Order Only Private Message to Macnair

[alt_severus]

Our discussion of yesterday evening has made me realise once again it is almost certainly time for you and I to make some contingency plans, in the event the Order is unable -- or, more likely, unwilling -- to do what needs to be done to achieve the ends they profess to desire. While Alice Longbottom is less likely to stand around wringing her hands and bleating about morals than certain others might, I agree with you it is unlikely any of that lot will be likely to fully accept the blatantly obvious conclusion that this war will not be won with purely clean hands.

I also appreciate your offer to be the one to propose the necessary actions rather than requiring us to fight through the instinctive reactions of certain members of that company to firmly attest the sky is green simply because I have stated it is blue.

Comments

[alt_macnair]

They ain't seen what we've seen, and that's the truth of it. If they insist on keeping their hands out of the muck then I'm content to be the one who will do what must be done, against their wishes if it comes to that. I reckon you think the same.

It's high time to start pushing, making them see the solutions that they can't bring themselves to look upon.

And what about contingency plans, eh? What did you have in mind?

[alt_severus]

I am not wholly certain.

I do not doubt Potter will be the epicentre of whatever steps finally roust the Dark Lord from power, but prophecy is an uncertain thing. I do fear the rest of the Order have fallen into the trap of believing the prophecy a forsaken conclusion, rather than something that must be helped along. I have been thinking about what else the boy should be taught to prepare him. If you have any ideas, I would appreciate hearing them.

But whether or not Potter will be the one to fell the Dark Lord in the end, there are still two dozen soi-disant "Councilwizards" to consider. I do not think they would so easily step aside; I cannot see, for instance, Lucius Malfoy or Bellatrix Lestrange willingly bowing to a boy taking the place of their former master. Particularly if Potter were to, once in a position of rule, begin overturning the Dark Lord's edicts regarding Muggle and Muggleborn alike. Whatever plans are put into place for seizing control out of the hands of the Dark Lord's régime must also account for the inevitable resistance, likely quite pointed, from those of whom that régime benefits.

Perhaps we should allow the Order to have their endless debates about ethics and morality unmolested whilst we arrange to thin the herd of that august company in anticipation of that happy day.

Or perhaps if we wait, the Dark Lord will continue to save us the trouble.