Order Only: Sam Fawcett

[alt_lupin]

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.

Comments

[alt_frank]

nope.

I say we see if he'll be useful, but keep him at arms length. maybe give him a button and tell him he can pass on names with it, and ask him to fix some paperwork, but he's a walking risk.

hell, giving him a button might be too much.

he's desperate and angry and that makes him dangerous.

[alt_mcgonagall]

If we do not include him, what choices have we? Obliviation? Then he returns to being desperate and angry. Death? Not the mode in which we typically function.

[alt_bill]

You're a cruel, cruel man, Remus. That description of his job is making me positively salivate. Merlin, what an asset he could be. And yet, I agree, we don't dare take him right now. Reckless, no kidding.

Bloody hell.

[alt_hermione]

The thing is that his sister and brother are living at Moddey. So he really should be able to see them sometimes, right? Even if it's in safe houses.

If he wants to see them, then he should get to now and then. Somehow.

That doesn't necessarily mean he needs to be admitted into the Order (and doing it today would have been mad, you've no way to know if he'd just go tell the Crimson Company he met Sirius!) but maybe he could help us the way that Ms Taylor sometimes helps? Just by telling us things now and then?

[alt_severus]

Whilst I am painfully aware of the irony: I do not think he is the sort of person whom we should recruit.

This does not mean, however, we should not make use of him — only that the information should only flow one way.