Students Outside the ISS

[alt_moderator]

Alternity gave many of its characters the ability to carry on conversations that were not able to be monitored by the Protectorate. Chief among these were the Order's private lock, for Order members only, and the "ISS" or "I Solemnly Swear" lock, which was created by Fred and George primarily as a way to speak to Terry.

But there were a number of students who were never part of the ISS lock. These students often had to rely on off-journal communication, or carefully couched statements to one another, to make their shifting ideas and allegiances known.

This thread is for any and all questions for the student-characters who were never part of the ISS: Lavender, Linus, Seamus, Padma, Blaise, Zach, Michael, Megan, Ernie, Eloise, Ginny, Daphne, and Milli. And although they don't have played journals of their own, it's possible that if you have a question for an NPC who was not on the ISS lock, we might be able to relay an answer....

Comments

[jenett]

Question for everyone: Are there events now that you're looking at in a different way, knowing what happened later?

I'm thinking particularly of Sarah Fawcett's escape, the reading of Pure Victory, and, of course, events in May of 1998 leading up to the Battle for Hogwarts, but there are so many others.

[alt_daphne]

I should have paid more attention to my tea leaves, of course.

[alt_megan]

Divination is complicated.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm particularly interested in Padma's answer to this question!

[alt_padma]

Really, why my answer particularly?

I mean, obviously, we'd be stupid not to look back at things and wonder. Like Daphne said, it was always clear that Ron, Pansy, Sally-Anne and even others had some way of communicating that wasn't a plain PM and that wasn't notes.

I kept my copy of Pure Victory. I still have it.

[alt_seamus]

I wasn't there for the reading of Pure Victory, although I did get one of the copies of the original version when the Order distributed it, so I got to read it.

Sarah's escape. Yeah. That evening made a lot more sense knowing that it was a coordinated rescue and not just a whole lot of disconnected coincidental chaos. The main reason the coincidental chaos was plausible was that everyone hated Umbridge so much.

On the other hand, I didn't notice a thing during Professor Sinistra's wedding reception.

[alt_lavender]

I wish I could have been there for the Pure Victory reading! I suppose everyone thought I'd grass because I was a Prefect, but I wouldn't have done.

Everyone knew the "official" third book was rubbish, even though we couldn't say so. I borrowed the secret copy from Parvati, and I think she got it off Padma. Or maybe Bundy.

Now there's something, or rather someone, I looked at in a different way afterward. We all thought she was such a little mouse, and she was actually a complete rebel!

[alt_megan]

Yes. But I was already looking at them in a different way by the time of the Battle. Which is partly why I am dead.


I am OK with that. Being dead, I mean. I don't mean I wanted to be dead. But I am not sorry about jumping in front of Sarah. Even if it killed me. Because it was

something I needed to do. The right thing, I mean.

(I miss you, Ernie.)