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Order Only: Sam Fawcett
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.
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.
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I did know him at school. Barely. The Ravenclaws didn't think much of him. Called him 'Mule', which I suppose was short for Samuel, and not in a nice, matey way.
I'm afraid we halfbloods didn't stick together--most of us were keeping our heads down--but I know he didn't have an easy time of it. I think- yes, I remember hearing that he was a decent flier and he tried out every year for the Ravenclaw side, but they never would take him. So I expect that means he has a stubborn streak, doesn't it? At the time, I just thought it was sad and a bit daft, knocking his head against the wall like that. Charlie, do you remember?
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He came to every practise -- not just Ravenclaw's, he was at all ours, too. I think it was a little easier to be a halfblood in Gryffindor through at least the first few years, most of our lot didn't care, so he used to stick with Booth from the year before us and Berrigan from our year whenever he could.
I think it was less him knocking his head against the wall and more him trying to point out the ridiculousness -- he was more than just a decent flier, he was better than most of the Ravenclaw team. But Montgomery was the Ravenclaw captain, remember him? (For those who don't, we were all pretty sure he was compensating for being sorted Ravenclaw instead of Slytherin by being as much of a pureblood bigot as he could.)
We all would've cheered him on about it, because Montgomery was a shite captain any way you sliced it, except Mule was just such a right arse to spend any amount of time with. Took everything wrong, no matter how you'd meant it, and wouldn't listen when you tried to explain or apologise. And yeah, 'Mule' as in, 'stubborn as'.