Various and sundry

[fmsv]

Cedric needs one of the political people from the prison (I'm not sure who would be best, Alfred Denning or Michael Foote), and it sounds like Fred needs Tim Berners-Lee.

Meanwhile, Tosha...

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[ursamajor]

Tosha. "He whose name I shall never again write." *wordlessly explodes*

And Linus. "Of course they're people. Anyone who has poets like that is definitely people.".

[kiya]

"Bollocks".

Yes, that is a Linus with a Mission.

[kiya]

Tosha, so upset with Justin, I think in part because Justin is entirely safe to be upset with.

Very much on "How could he deceive me", but yet, I can't help but think back to "If I were a member of a seditious organisation, the first thing I would do was offer to be your secretary. Therefore, I ask, so that someone we don't want having the job doesn't get it: do you need a clerk?"

Because the first thing he did was...

... I wonder if Tosha remembers that. I wonder if he will spend his time going back through his correspondence, see that, and either laugh or sob.

[cheyinka]

I had forgotten that! That's awesome; I hope he remembers it, or finds it and remembers. I really do feel for Tosha - he feels so betrayed! - and I like that, unlike Barty, he believed that Justin might indeed be Muggleborn.

[kiya]

It was one of the things that I stared at at the time and said, "Justin, you fox. That's Hufflepuffing your Slytherin." I mean, he's done plenty of that sort of doublespeak over the years but that one just had me rolling.

I actually like the way that the players have suggested that Justin's tactical genius is in part because he's muggleborn - that he is used to thinking about the environment in ways wizard-enculturated people don't. (Curtains, way back when, when the kids were dueling with Kingsley.)

[alt_player]

...Talking about Bowie reminded me of an Easter egg from way back, thought it'd be fun to share.

Back when Bella supposedly killed Sirius, Pansy wrote this, and the spacing was rather deliberate. (Yes, tomorrow was a stretch, but hey. She did try.)

-Pansy's player

[wintercreek]

I have to confess to hoping that Lana and Rod's baby winds up orphaned as an infant, ala Teddy Lupin in canon. Because Lana is just so dreadful.

[cheyinka]

It'd certainly be better for the poor kid than being raised by Lana, though I imagine if (when, right? when?) the Good Guys win, Lana will have an all-expenses-paid trip to Azkaban if she lives anyway, and should the Bad Guys win, Lana would probably have her kid raised by Rod and/or elves and/or slaves anyway, right? So really, the kid should turn out okay.

[stinaleigh]

I've just come across Lana's preparations for her wedding to Ned. She pretty much gave Orion the same instructions then about Ned's flat. In the same color schemes.

o.O

[jenett]

Well, they are sort of the logical colour schemes for a Ravenclaw marrying a Slytherin. Sort of.

[kiya]

This post has fallen off the first page but people shouldn't miss the Siz and Charlie conversation.

[stinaleigh]

Thanks for the pointer. I had been going back and looking at things, but missed this one.

[(Anonymous)]

Terry (http://alt-terry.dreamwidth.org/49780.html) is ruthless.

qwerty88

[ursamajor]

Terry. Dayumn, son. Well-played.

[stinaleigh]

Seamus' comeback just as harsh. Amazing stuff players.

I still want to see a reunion between Seamus and his father.

[kiya]

I cannot even begin to formulate my feels about loyal, steadfast, straightforward Cedric drunk-dialing Dolohov.

[stinaleigh]

So many feels.

[kiya]

Trying to figure out Draco's dates. I think:

11 Feb 1993: Death of Dennis Creevey.
7 June 1997: Deaths of Raz and Teddy, but I'm sure he only counts one of those. Raz.
9 May 1998: That would have to be Daphne.
16 May 1998, twice: Harry and Snape, I suspect.

Empty lines. Preparing for his future.

... oh, Draco.

[atheilen.livejournal.com]

Lucius wrote to Tosha and mentioned Cestus. I vaguely recall that was a code between them and maybe Barty? But I don't remember what it was. Trawled through some of the fifth-year posts and couldn't find the references. Anyone else have better memory than me?

Would also like to take a moment to welcome Lucius back to the journals. Have missed his...unique perspective.

[stinaleigh]

I'm doing a straight re-read, should get to year 5 tomorrow (don't know what I'll do for year 6 ;) ) and will pay attention. Although for the most part I am pretty clueless when it comes to deciphering the codes they use.

[ursamajor]

Alcaeus Covington in Mysteries asked to borrow Parlington's Cestus from Tosha at some point - then vanished. I don't remember where this went, though.

The possible relevance to now, though:

"a wizard with a sufficiently advanced will can set up, in advance, a death-spell that will be automatically released at the time he dies -- as a form of 'final strike', revenge against whomever has killed him."

[kiya]

Okay, I was thinking that Bella was calling Rigel in to brainwash Turner and/or Towler into becoming a sleeper agent, but now I'm thinking Penelope.

[ellemir.livejournal.com]

Or Rigell is the reason the witness to the families deaths is willing to blame the Order.

[kiya]

Ooh, also a possibility.

[aedifica]

Didn't people recover from his influence when they got away from him, though?

[kiya]

That's one of the reasons I'm thinking Penelope - she can in theory play Molly over the journals from wherever they're keeping her.

And if Molly's the Burrow secret-keeper, what are the odds that she wouldn't say, "Oh, dear girl, come run away, come to the Burrow" and that would be something Penelope could show to Bellatrix....

[aedifica]

Oh, I see what you mean. But do Fidelius secrets work like that? I think only Penelope would be able to use the secret if Molly wrote it to her like that. And then if she did come to the Burrow, she'd be away from Rigel. (Is there anything or anyone she cares for enough that Bellatrix and company could keep it/them hostage to ensure Penelope's return?)

[kiya]

I think that's an interesting magical theory question.

I think it's fair to say that if the secret-keeper wrote "The safehouse is at the Burrow, located at..." on a piece of paper, that's a security risk, and anyone who read it could get in, even if the paper were only intended for a specific party.

The aspect of intentionality in the journals interacts interestingly with that, though. Is someone reading a private message meant for someone else more like "I read that piece of paper" (and thus granting access) or more like "a person not the secret-keeper is trying to give me the secret" (and thus not granting access)?

I would venture that while the journal monitoring was working people reading the monitoring would gain access; even if the SK's intentionality was not to share that with them, the facts of the setup were such that all such messages were automatically shared with them, and thus included.

The fact that someone has to intervene to allow someone to read their private messages, though, leaves it ambiguous to me - does that intervention mean that the magic is effectively passed on by that person, who is not the SK, or is it more like "Hey, I found this note, why don't you read it?"

[ellemir.livejournal.com]

Certainly a possibility, but he has lost his entire family. Who would be suspicious if he is supported by the Protectorate, kept in hospital to recover from wounds, or placed into witness protection to hide him from retaliation from the evil protectorate?
A strong Imperius would allow them to let anyone make appearances publicly without obvious escort.

[(Anonymous)]

I meant "evil" Order

[aedifica]

He, who? Rigel hasn't lost his family, and I can't figure out who you are talking about.

[(Anonymous)]

Galen Nesbitt, "survivor" of the purported Order attack

[atheilen.livejournal.com]

Loving Molly so much these days. She is so kind and firm to Penny, and hilarious about Antonin Sodding Dolohov.

Reading back and foreshadowing?

[stinaleigh]

Or more likely wishful thinking.

In my re-read, I am in November of 5th year. So we have been introduced to Umbridge and Dolohov. And I'm reading the interactions between Aurora and Dolohov and missing that at Raz so much it aches.

And reading his current posts about his choices and what he misses. All the feels.

So one thing I just read in Year 5 was Terry commenting on Lucius Malfoy, harkening to Terry's magic 'trust' sense, and how he always got an evil, oily feeling about Lucius. But Terry has never met Dolohov, right? He has heard all the stories especially from Molly and Rachel, but I wonder what 'sense' he would get from Dolohov with his current commitments.

Wishful thinking I know, and I do acknowledge how morally suspect Dolohov is, but oh, I still miss Friday nights.

Also, it has been odd to realize that those things that are relied on like the Galleon and Button networks have been around for less than half the game.

[kiya]

Watching the various Order posts about "no, really, you have to take a day off, you can't just keep working until you collapse" leads me to think that the appropriate Albion slogan is currently "The Revolution Will Be Hufflepuff."

... which it kind of is, on principle, isn't it? Heh!

[stinaleigh]

So who thinks Siz is going to contact Tosha about the Irish wards and that Dark rite?