Patronus to all Order members

[ocularlunacy.livejournal.com]

Public response is deafeningly positive. The entire country's either mad enough or desperate enough to take the Prophet's phony slant of everything being for our protection and not question anything they print. Registration will cost us every lead we've found and every suspect who has the means to get around this, and believe me when I say that's most every one of them. These Death Eater's have probably been using Dark magic most of their lives, nothing Barty or the morons in the courts do will change that.

This is a political blockade, pure and simple, against anyone wanting to defend themselves and anyone other than the Ministry who might take matters into their own hands when the job's left undone and shoddy. We can't fight, we can't defend, can't get word out or even escape in an incident, and all surveillance will be at a halt.

In a crisis most civilians would kill their pets if the law even hinted it would protect them. If we tolerate this, so will they, and Barty will keep playing his game of catch-up while those people die. If you do it and you're questioned, no word of any of the rest of us. It's time.

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[mugglesdowhat.livejournal.com]

So is registering. Moody's right.

[sabretoothmolly.livejournal.com]

Moody doesn't have a family, Arthur.

[mugglesdowhat.livejournal.com]

What kind of lesson is that teaching the boys, though, if we back down?

[sabretoothmolly.livejournal.com]

*He's right, and she knows it--and Molly takes up her knitting again, needles clicking faster and faster.*

The kind of lesson where you still have a job.

[mugglesdowhat.livejournal.com]

*She's right, too, and Arthur knows that just as well. If he openly rebels, he'll lose his position, and they can't afford that. He watches Ron and leans forward with his elbows on his knees, fingers laced and pressed to his mouth for a moment.*

...I don't want them learning that the way to handle abuse of power is to roll over.

[sabretoothmolly.livejournal.com]

Then we'll shout into the wind? Send an owl, make a statement, owl Barty himself if you must, but refuse? What will that accomplish?

[mugglesdowhat.livejournal.com]

It's taking a stand, Molly, it's the whole point of the Order in the first place!

*Picking up on his father's agitation, Ron raises his little head and looks at Arthur; even the baby isn't accustomed to loud voices from him.*