ORDER ONLY: A royal progress

[alt_mcgonagall]

The Lord Protector has ordered me to prepare the Forbidden Forest for him to ride to the hunt. Previously he has fought the spiders there for a lovely press opportunity, but the spiders are not his quarry this time. He has asked me to solicit the help of a student, this time. I believe I know what that means. 

I am ordered not to speak of this. I imagine he shall try and pass it off as some innocuous thing. I imagine that it is because of the Quirrell creature: I hear, from my various associates, that he is being very poorly used. He deserves it, I suppose, for endangering any child. And yet - I have always known that the Lord Protector would stoop so low but it is another thing entirely to see it done. And to aid in the doing.

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[alt_poppy]

Good gracious! I had no idea.

I-

No, I've no idea what to say to that.

[alt_molly]

Oh, good heavens, Minerva, no. If that means what you're hinting at . . . how utterly appalling!

[alt_sirius]

Well, I'm in the dark. What creature in the forest would need bait--

Oh.

Seriously?

Er, just because the tapestries show hunting them doesn't make it a good idea. Sweet Medea, that's ... obscene.