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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[frankly-bamf.livejournal.com]

*Frank's quiet for a moment in the wake of the message, the look on his face far too serious for a man in pyjamas and a bathrobe. He agrees with Moody wholeheartedly, but it's not so cut and dry as all that, not when trying to stay in close and buddy-buddy with Barty. Troubled, he stays where he is slouched down on the bed, his book forgotten across his chest, and looks to Alice wordlessly.*

[gummymummy.livejournal.com]

*July is coming, and Alice is not prepared. Even though the birthdays are spaced well, she still needs to plan Frank and Neville's presents. Obviously she cannot work on Frank's in front of him, so tonight she is working on a My First Year scrapbook for Neville.

As the Patronus delivers its message and dissipates, she knows Frank is looking at her. It takes a moment to collect her thoughts - on registration, on Crouch, on her precarious position - because she knows their feelings match on this, and she can't follow through.*

I can't ask you to register for me.

[frankly-bamf.livejournal.com]

And I can't leave you without backup.

[gummymummy.livejournal.com]

You don't get better backup than the Minister of Magic.