Order Only - DONE

[alt_draco]

Okay, that's it. Call a meeting, make a circle, do a chant, kiss a goblin. I don't care what it involves, I want out of this organisation. Make me an auxiliary member. I'll pass along what I feel like sharing via Mr Snape and Harry.

I am entirely serious.

I want the fuck out right now. Not tomorrow, not in a week. NOW.

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Re: Private message to Draco

[alt_severus]

I trust that part of what you are seeing is that you are far from the only one to find Ronald Weasley an idiot and a child who has never learnt to judge when something needs to be taken seriously. I will be having words with him, and with his co-conspirators, when we return to school.

Re: Private message to Draco

[alt_draco]

And now we get to have all the Weasleys, except the one they don't want.

To think I was actually beginning to believe Ron was the most tolerable of that lot.

Re: Private message to Draco

[alt_severus]

There is nothing to say you are not correct in that assessment, given that it is relative and not absolute.

The Order of the Phoenix, even under Albus Dumbledore, has often been bad at navigating any situation requiring nuance, and organisationally uncomfortable with the notion that one cannot simply declare oneself 'good' to avoid having one's actual actions questioned. (And, conversely, that one cannot likewise declare one's opponents 'evil' and have done with it.)

Weasley, like much of his family, is too accustomed to thinking of himself as the hero of his own story and to casting those around him in roles in that story without regard to their own wishes in the matter. I am familiar with how infuriating it is to find oneself being enlisted as a player in the drama of some self-styled hero's life — your Weasley was, and continues to be, my Black, and for many of the same reasons.

You and I are not the type of men meant to be storybook heroes, and others find that difficult to accept. It is easy for those to whom the world appears black and white to revile those of us who live in the shades of grey. That does not, however, mean that you should be treated with the contempt Weasley has shown you, and it is well past time he is made to realise his lack of judgement has consequences.

Re: Private message to Draco

[alt_draco]

Storybook heroes only exist in storybooks, don't they? Real "heroes" (blimey, it's difficult for me to write that word in any serious way) are those who tell the truth, who show kindness (nope, don't like writing that one, either) when it's needed - not because it's the right thing to do, or to make themselves feel better, but because they genuinely feel compelled to.

I'm not kind but I am honest, so there's that going for me.

I can't say I like Black much better than Weasley, you know. Cut from the same cloth, they are.

Anyway, you've never been anything but honest with me, and I appreciate that.

Re: Private message to Draco

[alt_severus]

I have always been of the belief that honesty is the only form of kindness worth the name.