Order Only: Private Message to Draco

[alt_hermione]

So. I know we haven't actually seen much of each other, these last few days. Between your working on the boxes and my work with Mr Snape on the Sleeper research, it's really surprising how time goes. Are you going to spend much time at Grimmauld in the next day or two? I was thinking of giving Bea one more tea party before Tonks has her baby, just to take a bit of a break from it all.

I was also thinking...you told your father you'd visit. And you haven't yet. It's not the most pleasant way to spend time, I know, but...if you wanted me to go with you, and wait on the ground floor or something, I'd make time for that.

Unless you'd rather go with Sarah. Or maybe you were lying, I mean, just telling him that to keep him complacent, and you don't want to see him at all. Which makes sense, if it's too painful. I mean, I don't ever want to see

But if you wanted someone to go with you, for moral support, I could do that.

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[alt_draco]

I'll join you for the tea party so long as I don't have to wear ladies gloves, per Bea's preference. Not that I'm opposed to ladies gloves, but they're always too small for my hands and make the tea cups too difficult to handle, besides.

As for my father, well...thanks for the offer, truly - but it's not as if I'm afraid of going, or anything. It isn't even that it's unpleasant. It's not so terrible. It's so not so terrible that I don't really know what to do next. I expected him to hate me and he didn't, so what now?

If I did go, I'm not sure Sarah should come along. Or would, even. She's being funny about the whole thing, but funny in that way where she's clearly not saying what she's thinking, not even when I ask. It's not as if I expect her to like my father or want to get to know him, after all.

[alt_hermione]

I think we could convince Bea that gloves are not strictly necessary. Maybe we could have an informal tea party or something. Or tell her Hydra never wears gloves, that'd probably change her mind really quickly.

I don't know if this will help or hurt, but Mr Lupin seems to think that you've got a better chance of convincing your father to help than anyone else. That's why I suggested that I stay out of sight, if I did go. I can't imagine he'd be happy seeing Sarah, either, considering.

I mean, not that you ought to be seeking his approval anymore, because obviously that doesn't matter in the slightest. Only that if you go to try to talk him into supporting the Order, like Derrick's doing, then it doesn't make sense to deliberately antagonise him, either.

I'm sure Sarah doesn't want to make his acquaintance because she's sure he'll just treat her horribly. And I mean, no one can blame her for that.

[alt_draco]

It's true Hydra never wears gloves. Not fancy lady ones, anyway. Funny that, because I've a feeling she'd like to.

I don't think he will help unless he believes we've actually got a chance, and right now, he believes we're doomed. His plan is the only plan, remember? But maybe if I gave him more details about the horcruxes, and describe how we've already found and destroyed three of them, and are pretty certain we've tracked down a fourth. Or if I told him about our work disabling the Octobori, or about Sherwood, Aldrich, and Bedford. You know - things that will demonstrate to him that we're making progress that none of the other resistance groups can hold a candle to.

Only, how will everyone feel about me giving him so much information about us?

Oh, and yeah, I understand exactly why Sarah wouldn't want to know him, but I don't think she'd be a good person to have come along and wait on the ground floor, either.

[alt_hermione]

Well, you can ask Mr Lupin but I think we're taking the right precautions so that he can't really hurt us with any information he's given. I mean, he's not going to contact Voldemort through his Mark--he couldn't do that in Saltash even if he tried. And he's not going to get a journal and start writing to people (which also won't work in Saltash). And do you think if you told him about the horcruxes and he did escape somehow, he'd go and tell Voldemort about his vulnerability? After he told you that he'd already sort of helped Selwyn?

[alt_draco]

No, I don't really think he'd use the information against us, but other people could be of that mindset. But whatever, you can't make everyone happy, no matter what you do.

[alt_hermione]

Then I think you're better off risking by telling him too much, in the hopes he has something useful to add, rather than telling him too little, and never getting him to ever see that we can succeed.

[alt_draco]

Yeah, I agree.

You sure you really want to come along? I can manage on my own, if you'd rather not.

[alt_hermione]

I don't mind. If you want me to come, that is.

[alt_draco]

Sure I do.

I really do wish he could meet you properly, you know, not just as Harry's former servant. And that he would see what I see - what everyone else in the Order sees, too, that is. But he just wouldn't.