Stop it. You're trying to manipulate me. So is she. Everyone just wants what they care about to be protected. Fuck what I care about. Stay here and he dies, go home and he dies.
Just decide for me. I don't care. And if I did, fuck what I care about.
I trust you'll let me know when I'd be more of a help than a hindrance. You know my position, and can certainly speak with the confidence that you'll have my support.
I'm coming over right away. We'll start talking options, but I don't want to settle on anything until we know more specifics.
Draco, I know that your family's well-being is something you care about more than almost anything. I know it has been difficult to leave them, and I know that your first impulse is to do whatever you can to help your father.
You understand that we'll have to talk through all of your options, but I'm willing to listen to what you want to accomplish, and sort out whether it is feasible. Know that I am concerned about security, yes, but that I am also concerned about your own safety, and believe me, Draco, I would not willingly have you throw yourself to the wolves.
You can talk to me, or yell, or sit there and not say a word, but what I would prefer is if we have a conversation about what you want, and whether we can accomplish it. You are not a prisoner. I will not have you continue to serve the Order at a price you are unwilling to pay. You do have choices, although they will be difficult, and our job right now is to sit down and sort those choices out.
We do not know the details fully beyond your mother's information, which could have been exaggerated due to her emotional state. Furthermore, I am not convinced that you are prepared at the moment to make a permanent decision. It can wait until we learn more. However, you deserve to be heard, and I would like to hear you, if you'll have me.
Either Hermione's right and this is some sort of bluff, and they mean to capture you and torture you until you break, or this is the absolute truth and your father's sold himself for a chance that you're willing to come back and deliberately betray all of us, put his life above the whole revolution.
And either way, there's every reason to think that they would double-cross you as soon as you walk into MLE's hands. Use Veritaserum and Legilimency and any other tactic they can to make certain they've plundered your thoughts and memories completely.
We could Obliviate you but we'd have to do so so completely you would hardly be yourself anymore.
I'm truly sorry, Draco. There's nothing you can do.
There's no way to do it that wouldn't leave traces. Especially when the memories are extensive.
Memory charms can be broken with cruciatus. Don't think for a minute they'd spare you that It takes a long time. You would, however, still be able to answer their questions when they were done.
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Date: 2014-06-12 04:42 pm (UTC)Say what else you might, your father loves you; I doubt he would want that to happen.
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Date: 2014-06-12 04:46 pm (UTC)"We're about to bury your uncle and your Father has agreed to follow him into the grave if you don't come home."
So Father made a deal with the Lord Protector. He does want this to happen.
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Date: 2014-06-12 04:52 pm (UTC)Rachel, please find out whatever you can so that we can make a fully informed decision.
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Date: 2014-06-12 05:16 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-06-12 04:53 pm (UTC)If he has made a deal, then it is even more certain he is willing.
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Date: 2014-06-12 05:00 pm (UTC)Just decide for me. I don't care. And if I did, fuck what I care about.
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Date: 2014-06-12 05:08 pm (UTC)I will never apologise for wanting to protect you.
Private Message to Severus
Date: 2014-06-12 06:57 pm (UTC)I trust you'll let me know when I'd be more of a help than a hindrance. You know my position, and can certainly speak with the confidence that you'll have my support.
Private Message to Draco
Date: 2014-06-12 04:58 pm (UTC)Draco, I know that your family's well-being is something you care about more than almost anything. I know it has been difficult to leave them, and I know that your first impulse is to do whatever you can to help your father.
You understand that we'll have to talk through all of your options, but I'm willing to listen to what you want to accomplish, and sort out whether it is feasible. Know that I am concerned about security, yes, but that I am also concerned about your own safety, and believe me, Draco, I would not willingly have you throw yourself to the wolves.
Re: Private Message to Draco
Date: 2014-06-12 05:02 pm (UTC)You're just a liar. Everyone here is a liar.
Re: Private Message to Draco
Date: 2014-06-12 05:15 pm (UTC)You can talk to me, or yell, or sit there and not say a word, but what I would prefer is if we have a conversation about what you want, and whether we can accomplish it. You are not a prisoner. I will not have you continue to serve the Order at a price you are unwilling to pay. You do have choices, although they will be difficult, and our job right now is to sit down and sort those choices out.
We do not know the details fully beyond your mother's information, which could have been exaggerated due to her emotional state. Furthermore, I am not convinced that you are prepared at the moment to make a permanent decision. It can wait until we learn more. However, you deserve to be heard, and I would like to hear you, if you'll have me.
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Date: 2014-06-12 05:03 pm (UTC)Either Hermione's right and this is some sort of bluff, and they mean to capture you and torture you until you break, or this is the absolute truth and your father's sold himself for a chance that you're willing to come back and deliberately betray all of us, put his life above the whole revolution.
And either way, there's every reason to think that they would double-cross you as soon as you walk into MLE's hands. Use Veritaserum and Legilimency and any other tactic they can to make certain they've plundered your thoughts and memories completely.
We could Obliviate you but we'd have to do so so completely you would hardly be yourself anymore.
I'm truly sorry, Draco. There's nothing you can do.
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Date: 2014-06-12 05:16 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-06-12 05:19 pm (UTC)Memory charms can be broken with cruciatus.
Don't think for a minute they'd spare you thatIt takes a long time. You would, however, still be able to answer their questions when they were done.no subject
Date: 2014-06-12 05:28 pm (UTC)