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[alt_severus]

Was anyone truly surprised at the revelation that Sirius Black is a dog? It is hardly news that he uses Lupin as a tool to harm others when he can. Lupin, of course, being a man of strong passions, cannot be held to blame.

Dora, you have my sympathies, though I doubt you were as surprised as Minerva initially seemed to think.

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Private message to Padfoot

[alt_lupin]

It's probably better if I don't reply to this, isn't it? I'm only going to say something I'll later regret.

Re: Private message to Padfoot

[alt_sirius]

Sorry, I've been making rounds.

I'd like to make him break out in scrofula, what do you think?

Re: Private message to Padfoot

[alt_lupin]

Dora prefers bilious boils but I really don't think this has to be an either/or sort of thing. Scrofula AND boils it is, then.

Re: Private message to Padfoot

[alt_sirius]

As m'lady wishes.

Leave tonight? Or are we sending it via post?

Re: Private message to Padfoot

[alt_lupin]

Is there a way to manage it by post?

Re: Private message to Padfoot

[alt_sirius]

Well, we'd have to trust the slippery little scumball wouldn't catch it before he caught it, if you get me.

Besides, some things really do call for the personal touch.

Not that I plan on touching

Okay, I'm stopping right there.

Re: Private message to Padfoot

[alt_lupin]

Do you think Minerva would actually kill us, or just be extremely cross?

Re: Private message to Padfoot

[alt_sirius]

Does it matter? I'll risk it.

Re: Private message to Padfoot

[alt_lupin]

Never mind; just saw his latest reply to you. I don't think I want to loiter about for an owl.

Private Message to Severus Snape

[alt_alice]

Severus!

I never pegged you for the gossipy type.

Milland must be rubbing off on you.

I'd trust that Tonks, Remus, and Sirius, adults all, will manage somehow to sort out their personal lives. Perhaps not in the way any of us would have, but, then again, it's not up to us, is it?

On another note, I truly appreciated our conversation at the party. I can't tell you how much it means to Frank and me that you're willing to tutor Neville, and I believe that it will make a great deal of difference to him. How best to proceed? Should I make him aware that you'll be approaching him? If you're worried about his connecting you with me, we could go about it in whatever way you'd think best.

Re: Private Message to Severus Snape

[alt_severus]

I suppose it is not. Nevertheless, you do realise this is a pattern.

If you would make him aware, I shall come up with a justification for assigning him detention some night soon. In for a penny, in for a pound, as they say.

Re: Private Message to Severus Snape

[alt_alice]

I'll send him a brief note, then.

And thank you, again.

Severus, I know you and Remus and Sirius have had your history. But is what you wrote below entirely necessary as a public statement, where everyone can see? Tonks is certainly going through her share of struggles, and you have no immediate issue with her. If you are attempting to support her, this is not helping. That, and our Hermione is privy to what we say. If you're going to be that sort of vicious, I'd rather you keep your opinions between yourself and your intended recipient only.

You know by now I'm not the sort to keep quiet, but there. I've said my piece.

[alt_macnair]

You went?

Surprising, that.

Can't make beak or scales of what everyone's on about with the "surprising revelation," though.

[alt_severus]

Allow me to put it in the most politic way I can: Sirius and Remus have decided that their dog-like form-factors render them irresistible to each other. Apparently they are living in some sort of ménage-à-trois with Dora. The theory is that this will create a more stable home-life for Bea.

Of course, it took a house-elf to reveal this to the rest of the Order. At the table. Dinner and a show, as it were.

[alt_macnair]

I thought we were supposed to be planning ways to get the Lord Protector out of power. Guess there's plenty of time for that later, for some.

What was for pudding?

[alt_severus]

Traditional: plum and brandy set alight. Probably Transfigured, but plenty of hard sauce covered that up rather well. Molly outdid herself.

Thank you, Molly.

[alt_molly]

...

You're welcome. I think.

[alt_sirius]

Just the perfect topic for Christmas dinner? Perhaps if you'd joined us we would have done something more productive than engaged in lurid speculations about each other's private lives.

Besides, the garden's going along, I think we've got several good connections to the underground in the north and from what I'm hearing, we only need a light touch to turn some of your old friends against each other.

[alt_macnair]

Wasn't entirely sure I was welcome. Not the sort of thing Snape worries about, you see.

[alt_sirius]

WE ARE NOT. A ménage-à-trois. She's my cousin, you sick bastard.

Piss off.

[alt_severus]

Testy, testy! It's hardly scandalous for cousins to be more than cousins. Practically a pureblooded tradition.