Remus Lupin

I need you.

Exeter. I left a note with the address. Floo here? You can't be seen.

Actually hold on

So, Padfoot and I are talking to Sam Fawcett. Sirius proved to be rather more persuasive than I was at convincing Sam that we're fellow opponents of the regime, not MLE.

Sam's in the Crimson Company, though his attempt at vengeance on Dolores was more of an independent project. He says that he got into Dolores's office by floo and ambushed her; he was rather distraught when he realised he'd hit a bystander and relieved to hear that Diggory will recover.

After some initial skepticism he's read the letter from Sarah and would very much like to see her. NOT HERE, though; he is still very worried that MLE will be showing up, and apparently is also a little bit worried about his own allies. The CC apparently doesn't hesitate to kill the overly compromised to avoid exposure. (Which makes me wonder why he even came back here?)

Frank or Alice, can one of you bring Sarah and Matthew -- I'm not sure where best to meet. I'd rather not make Sirius apparate but if anyone does examine Sam's floo I don't want it to lead to Doughty Conduit, either, and we can't take Sam to 12GP unless someone brings a note from Alice (and I'm not sure we should trust Sam that much, anyway).

Right.

So, as I'm sure you all worked out for yourselves, I found Sam Fawcett this morning. Apparently he hid out for a few days, but when MLE never showed up to search his flat, he concluded that they didn't realise he'd been on the scene of Dolores's demise. (Or toad-ification/plate-ification, as it happens.) Though when I turned up his first thought was that I was with MLE, but he calmed down quite a bit once Sirius showed up. (Or at least, he went from homicidal to ... I don't even know. An overly impressed schoolboy meeting the greatest hero of the age, perhaps. Clearly we should keep Padfoot away from his public or he'll get a swelled head.)

We brought him to the Burrow, and Frank came with Sarah, and they had a long visit this afternoon. We cautioned Sarah not to tell him anything about precisely how she got away -- no sense revealing the Institute -- or to give him any information beyond the fact that there exists somewhere a sanctuary for outlaw children where Sarah now lives.

Sam now wants to join the Order. He's been rather -- well, let me just describe the case he made for himself.

He noted that he's already proved that he's opposed to the regime, by joining the Crimson Company and by attempting to assassinate Dolores Umbridge. He also proved his willingness to maintain security (though not necessarily the capability, since I immobilised him after he tried to hex me, and took away the poison sewn into his shirt.)

He also works for the camps. He's based in the one in Exeter but the reason he travels for his job is that he's in 'inventory,' tracking numbers and training of crews in various muggle camps. In addition to being well-placed to assist us by planting or removing paperwork, he is perfectly positioned to identify muggles who have the training and background to be of the most use to us, Davidson, or any other resistance organisations running around that we can make contact with, and if we can extract them, he can simply make their records disappear.

On the downside, let me just note that he's volatile, unpredictable, violent, ruthless, and possibly untrustworthy. We suggested that we might prefer to have him as a go-between to the Crimson Company and he said that the trouble is that the CC has a tendency to kill their own members, if they're compromised enough to be a danger to the organisation. He did, however, offer straight out to put us in touch with their leader or at least their recruiter -- not the sort of information we'd want to have him offering up about us.

When we expressed concern about the information he might reveal about us, he offered to take an Unbreakable Vow on the spot.

I just ... don't know. His information and access would not be easily duplicated. He may be worth the risk.

Oh, and the Crimson Company is wasting him completely; they want him to quit his job as they don't believe muggles could be useful, regardless of their training.