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May. 16th, 2015 11:17 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alt_nymphadoraHad quite a night at the staging grounds last night.
Someone or another liked the idea of your sing-along, Pansy and Sue, so between our own version (I'll bet we had more drinking songs than you lot) and the radios, we managed a reasonable racket. I couldn't get much sleep, so I stayed up half the night reading the letters that've been pouring into Grimmauld, folks asking to join up, addressed to me, Sirius, Draco, and Harry. (Feels a bit odd opening your post, gents, but I figure someone has to sort through it all.)
Might be worth tracking down some of them after the dust settles.
There was this one woman, Patricia Roundtree, who went on and on about how she was a mum just like me, and was worried about her kids, and would do just about anything to keep them safe, and she figured it was high time she did something about it instead of sitting on her arse and worrying. (Her words, not mine. I rather liked Patricia. She seemed a regular spit-fire.) And there was another one, Jonathan Middleton, who talked about how he'd gone to school with Muggleborn people, and was good friends with many of them, and thought about them every day. He wanted to know what he could do to track his friends down to see if he could help them, and just seemed almost sick with guilt that he hadn't done something sooner. And there were loads and loads more. Some of them were people who'd actually kept servants, or worked in camps, and didn't quite know what to do about what they'd done, or weren't sure how they could be of much use but listed all the things they were good at to see if it'd help, and some were scared half to death about what sort of world we'd have planned, but thought this one was in bad enough shape they were willing to throw in with us, and a fair number called us terrorists and hypocrites and blamed us for tearing apart the country, so there's that too.
They all took an enormous risk writing us, and it looks to me that there's enough of them who are ready for a change and willing to help. We might have to land the first hex, and it'll be bloody, but I have a feeling that there are far more people who want us to succeed than not, and quite a few who'll want to join in on the next round, too.
Someone or another liked the idea of your sing-along, Pansy and Sue, so between our own version (I'll bet we had more drinking songs than you lot) and the radios, we managed a reasonable racket. I couldn't get much sleep, so I stayed up half the night reading the letters that've been pouring into Grimmauld, folks asking to join up, addressed to me, Sirius, Draco, and Harry. (Feels a bit odd opening your post, gents, but I figure someone has to sort through it all.)
Might be worth tracking down some of them after the dust settles.
There was this one woman, Patricia Roundtree, who went on and on about how she was a mum just like me, and was worried about her kids, and would do just about anything to keep them safe, and she figured it was high time she did something about it instead of sitting on her arse and worrying. (Her words, not mine. I rather liked Patricia. She seemed a regular spit-fire.) And there was another one, Jonathan Middleton, who talked about how he'd gone to school with Muggleborn people, and was good friends with many of them, and thought about them every day. He wanted to know what he could do to track his friends down to see if he could help them, and just seemed almost sick with guilt that he hadn't done something sooner. And there were loads and loads more. Some of them were people who'd actually kept servants, or worked in camps, and didn't quite know what to do about what they'd done, or weren't sure how they could be of much use but listed all the things they were good at to see if it'd help, and some were scared half to death about what sort of world we'd have planned, but thought this one was in bad enough shape they were willing to throw in with us, and a fair number called us terrorists and hypocrites and blamed us for tearing apart the country, so there's that too.
They all took an enormous risk writing us, and it looks to me that there's enough of them who are ready for a change and willing to help. We might have to land the first hex, and it'll be bloody, but I have a feeling that there are far more people who want us to succeed than not, and quite a few who'll want to join in on the next round, too.
