Marlene McKinnon

Other evidence has shown // That you and I are still alone // We skirt around the danger zone // And don't talk about it later( Other evidence has shown // That you and I are still alone // We skirt around the danger zone // And don't talk about it later )

( Private )

[Order]

Alright. After dinner I think we should all meet up at the safehouse for breaking in tonight, and even moreso once we're out it would be a good idea to all regroup here, just in case. I think it'll probably do James and hopefully Pete some good to have as many familiar faces as possible.

There will be snacks and drinks served in celebration.

[/Order]

I have no idea where half the crap that I've found between the sofa cushions here has come from, or how long it's been here. Coins I understand, there's some sort of weird magnetic attraction that seems to suck Knuts and Sickles out of peoples' pockets and into the furniture, but I just found a Mandrake Man action figure shoved in between the lining that I haven't seen since I was nine. Always wondered why this thing was so lumpy on the left side.

[Warded to the Order, Jo, Kingsley, Mary, Ioan, Carlotta, Stubby, Grady, Doris]


Hey everybody. Rumour has it (as do those sparkle posters that were up in Hogsmeade) that the Minister's Fireside Chat at 5:30's going to be explosive. Everyone should listen so that we can laugh about it later.

Just a head's up. Tell your friends.

( Private )

[Order]

I have radio show material that is going to piss the Death Eater types off very very badly. Between the conversation we got of those Lestrangey types basically saying they're not into You-Know-Who's mumbojumbo and an interview with an actual (however drunk) death eater calling them out on their crap with names, I think we're good to go for some high quality ruckus-causing. As always, anyone who wants to help out with the broadcast (especially keeping watch this time, since want to be sure everyone is hearing this) would be greatly appreciated, and if those of you who are good at potions could whip up some voice-changey ones, that would be awesome.

Pretty sure the Minister has a radio interview coming up. Those are always exciting to broadcast over.

( Private )

[Order]

Alright. I'm going to guess that by this point continuing to search around Knockturn is just going to waste our time. They wouldn't've stayed around there if they left Remus behind, even if they thought they were leaving him for dead after crucioing him til he blacked out. There's no sign of him on the Diagon Map. If he was still there, we'd know it.

I don't think he'd dead, though. When they kill people, they brag, even if it's under private wards. They send bodies in the mail. We would know. I don't want to be talking like th. Which makes me wonder if maybe that's what happened to Pete and Caradoc too. There wasn't evidence, they just disappeared. And I know we got the letters for Doc, but let's face it, he might've had those designed to be sent out if he just was taken somehow, because he's the kind of person who wouldn't want us using our resources to try to find him, you know? And his mothe Hell, I even want to think the same for Dorcas because we never knew for sure with her, but Bletchley knew she was dead too.

It makes me wonder if they have like... a prison or something for all the people who just disappear who are on our side. And that's scary as shit to think about, but at least it would give us something to look for.

...They've got control of Azkaban now...

[/Order]

I don't think I like 20. I think I'd rather go backwards and re-do 18. That was a good year.

I love you all. I am at the point in my high where i now know and understand chinese. And also the meaning of life. Remus I have an idea.


also, i may or may not be wearing a cape right now. hint: i am.

( Private )

I think I'm going to make pancakes at midnight. Breakfast food tastes better when it's dark outside for some reason.

[Private to Conrad Warrington]

You seem like you've been having a really bad couple of days. Wanna go get a drink?

Guess you can't spell "sanctity" without "tit," eh?

Hmm, interesting how some people seem to know what occurred in the Foundation Centre even though there haven't been press releases including names of victims. Interesting indeed.

( Private )
[Order]

HEY EVERYBODY. We have a primo opportunity here, let's take it. The death eaters will be distracted because they just lost. That doesn't happen. We should down painkiller potion and paint the town red.

Tomorrow though. Not tonight.

[/Order]

I think I'm going to string up Christmas lights even though it's June. There are not enough holidays in the summer.

Maybe I'll decorate Gus. Everybody loves a Piranha Plant covered in lights.

[Order]

Anybody know what's going on with this Foundation thing that's on the radio? I can't figure out if it's for real or if it's something they're staging to try to make the resistance types look like evil devil horned villains, and I'd go investigate myself but I haven't had the best of luck with Diagon Alley lately, so no thank you.

If it is for real, they've probably got all the Death Eater types nice and distracted at the moment. I say we make things worse for them while the opportunity is here.

[/Order]

I love spring.

( Cut for pictures, not for private )
Couldn't get Gus to stay still enough to take pictures of, though, unfortunately. He's getting so big. I'm glad that he's finally realised that Sammie Lennon and Lady are not for eating.

( Private )

[Remus]

I think my adrenalin high is finally crashing big time. Tell me something happy?

You know, you people are really bad at playing this politics game. You have some people asking genuine questions about this bill, not even trying to provoke a fight or anything, and their questions go ignored. But it's good to know that the whole Rehabilitation thing is fake as ever, and that the Averys/Lestranges/whatevers think that child-murder is a less heinous crime than baby-murder. Does it say that anywhere in the propaganda you're all putting out for the foundation?


Also, what's this and why was it in my mail? Looks a little like your mum, Sirius.



Some of my best friends have muggle parents (or one wizard, one muggle parents) and are totally happy. And some of the purebloods I know have family lives that made them miserable. Funny how statistics are bullshit like that.


[Added: Warded to everyone who was stuck in Hogwarts last month, the rest of the Order, Jo, Carlotta, Matilda, Grady, Leon, Doris, Ioan]

Hey everyone. For a good time, listen to the interview with the Minister on the WWN tomorrow at 11. Tell your friends. You won't regret it.

Light up, kids. It's Agnes O'Hare Day.

We should all do something special to celebrate. Sammie Lennon for one is spending the day rediscovering her love of using the Prophet for a pooper, and I think that I am going to make something ridiculously vegetarian for dinner.

Peace and love, everybody. That is what we need. None of this stupid regulation bullshit.

[Order]

Okay kids, here's the scoop as far as the Prophet's hours go: The owls start getting there to pick up the papers to deliver at 4 am. The last of the reporters usually trickle out at about 10 pm, and the presses run from 10pm-2am. So it looks like our peak time'll be 2-4 am to do this, although we might run into some security. The wards are probably pretty basic, nothing explodey that we won't be able to handle, but since it'll be during the curfew hours, we'll have to be careful.

My main worry here is that we're going to be putting some people with families out of work -- maybe we could get the ones that we know are on our side and that won't squeal to write some stuff for OUR paper all under-cover with pen names and the like.

Also, I may have figured out how to get our next Radio Show not just to a wider audience, but figured out a way to override one of the wwn frequencies. This is when you all tell me how awesome I am. But really though, I'm thinking huge things for the next show -- I'm trying to get Stubby to get the guys to record at least one anti-war/anti-purist song for the next show, I'd like as many people talking on there as possible... It'll be awesome. If you want to talk on it, let me know now. I'll start plotting.

[/Order]


[Added Later: Remus]

It's really nice out and I'm having a good hair day. Let's go out tonight. What are you hungry for?

[Carlotta]

I was curious as to if I could pick your journalistic brain about a couple of things? It'd be a ginormous help!

[/Carlotta]


Rumour has it that the Hobgoblins might be putting out a new album. About time, I say. And it's gonna piss some people offffffff. Here I'd thought they'd fallen into obscurity and off the face of the earth.

( Private )

[Order]

I have some stuff that I need to take to Caradoc's mum. If anyone has anything they would like me to pass along to her, please let me know. I'm leaving in 20 minutes and I'll be blonde. Shouldn't be gone that long but if I am, either I'll write or I left the address in my room.

I'm also thinking it's radio time soon. If anyone has any ideas or wants to help out, give me a heads up.

[/Order]

I've discovered a new fun thing to do with the newspapers these days. You can fold then into little tiny paper birds and charm them to fly around the room.

It's pointless, but surprisingly filled with less shite than the papers are by themselves. I think I'll make the next one into a peacock.

[Private]

I have never been happier to be home in my life.

[/Private]

It's weird to think that all this is going to be in our history books someday.

( Private )

[Hogwarts Refugees]

Everyone, I think we're going to be heading out to the tunnel soon, so if you are ready and able, please start gathering your stuff and heading up to the fourth floor. Those of you who are helping apparate the injured, meet up with the Healers, they can tell you who to help out. We've got stretchers sort of so we can work with that. We want EVERYONE to be up there in 50 MINUTES, so PLEASE try to be prompt. We've got a short window of time here if we want to make sure this works.

No one go into the tunnel until we give the signal that it's okay to Go Forth, which will happen as soon as we hear back from my contacts on the outside. As long as we all work fast and together this should work out completely according to plan. We apparate out to the hotel, and everyone should check in with Frank and Alice Longbottom as soon as we're there. Once we're all at the hotel and accounted for, we can figure out where to go from there. PLEASE no one attempt anything crazy or heroic or dumb this time, this is something solid that'll get us all out safely, and that is priority number one.

Thank you, it's been a pleasure working with you all, and I think we can all make this work.

[Order minus Andromeda]

I tried getting out to the greenhouses to get supplies for potions and things and they're not there anymore. The greenhouses. They're practically all destroyed and burnt down except for some parts of the ground being covered by flitterblooms; there was about half a corner of Greenhouse 2 left and I grabbed what I could but I can't even tell if it'd be useful or not because it's still kinda charred. The death eaters were still out there and it sounded like they were having a fucking party.




Ted is out there. I didn't know how to  bring him without the death eaters out there noticing so he's still   out there.

Still haven't seen Caradoc anywhere. Someone please let me know if he shows up so that I can kick his arse. Thank you.

( cut for spoilers and things - wards for Order, MPPML, and peeps stuck in the castle )

If you were a needle, where would you hide in a haystack? I personally would probably stay somewhat towards the edge, since it seems like people automatically go digging straight into the centre, and the needle gets tossed aside unnoticed.

( Private )


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THIS CONTINUES TO BE VEXING.


So much and so little can change in a year.

[James]

Is your wife having any weird pregnancy cravings right now?

[/James]

[Remus]

Caradoc wants us to have another lesson soon.

( Private )

I wish I would've paid more attention in Divination when I was in school. I should be a Seer when I grow up.

[Order]

HEY YOU GUYYYYS.

What are we doing? What is being planned? I feel stagnant and restless and bored unproductive and I feel like that's giving them more of a chance to wheedle in and do things while we're like, making fliers and buttons. Which is GREAT but we need something big, you know? Let's be the ones to make the first move for once.

Aaaand RALLY UP, TROOPS! Let's get some ideas bouncing.

( Warded Private )





Found this while looking through some old boxes I never actually unpacked. You know, I can't remember how many times I've moved in the last year anymore.

I'm tired of losing my things.

[Edit - Warded to Pryce]

Come on bitch. Right now. You and me, let's do this.

( Private to Remus )

I just realised that the whole culmination of this so-called rehabilitation crap happened yesterday.

Most drawn out sorry excuse for an April Fool's joke ever.


No matter. It's nice out and my hair looks cute today. I am quite all right with the way that today has gone thusfar.

[Edit - Warded to the Order]

Radio tomorrow night, since we need to keep away from broadcasting on Tuesdays for a bit now, just to keep things unexpected and untraceable hopefully for as long as possible.

Any ideas for the broadcast? I know the boycott stuff and such, but anything else would be super helpful.

Also, as usual, anyone who wants to help with warding/keeping lookout, that would be great. I do want to warn you guys though that this go-around we're pulling Kingsley Shacklebolt on the air with us because I guess he's got some stuff from the old Ministry types that he wants to get out to the public, and this is the safest way for him too. If that's going to deter anyone from helping out this time, that is TOTALLY fine, and I completely understand. I think it'd be possible to do some sort of spell where he can't talk about it, though, but just in case, I still understand.

[Edit - Warded to the Order, Jo, Kingsley, Riley, Mary, Matilda, Ioan, Carlotta, Leon, Stubby, Sophie, Grady, Doris]

Passing on the word: I've been told that Resistance Radio show is going to be Friday at 11:30ish. If you're still up, tune in and tell your friends!

[Private to Caradoc and Remus]

What's up, Doc.

What are you doing on Saturday? because lordie I think I need more training tips. And to stop having my first reaction to be to throw things, because a lot of the time the only thing I'm holding is my wand.

Hehehehe that was so much fun though.

[/Private]

My mum would've been 52 years old today, yet didn't have a single grey hair on her head at 51 and a half despite having a son with a flying wheelchair. I hope that I can say that when I'm that old. The lack of grey hair bit. I prefer flying on brooms.

[Warded against Lestranges, Malfoys, Averys, Mulcibers, Rosiers, Notts, Macnairs, Bletchleys, Selwyns, Greengrasses, Wilkeses, Traverses, Gibbons, Snape, Agatha Chubb because she is marrying Snape, Burkes, Braithwaites, Crabbes, Goyles, Yaxleys, Greyback, Pryce, Clara Bauer, Ursula Caldeira, Ciara Fitzpatrick, Andrew Forsythe, Peggy O'Nell, The crazy bible werewolf, the werewolf that Elsie turned into a sloth, Vances who aren't Emmeline, Dolores Umbridge, that Quirke girl, Rita Skeeter, and Blacks except Sirius - and also warded against anonymous comments]

Ladies and Gentlemen of the wizarding world, we implore you to join us at 10 until whenever tonight for an evening of celebration and a lack of discrimination! With the powers invested in me, we've booked the Leaky Cauldron out for a night of fun and partying at a place that still serves everyone! (Or, at least, it does on nights when it hasn't been bought out for parties.) It's my buddy James Potter's birthday, and even if you don't know who he is, we encourage you to come out and have some laughs and shoot the shit with us at the Leaky. Yes, the Leaky Cauldron, where Tom continues to serve muggleborn and pureblood alike 7 days a week!

Costumes/masks/dressing up is highly encouraged, but forewarning that security will be tight, and I will be keeping a log of who comes in, who is wearing what (for the costume contest!), and no outside food or beverage will be allowed or tolerated for anyone who thinks they're going to be breezing in using polyjuice, thank you very much. Bring your friends, but we WILL be doing checks at the door, so please do not be offended by any delays. We just want to be sure that this is both a fun and SAFE night for everyone.

Can't come out and party with us this week? That's alright. We're working with other establishments that'll allow everybody in to host big bashes like this, because unlike some people, we are equal-opportunity when it comes to spending our money, as long as they agree to let all our friends in. Mr. Aberforth Dumbledore, we are potentially considering the Hog's Head for our next Equality Bash, if you would be open to discussing such a thing?

Hope to see you all there!

[Order]

Hmm. You know. I think that Mr. Running From The Law is right. I think it's time that remind people that they shouldn't villify innocents on account of things they cannot help.

DOES ANYONE ELSE HAVE ANY OTHER BOYCOTTY IDEAS? We can put up lots and lots of posters, but well, as we've shown and been shown in the past, it usually doesn't take long until they get vandelised. We need multiple methody things before they like, re-put up the anti sticking charms on the walls.

Not that there aren't ways around that, but you know. We don't really want to be hanging around there all day and chance getting caught.

[/Order]

Hahaha, whoops. Apparently tea kettles CAN melt if you leave them on the heat long enough...

( Warded Private, Remus can read )

( Private to Matilda )

( MWPPML )

( Private )

PIE DAY!!

[ORDER]

GUYS HE'S BACK!! HE'S NOT DEAD HE'S OKAY IT WAS JUST MARIUS BEING A FUCKER AS USUAL!


WE'RE GOING TO GO TAKE A SHOWER, MORE DETAILS LATER.

[Order]

Thank you everybody for being there and helping out but I think that I need to be by   myself for a while. i promise I'm not going to do anything   stupid.

sorry and thank you.

( Private )

[Caradoc]
Heading back to the school to get some stuff. I'll be back later.

[ORDER]

I need god I can't DO T Remus is Rem Marius Lestrange sent me p Remus is    dead.     I don't  know what It  was Marius. He sent-    I need   someo They h H I c Right.

[Wa
[Warded to Marius Lestrange]

What did you do.

[Warded against Lestranges, Malfoys, Averys, Mulcibers, Rosiers, Notts, Macnairs, Bletchleys, Selwyns, Greengrasses, Wilkeses, Snape, Agatha Chubb because she is marrying Snape, Burkes, Braithwaites, Yaxleys, Greyback, Pryce, Clara Bauer, Ursula Caldeira, Ciara Fitzpatrick, Andrew Forsythe, that Quirke girl who always sides with the purist snots, Rita Skeeter, and Blacks except Sirius - as are unspecified comments]

So here's something to think about.

If Atticus Avery, our so-called new head of the International Magic Office of Law, and his son were supposedly found innocent of their wrongdoings after being accused by George Goyle as being fellow Death Eaters, why haven't we heard anything from Mr. George since January? Why hasn't he publicly "repented" for his crimes like they're having Greyback do?

If Atticus Avery was innocent, then why did he run the second that his name was called out at what was stupidly a public trial? Our good friends the Averys had never been suspected of anything until then. What was he hiding from?

And if they're just handing out high-ranking Ministry jobs to people who were wrongfully imprisoned, why don't any of those muggleborns who got thrown in there after being Imperiused and put in Death Eater robes have one?

Kinda funny. I know I laughed.

[Warded to the Order, Jo, Kingsley, Riley, Mary, Matilda, Ioan, Carlotta, Leon, Stubby, Sophie, Grady]

Hey everybody, just passing along some info from my nameless friend who knows someone who heard about something -- if you've got a wireless where you are, that radio show thing that isn't under purist control is supposedly going to be on at 9:30. If you're into that sort of thing, make sure you tune in and let anyone else you think might be interested know the same.

Hope everything's going as well as possible for the lot of you.

FREEDOM!!!!!!

[Order]

Ladies and Gentlemen, I bring you selections from our friend Peggy the Hag's dictaquill.


"Peggy is so amused by this all. Fenrir read us his speech again and told us all about the thick people who believe him. This will be so good for us. I want fresh meat off the bone like I couldn't have at that blasted house. Stupid house. It ate Clara maybe."

I'm also getting clips of her talking about helping someone with their hair, and that she always wanted a daughter but she ate the one she stole. Such a sweet old woman.


We'll keep you posted regarding the ones that got sent out with the wedding favours as soon as we can figure out who's who. Frenchy's got one at least. Pretty sure I'd be able to recognise that twat's swotty accent anywhere.

Aaaand pretty sure the radio's going to happen on Wednesday (JAW WILL BE BETTER TOMORROW, YAY) so if anyone'd like to volunteer either to keep watch or come on air, or have any ideas on specifically things we need to broadcast, let me know.

( Private )

( Private to Remus )

I had no idea when I was younger just how depressing some of the songs that I loved could be. I think it's because kids tend to be drawn towards the actual music rather than the lyrics, and it's not til later that you can look back and realise just how dark they were.

( Private )

[Order]

It's been a week, I think we need to have Dedalus's memorial and since no one said anything last time, is tomorrow at the safehouse good although that means his grandmum can't come so i don't know.

( Private )

[Order]

i think we need to figure out what happened the other day. i have no idea how they would've found us all there unless we were right about there maybe being some sort of tracking thing on the id cards unless they randomly just decided to show up and raise hell but i don't know.


also for the known werewolf types on the journals, apparently that ciara chicky who was playing all innocent is one based on the post about lily. i think that bloke monologuing about the bible a few weeks back is probably one of the psychopaths who i was fighting with. brunette big guy. i can't remember his name though. anyone else have any details?


also next time i can get up and about in the safehouse i'm going to add new people to the list for at least those to be wary about from the dinner at narcy's, because i was too busy freaking out about the bletchley bullshit and worrying about the papers that i forgot that the other people at the party likely have things to do with the death eaters too. luckily it was a smaller party - narcy and lucy malfoy of course, bletchley and his wife, ben... something, who kept making googly eyes at lucy, and eva macnair, who's one of our azkaban escapees.


also if anyone needs me for anything let me know either in here or owl me or use some sort of papery communication because sophie said it's going to be a few days til my jaw's better and they can unstick it and i can eat solid food and talk again. and i think as soon as that happens there DEFINITELY needs to be a radio show especially after this stupid fake fixed "repenting" bullshit. i cannot believe that they expect people to believe that. definitely'll need some extra hands with setting that up though because i'm down an arm at the moment.


also when are we rescheduling the dedalus memorial since he deserves one especially in the wake of all this.




also if someone wants to pick me up some coffee i will be eternally grateful and will definitely pay you back.

[Order]

Protest outside of the Foundation went well I think. We had a couple random folks come and sit with us, even. They ended up calling us in as a "public disturbance" after a while though and were threatening arrests for being "a hazard to the peace" when all we were doing was sitting there, but we got done what needed getting done. Demetrius ended up stunning one person and threatened to do worse if we continued being a nuisance, but she was alright and then this woman from inside came out to shoo us off, and she kinda made him look like an arse which was AMAZING, and since I didn't really want to get arrested that day we broke it off about then.


Oh yeah. Apparently Demetrius Mulciber works for the DMLE now. That'll be going out on the radio next time.

[/Order]

( Private )

February 20th is Toothpick Day. Toothpick Day marks the day in 1872 that Silas Noble and J.P. Cooley invented their toothpick manufacturing equipment, which was then patented as the first of its kind. Mark your calendars.

If something ever happened to me you wouldn't get completely over it in three months, would you?

[Order]

So seriously, did Voldepoop take over the country so that he could play matchmaker? I am so bloody amused. Someone get that psychopath an article in Witch Weekly! Oh wait, he's already running the media. Silly me.

[/Order]

I am so bloody stuffed. DEFINITELY had all I could eat of those All You Can Eat waffles.

I am apparently also very fond of sushi. I'd never had it before yesterday and I think I may be hooked.