Hestia Annabelle Jones

[Private to Katie Bell]

I have some lovely paperwork for you that says you are a half-blood. I don't want to send it via owl. Will you meet me? You'll need to register with the Ministry before the end of the month. That is the cut-off date.

Did you see Bellatrix Lestrange has taken an interest in Grimmauld? It's not good news for us, especially since Snape knows where it is and he's with them. We need to get Harry out of there and fast. Emmeline offered up her house which is also in London. It's in a muggle area and it's unplottable. Who wants to go with me to check it out and put up some wards? It might be a safe place to send Harry.





Alright then. I haven't got a lot of sleep, but there's a couple of cots and some couches and stuff at the safe house. You and your brother safe? Can you meet me and I'll take you there? It has all of the muggle things you'd expect.. the gas is turned on, electricity, internet, cable, phone, but I have to ask you not to use the internet or the phone because I don't know how muggles track that stuff and we need to be safe, alright? There's no computer anyway.

[Private to the Order]

I managed to purchase one muggle house way out in a suburb of Vienna. I know Austria wasn't our first choice for a place to locate the muggle-borns, but it's all we could afford. I also managed to create an alias for myself I'm getting good at that and purchase it under that name. No one should have any suspicions about it. I'm rubbish with extending charms, can I ask someone to come with me and do it? We'll need to put up anti-muggle wards and find a secret keeper. The place came fully furnished, thank Merlin, so we don't have to worry about that. I've turned on the gas, electricity, internet and cable so no one has reason to suspect anything. I don't know if anyone will have use for any of it, but well it's there. Let's not use the internet, alright? Probably a good idea to stay away from the phones as well.

It might be an idea to have this be the headquarters of the Order as well. I have this awful feeling that we might lose Grimmauld.

So. Who's coming with me?

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[Private to Colin Creevey]

I know this is hard, but sending your parents away was for the best. They'll be safe and they haven't a clue that you exist so they won't be sad about not seeing you. When this is all over I promise we can change their memory back and you can go back to life as it used to be. We bought a safehouse in Austria. It should be ready to go at the end of the week. Will you and Dennis be okay until then?

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[Private to Nymphadora Tonks]

Hey, did that thing I did for you work out alright?

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I feel this need to explain exactly what work has been like under a new Head of the Department, but I think she'd hex me for saying a word. Really, it's wonderful.

[Private to the Order]

I was thinking it might be a good idea for us to pool some money together and purchase a safe house in a muggle area for those muggle-borns who can't go back to school. I can't bear thinking about any more muggle-borns going to Azkaban. This is ridiculous. I can put in some money. Is anyone else willing? We could magically expand it and someone can be secret keeper and well.. we could, couldn't we?