About Artie...I've never come right out and asked this yet, but do you really care about him? Or at least have strong feelings about him? Because I reckon it can never really go anywhere if you can't be truly honest with him.
But even that's not enough of a reason to tell him if he isn't safe. I wish I knew him better.
This will sound blunt, but do you know what he wants to do for a career, or is he ambitious about rising in school, or Dark Arts or CCF? Because you'll have to weigh really carefully how you think he feels about you-- about all of us in the Galleon group, really--and decide whether you think it outweighs what he thinks in his own mind he could get for betraying you, or even betraying us all. Because you have to admit that anyone who could hand you and me to MLE on a platter, maybe even enough to draw in Mum and Dad so they could be arrested, well, that person would probably be swimming in Galleons for the rest of their lives (if they didn't get killed for knowing too much, of course).
Same goes for Katie. We know really dangerous stuff now. (Have they ever tried Occlumency?)
This sounds nasty. But do you have dirt on them? You know, how we used to say a secret on the I Solemnly Swear lock so we'd be sure none of us would betray the others?
I know it's hard. I went back and read some of Mum and Dad's entries about us before Dumbledore swore us in, and it just about killed them, keeping so many secrets from us.
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Re: Private Message to Neville
Date: 2014-07-25 12:01 am (UTC)But even that's not enough of a reason to tell him if he isn't safe. I wish I knew him better.
This will sound blunt, but do you know what he wants to do for a career, or is he ambitious about rising in school, or Dark Arts or CCF? Because you'll have to weigh really carefully how you think he feels about you-- about all of us in the Galleon group, really--and decide whether you think it outweighs what he thinks in his own mind he could get for betraying you, or even betraying us all. Because you have to admit that anyone who could hand you and me to MLE on a platter, maybe even enough to draw in Mum and Dad so they could be arrested, well, that person would probably be swimming in Galleons for the rest of their lives (if they didn't get killed for knowing too much, of course).
Same goes for Katie. We know really dangerous stuff now. (Have they ever tried Occlumency?)
This sounds nasty. But do you have dirt on them? You know, how we used to say a secret on the I Solemnly Swear lock so we'd be sure none of us would betray the others?
I know it's hard. I went back and read some of Mum and Dad's entries about us before Dumbledore swore us in, and it just about killed them, keeping so many secrets from us.
I'm sorry.