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[alt_nymphadora]

So, just out of curiosity, for anyone Sirius didn't mention in his rather lengthy list -- were you able to read what he just wrote?

Inquiring minds want to know.

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[alt_sally_anne]

You mean the message he wrote tonight?

I can't read it. Should I be able to?

[alt_nymphadora]

Hah! No, no you shouldn't.

But I could.

[alt_justin]

Tonks,

No, nothing here. I can read the subject, what, but nothing more.

I say, is Sirius playing some sort of prank?

-Justin

[alt_nymphadora]

It might've started out as a bit of a joke, yeah, but turns out everyone he wrote to could read it.

Turns out PMs aren't as exclusive as we thought?

[alt_jeremy]

Multiple people on PMs?

[alt_frank]

you mean could we read the message?

Private message to Pansy and Justin and Daphne and Ron and Tonks and Mr Longbottom

[alt_sally_anne]

So who can see this?

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[alt_nymphadora]

Yes!

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[alt_frank]

I'll be damned.

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[alt_ron]

I can.

What are you playing at?

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[alt_sally_anne]

Well APPARENTLY something changed in the journal department they decided not to announce.

Do you suppose they did it on purpose?

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[alt_pansy]

Brilliant.

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[alt_justin]

Unless it's something they didn't jolly well intend at all, what.

I can't imagine them opening communications like this on purpose.

-Justin

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[alt_ron]

Erm.

You don't suppose it's broken in other ways do you?

I mean, maybe they were trying to repair the magic that lets them snoop and this happened. I mean maybe whatever they had before didn't work again, and they broke the PM restriction to allow them to be invisible extra recipients... Or, well, maybe they wanted to do more than they could before. Maybe they've caught on that some people can lock their own messages like we do. We can't really be the only ones, d'you think? Anyway, maybe they did this to let themselves be extra readers on locked messages and accidentally broke the privacy rules.

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[alt_justin]

Sally-Anne,

I say, I can, what, but then I'm second on the list. The question is whether Daphne, Ron, Tonks or Mr Longbottom can see it.

-Justin

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[alt_sally_anne]

Yeah well it turns out they CAN.

[alt_ron]

I reckoned he was taking the mickey.

What's up?

[alt_sally_anne]

We can put more than two people in PMs.

I wonder how many people we can get in? I mean eventually you start to run out of space on the page.

[alt_justin]

Ron,

I say, that's well brilliant!

Why is it happening?

More to the point, dare we use it outside the Order? I suspect it's not the sort of advantage we want to let the Ministry know we have, what.

-Justin

[alt_ginny]

I don't think we'd better.

Maybe they don't know it's happening. We wouldn't want them noticing, would we?

[alt_justin]

Ginny,

Yes, I quite agree.

I very much doubt this was a deliberate choice on the Ministry's part, what. It's either a malfunction or a mistake.

Either way, one must assume they know they've lifted the restriction and are working to restore it. And if they haven't noticed, as you say, using greater numbers openly would only alert them to their error.

I say, I wonder if it's to do with restoring monitoring over the summer? But that could mean we've had the ability to write to more than two people for months, and never known it until now.

-Justin

[alt_ginny]

Anyway there are busybodies out there who'd want to be included on all sorts of PMs if it were a possibility. So in a way it's just as well no one else knows.