Order Only: Private message to Hermione Granger

[alt_terry]

Hermione?

It happened to me, too. The 'soiree,' remember?

If you want to talk, I'll listen.

If you don't, that's all right, too.

I'm sorry.

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[alt_hermione]

I remember.

It wasn't--I mean, it wasn't stripping that was the problem. I don't really care about that, somehow. I mean, I was prepared that Teddy would come up with something humiliating. If he'd told me to do it at supper, I probably would have said all right and made sure someone stopped me about as quickly as Daphne and Pansy did this afternoon. But I didn't want to disrupt the lesson, and when I told him I couldn't do that, that's when he put the Imperius on me.

And I mean, I've been under Imperius before. You know how it feels as well as I do, but it was--different, with Teddy giving the orders. Having his voice in my head, you know, that was worse than I anticipated. And harder to fight than I expected.

I'm all right. I will be, anyway. I'm not giving him the satisfaction of anything else. But I'm fine, in all the ways that count.

[alt_terry]

I'm glad you replied.

I think I understand. When you've spent years as a mudblood, you have to detach yourself from your body, and so it doesn't seem to much matter what happens to it. Certainly it's in the Protectorate's interest to humiliate as much as possible.

But you and I were okay because we kept our minds free. They were our own safe space. And then to have Teddy Nott invade it, that horrible, sick, scrofulous little shite--urgh.

I wonder if we could ask for more tutoring from the Order senior members on protection from mental attacks.

But you're right, you will be fine. If anyone can learn to jettison Teddy Nott from inside your brain, it would be you.

I'm glad Daphne and Pansy acted fast to get you out of there.

I'll see you at the meeting tomorrow, yeah? And I'll believe you when you tell me you're all right.

Order Only: Private message to Terry Boot

[alt_terry]

I only wish I could tell you how much I love you.

I would kill Teddy Nott for you if I could.