Remus Lupin

Order members present: Alice, Sirius, Severus, Bill, Remus.
Dogstar members present: Ridley, Rachel, two masked bodyguards whose names we were not told.

Strangeweale/Mysteries Plans

Everyone agreed we should move forward on this as quickly as possible -- which is to say, TODAY.

The Order will infiltrate Mysteries, polyjuiced as Strangweale and a potential victim. (I think Alice has decided on Kingsley and Severus.) Please note that Mysteries takes a variety of precautions against polyjuice, but our interrogation of Strangeweale revealed at least the precautions he was aware of. Severus, Sirius, and Rachel Brodie were fairly certain he was not holding information back.

Strangeweale also revealed he'd given a report to Cadmus Mulciber; Dogstar will handle that retrieval. He also gave us the names of four people who acted as research assistants or otherwise had detailed information about his process. Dogstar will also handle the elimination of those individuals.

The Order will raid Strangeweale's breeding farm and rescue the people there and with the assistance of Timothy (Strangeweale's muggleborn servant, now free from compulsion magics) will clear out and destroy his house. We'll also work on persuading the goblins not to let anyone into his vault.

Ridley requested polyjuice for her people, to get them into Mulciber's house undetected and to get close to their other targets. Alice agreed.

The Neo-Fidelius

Ridley requested that these negotiations be closed to everyone but her and the leader of the Order. She started out the meeting believing that this was Sirius, and we all did our best to play along, but at this point she made it clear we'd given Alice away. So the rest of us cleared out and left Alice to talk with her. Bill apparated away to fetch some polyjuice and the rest of us sat around awkwardly for a while. So this next bit is based on what Alice told me happened, I wasn't there to take notes.

Alice told Ridley about the costs and precise effect of the neofidelius and said that if Dogstar wants to run a joint operation, they can provide a target and a volunteer and the Order will help that person cast it, and then obliviate them. (If they survive. No guarantees.)

Ridley revealed that they have a way to get portkeys. In exchange for the actual casting instructions for the neo-fidelius, she offered a dozen unregistered portkeys to whatever destinations (within the Protectorate) we'd like. We can think this over. In the meantime, she'll ponder possible targets and people who might be willing to cast the spell.

Bill, it sounds as though Ridley cleared the room in part because she doesn't want Rachel knowing that they have someone in the portkey office. I would assume this is because she thinks Rachel's in a high-risk position, and too likely to get caught.

Rachel's Role

(Everyone got to come back in for this bit. I kept looking at Miss Brodie's face while she was being discussed but she's rather unreadable.)

Ridley said that she was willing to have Rachel share the MLE intel with the Order on a routine basis, and Rachel could officially be a liaison between our two groups.

If we'd actually like her as a member, Ridley offered to trade Rachel for an ongoing supply of polyjuice. (She would still want Rachel to share her MLE intel with Dogstar.)

Alice noted we're down a potioneer (she refrained from pointing out that this was due to Rachel) and polyjuice is not exactly a plentiful resource for us, either. She offered fluxweed, instead.

Ridley said that in exchange for two fluxweed plants and a strip of boomslang skin, she will cede Rachel BUT not until the plants successfully propagate. (She would prefer actual potion.)

I think that covers most of it.