Private message to Ginny and Mum

[alt_charlie]

Hey, Ginny-bean. I took a look at the calendar, and realised that your Easter hols are coming up in a few weeks. Were you planning on locking yourself up in the attic and revising for OWLs, or do you want to come up for a visit part of the time?

The week after Easter would be a bit better than the week leading up to Easter, but either one would work for me. I'm sure I could manage to remember enough of my OWLs to help you revise, and I'm sure a few of my mates up here would also be happy to help. And I'm pretty sure I can come up with enough interesting things to do so it wouldn't be "let's go spend a week with my favourite brother at his amazingly interesting job and then hide in the cabin and revise all the time".

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[alt_charlie]

And, to save you the trouble of reading between the lines: I'm planning on spending some of the Easter hols up at Hogwarts, in the Forest trying to make headway with the centaurs, but it occurred to me it might be best if you all didn't have to watch yourselves every second over hols with Ginny being at the Burrow.

And, well, I'd like to feel her out a bit to see if I can figure out what's going on in her head, and be a bit more confident that if she did overhear something she shouldn't, it wouldn't be as much of a disaster as it would be if Percy it could be.

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[alt_molly]

I think that's quite a good idea. I would like to get your perspective on her mindset. Thank you, Charlie.

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[alt_charlie]

Yeah. I've been thinking about it a bit, and -- I know we can't be certain, not with how she's been in the past, but I think it's well past time we started dangling a few little bits of bait for her, and see what she does with them. Because if we do decide she's to be trusted, and let her in on the secret of the Order, we're going to have to do it carefully so she doesn't hear "we've been keeping this from you because you weren't trustworthy".

Because even if that's what we have been doing, for years, nobody wants to hear that. And the irony is, finding out that someone's been keeping a secret from you for that long can make you react in ways you otherwise wouldn't, and even if she is trustworthy -- and I'm not sure, not completely -- if we're not incredibly careful we might make her lash out in ways she'll regret later.

I've been thinking a lot about that kind of thing lately and

I hope she does want to come up for the visit. We'll see how things go.

[alt_molly]

Ginny, I know you've been working very hard on your OWLs, and I think a week away from the books can't hurt.

Charlie, thank you for the invitation! And for your kindness in looking out for your little sister.