alt_hermione]

Oh.

Yes, that's much more horrid.

[alt_lupin]

Strangeweale.

You're thinking about Strangeweale, and the device he was going to use on Arista Selwyn.

[alt_sally_anne]

Well he also wanted 'expendable half-bloods.'

There's nobody in the Protectorate more 'expendable' than a baby born to a muggleborn girl.

[alt_sally_anne]

From Strangweale's point of view, I mean.

[alt_alice]

I see.

[alt_molly]

Alice...if you're right, and if the poor girl named her son after my Arthur...

Oh, we can't abandon Arthur's namesake to that foul machine! Or any of the rest of them!

[alt_hermione]

Yes.

Harry destroyed it. But he must have been able to rebuild it.

But that also means he must have been planning something for a long time, since last winter.

[alt_sally_anne]

He must have worked out that he wouldn't get THAT many half-bloods.

And not that many muggleborns are born, usually. In fact -- well he wouldn't know ANY had been born in the last few years, right? I mean how long has it been since the Order missed one?

[alt_hermione]

Or maybe he had more than one device.

They wanted Arista and Hector because they were so young. So babies would be even better, wouldn't they? Or maybe he has to wait until they manifest their magic.


Oh my goodness! Do you think they have another way to find them besides the book? Other muggleborn babies, I mean? Maybe not since they're breeding them especially.

[alt_lupin]

As Frank noted, we've heard rumours in the camps about wizards.

This would certainly explain them.

[alt_lupin]

It also explains why there's a shortage of muggleborn labour at present.

[alt_sirius]

Remus is right: If they have a source besides the book then we'd have found out when we went to get Charles or Mikhail or Mayuko. Also, we do know they've been asking about pregnancies and such. That's a strong argument against another source.

But we'd better get on these others as soon as possible, just in case.

Oh, bugger. If Minerva has already altered the book, we might be in trouble.

[alt_alice]

Point taken, Sirius.

Minerva, any way to add those names back in?

Including Sinclair?

[alt_alice]

And what are we to do about those in New London?

I'd like a full report on the possible location of the machine, anything you can recall about its properties, and any details about the layout of the Department of Mysteries from those who were there this summer.

[alt_sally_anne]

Harry and Draco are the ones who saw it.

You might also talk to Arista about it. And see what she remembers.

I can sketch out what I remember of the layout, that would be easier than trying to describe it in the journal. It would probably be best if I did that in either the Hospital Wing or Mr Snape's office so I could give it straight to an Order member when I was done.

[alt_harry]

We'll write up what we know.

Maybe we could all meet at Mr Snape's office and work on it together or something?

[alt_sally_anne]

Yeah. Let's do that. Because it's been a while since I've thought about it but talking about it some might bring it back. But we need to be somewhere safe.

[alt_alice]

I'll ask her if she'll talk to me about it.

I have no doubt it will be very painful for her to revisit.

I Solemnly Swear That I Am Up To No Good

[alt_sally_anne]

On the other hand, it's sure to be loads of fun for the rest of us!

Yes, yes, Arista is ten and we're practically of age. I KNOW. But she's also the only one Strangeweale talked to.

Re: I Solemnly Swear That I Am Up To No Good

[alt_evelyn]

Maybe if Arista doesn't want to talk to mum about it, she'll talk to Ron?

Re: I Solemnly Swear That I Am Up To No Good

[alt_sally_anne]

That's a good idea, you should suggest it. Maybe she'd write it in your mum's journal, like she used to write in her father's.

[alt_evelyn]

You can always ask if she'd rather write Ron instead.

[alt_alice]

Yes. I could certainly do that. If he'd be amenable, of course.

I think she trusts him more than she does me.

And it's often easier to share something painful with someone who was there for it in the first place.

[alt_hermione]

All right but the layout kept changing, that's the thing. And most of us were taken out pretty early once Auror Crouch and Professor Dolohov arrived.

Sally-Anne's right, we should write reports and give them directly to Madam Pomfrey, Mr Snape, Professor Sprout, Professor Brutka, or Headmistress McGonagall.

[alt_sirius]

By the way, Hermione,

Tried your suggestion to diffuse the heat of the cauldron this afternoon. It worked a treat. You're brilliant, kiddo.

Tell his greasiness I'm sending up a sample to test.

[alt_lupin]

The charm Arthur used can be reversed.

But someone would have had to reverse it.

[alt_hermione]

Yes, exactly.

Someone probably did.

It also explains why you can't find Alise Sinclair.

Private message to Padfoot

[alt_lupin]

Bloody motherfucking murderous cold blooded reptile bastard.

Forget capital letters. There isn't enough profanity in the English language to cover this situation.

Re: Private message to Padfoot

[alt_sirius]

Right. I've half a mind to start planning an all-out assault on the Ministry.

Beyond that, though, there's a potential concern here: If they already have Sinclair, Harris, Tanisbee - we can't leave them out of the false book.

But we've no way to know if they know about the others. And if we leave them out, we risk exposing the book. But if we don't, then we hand them over the next time Lucius bloody Malfoy sticks his nose in it. Either way, it could blow Minerva's cover wide open - and potentially the whole lot of them at Hogwarts.

Bugger all.

Re: Private message to Padfoot

[alt_lupin]

I say we leave out everyone but the New London babies and hope for the best.

Has anyone other than Lucius Malfoy ever looked at the book?

Re: Private message to Padfoot

[alt_sirius]

No idea.

So far as I know, he looks at it because he sits on the Board of Governors and it's convenient for him to look at it. But it doesn't really matter who looks and who doesn't. Voldemort knows about it, so he could easily send someone else if he had a mind to do.

I mean, it's not like Bill could casually ask his boss if he knows there's a book that inscribes the names of all magical children, can he? As soon as he mentions it, even if Mulciber didn't know before well - he would certainly know it thereafter!